Sessions 1 & 2
Creating an inclusive, linguistically, and culturally affirming classroom community is a central priority for effectively serving English learners. By providing students with mirrors to positively reflect their intersectional identities and windows to embrace the diversity of our world, we can create classrooms and communities that respond to our students’ strengths, needs, socio-emotional health and identities. This two-part module, with embedded pre-session work and follow-up reflection and application, focuses on how teachers can enact Principle 1 of the English Learner Roadmap policy in their virtual or in-person classrooms. Teachers will learn specific skills and strategies for leveraging their students’ and families’ cultural and linguistic assets, celebrating and affirming identity, strengthening classroom community, and facilitating collaborative learning spaces.
Session 1
BEfore
Use the Trail Guide to watch:
Affirming Languages, Cultures & Identity video.
during
after
Use the Trail Guide to do the:
1. Self-Assessment Reflection Tool
2. Strategy Implementation
Session 2
BEfore
Use the Trail Guide to do:
Family Engagement activity
during
after
Use the Trail Guide to do the:
1. Self-Assessment Reflection Tool
2. Family Partnership Strategy in Action
