Creating an inclusive, linguistically, and culturally affirming classroom community is a central priority for effectively serving English Learners in grades 4-6. Research also makes it clear the crucial nature these years make in preventing Long Term 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 that set them up for long-term success. This two-session webinar series, with embedded pre-session work and follow-up reflection and application, focuses on how teachers can enact Principle 1 of the English Learner Roadmap in their 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.

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