This popular institute empowers K-12 educators with essential mindsets and actions to ensure Multilingual learners (MLs) thrive in everyday teaching. Join us to:- Apply six essential mindsets and actions to ensure MLs—and all students—thrive with academic content, language and literacy.
- Strengthen ML engagement in academic conversations in your core lessons.
- Use the Four-Step Routine to deepen close reading and writing with evidence.
- Choose, lose, and adapt scaffolds strategically to ML’s assets to accelerate learning.
- Identify the linguistic demands of your lessons to plan impactful language scaffolds and integrated language development.
- Find resources in Asset-Based Language and Literacy: The Flip-to Guide to ML Excellence in the Core (2nd Edition of EL Excellence Every Day) that you can use right away!
Professional Learning
Tonya Ward Singer is an awesome, dynamic educator and presenter. She provides practical and meaningful learning experiences for students. Her passion and enthusiasm are contagious.
Classroom Teacher
Tonya Ward Singer provides pedagogy and strategies that work for all learners. While her focus with multilingual learners is exceptional, Singer’s work also makes learning accessible for students whose challenge is the curriculum itself. It’s good, solid teaching that imparts content effectively, inspires personal ownership by students and stimulates higher-order thinking.
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BRING TONYA WARD SINGER’S DYNAMIC PROFESSIONAL LEARNING TO YOU:
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Asset-Based Teaching to Accelerate Language and Literacy
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Available as a two-day onsite workshop or a six-part virtual series. | |
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Asset-Based Scaffolding in Mathematics – Deepening Multilingual Learner Access to Mathematical Rigor and Joy
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Available as a full-day onsite workshop or three-part virtual series (3 x 90 minutes). |
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Silos to Synergy: A Call to Co-Lead for Collective Efficacy for MLs and All Students
Ideal participants: All administrators, coaches and specialists involved in designing, leading, or supporting instructional change initiatives in your district. |
Available as a collaborative keynote (90 minutes), full-day workshop or two-part series (2 x 120 minutes). | |
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Leading for Multilingual Learner Excellence
Schedule this series for instructional leaders in tandem with the Asset-Based Teaching to Accelerate Language and Literacy institute for teachers in your setting. |
Available as a full-day onsite workshop or three-part virtual series (3 x 90 minutes). | |
| Customized to Aligned to Your Local Audience and Priorities | Contact Tonya |
This collaborative, professional development series equips math teachers and coaches with an asset-oriented approach to teaching for linguistic equity in mathematics. Join us to learn effective ways to engage MLs actively in intellectually rich mathematical reasoning and help all students who are learning the language of school thrive within the linguistic complexities of mathematics. Learn scaffolding strategies to help students leverage their assets and engage in meaning making, productive struggle, and joyful learning in K-12 math lessons.
Professional learning that shifts teacher practice should be sustained, collaborative, and connected to teaching—but it can be hard to find the time and the focus to do this. The challenge intensifies when we attempt to lead teaching transformations for equity from a single role or department. In this interactive session, get ready to envision, reflect on, and prioritize opportunities to move from silos to collective leadership and bring impactful professional learning from the margins to the core.This presentation is very hands on. You will walk away with strategies that you can use the next day in class. What you will you learn with enhance the learning experience for all students.
Teacher
One of the best professional learning opportunities I have attended in 15 years as an educator. It has definitely helped me in moving educators to take the step from theory to action.
ELL Helping Teacher
The resources and strategies provided in this session will not only benefit our EL/ML students, but they will definitely help our struggling students as well. These strategies are easy to implement and are definite must-haves for teaching literacy!
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