Virtual Events

This free, virtual webinar empowers K-12 administrators with a framework of six essentials to lead for multilingual learner (ML) equity in every classroom, every day. Join us to identify and disrupt the deficit defaults that hold ML students back. Engage with a framework to self-reflect on your local leadership strengths and growth priorities to ensure every ML student has full access to intellectually rich, Tier I core content learning.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND? K-12 instructional leaders including central office leaders, curriculum directors, program directors, and site administrators.

September 20th, 2022 from 3:00pm – 4:00pm Eastern

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Accelerating Academic Literacy in Core Classrooms with MLs

This highly interactive, theory-to-impact workshop series helps K-12 teachers be impactful with multilingual learners (MLs) in the context of high-level core teaching for all students.  Join us to increase equitable student engagement in high-level conversations, academic reading, and writing in your daily teaching.

OUTCOMES:

• Learn six essential mindsets and actions to ensure multilingual learners (MLs)—and all students—thrive with the high-level literacy and content expectations of your core lessons.
• Experience a four-step routine you can use to deepen student engagement and voice in academic conversations, close reading and writing across the K-12 curriculum.
• Use student-centered, asset-focused data to choose and lose scaffolds strategically.
• Hone your differentiation superpowers to help your students thrive with complex texts, productive struggle, and joyful academic learning across the content areas you teach.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND? K-12 teachers who teach in classrooms with at least one multilingual learner (ML). Instructional leaders, specialists, co-teachers and coaches who support effective core teaching are welcome and encouraged to enroll with at least one classroom teacher or team for the optimal theory-to-action, action-to-impact experience.

The book EL Excellence Every Day: The Flip-to Guide for Differentiating Academic Literacy is required and not included in registration. Please order from your favorite bookseller today. 

Two Thursdays October 13th, 2022 AND November 3rd, 2022 at the following times:

11:00am – 1:00pm Eastern (8:00am – 10:00am Pacific)

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2:00pm – 4:00pm Eastern (11:00am – 1:00 pm Pacific)

Accelerating Language through High-Level Content Every Day

How do we build language while teaching core content? Join us in this interactive, virtual workshop to unpack the linguistic demands of content texts and tasks, identify key language learning objectives to teach, and learn powerful strategies to differentiate and accelerate language learning within content classrooms every day. Experience a powerful protocol to use formative data to build on students’ linguistic assets to accelerate language learning across the curriculum.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND? K-12 teachers, co-teachers, teacher teams, instructional leaders, literacy specialists, instructional coaches and ML/EL/ESOL/EAL specialists who support effective core teaching.

The book EL Excellence Every Day: The Flip-to Guide for Differentiating Academic Literacy is required and not included in registration. Please order from your favorite bookseller today. 

Two Thursdays January 19th & February 16th, 2023 at the following times:

11:00am – 1:00pm Eastern (8:00am – 10:00am Pacific)

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2:00pm – 4:00pm Eastern (11:00am – 1:00 pm Pacific)

Accelerating ML Excellence in Mathematics

This collaborative, virtual 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 multilingual learners actively in intellectually rich mathematical reasoning and help all students—especially those classified as English learners (ELs)—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.

Silos to Synergy:  A Call to Co-Lead for Equitable Schools 

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 equity-centered professional learning from the margins to the core.

Ideal participants: All administrators, coaches and specialists involved in designing, leading, or supporting instructional change initiatives in your district.