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    Planning for Playful Learning

    Transform your learning environment and create sustainable and engaging learning opportunities through intentional play. In this engaging On-Demand webinar, Early childhood experts Kenisha Bynoe and Angelique Thompson share ideas for creating spaces that engage, motivate, and encourage children to think deeply and critically.

    In this webinar, you will:

    • Explore the elements of an Invitation for Learning and why they are significant to play-based learning environments.
    • Consider the steps to planning an Invitation for Learning.
    • Discover strategies that can be used to revitalize your learning opportunities.

    Presented by:

    Kenisha Bynoe and
    Kenisha Bynoe
    Angelique Thompson
    Angelique Thompson
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    How to Ensure Decodable Texts Are an Effective Tool for Phonics Instruction

    The ongoing national conversation on the Science of Reading has led to a heightened focus on providing high-quality phonics instruction to students, with decodable texts being a crucial component. However, many teachers are still uncertain about how to effectively utilize these decodables in the classroom.

    In this webinar, you will:

    • Discover routines and strategies to support classroom or small group instruction that includes decodable texts.
    • Engage with lesson ideas that build reading, writing, vocabulary, and comprehension skills, and more.

    Presented by:

    Jen Jump
    Jen Jump
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    5 Steps to Reaching Academic Equity in Your Schools and Classrooms

    Join Dr. Almitra Berry as she shares insight from her newly released book, Effecting Change for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners, 2nd Edition. She generates the excitement needed for educators to travel down the metaphorical Road to CARTI, where culturally appropriate response to instruction (CARTI) is the way schools operate. Come take a drone flight overview, and be ready to set your GPS for the land of CARTI!

    In this webinar, you will:

    • Learn Dr. Berry’s motivation for writing Effecting Change.
    • Explore an outline to reach academic equity and understand why the CARTI framework must be taken as a sequential whole.
    • Examine the need to drive in both the lanes of school structure and culture in order to create a school built on academic equity for learners of cultural and linguistic diversity.

    Presented by:

    Dr. Almitra L. Berry
    Dr. Almitra L. Berry
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    Academic Equity in the Post-COVID-19 Environment

    Academic equity has become a focus of schools across the nation. COVID-19 just dealt educators another blow. Whether your instruction is fully remote, hybrid, or fully face-to-face, you’ll need to focus on the challenges you’ll face based on interrupted formal education caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

    In this webinar, you will learn to:

    • Identify the equity and accountability challenges of your schools.
    • Examine the criteria you’ll need to rely on to address those challenges.
    • Determine instructional programs needed to overcome the provision gaps your learners now face.
    • Use the Equity Maturity Matrix© as an assessment tool to help determine the need for, or focus of, additional professional development.

    Presented by:

    Dr. Almitra L. Berry
    Dr. Almitra L. Berry
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    Culturally Responsive Literacy: Identifying Three Types of Text

    Students thrive as readers and learners when they are able to see themselves in and learn about others through a variety of text across culture and language.

    Join this webinar to learn:

    • Three types of culturally responsive text.
    • A tool you can use to analyze texts for cultural responsiveness.
    • Protocols you can use to validate and affirm students through the use of culturally responsive literacy strategies.

    Presented by:

    Carrie Eicher
    Carrie Eicher
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    Leadership: The Key to Fostering a Mindset for Culturally Appropriate Equitable Instruction

    School Leaders - Are you fostering the mindset that your teachers need for their learners to receive and benefit from culturally appropriate equitable instruction? This is a critical consideration for your equity initiative success.

    Join this webinar to learn:

    • What every district should know about the “J-Curve of Change”
    • 5 actions for creating a change mindset for adult stakeholders
    • 5 objectives for examining and implementing effective practices

    Presented by:

    Dr. Almitra L. Berry
    Dr. Almitra L. Berry
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    6 Ways to Know You are Culturally Responsive

    The world of education is buzzing with talk of being more culturally responsive, but how do you know if you are being culturally responsive?

    Join this webinar to:

    • Define cultural responsiveness
    • Learn 6 key questions to gauge your cultural responsiveness
    • Pinpoint where you are in your journey to responsiveness

    Presented by:

    Dr. Sharroky Hollie
    Dr. Sharroky Hollie
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    Building Connections: Linking Literacy and Life Skills Learning

    We know books are powerful tools for teaching complex topics, especially when carefully curated to build connections for the reader. We also know teachers need easy-to-implement and meaningful literacy activities to teach important life skills, such as self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making. In this webinar, we will explore three 15–20-minute literacy activities that seamlessly integrate these skills, taking complex concepts and making them actionable.

    In this session, participants will:

    • Explore three easy-to-implement, teacher-led literacy activities that support essential life skills learning.
    • Investigate the partnership of carefully curated text and literacy activities to teach essential topics and build meaningful connections to the text.
    • Discover opportunities to promote critical and creative thinking through research-based reading and writing activities.

    Presented by:

    Carrie Eicher
    Carrie Eicher
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    What the Science Says About Reading and Writing

    Based on the brand new professional development book series, What the Science Says About Word Recognition, Reading Comprehension & Content Knowledge, and Writing… join co-author, Jen Jump for an upbeat conversation about how a focus on the Science of Reading can enhance instructional practice through research and engaging strategies.

    In this session, participants will:

    • Discover key components of research about reading (from the last several decades!).
    • Identify research-aligned instructional adjustments supporting daily instruction.
    • Experience engaging activities that align to the Science of Reading.

    Presented by:

    Jen Jump
    Jen Jump
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    Why Teaching Fiction Matters

    For students, fiction is everywhere! In the classroom, in the library, on the television, on their devices. Teaching how to navigate fictional text effectively in the classroom will allow students to practice their comprehension of fictional story structures in any environment. In this webinar, we will examine and experience the joy and engagement that fiction text brings to students while providing the key purposes for using it during instruction.

    In this session, participants will:

    • Discover the features that students look for in fiction text for maximum engagement.
    • Learn how fictional story structures are produced and how to use them for comprehension.
    • Acquire engaging strategies to use in the classroom immediately when teaching with fictional text.

    Presented by:

    Alan Becker
    Alan Becker
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    Vocabulary Building: Weekly Word Roots

    Words matter when it comes to reading and writing, so it is critical that word study is an integral part of our literacy curriculum. Using the power of Greek and Latin word roots, students can dive deeper into the meaning of words. In this session, you will learn simple and effective ways to incorporate word root routines into your weekly instruction using holidays or special days throughout the year.

    In this webinar, you will:

    • Explore why word roots (morphology) are important for building vocabulary.
    • Learn how to include word roots in vocabulary instruction.
     

    Presented by:

    Dr. Timothy Rasinski
    Dr. Timothy Rasinski
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    How to Integrate the Arts - Reading with Purpose: Creating Monologues in the Classroom

    Are you looking for ways to boost student engagement in language arts? Do you need help providing students with a purpose for reading? The arts offer powerful ways to spark curiosity, increase cultural relevance, improve classroom culture, and strengthen student achievement. In this session, we will explore how monologues will help your students read with a purpose.

    In this webinar, you will:

    • Explore the benefits of using monologues in the classroom.
    • Discover how to create monologues by utilizing primary sources and multiple text sets to draw in diverse perspectives.
    • Learn how to keep students focused and engaged while also fostering a sense of ownership in what they are learning.
     

    Presented by:

    Dr. Lisa Donovan and
    Dr. Lisa Donovan
    Dr. Jennifer Bogard
    Dr. Jennifer Bogard
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    Short Texts with Big Impact

    Short texts provide powerful teaching opportunities that support a variety of instructional needs, content areas, and reading levels. Some of our favorite classroom texts can take a great deal of instructional time to complete, leaving little time for in-depth discussions and analysis. Rich, short texts allow for immediate impact and repeated readings. Join us as we look at the unique benefits of short texts as part of our classroom instruction.

    In this webinar, you will:

    • Discover the value of short texts in building literacy.
    • Explore how to build and scaffold text-dependent questions and tasks.
    • Practice strategies for short texts that support reading and writing objectives.
     

    Presented by:

    Kim Carlton
    Kim Carlton
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    5 Ways to Build Social Emotional Learning through Literacy

    Throughout the pandemic, students were exposed to in-person, online, and/or hybrid learning environments. As such, they have not experienced optimal learning environments for developing social and emotional learning (SEL) skills. With the return to in-person learning in the new school year, it is critical that students get the support they need to build their SEL skills. Promoting social and emotional development for all students in our classrooms involves teaching and modeling social and emotional skills, allowing students to practice and fine-tune those skills, and providing students a chance to apply these skills in various situations.

    One of the most popular SEL approaches embeds SEL instruction into content areas such as English language arts, social studies, or math. In this session, we will look at literacy as one of the avenues to teach the social-emotional skills that students need to thrive in school and beyond.

    In this webinar, you will:

    • Discover the foundation of social and emotional learning and how to integrate it into the classroom’s daily instruction seamlessly.
    • Review text cards that feature untold stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things to work on literacy skills while focusing on SEL instruction.
    • Investigate the idea that high-quality interactions matter and how to incorporate them in any lesson plan.
     

    Presented by:

    Claudia Rodriguez
    Claudia Rodriguez
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    Science of Literacy: Research into Practice

    Conversations centering around the Science of Literacy are happening everywhere. Join this engaging and informative session that will both examine research and showcase practical ways to use the research in instructional practice.

    In this webinar, you will:

    • Discover the key components of the body of research, the Science of Literacy.
    • Consider the implications of high-quality research in daily instruction.
    • Identify and use practical literacy strategies that support the research.
     

    Presented by:

    Jen Jump
    Jen Jump
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    3 Steps for Making Early Writers Independent

    Join early literacy expert and reading specialist, Cathy Collier as she discusses her first book, The Road to Independent Reading and Writing. Students need clear and explicit directions in writing, but setting up the routines in the classroom and their materials is key. When students aren't afraid to write and have appropriate writing anchors in the room, the students are able to write independently with ease. Cathy will give step-by-step ideas for independent writing lessons.

    In this webinar, you will:

    • Discover what routines are essential for early learners.
    • Explore what materials can easily be accessed by students.
    • Identify what supports are provided by the teacher that helps maintain independence.
     

    Presented by:

    Cathy Collier
    Cathy Collier
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    Building Vocabulary with Word Roots

    Did you know one of the best ways to build students’ vocabulary is through word roots? Yet, teachers generally have not been exposed to the power of roots for vocabulary, and how to teach roots.

    Join this webinar to learn:

    • Understand why roots knowledge can build vocabulary for reading and writing
    • Learn simple yet powerful ways to teach words through word roots

    Presented by:

    Dr. Timothy Rasinski
    Dr. Timothy Rasinski
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    Everyday Strategies for Building Vocabulary

    Effective vocabulary instruction is much more than rote memorization, flashcards, writing, and rewriting the same words.

    Join this webinar to learn:

    • new ways to engage students with rich, powerful vocabulary
    • proven strategies to help students learn words and how they work
    • flexible ways to teach vocabulary whether it is at-home, online, or in the classroom

    Presented by: 

    Jen Jump
    Jen Jump
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    Summer School: 3 Considerations for Boosting Parent Engagement

    Families are at the core of learning and during the summer, are critical in providing continued opportunities for learning and engagement together. In this webinar, you will learn three considerations for boosting parent engagement through the summer. These include opportunities for learning strategies that will address learning using the home and community environment.

    In this webinar, you will:

    • Learn four ways parents can help their child at home to continue to learn through the summer.
    • Explore a plan to develop and share for family engagement.
    • Discover suggestions for resources to help learning during the summer.

    Presented by: 

    Rebecca A. Palacios, Ph.D, NBCT
    Rebecca A. Palacios, Ph.D, NBCT
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    Summer School: 3 Considerations for Boosting Student Engagement

    What if we lived in a world where students were excited to go to summer school?! The truth is that is not likely for most students. Most students have to go to summer school for extenuating reasons. They are what teachers call an obligatory audience. During this webinar, we will uncover ways to move students from obligation to dedication.

     In this session, we will explore what research says about motivating learning and consider how to apply it to the summer school experience. Take a closer look at strategies that can be used at any grade level, with any curriculum, no matter what you are teaching this summer!

    In this webinar, we will:

    • Examine the ARCS-V Motivation Model.
    • Apply this model to boosting student engagement in summer school.
    • Explore 3 motivational instructional strategies.

    Presented by: 

    Jordana Benone
    Jordana Benone
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    Summer School: 3 Considerations for Boosting Teacher Engagement

    Summer school gives teachers the unique opportunity to focus on “teacher self-care.” Trying out things in summer school we didn’t get a chance to teach during the regular school year is one way to invest in “teacher self-care.” When we better understand what works in our classroom, we can plan accordingly and make our year ahead the best it can be.

    In this session, we will examine ways to make the summer school experience more meaningful, more motivating, and more professionally fulfilling for you. We will take a deeper dive into how to best reflect on and reinvigorate your teaching practice in summer school.

    In this webinar, you will:

    • Consider how summer school can be an opportunity for “teacher self-care.”
    • Identify a driving question for your summer school teaching practice.
    • Create a vision of your teaching style and need.
    • Define your success criteria for summer school.

    Presented by:

    Jordana Benone
    Jordana Benone
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    Keys for Accelerating Learning

    We know that every minute in the classroom counts, which can be overwhelming. Educators need clear and simple guidelines to maximize instruction time and accelerate learning opportunities for all students. In this webinar, we will examine how to prioritize your classroom minutes.

    In this webinar, you will:

    • Discover the four key components for accelerating learning.
    • Design just-in-time intervention that can be applied to any grade level or content area, whether in the classroom or a summer program.

    Presented by:

    Jen Jump
    Jen Jump
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    Full STEAM Ahead: Using Project-Based Learning to Accelerate Learning

    Perfect for the summer or intervention programs, collaborative or project-based learning opportunities allow students to grow and build a range of skills. STEAM challenges offer the chance to build academic vocabulary, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.

    This collaborative work builds all five core components of social and emotional learning and gives our students rich opportunities for listening, speaking, and collaboration.

    In this webinar, you will:

    • Understand the unique value of STEAM.
    • Learn how to utilize collaborative or project-based learning with STEAM challenges to accelerate learning.
    • Discover rich opportunities to grow and build SEL skills across the content areas.

    Presented by: 

    Allison Roeser
    Allison Roeser
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    How to Make an Impact in Your Intervention Programs

    Join this webinar to discover new approaches for implementing high-yield instructional strategies and systems during school intervention programs to accelerate student growth. We will discuss how to meet the needs of all students.

    In this webinar, you will learn to:

    • Plan all lessons using high-yield instructional strategies that maximize student learning.
    • Incorporate engaging and entertaining instructional activities in all content areas.

    Presented by: 

    Alan Becker
    Alan Becker
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    How to Accelerate Learning over the Summer Break

    Prevent the summer slide with meaningful at-home learning experiences, allowing students to make powerful connections to the learning that takes place in the classroom. Ultimately, the home-school connection helps students see the content they learn is represented in the world around them. Join us to discover practical and impactful strategies that help students continue learning at home during the summer months.

    In this webinar, you will learn to:

    • Engage student thinking with structured activities.
    • Assist students in taking control of their own learning while not in the classroom.
    • Facilitate the problem solving and critical thinking skills needed to extend into the next school year.

    Presented by: 

    Alan Becker
    Alan Becker
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    How to Make After School Programs Engaging in Today’s Classroom

    Students need opportunities to engage with rich content. Throughout this webinar, reimagine after school programming with new ways to engage and motivate all students.

    In this webinar, you will learn to:

    • Identify barriers to engagement and student achievement.
    • Discover high-quality, effective solutions to engagement barriers.
    • Interact with strategies to engage all students with rich content to accelerate learning opportunities.

    Presented by: 

    Jen Jump
    Jen Jump
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    Leadership: Strategies for Implementing an Asset-Based Approach to Intervention

    One of the most significant challenges educators are facing is addressing students’ learning needs in new educational environments. This webinar will explore ideas on how to identify students’ strengths and build on them through intervention during these unprecedented times.

    Join this webinar to learn:

    • Programmatic approaches that work for virtual, hybrid, and in-person models.
    • Strategies to personalize learning and empower students to be agents in their learning journey.

    Presented by: 

    Karie Gladis
    Karie Gladis
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    Intervention Strategies for Reading and Mathematics

    One of the biggest challenges that educators face this fall is combating learning loss and learning how to navigate these new educational environments.

    Join this webinar to learn:

    • How to prevent further learning loss
    • New ways to engage and support students in these unprecedented times
    • Instructional techniques that work for at-home, online, or in-class instruction
     

    Presented by: 

    Alan Becker
    Alan Becker
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    3 Building Blocks of Implementing Guided Math

    Create an environment for mathematics that supports learning, fosters mathematical thinking and understanding, and meets the needs of all students. This session will help educators learn the fundamentals and mindset behind creating competent mathematicians using the research-based Guided Math approach. Explore the three building blocks to successfully implementing Guided Math in your classroom, school, or district.

    In this webinar, you will:

    • Learn the Guided Math framework: Menu of Instruction.
    • Discover the effective flows of instruction.
    • Develop a brief understanding of establishing an environment of numeracy.

    Presented by: 

    Lisa Callahan
    Lisa Callahan
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    Talk It Out: Boosting Math Achievement

    Student discourse can help solidify the learning of math concepts. Perfect for summer school or intervention, mathematics discourse allows teachers and students to access mathematics in new and exciting ways.

    In this webinar, you will:

    • learn three powerful elements of mathematical discourse to accelerate learning in the classroom.
    • explore how to boost student learning and achievement in math using short math tasks and clear discussion protocols.

    Presented by: 

    Danielle Battle
    Danielle Battle
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    Connecting Math & Literacy: Get Students Reading, Writing, and Speaking in Math Class

    If students are struggling with reading, then chances are they are probably also struggling with math. Inspire students to read, write, and speak about math in a way that is relevant and meaningful to their lives.

    In less than 20 minutes, Alex Kajitani, California Teacher of the Year and "The Rappin' Mathematician" shares how to get students reading, writing, and speaking in math class.

    In this webinar, you will:

    • learn three high-leverage strategies to connect math and literacy.

    Presented by: 

    Alex Kajitani
    Alex Kajitani
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    Unleash the Power of Mathematical Thinking

    Help students unleash the power of mathematical thinking with meaningful mathematical experiences. Discover the impact of mathematical thinking, reasoning, and discourse on students' mathematical achievement.

    In this webinar, you will:

    • Learn how to establish a student-centered approach for meaningful mathematics learning experiences.
    • Acquire engaging strategies for building conceptual understanding and making thinking visible.
    • Develop students' mathematics practices and processes through rich and authentic tasks.

    Presented by: 

    Karie Gladis
    Karie Gladis
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    3 Strategies to Engage and Excite Reluctant or Struggling Math Learners

    Create an environment where elementary students are excited and engaged in learning mathematics. This session will help educators take their math instruction to a higher level with three classroom-proven strategies you can implement today.

    In this webinar, you will learn:

    • Varied opportunities through powerful tools to help students explain their thinking about math.
    • Targeted and effective use of manipulatives to engage students in the learning process.
    • Physical and digital games to provide opportunities for students to engage in real-world applications.

    Presented by: 

    Eric LeMoine
    Eric LeMoine
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    Let's Talk Math: Your Guide to Successful Problem Solving Instruction

    Let’s Talk Math is a brand-new, standards-aligned, research-based supplemental resource that provides a practical way to implement a 3 step process for successful problem solving. This supplemental resource offers 120 high demand tasks per grade level that can be used in conjunction with any core curriculum, as well as predictable routines and structured protocols to develop students’ problem solving skills. In this on-demand webinar, you will deepen your understanding of problem solving and see how Let’s Talk Math can support your mathematics instruction.

    In this webinar, you will learn:

    • How to support learners in becoming more confident mathematical thinkers;
    • See structured protocols that engage students in specific mathematical habits of mind that promote problem solving skills;
    • Observe how integrating literacy instruction can be used to support problem solving skills;
    • How Let’s Talk Math enhances both students’ mathematical content knowledge and problem-solving skills, as well as oral and written communication skills.

    Presented by: 

    Kit Norris and
    Kit Norris
    Dr. Hilary Kreisberg
    Dr. Hilary Kreisberg
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    Teaching Elementary Math: No More Problems with Problem Solving

    Supporting students to think mathematically is challenging. In this webinar, we will examine high-cognitive demand tasks and deepen our understanding of how to choose rigorous tasks that promote problem-solving skills. We will also explore how being linguistically responsive can help students to be more successful problem solvers. You will leave this session with immediate ways to enhance your instruction of problem solving.

    In this webinar, you will learn:

    • High cognitive-demand tasks and how these tasks provide opportunities for learners to become mathematical thinkers;
    • How to identify tiered vocabulary and challenging grammatical structures to make problem contexts more comprehensible for students; and
    • How structured discourse supports the problem solving process by enabling students to articulate their own thinking and become active listeners.

    Presented by: 

    Kit Norris and
    Kit Norris
    Dr. Hilary Kreisberg
    Dr. Hilary Kreisberg
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    Authentic Opportunities to Build English Language Proficiency

    Discover ways to engage English language learners in rich experiences that develop language skills in all four language domains: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. This workshop will provide educators with best practices to support English language learners in a wide range of settings.

    In this webinar, you will:

    • Explore ways to build context and understanding through rich text, visual, and audio experiences.
    • Experience strategies that allow students ample opportunities to talk about what they are learning, building their English language proficiency.
    • Be equipped with scaffolds that support students right where they are.

    Presented by: 

    Jen Jump
    Jen Jump
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    Developing Language Through Content for English Learners

    English learners struggle to learn new content and language simultaneously. They need ample opportunities to access, interpret, and produce content in English.

    During this webinar, we will engage in a variety of strategies to support English language learners in developing content knowledge and language across the curriculum. It will provide insights into how to maximize oral language opportunities in all disciplines through quick daily oral language practices.

    In this webinar, you will:

    • Recognize the role of teaching thinking and content in language development.
    • Engage in strategies that can support academic thinking and language development.
    • Learn five quick oral language activities for daily use.

    Presented by:

    Dr. Eugenia Mora-Flores
    Dr. Eugenia Mora-Flores