This webinar features guest presenter Esther Park — a 15-year former high school teacher of ELs who currently works as an instructional designer, virtual instruction innovator, educational consultant, and online adjunct instructor.

• Explore technology strategies, tips, and tech tools for fostering authentic digital interactions for ELs working in virtual or hybrid learning environments

• Discuss the importance of EL engagement in virtual settings, highlighting challenges and successful strategies to address them

In partnership with the South Dakota Department of Education, this webinar shares lessons learned from distance learning in spring 2020 and tools and suggestions for supporting ELs in the 2020-21 academic year.

• Explore lessons learned from distance learning in spring 2020

• Reflect on 5 areas for supporting ELs in the new academic year

• Learn about connections between challenges and solutions in reaching ELs in rural, urban, and suburban contexts

With districts closing to slow the spread of COVID-19, teachers have had to quickly pivot to teaching ELs online. In this webinar, guest presenter and EL online educator Dr. Eugenia Krimmel shares and models strategies for teaching K-12 ELs online.

• Five technology suggestions for supporting ELs in online learning

• Practical strategies for online instruction of ELs

• Padlet of tools and resources for online content, communicating with families, internet access, and translation

Explore research-based strategies and easily implementable classroom activities centered around making complex text accessible to ELs.

• Six key considerations for making complex text accessible to ELs

• Practical strategies for supporting EL engagement and participation

• Handouts packed with easily implementable classroom activities

Talk about the benefits of collaboration and discover instructional strategies for scaffolding instruction across content areas. 

• Supporting ELs’ language development and content acquisition through scaffolded instruction

• Scaffolding content instruction for ELs of varying proficiency levels

• Collaborating with colleagues to plan scaffolded lessons in content areas

Explore common challenges faced by educators when advocating for ELs. Gain practical tools for EL advocacy that you can implement into your schools and districts immediately.

• Defining EL advocacy

• Isolating your EL advocacy issue

• Highlighting 3 key EL advocacy issues

       • Advocating for ELs using steps and tools designed for each issue

       • Applying your EL advocacy skills

Explore common EL grading challenges faced by educators with our new 5 Pillars of Equitably Grading ELs framework. Discuss pressing EL grading topics with national experts on EL education and assessment. Gain practical tools for equitable EL grading that you can implement into your schools immediately.

Learn innovative strategies and tools used by the nation’s tenth largest school district to effectively support SLIFE and improve their chances for academic and personal growth.

• Practical tools for effectively identifying and assessing SLIFE

• Strategies for providing literacy intervention and support to SLIFE

• Innovative strategies for providing consistent socio-emotional support for SLIFE

Learn the best practices around delivering thoughtful and systematic academic language instruction for English learners. Synthesize highlights from research and the classroom to uncover strategies that teach to the layers of word, sentence, and discourse within Academic Language.