Virtual SLIFE Conference

Virtual SLIFE Conference

When & Where:

November 12, 2020

12:30 pm – 7:30 pm CST

Zoom Conference

What it is:

Join educators and researchers across the country as they discuss how they’re meeting the academic and social emotional needs of Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education. The online conference consists of synchronous presentations throughout the day with Q & A opportunities at the end of each session.

Sessions

SLIFE: More Than One Lens

12:30 pm CST

Pamela  Broussard

Pamela Broussard

Successful support for SLIFE students starts from viewing these students through various lenses. This session will look at some key considerations for providing the social and emotional support for SLIFE students, especially those who come in the upper grades.

The U.S. Refugee School Impact Program

1:30 pm CST

Laura Gardner

Laura Gardner

Many SLIFE are refugees. The federal Office of Refugee Resettlement’s Refugee School Impact (RSI) Program aims to to promote the academic performance and successful integration of refugee youth into U.S. schools. This program provides funding to 41 states and approximately 170 school districts and refugee-serving agencies at the local level. Join this session to learn about this program and how RSI funds are used across the U.S., including to support SLIFE.

Yes They Can! Making Content Lessons Comprehensible

2:30 pm CST

Michelle Yzquierdo

Michelle Yzquierdo

SLIFE need a vibrant space where academic language and content is delivered in understandable ways. With an emphasis on comprehensible input, this session will offer practical advice and tips for structuring, planning, and delivering language-rich, comprehensible lessons. In addition, participants will learn and practice a variety of interactive, user-friendly strategies and activities that integrate both content and language standards for both in-person and remoting classroom settings.

Fostering Academic Achievement for SLIFE: the Mutually Adaptive Learning Paradigm – MALP

3:30 pm CST

Helaine W. Marshall

Helaine W. Marshall

Participants will learn about the contrasting learning paradigms of SLIFE and our Western-style educational systems and how the resulting cultural dissonance causes many such students to struggle, not reach their full potential, or even to drop out of programs entirely. The Mutually Adaptive Learning Paradigm, a research-based instructional model of culturally responsive-sustaining education with six elements, guides educators seeking to find a pathway for SLIFE to develop the academic acumen to succeed all while maintaining their own culturally significant priorities and values.

Rapid Literacy for Secondary Emergent Readers

4:30 pm CST

Carol Salva

Carol Salva

This session will focus on practical strategies that support language acquisition and literacy development for older emergent readers. The techniques are appropriate for an online or face to face learning environment.

The Power of Sentences

5:30 pm CST

Suzanna McNamara

Suzanna McNamara

We will present a range of interactive sentence-level tasks designed to support SLIFE to internalize and generate simple, compound, and complex sentences. The implementation of these tasks across all content areas can support SLIFE to comprehend text, express ideas, and build metalinguistic awareness.

Annie Smith

Annie Smith

Supporting SLIFE Using Foundational Skills in Native Language and English

6:30 pm CST

Orly Klapholtz

Orly Klapholtz

Through specialized materials, targeted assessment, and proper supports, SLIFE – including those who are new to print or have developing literacy – have met success in our classrooms. In this session, you will gain insight into how pairing native-language/Spanish-language support with explicit English phonics instruction can best support Spanish-speaking SLIFE in foundational reading and writing skills, ultimately preparing them for academic success in their content-area classes.

Sarah Digby

Sarah Digby