Webinars

What it is:

What it is:

Amplifying the Voices of Unaccompanied Minors is an opportunity for teachers and school leaders to hear from those who have lived the experience as an unaccompanied minor in the American school system.

What it is:

What it is:

Prioritizing EL program requirements and implementing streamlined processes ensures ELs reach language and academic goals. This free webinar will briefly explore EL program types and highlight some system and process needed to support EL programs.

What it is:

What it is:

Training all teachers in low-tech and digital second language acquisition methods supports EL success in the TEKS and the ELPS. This free webinar will briefly explore required professional development and second language acquisition methods that support beginners through advanced high ELs.

What it is:

What it is:

Prioritizing family, parent and community outreach ensures families of ELs play meaningful roles in their students’ education. This free webinar will briefly explore the differences between involvement and engagement, discuss school district requirements to provide families of English learners with engagement opportunities and examine considerations for evolving current practices.

What it is:

Join authors Valentina Gonzalez and Melinda Miller as they reveal Seidlitz Education’s newest resource: Reading & Writing with ELs: A Framework for K-5!

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.

We’ve uploaded available presentations and recordings on the SLIFE conference page.

What it is:

Join Valentina Gonzalez and Melinda Miller as they share practical and effective strategies for supporting English learners in balanced literacy classrooms. We will explore components of Reading and Writing instruction with a special eye for increasing the effectiveness of instructional methods and quality of instruction to serve English learners.

What it is:

Delivering lessons that are comprehensible for students is an essential skill for teachers of ELs. However, this is often easier said than done, especially in content classrooms where, though teachers are experts on their material, they may have little experience with language acquisition strategies. The challenge of making content concepts understandable has been further compounded by COVID-19, as many of our classrooms are now blending in-person and remote teaching. This webinar will present various ideas and strategies that enable all teachers to make language and content more understandable, no matter the classroom format.

What it is:

Dr. Stephen Fleenor unveils our newest product, The Visual Non-Glossary; an online resource for science teachers to help their students naturally develop vocabulary. We will see how The Visual Non-Glossary helps educators vertically align vocabulary to the TEKS and NGSS standards. Dr. Fleenor will also walk us through the key feature of the resource, structured visuals and aligned sentence stems that promote students’ deep thinking and usage of academic vocabulary. Come to familiarize yourself with the resource and learn how to leverage structured visuals to naturally engage students with academic language.

What it is:

All across the country, school districts are seeing the benefits of bilingual education.  Implementing a sustaining and successful Dual Language Program can be as simple as ABC! Based on over 20 years of research and experience, I have(Aloise Miller has) generated an ABC list of essentials that will assist all school districts develop a sustainable and accessible program to best meet the needs of their stakeholders.

What it is:

 Martin discusses ESSA’s requirements for school districts to provide families of English learners engagement opportunities. She explores the differences between involvement and engagement and examines considerations for embedding engagement opportunities within current practices.

What it is:

Este webinar presenta la importancia del dictado y los pasos a seguir para implementarlo en el aula dual. También incluye algunas diferencias entre el inglés y el español y la importancia de la oralidad como base de la lectoescritura. Este webinar es presentado en español.

What it is:

Sally Barnes describes how to use the 7 Steps’ Step 6 and 7 (Structured Conversations, Structured Reading and Writing) in asynchronous and synchronous online learning environments. We will share some specific strategies and activities to keep students engaged and active in the target language. These steps will benefit ALL teachers of language, including LOTE/World Language, ESL/Bilingual, and content teachers of ELs!

What it is:

La doctora Morales compartirá algunas actividades e ideas para enriquecer el desarrollo de la lectoescritura en los salones duales y bilingües, en los grados de pre kínder a segundo. Estas actividades incluyen canciones, rimas, trabalenguas y juegos teatrales. La sesión enfatiza el cruce lingüístico y académico en el aula dual, como también la conciencia metalingüística en ambos idiomas.

What it is:

Jordan Greer and Natalia Heckman share tips for parents. Jordan, a language coach from Frisco ISD, will join Natalia in a conversation about ways to support literacy at home.

What it is:

Allison Hand offers tips on how to continue to build our EL students’ Speaking proficiency during distance learning. Whether you are working with students online in a synchronous or asynchronous environment or students do not have access to the internet we will discuss supports to continue building academic vocabulary and oral proficiency with our students.

What it is:

Adrián Mendoza compartirá formas de interactuar con manipulativos virtuales que ayudarán a promover conversaciones matematicas a distancia utilizando preguntas estratégicas, fragmentos de oración y visuales. El objetivo de este taller es despertar el interés de los estudiantes en un ambiente de mentalidad de crecimiento matemático.

What it is:

Dr. Stephen Fleenor describes what language-rich student interaction can look like in both synchronous and asynchronous online platforms.  We will explore students’ socio-emotional and linguistic needs in participating in online discussions and how to structure and facilitate these discussions.

What it is:

Carol Salva discusses ways to help SLIFE (students with limited or interrupted formal education).  She addresses actions we can take to help these learners find success as we move forward with remote learning.

What it is: 

Dr. Morales will share a general overview of the TExES 190 Bilingual Target Language Proficiency Test (BTLPT) Spanish test format, competencies, expectations, and study resources. Listening comprehension (comprensión auditiva), oral expression (expresión oral), reading comprehension (comprensión de lectura), and written expression (expresión escrita) will be emphasized.

What it is:

Join Marcy Voss to learn 3 easy steps for writing differentiated academic sentence stems for students at various levels of English language proficiency. Discover how to incorporate the brick and mortar terms from your lesson objectives into sentence stems so that students practice the academic vocabulary they need to know and understand.  Then learn how to modify the stems to create different stems for students at different language proficiency levels so that all student needs are met.

What it is:

Natalia Heckman outlines a blueprint of a writing lesson for English Learners using paragraph frames. We will explore online resources to create compelling assignments for English Learners of all levels. 

What it is:

Alyssa Jean, Senior Instructional Content Manager at Ellevation, will join Anna Matis to share free resources to help you adapt research-based strategies for a distance learning environment.  Whether you’re teaching live online classes through Zoom, or working to provide resources to students who don’t have Internet access, this webinar will leave you with actionable steps you can take to support your ELs during this challenging time by leveraging their home language and environment.

What it is:

Join Dr. Escalante as we explore how we can maintain and strengthen relationships with students and among students in our online classrooms. Join us for a very positive and practical approach to connecting with students during this time of distance learning. Affirm the positive, build on your strengths and acquire new ideas during this session.

What it is:

Tina Beene offers tips and resources for generating compelling social studies content in both digital and tech-free formats during distance learning. We will identify some of the challenges educators currently face while focusing on the unexpected opportunities and unique power of this content area to inform and empower students regardless of physical proximity.

What it is:

Adrian Mendoza will share how to interact with math virtual manipulatives to promote mathematical conversations from a distance using strategic questions, sentence stems, and visuals while encouraging curiosity in a mathematical growth mindset classroom setting.

What it is:

Nancy Motley, author of Talk, Read, Talk, Write, will discuss three characteristics of questions that prompt students to really develop their thinking about any topic. We will address what makes a “better” question, discuss how to use them online and in person contexts, and provide examples and non-examples.

What it is:

What it is:

What it is:

What it is:

Laura Gardner, Founder of Immigrant Connections, Social Worker and Consultant, will join Carol Salva and Valentina Gonzalez to discuss some of the most important considerations as we aim to support Immigrant and Refugee students and their families during this time of social distancing. 

Upcoming Webinars

For information on future webinars, please see our ‘Upcoming Events’ page.