Professional Development
Choice Board
Prepare and empower your teachers to meet the needs of your students learning English. The following is a collection of some of the top trainers on the most crucial topics for this upcoming school year. This choice board was created not to promote any one company but to provide schools and districts a quick resource to address the academic challenges and the anticipated influx of new students. Empower your teachers, so they can empower your students. Your students can be successful!
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Leaders, Advocates, Family Engagement, The School I Deserve | New Arrivals Refugees SLIFE LTELs | Content Support | Reading Writing Listening Speaking | *Social Emotional *Technology *Special Ed *Culturally Responsive Teaching |
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Beyond the Classroom
Leaders, Advocates,
Family Engagement, The School I Deserve
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ELs in Texas: What School Leaders Need to Know
Description: School leaders need a convenient and accessible resource that integrates the voluminous amounts of information in their binders, books, and manuals into one easy-to-read resource. This comprehensive training includes: explanations of current policy and law; information and guidance related to federal and Texas state law for ELs; a convenient and efficient resource for school leaders at all levels of experience; a collection of current and relevant statutes, codes, and guidance for leading programs.
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Title: Advocacy for ELLs
Description: Guided by four core principles—common purpose, shared mindset, diverse team membership, supportive environment—this workshop helps create a systemic approach to collaboration and advocacy on behalf of ELLs. Practical strategies for forming and nurturing student-student, teacher-student, teacher-teacher, and school-community partnerships will be explored. The PD may be offered as a structured book study: https://tinyurl.com/7czup693
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Title: Immigrant Family & Community Engagement in Schools
Description: Family engagement in increasingly being used as a strategy to support student achievement and to close opportunity gaps. Yet, as demographics continue to shift in our communities, schools are grappling with how to specifically engage immigrant and English Learner families. Learn strategies for increasing the capacity of immigrant families and school staff for engaging in partnerships.
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Beyond the Practices We Inherit: Moving Beyond for Multilingual Learners
In this session, participants will explore ways to move beyond for our students & families through our advocacy work. Disrupt deficit lenses and nurture a love for our languages in our community. Let’s transform our schools!
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Journalist and Author
Jo Napolitano is an award-winning journalist having written extensively for The New York Times, Chicago Tribune and Newsday. She’s the author of the acclaimed book, “The School I Deserve: Six Young Refugees and Their Fight for Equality in America,” (Beacon Press, Spring, 2021.) Schedule a book talk with her. In addition to hearing the riveting true story of six refugee students fighting for the education they deserved, you will learn about rules/regs for admission, barriers to enrollment, and key court cases for immigrants’ rights.
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Confianza PD Promotes Equity, Language & Literacy in ALL Classrooms
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“Imagine a learning environment where all students are successful; that’s what Confianza promotes, outshining all others.”
— MELISSA KANDAL, COORDINATOR, WAUKESHA, WI *** Learn more about Confianza here: https://ellstudents.com/impact
Gran Via Educational Consulting, LLC
“Your success is just the beginning.”
Supporting educator licensure in the areas of
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Licensure in the areas of
ESL 154, BIL 164, BTLPT 190, and TOEFL
New Arrivals
Refugees
SLIFE
Long Term ELs
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Title: SLIFE-Keys to Success
Description: (Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education) 2022-23 is positioned to have a great influx of new arrivals. While some students will come well prepared, students who have been in refugee camps, detention centers and on the move, may have had major interruptions in their education. This PD covers the major keys for success of these students.
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Title: Understanding the Backgrounds of Refugee Students and Families
Description: While refugees are typically a small percentage of English Learners in the U.S., those that we do have often have complex backgrounds and needs. Do you have students from Congo, Bhutan/Nepal, Burma, Syria, Iraq, Somalia, or other war-torn countries? If so, this training is for you! Even if your students arrived a few years ago, this course provides valuable information on how you can continue to support your refugee students and families as they integrate and adjust to the U.S. overall, and specifically with education.
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Long-Term Success for Experienced Multilinguals
Description: This interactive, practical workshop focuses on experienced multilinguals, the assets-based term for LTELs. Experienced multilinguals are capable of reaching the highest academic standards under optimal conditions. The workshop will guide teachers of Grade 4-12 students in cultivating these conditions.
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Title: Boosting Achievement
Description: Based on current research surrounding educational growth mindset and the practical experience of Carol Salva, a master teacher who achieved success with SIFE students in Houston, this training demonstrates user-friendly techniques that close achievement gaps for Unschooled or Underschooled Learners.
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Title: Supporting Unaccompanied Immigrant Youth in U.S. Schools
Description: We are experiencing another large wave of unaccompanied immigrant children crossing the Southern border. These youth are in the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement and then reunify with family members and other sponsors in our communities. What brings these youth to the U.S., what happens when they get here, and how do they end up in our classrooms? What type of education, if any, do they receive while in ORR custody and how can we support these students when they enroll in our schools?
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Title: SLIFE: Where We Are, Where We Need to Be, And How We’ll Get There
Description: Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education have become an increasingly large population in our schools. We have made tremendous progress in working with these students, and at the same time, we have a lot of work to do. This session celebrates how far we’ve come while looking at the future and discussing where we need to go regarding support at the state, district, and school level, and how we’ll get there. .
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Title: Reading and Writing Foundations in Content Classes for SLIFE
Description: Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education come to our schools with various levels of literacy. This session works with educators to support SLIFE learner’s developing literacy by integrating reading and writing foundational skills in their content classes.
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Title: Crash Course in the World of Refugees, Immigrants and New Arrivals.
Do you have educators who got their certificate or emergency certificate in ESL/EL/ELL/TESOL but don't really know much about it? Do you have teachers new to the profession or new to working with English learners? Does your school have an increase in students who are learning English and you realize there are some gaps in what teachers understand? Do you wish your content educators had more of a background in working with English learners and knew practical ways to support these students? This PD is a simulation based, interactive experience to give educators an opportunity discover their own “ah-ha” moments in world of refugees, immigrants and new arrivals. Participants will walk away information they wish they had known from the beginning of working with this population.�
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Title: Collaboration and Coteaching in support of ELs
Description: The goal of this PD is twofold: (1) to help participating educators engage in critical conversations, reflections, and action planning around collaborative practices for ELLs, (2) to review, evaluate, and adapt the collaborative instructional cycle as well as the seven co-teaching models that promote an integrated service delivery in K-12 instructional settings. The PD may be designed as book study using the following publication: https://us.corwin.com/en-us/nam/collaborating-for-english-learners/book261045#reviews
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Title: Supporting Content-Area Teachers with ESL Strategies
Description: This PD provides easy-to-use strategies and scaffolds for content-area teachers to use with their ESL students. Whether there are newcomers with limited English proficiency, more advanced learners, or a combination of both, this PD will help content-area teachers provide equitable opportunities for ALL learners to find success in their classrooms.
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Beyond Visuals: Academic Supports for Multilingual Learners
This session will explore powerful practices for serving multilingual learners across content areas and grade levels! Participants will leave with tools & strategies that they can utilize immediately in their practice.
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Title: Supporting Content-Area Writing for Secondary English Learners
Description: This PD provides comprehensive instruction for implementing the RACES writing format in the secondary classroom.. Whether there are newcomers with limited English proficiency, more advanced learners, or a combination of both, this PD will help content-area teachers provide equitable opportunities for ALL learners to become successful writers in their classrooms.
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The Language of Math
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Description: Isn’t math a universal language? This workshop addresses the linguistic challenges math presents English Language Learners and provides strategies for making the language of math more accessible to all students.
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Scaffolding Content Instruction for English Learners
In this online, asynchronous (self-paced) course, educators reflect on and refine their approach to scaffolding content instruction for ELs, explore a range of strategies for scaffolding instruction, describe strategies for planning scaffolded lessons, and apply strategies for planning a scaffolded lesson for ELs.
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Teaching Science to English Learners
Drawing from the highly popular strategies in Teaching Science to English Learners, Dr. Fleenor models and explains high-yield techniques to reach and empower students with academic science language. In this session, participants will develop higher-order, opened-ended questions; engage with vocabulary strategies; and practice using new scaffolds to promote speaking, reading, listening and writing for ELs.
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The Visual Non-Glossary
In this school year, are you hoping to see more students speaking and writing using science vocabulary words in context? The Visual Non-Glossary is a resource designed to do just that! With over 1,200 structured visuals aligned to key science vocabulary and over 3,600 conversation prompts based on the visuals, The Visual Non-Glossary is an invaluable tool for next-generation, student-centered instruction. In this workshop, which includes access to The Visual Non-Glossary, Dr. Fleenor models and explains how to use the resource in a variety of different lessons.
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Reset, Refresh, Remix: Innovative Strategies to Energize your Language Instruction
In this session, participants will explore resources, tools, and strategies to provide a fun REFRESH to our current practices across content areas. Our students need a reset (and we deserve some fun, too!). Let’s bring some buzz into our instruction!
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Small Moves, Big Gains
This unique training will equip participants with 23 small moves they can make immediately to support students ability to talk more, think more, and achieve more. All the moves are both modeled and practiced throughout the session. Additionally, participants will dive into the role of habits in teaching. We will survey current research about how habits are formed and directly connect that to action steps for the classroom.
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Teaching Math to ELs
Struggling to meet the needs of English learners in math? At last, learn how to implement differentiated and easy-to-use strategies for each student. Discover ways for students to develop academic language and foster critical thinking skills that are specific to mathematics.
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¡Toma la palabra!
Teachers in bilingual and dual language programs are looking for ways to enhance the development of academic Spanish in their classrooms. They are also looking for ways to increase their own practice of academic Spanish. This training directly addresses those needs. It is based on the research and experience of Dr. Mónica Lara and her work in countless bilingual classrooms. Teachers will explore theory, strategies, and activities in Spanish that develop oracy and biliteracy.
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Save the dates: June 26-28, 2023!
Look for registration to open soon at siop.savvas.com.
In the meantime, the Call for Session Proposals is OPEN NOW through March 15. Share your experience & expertise as a HIGHLY VALUED conference presenter.
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We can't wait to hear from YOU!
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you from across the country
instructional coaches, and education administrators;
Open to individuals or teams
(30 and 45 minute virtual sessions and keynotes)
option to earn up to 4 graduate credits for participation
in the conference.
Join us for the 2023 SIOP® Virtual Conference
Join us for a SIOP® Virtual Institute, held monthly. This foundational course is ideal for anyone looking for a comprehensive overview on how to implement the research-based SIOP® Model instructional framework or for anyone looking for a review. The course is open to individuals or teams. Each participant receives the text, “Making Content Comprehensible for English Learners: The SIOP® Model, 5th ed.”
Savvas is pleased to be your authorized source for SIOP® Professional Learning. Our exclusive partnership with the SIOP® Authors means that each professional learning offering reflects fidelity to the SIOP® Model, the most up-to-date thinking and research around language acquisition, and current demographics and trends in education - all with attention to best practices in adult learning.
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SIOP® Author, Dr. MaryEllen Vogt (Session 8 Q&A)
Monthly SIOP® Virtual Institute
SIOP® Author, Dr. MaryEllen Vogt
Savvas is pleased to be your authorized source for SIOP® Professional Learning. Our exclusive partnership with the SIOP® Authors means that each professional learning offering reflects fidelity to the SIOP® Model, the most up-to-date thinking and research around language acquisition, and current demographics and trends in education - all with attention to best practices in adult learning.
Just a few of our popular SIOP® Workshop titles:
Interested in bringing SIOP® to your school or district? Contact: The Savvas SIOP® Team.
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SIOP® Professional Learning
Supporting your secondary students who are new to English in your science classrooms.
Whether you are a science teacher with multilingual learners, a language specialist co-teaching, or supporting MLs in their science classes you can help your students be successful with grade level content. After years working with MLs, Tammy offers insight into ways to reach and teach complex content to students who are new to English.
This presentation covers practical ways to help students not only learn content but also pass EOC’s.
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Secondary Science for Newcomers and Multilingual Learners
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Title: Growing Language
And Literacy
Description: Based on Andrea’s recent publication, participants will explore five cross-cutting strategies that support language and literacy development across the five proficiency levels. Alternately, the PD may be structured as a 5-part series focusing on one proficiency level at a time or be offered as a book study: www.heinemann.com/products/e09917.aspx
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Reading & Writing with English Learners
Description: This training is based on the newly published book, Reading & Writing with English Learners, and offers educators a user-friendly guide and framework for supporting English learners in balanced literacy classrooms. Authors Valentina Gonzalez and Melinda Miller lead participants in exploring the components of Reading and Writing Workshop with a special eye for increasing the effectiveness of instructional methods and quality of instruction to serve English learners.
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Title: Improving Listening
and Speaking Scores
Description: Many students fail to shine when it comes to online speaking tests. Teachers are often frustrated because scores do not seem to reflect a student’s day to day ability. This one domain often keeps students from exiting a program. Learning to speak takes time, but this PD covers practical, teachable ways to immediately improve listening and speaking scores. Students can improve their speaking, they just need strategies that reflect what they know.
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Talk, Read, Talk, Write
Description: Talk, Read, Talk, Write (TRTW) is a practical approach to classroom instruction that helps students meet and exceed the state standards for learning in the core classes while also developing the literacy skills needed for success in the 21st century. Participants will experience the TRTW approach as learners themselves, and receive step-by-step instructions for how to implement the approach using actual classroom examples.
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What’s Different about Teaching Reading to Multilingual Learners?
Description: In this session, you will discover how to effectively teach the five components of reading (phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension) to Multilingual Learners. This session demonstrates best practices for teaching foundational reading skills and provides strategies you can use immediately.
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Title: Rapid Literacy for Older Emergent Readers
Description: Do you serve older Multilingual Learners who struggle to decode text at grade level? Decoding is an essential skill, because it is the foundation in which all other reading is built upon. Come hear practical methods to help non-English readers accelerate their literacy in the target language. Secondary teachers deserve training in foundations of literacy that make sense for the secondary classroom. Learn strategies that are based on research and Carol Salva’s classroom experience.
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Teaching Receptive Skills to ELs--Tried & True Tools to Engage & Empower
Receptive skills allow ELs to make meaning of the world, interpret spoken & written words, and build schema. They are often the first step in the process of learning a new language. This session will introduce participants to a number of tools that support the development of listening and reading skills as well as engage and empower ELs.
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Tech Tools to Support ELs’ Development of RWSL Skills
Description: In this hands-on session participants will be introduced to various engaging tech tools that support ELs in their quest of becoming the best readers, writers, speakers, and listeners as they can be.
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Unlocking English Learners' Potential
We offer several PD options framed around our book Unlocking English Learners' Potential. The book includes research-based strategies, checklists, and tools for teaching ELs in such areas as scaffolding instruction, teaching academic language, fostering ELs' oral language development, building ELs' background knowledge, and using formative assessments.
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Building Better Sentences
This training offers teachers of English Learners an opportunity to examine common ELA practices through the lens of Language Acquisition Theory and to explore a variety of techniques for sentence level writing. Teachers will learn to introduce complex syntactic features to English Learners through hands-on, game-like syntax activities.
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Title: Sketchnoting to Promote Writing Across Content Areas
Let’s explore the ins & outs of sketchnoting and how to use this powerful, culturally responsive visual note-taking technique to promote writing across the curriculum in k-12 classrooms.
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Techquity to Support Multilingual Learners
Description: Our lively session encourages participants to harness the power of technology to support ELs’ content learning and language development in online, hybrid, or in-person environments. We will share tools, resources, and strategies that ensure students’ digital comfort regardless of identity, language, ability, or access.
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Title: Social-Emotional Learning for New Arrivals
Description: After a year of social distancing, we know that now more than ever, the social-emotional support for our ELLs is critical. SEL is not a potluck, cute decorations, and a greeting in their language. Figuring out who you are is difficult in your teen years. Imagine how complex it is in a culture you don't even understand yet. This training covers intentional, practical ways classroom teachers can support the ELLs in their social-emotional health as they adjust to a new culture.
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Title: How to Create Welcoming and Inclusive Learning Environments
Description: Re-Imagining Migration uses a research based approach on how to create welcoming and inclusive learning communities for Immigrant-origin students. We created curriculum along with our Learning Arc that provides guidance on teaching about migration as a throughline of the human experience. Our Moving Stories Curriculum allows the exploring of migration stories to connect classrooms and communities.
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Title: Special Education and Multilingual Learners: Process and Practicalities
Description: The process of referral for evaluation for special education services for multilingual students is complex. This session focuses on both the legal process as well as the limitations and practicalities referring multilingual learners for special education and how to support them.
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Title: Using Tech with English Learners
Description: Are you looking for innovative ways to boost achievement and build language skills with technology? This training will provide teaching strategies that support authentic technology use for ELs in their ESL and content area classes. Participants will go beyond just looking at apps that teach a second language; they will discover the five keys to using technology effectively with ELLs. Participants will learn to leverage tech tools and platforms to even the playing field for these students, give them a voice, and allow them to participate meaningfully at the highest cognitive levels
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Culturally Responsive Teaching
We offer several PD options framed around our book Culturally Responsive Teaching for Multilingual Learners: Tools for Equity. The book takes a holistic, sustained approach that builds on SupportEd’s instructional strategies. Included are case studies, authentic videos, and reflective activities to help educators apply the book’s five guiding principles to integrate Culturally Responsive Teaching for MLs in their contexts.
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Nurturing a Linguistically Inclusive Environment in our Learning Spaces
In this session, participants will explore ideas, tools, and resources to help us to nurture linguistically safe and inclusive spaces in our classrooms. Let’s look at ways to lower our students’ affective filters, explore linguistic creativity, and embrace heritage languages.
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Conquering TELPAS
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Moving ELs Forward on EOC Composition
This training outlines simple steps that will make the essay writing less threatening. Participants will explore approaches for secondary ESL and ELA teachers to scaffold instruction and to boost students’ performance on the EOC. The workshop includes an opportunity to examine the required elements of the essays and learn how to help students incorporate these elements into their writing.
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Description: In education, we know relationships matter most and culturally responsive teaching is vital to new arrival success. But what if you don’t understand a culture and it is completely different from your own? It can take years to develop a deep understanding of a culture. Pamela Broussard has taught and lived both in Afghanistan and the USA. She along with Rana Hellali from Afghanistan let you in on the four key aspects you need to know to work with Afghan students and families. In addition, they cover common cultural "bumps" American educators and Afghans students will encounter. Let us help you start off with a deeper understanding that will impact the success of your students. Educators have given this workshop amazing reviews.
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