Language Learning Symposium 2025

Highlights of the morphophonemic aspects of the English language and why it matters when teaching all our amazing students. Then see multiple examples of digital blending boards accompanied by visuals to connect semantic understanding. From teaching basic CVC, multisyllabic words, morphological concepts…blending boards could even be used to instruct when teaching sílabas.

Google slides link     https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/14-xCW3msEWBcccccLyrDoGvSD04QaLh-f_AVqdD7otw/edit?usp=sharing

Learn about how Ellevation will provide a platform to organize and plan language development.

Participants will learn the relationship between student sense of belonging, peer relationships, and academic success in regards to multilingual learners. Research will be presented in a teacher friendly way to show trends through different inclusive practices for all learners. The presentation will highlight my own action research focused on the importance of oral language within small groups to improve student sense of belonging, peer relationships and academic success.  There were 8 students involved with this study. Half of the students are students with IEPs relating to social emotional learning. Three of the eight students are multilingual students all speaking different languages with oral proficiency in English. 

Participants will understand how Observation Charts and Picture File Cards can be used in science classrooms to support language development through peer communication.

Using Cooperative Strip Paragraphs can be an essential part of the writing process when students co-construct text. The benefits include collaboration, student input, student engagement, teacher modeling, and transferring skills for independence.

How do you support students in writing beyond using graphic organizers or sentence stems? Learn the steps you can take to plan for enhancing writing with WIDA Standards. Experience the work by deconstructing and reconstructing example texts before you plan for your own classroom!

Join us to learn about our efforts to create sustainable language instruction focused specifically on tier 2 vocabulary development. Our key goals in this work were to support vocabulary development, teacher practice, and student engagement.

Copy the link below for the Practitioner Brief. Resources are linked within.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xy7nWbS3lJjiZxhzYxf4htSsoJ6L2MwE2vogySdVypI/edit?usp=sharing

The goal of this panel discussion is to create a collaborative space for teacher leaders to share their experiences, challenges, and successes with implementing the Holistic Foundational skills in Dual Language. By doing so, the panel aims to inspire other educators, foster professional growth, and encourage the adoption and use of the Holistic Foundational Skills approach in Dual Language Classrooms. 
Panel Goals:

• Deepen understanding of holistic foundational skills instruction.
• Share real classroom examples from dual language settings.
• Discuss challenges and solutions from teacher leaders.
• Empower educators to apply strategies in their own classrooms.

Adolescents need active learning, metacognition, chunking information, and social learning opportunities. Learn about the adolescent brain and how input charts can be used across all content areas to support student in instruction.

😂 ¡Bienvenidos al emocionante universo de las tildes!
Sí, lo sabemos… solo escuchar “reglas de acentuación” puede sonar tan emocionante como ver cómo se seca la pintura. ¡Pero no te preocupes! Hoy vamos a demostrar que las tildes también tienen su chispa.
Descubriremos por qué algunas palabras insisten en llevar tilde como corona de reina, mientras otras se conforman sin ella. Verás agudas con carácter, graves muy serias y esdrújulas que, como su nombre, suenan a hechizo mágico.
Acompáñanos en este recorrido donde las letras reclaman su acento con orgullo, y saldrás de aquí con más poder gramatical que un corrector ortográfico profesional.
🔍 ¡Vamos a cazar tildes con humor, ingenio y estilo!

📌 Importante: Esta es la primera sesión de una serie dedicada a las reglas de acentuación, en la cual se abordarán las nociones básicas fundamentales. El contenido desarrollado en esta instancia servirá como base para la segunda sesión, en la que se profundizará en aspectos más complejos. La asistencia a esta primera parte es esencial para garantizar la comprensión adecuada de la siguiente.

I will be going over how to take a whole class GLAD strategy into small group practice.  ML students get a chance to develop their oral and written skills through a multimodality strategy.  Students are able to deconstruct their writing, and use mentor texts to think about sentence structure, word order, parts of speech, and expanding their sentences. 

The WIDA Can Do Descriptors can be a useful tool for getting to know what your ML students can already do in the domains of listening, reading, writing, and speaking.  This tool can also help you plan for what to expect at the next stages of language development. 

Building student confidence in writing using small group instruction