Participants will learn about how UFLI year 1 implementation impacted first graders at an English Medium school. Implications will be shared and discussion of how to support multilingual learners in their foundational skills will enrich teachers understanding of how to best use foundational skills curricular materials.
With 19 years of dedicated service in the Highline Elementary Schools, Bethany brings a unique blend of creativity, curiosity, and collaboration to her work. She has a keen ability to see both the big picture of school-wide systems and the intricate details that drive day-to-day success... Read More →
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.
As the Multilingual Learner Facilitator as Chinook Middle School, I wanted to address the language needs of our long-term MLs, or students who have been in our ML program for five years or more through intervention groups. This session will discuss how WIDA and SIPPS data, teacher collaboration, and a sense of belonging helped drive a group of long-term ML students to Meet Standard in their English/Language Arts class. Can this be replicated whole school, so all of our long-term MLs feel more confident and gain the skills and knowledge to meet standard? What will it take to get us there?
