Language Learning Symposium 2025: Full Schedule

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5:00pm PDT

Language Learning via Project Based Learning & Student-Centered Sites in Secondary

Thursday May 15, 2025 5:00pm - 5:35pm PDT

Participants will learn how to use Google Sites to do Project Based Learning to get more MLL students’ invested in class coursework.

Essential Question
Have you ever had students that just do not want to do the work because they feel it is not relevant to them?
Mr. Barrios PBL Student sites
In our session today:

We will learn to create Google Sites to do Project Based Learning to get your MLL students’ investment in your class coursework.
Use ACTFL rubrics and deadlines to guide the work and chunk it so students do quality work without stressing out over creating a major project.
Learn the main three tabs of insert, pages and themes in Google sites.
Learn to insert videos, text boxes and move things around in your site.
Learn to save your site.
Share our site with our target group.

Speakers

Xavier Barrios

World Language Teacher, Highline Public Schools

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Language and Learning Symposium docx

Thursday May 15, 2025 5:00pm - 5:35pm PDT
Room 1540

Session 1, Secondary

5:40pm PDT

Foundation of Academic Success for Multilingual Learners: The Importance of Belonging

Thursday May 15, 2025 5:40pm - 6:15pm PDT

Room 1540

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.

Speakers

Sabrina Strader

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Western Washington University pdf

Thursday May 15, 2025 5:40pm - 6:15pm PDT
Room 1540

Session 2, Elementary

6:20pm PDT

Tips and Tricks for Streamlining GLAD in Secondary

Thursday May 15, 2025 6:20pm - 6:55pm PDT

Room 1540

1. Reduce the stress of the prep work required 2. Shortcuts to repeating the strategies in each period. 3. The reasoning behind the use of the strategies: i.e Culturally Responsive....etc.

Speakers

Lucrecia Chase

Teacher, Highline Public Schools

Nicole Query

Glacier Middle school

Tips and Tricks pdf

Thursday May 15, 2025 6:20pm - 6:55pm PDT
Room 1540

Session 3, Secondary