Language Learning Symposium 2025

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. 

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.

Do you want to learn ways to scaffold grade-level text for various levels of MLs? We spent three months working closely with a PLC focusing on centering ML data, and we want share what we learned with you. In this interactive session, participants will engage in the planning process that resulted from centering ML data in a PLC: text analysis, formative assessment, and responsive scaffolding. While this session is mostly centered on the teacher planning moves that resulted from our action research, components of leadership moves and conditions for successful PLCs will also be included, making this an ideal session for teachers who want to support their ML students in core classes, as well as teacher leaders, principals, and other building leaders who would like to strengthen PLCs.