The more you can build up your MLL students’ background knowledge around a math topic, the easier it will be for them to understand the topic and apply it mathematically. Discover effective strategies for activating students’ prior knowledge as well as fortifying background knowledge through entry events (“Do Nows”) that are engaging and interactive.

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Participants will learn about and explore the many ways that common classroom activities can be tweaked to allow for home language use, thereby raising MLL engagement and achievement.

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Not all vocabulary words deserve the same treatment, but many educators teach them as if they did, especially when trying to “frontload” activities with vocabulary lists and dictionary definitions. Explore new strategies for prioritizing math academic language and explicitly teaching new terms through engaging, interactive structures.

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Learn the fine art of scaffolding writing assignments, in which supports grant Multilingual Learners access to the task without compromising the rigor at its heart.

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Learn the key scaffolding moves necessary to adapt text effectively and promote the “good reader” strategies that model reading as an interactive process. Note: Not suitable for math teachers.

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Not all vocabulary words deserve the same treatment, but many educators teach them as if they did, especially when trying to “frontload” activities with vocabulary lists and dictionary definitions. Explore new strategies for prioritizing math academic language and explicitly teaching new terms through engaging, interactive structures.

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Discover how to amplify new concepts and language for your MLL students through interactive, low-stakes activities. In addition to providing MLLs with the practice they need around new learning before being asked to apply it, amplification activities allow teachers to formatively assess student progress. Part 2 focuses on looking at how to sequence different amplification activities to build towards complex understanding.

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Discover how to amplify new concepts and language for your MLL students through interactive, low-stakes activities. In addition to providing MLLs with the practice they need around new learning before being asked to apply it, amplification activities allow teachers to formatively assess student progress. Part 1 will focus on effective checks for understanding and identifying key difficulties in different types of classroom tasks.

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Discover effective strategies for activating students’ prior knowledge as well as fortifying background knowledge through “Entry Events” that are engaging, accessible and interactive.

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This workshop gives participants the opportunity to experience the power of effective scaffolding as they learn content in a language they are not fluent in. After a simulation in a foreign language, we will debrief and explain the specific scaffolds that made learning more accessible and how these scaffolds apply to teaching MLLs.

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This workshop provides math educators with the tools and know-how for effectively scaffolding their handouts so that their contents are accessible to all MLLs.  Participants will have multiple opportunities to practice identifying difficult aspects of student-facing worksheets from the Illustrative Math (IM) curriculum and collaboratively coming up with the necessary scaffolds.

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In this session, we continue our exploration of a fully scaffolded humanities lesson. In both sessions, participants have the opportunity to apply new learning around differentiating writing tasks, narrowing down text, scaffolding the pre-writing process, and building schema around new content.

NOTE: This workshop is geared towards Humanities teachers only. The two Supporting Newcomer MLLs workshops work only as a series. Interested educators must register for both.

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Discover high-leverage scaffolds for differentiating curriculum and instruction so they are more accessible to Newcomer MLL students. We unpack an entirely scaffolded lesson over the course of two workshop sessions to look more closely at the varied strategies for providing Newcomer MLLs with the access points they need to participate in the lesson and reach the same objectives as their peers.

NOTE: This workshop is geared towards Humanities teachers only. The two Supporting Newcomer MLLs workshops work only as a series. Interested educators must register for both.

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In this session, we continue our exploration of a fully scaffolded humanities lesson. In both sessions, participants have the opportunity to apply new learning around differentiating writing tasks, narrowing down text, scaffolding the pre-writing process, and building schema around new content.

NOTE: This workshop is geared towards Humanities teachers only. The two Supporting Newcomer MLLs workshops work only as a series. Interested educators must register for both.

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Discover high-leverage scaffolds for differentiating curriculum and instruction so they are more accessible to Newcomer MLL students. We unpack an entirely scaffolded lesson over the course of two workshop sessions to look more closely at the varied strategies for providing Newcomer MLLs with the access points they need to participate in the lesson and reach the same objectives as their peers.

NOTE: This workshop is geared towards Humanities teachers only. The two Supporting Newcomer MLLs workshops work only as a series. Interested educators must register for both.

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This workshop provides math educators with the tools and know-how for effectively scaffolding their handouts so that their contents are accessible to all MLLs.  Participants will have multiple opportunities to practice identifying difficult aspects of student-facing worksheets from the Illustrative Math (IM) curriculum and collaboratively coming up with the necessary scaffolds.

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In this final installment, participants learn how to transform the language demands of a sample student task into language objectives that clearly identify the components of language that need to be explicitly taught to students.  We review the criteria for strong objectives in general as well.

NOTE: The three Language Objectives workshops work only as a series. Interested educators must register for all 3.

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In Part II, participants learn about language functions and the various tiers of vocabulary.  They practice identifying all of the language demands around a sample written student task.

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Explore and apply key concepts and strategies that lay the groundwork for effective differentiation of various types of tasks in all content areas. Learn how to avoid both “over-scaffolding” and oversimplifying content while supporting MLLs at all levels in accessing complex thinking and rigorous content.

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In Part I, participants learn to identify the language demands of any sample written student assignment in order to know what needs to be explicitly taught around the structure and linguistic features of different discourse (genre) types.

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Learn the fine art of scaffolding Wit & Wisdom Focusing Question and End of Module tasks to grant MLLs access without compromising the rigor at the heart of these tasks. Gain key tips on modeling and the use of paragraph frames that lighten the linguistic load, allowing students to engage in these core writing tasks at a higher level than their English proficiency level might otherwise allow.

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The Wit and Wisdom curriculum is full of complex and interesting texts, many of which are not accessible to MLLs at more beginning to intermediate proficiency levels in English. Learn the key scaffolding moves necessary to scaffold core texts from Wit and Wisdom to enable MLLs at different English proficiency levels to gain access and make meaning.

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Well-scaffolded graphic organizers are crucial tools in a heterogeneous classroom to allow students at different English proficiency levels to access rigorous tasks. This workshop will model and have participants apply core scaffolding moves to customize any Wit & Wisdom graphic organizer so that MLLs can engage in core tasks with minimal teacher support.

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Not all vocabulary words deserve the same treatment, but many educators teach them as if they did, especially when trying to “frontload” activities with vocabulary lists and dictionary definitions. Explore new strategies for prioritizing math academic language and explicitly teaching new terms through engaging, interactive structures.

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Part II of this series walks participants through the steps in prioritizing which excerpts to scaffold and which to summarize, as well as how to build schema as a pre-reading activity.

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The more you can build up your MLL students’ background knowledge around a math topic, the easier it will be for them to understand the topic and apply it mathematically. Discover effective strategies for activating students’ prior knowledge as well as fortifying background knowledge through entry events (“Do Nows”) that are engaging and interactive.

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The first session of this two-part workshop covers the key scaffolding moves necessary in supporting more beginning MLLs in accessing fictional texts, the same moves covered in our Scaffolding Reading for MLLs workshop.

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Learn the fine art of scaffolding writing assignments, in which supports grant Multilingual Learners access to the task without compromising the rigor at its heart.

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Too often, teachers download generic graphic organizers that are not sufficiently scaffolded to support Multilingual Learners in accessing complex activities. Learn how to customize any graphic organizer so that your MLLs can engage in higher-order thinking activities with minimal teacher support.

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Instead of telling your Multilingual Learner students to “work together” in groups and hoping for the best, discover key strategies for structuring student conversations that result in authentic opportunities for collaboration.

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