This presentation will provide an overview of the current and past knowledge base for bilingual teacher preparation and professional development. Included are the perspectives of practicing novice and experienced bilingual teachers from a variety of social, political and cultural contexts.
Communicating across languages and cultures is complex. Help students to develop the ability to scrutinize and analyze languages through a strategy we call Así se dice (That’s how you say it!). In this interactive workshop, you will explore how to enhance students’ vocabulary, syntax, and metalinguistic abilities as you engage in strategic translations/interpretations. This strategy is intended for use in grades 3 and up.
Over the course of the past 2 years, a group of community college and university faculty, convened by Californian’s Together, planned together to discuss and develop a post secondary pathway for bilingual-biliterate students. . This session will share the groups' recommendations for the Postsecondary Biliteracy Badge that can be acquired through multiple pathways in a variety of postsecondary educational institutions. Processes and results of two higher education institutions' pilots will be shared.
EL Roadmap, Research publications, Multiple Pathways to Biliteracy, Long Term English Learners, The State Seal of Biiteracy, Accountability and ELs, Bilingual Teacher Shortabe
Latin Grammy-winning teaching artist 123 Andrés shares his expertise in music and education. 123 Andrés knows that all teachers can bring music into the classroom in a creative way, so join us for hands-on fun as we perform and create songs that are tools to teach and reinforce curriculum standards for young learners. 123 Andrés uses videos and live examples to demonstrate how children own and experience new knowledge through music and movement. Sing along and create during this workshop, and leave excited to promote learning through music with concrete ideas for your classrooms.
123 Andrés is one of the most exciting new voices on the family music scene in the US and Latin America – “A rock star for little language learners” according to Billboard Magazine. A native of Bogotá, Colombia, 123 Andrés brings to audiences joyful sounds, passion for bilingualism... Read More →
What is it, specifically, that instructional leaders do to support Collective Efficacy and Equity? In this engaging session, participants will learn how teacher and leadership efficacy and equity can make a significant difference to student learning. Teachers who report a higher sense of efficacy display greater effort and motivation and are more resilient across the span of their career. Collective efficacy means that teachers are more resilient and are able to acquire a teaching profile that is positive and persistent. Use of non-linguistic cues, rate of speech and wait time, and increasing writing opportunities are all aspects that are in line with efficacy and equity!
Steve Ventura is the president and lead consultant at Advanced Collaborative Solutions. He is a highly motivational and knowledgeable speaker who approaches high-stakes professional development armed with practical, research-based strategies. Steve is a former elementary and secondary... Read More →
Increasing the levels of parent engagement among underserved EL populations has gone largely ignored. This workshop will be highly interactive, exciting, practical and focus on brain-based learning activities with key strategies that will help parents to develop social capital, powerful social networks and build their thinking skills to help their children succeed. Included will be a case study from Laredo, TX of how parents worked collaboratively to increase their thinking skills to help their children academically.
Senior District Consultant, CASEL (Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning)
Dr. Hector Montenegro, President/CEO of Montenegro Consulting Group (MCG), LLC, is a Senior District Consultant for the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL) and works with districts on systemic implementation of SEL. Dr. Montenegro is also a Senior Associate... Read More →
For many decades now research has confirmed that English Learners can learn at high levels and, like most students, have a high probability of being academically successful. Yet, although some notable strides in achievement have been made, there continues to be a significant achievement gap negatively affecting EL students. Join Dr. Luis F. Cruz as he offers participants compelling and passionate insight as to the vital importance of teacher leadership as a means of bridging "the knowing doing gap" between research and practice. Learn how teachers may use 7 steps to redesign a school system never intended to ensure the learning of English Learners.
Luis F. Cruz, Ph.D., was the former principal of Baldwin Park High School, located east of Los Angeles, California. He has also been an associate of Dr. Anthony Muhammad’s leadership and consulting company, New Frontier 21, and works with schools and educational groups on ensuring... Read More →
This hands-on and highly interactive presentation offers insights into the psycho-social dimensions of culturally different students and of teaching culturally diverse populations. Packed with real- life stories and exercises, it will help participants to achieve the following: Comprehend multicultural critical issues and remove barriers when working with culturally different students; Enable them to build confidence and overcome fear of speaking in the classroom; Understand cross- cultural thinking styles, learning styles and interaction in the classroom; Enable them to adapt to change; and Apply tips and techniques to creative problem solving.
Lan Bercu is the founder and president of Lead Across Cultures Intl, an Atlanta- based company with a focus on cultural competence and global leadership. As an international speaker and expert in her field, Lan has nearly two decades of experience working with international corporations... Read More →
Join the Author of Teach Us Your Name and TEDx Speaker, Huda Essa, in learning how effective culturally responsive practices begins with one of the things we all have in common… our names, as an important part of our identities. Learn how names serve as an amazing resource you can immediately use to support language learning, build confidence, decrease bias, and strengthen community.
Founder of Culture Links, LLCAuthor of Teach Us Your Name & Common ThreadsHuda Essa is a TEDx Speaker and the Author of the culturally authentic and responsive children’s books, Teach Us Your Name and Common Threads: Adam’s Day at the Market. These books will be available at her... Read More →
Immigrant students who arrive in the U.S. during their middle and high school years face daunting hurdles as they juggle learning a new language and culture while also trying to quickly close knowledge gaps and get on track to graduate high school. This panel will explore how school districts are honing their approaches to help newcomer students meet the challenges they face--including developing processes to identify students’ academic and socioemotional needs, connecting them with mental-health and legal supports, and tailoring curricular pathways in ways that balance student needs with policy constraints.
Senior Policy Analyst for PreK-12 Education, Migration Policy Institute
Julie Sugarman is senior policy analyst for preK-12 education at the Migration Policy Institute’s National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy, where she focuses on issues related to immigrant and English learner students in elementary and secondary schools. Her areas of focus... Read More →
This session will provide teachers – pre-K to university – with three major tools to guarantee student learning during direct instruction: (1) a simple, practical theory of learning; (2) a 5-point model for achieving student engagement beyond mere compliance; and (3) a research-based, field-tested classroom instruction checklist that works as well for gifted students as it does for EL, SPED, and other struggling students. Come to this session and walk away with a handful of new strategies that can make you a better teacher tomorrow.
I'm an education consultant. I've worked with hundreds of low income, minority schools K-12 in the US but mostly in California. I base my work on two key theories as well as research in education and in human performance. My goal is to help school staffs work smarter not harder by... Read More →
The integration of Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) with instructional strategies for ELs accelerates their language, literacy, and content learning. Integrating SEL will also transform a class and school culture into one that values diversity, ensures that ELs are academically and socially engaged in learning, and ensures that ELs practice academic language with peers. Participants will be actively engaged in interactive instructional strategies that will accelerate English language acquisition in a culturally diverse learning environment.
Senior District Consultant, CASEL (Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning)
Dr. Hector Montenegro, President/CEO of Montenegro Consulting Group (MCG), LLC, is a Senior District Consultant for the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL) and works with districts on systemic implementation of SEL. Dr. Montenegro is also a Senior Associate... Read More →
Calling all truth seekers! Don't regret joining this engaging and meaningful session where you will gain invaluable strategies and continuously reflect on the knowledge gained! This timely session will focus on the continually increasing population of Muslims in America. Which displayed beliefs and actions are cultural and which ones are religious? How does this matter affect us all in humanity? These questions and many more will be answered in a presentation that speaks to you!
Founder of Culture Links, LLCAuthor of Teach Us Your Name & Common ThreadsHuda Essa is a TEDx Speaker and the Author of the culturally authentic and responsive children’s books, Teach Us Your Name and Common Threads: Adam’s Day at the Market. These books will be available at her... Read More →
This session will affirm the EL Roadmap work in the context of tectonic shifts in the future of Education, the economy, and global issues impacting the next generation of Americans.
Diversity books bring new and enriching perspectives into issues of Identity, Culture and Language use. Come and meet a new wave of ideas and those who create them.
F. ISABEL CAMPOY is the author of numerous children’s books in the areas of poetry, theatre, stories, biographies, and art. As a researcher she has published extensively bringing to the curriculum an awareness of the richness of the Hispanic culture. She is an educator specialized... Read More →
It is essential that we learn how to organize standards-based foundational skills and language instruction for explicit teaching of Spanish and English skill transfer. Interactive strategies that promote cross-linguistic transfer and promote metalinguistic skills will be showcased. Assessment protocols for monitoring progress towards biliteracy will be demonstrated. Transfer routines and strategies that can be immediately implemented be showcased. We will also discuss using these methodologies for upper grade primary students and newcomers.
Jorge Cuevas Antillón is a well-known voice on effective language learning. His capacity to serve schools and districts comes from decades in education, as a teacher, reading coach, school/district administrator and educational grant writer and manager. As the District Advisor for... Read More →
National Biliteracy Consultant, National Biliteracy Consultant
She is well known for her contributions in the areas of curriculum design, English Language Arts, English Language Development, Spanish Language Arts, Staff development and Parent Involvement.Her area of expertise is biliteracy with a focus on academic writing and the organization... Read More →
Dr. Knoell will share strategies, methods, ideas and activities to help every Bilingual Learner successfully comprehend what they read, to engage in word study, and to develop and expand their vocabularies across the curriculum. She will model strategies to construct meaning of fictional and nonfiction text, helping students meet Common Core Standards, while developing their critical thinking and communication skills. She will offer ready-to-use lesson ideas and differentiation techniques, to help students capture a love of words, the joy of reading, and to help unleash their academic potential.
Educational and Technology Consultant, Educational Consultant
Dr. Donna Knoell is an esteemed, highly sought after speaker and educational and technology consultant who works with schools, districts, and teachers, to help them improve their instructional programs, with special emphasis on advancing achievement and engagement for Gifted and Talented... Read More →
This session will provide an overview of the 3rd edition of Guiding Principles for Dual Language Education (Howard, et al., 2018). Participants will engage in interactive activities to familiarize themselves with the new document. The presentation will also highlight key changes from the 2nd edition.
This workshop provides a progression of strategies for differentiated instruction from highly-structured to open-ended tasks for developing sentence construction and composition skills in Spanish L1/L2 writing. We examine step-by-step planning of a model thematic writing unit. We explore checklists and rubrics for assessing students’ writing products to identify points for explicit instruction in spelling, syntax and grammar. Take away a toolkit full of practical and motivating activities for enhancing academic language and writing in Spanish.
Jill Kerper Mora is Associate Professor Emerita from the School of Teacher Education at San Diego State University. Dr. Mora’s career as a biliteracy educator began in Texas where she was an elementary bilingual teacher, a secondary Spanish teacher at a Catholic middle school. She... Read More →
Esta presentación parte de la reciente publicación Abriendo brecha: antología crítica sobre la educación bilingüe, logro formidable para el campo debido a que la obra fue escrita completamente en español. Se analizan las razones por las cuales se demoró tanto la producción de un texto como este y las consecuencias de dicha tardanza. Asi mismo, se brindan recomendaciones para que los profesores se unan a este esfuerzo vital de producir textos en español para nuestra profesión.
In this session, findings from a two-year grant where the EL shadowing app was used to monitor the progress of ELs will be presented. Participants will learn about the purpose of shadowing, how the tool was turned into an app, as well as the effects of using the shadowing app for progress monitoring. Participants will also be able to interact and practice using the app.
This presentation is targeted for teachers/paraprofessionals/parents whose children are Beginning/Emergent Readers and/or Struggling readers in Pre-K through Grade 3. Mini Shared Reading is a bridge for children who do not know all their letters or sound correspondences nor sight words. Instruction is organized to engage the children in the act of proficient reading, i.e. at their potential and not their developmental level. A detailed protocol of the procedures will be shared with examples. This teaching strategy organizes success not failure.
Trustee, San Bernardino City Unified School District
Barbara Flores is president of CABE and has been on San Bernardino City School Board since 2008 and served as Vice President and President. She also served in academia at Cal State San Bernardino for many years.
Your child’s college education and career future require early planning and careful preparation. As early as Kindergarten, it is important to be aware of key skills, strategies, and habits that will positively impact your child’s performance in school. This presentation will teach step-by-step strategies that parents can immediately implement at home to help their children succeed in Elementary, Middle, and High School and leverage that success into a worthy future career.
Dr. Nicoline Ambe is a Speaker, Educator and #1 Best Selling Author of several books. She has taught in several elementary schools, colleges, and universities across Canada and the United States for more than two decades. Dr. Ambe’s primary mission is to help parents raise high... Read More →
The rich heritage of music from the Spanish-speaking world, used in both English and Spanish, teaches Latin American culture, history, and oral traditions. Teachers will practice methods of using movement, games, rhythm, rhyme, musical moods, call and response, differences and commonalities in culture/music, and be able to integrate these into their curriculum.
This presentation will discuss the language, literacy, and social development of DL/EL children in Pre-K through grade 3 who are enrolled in dual language vs. English mainstream classrooms. Topics will include the language and literacy development in the home language and English, social development of young bilinguals, and implications for dual language programs for young children.
I have worked for 30 years with two-way/dual language programs. I look at student outcomes as well as parent engagement and teacher knowledge and practices.
In this session, participants will learn strategies used to generate language use among dual language learners (DLLs) in early childhood classrooms. These strategies are representative of techniques found in Cultivating Oral Language and Literacy Talent in Students (COLLTS), an approach created by Dr. Diane August and a team of AIR experts with decades of experience in developing research-based effective literacy interventions for DLL & EL students. COLLTS uses engaging vocabulary routines, shared interactive reading of high-quality children’s books, and language-based, center-time activities to support DLLs’ language acquisition in early childhood classrooms.
School leaders, join us to lead powerful shifts in school culture and pedagogy so every teacher teaches for EL excellence every day. Collaborate to explore nuanced distinctions between compliance-driven and impact-driven instructional leadership. Analyze videos and engage in role-plays to learn effective protocols for walkthroughs, feedback, and site-based professional learning that help you ignite teacher agency to raise EL achievement. Collaborate to plan specific action steps to transform teaching and learning for EL excellence every day.
Tonya Ward Singer is a professional learning leader who helps K-12 educators transform teaching for equity and EL achievement. Teachers and administrators describe her work as groundbreaking, dynamic, practical, relevant, and impactful.Tonya is the author of bestsellers EL Excellence... Read More →
The qualities of a great educator are as varied as the students they teach. Educators work with students who differ by language, skill level, ability, temperament, socio-economic and cultural background. To nurture excellence in each student, an educator must have unique qualities that accommodate the learning needs of different students. This presentation will explore three qualities that make an educator remarkable. When educators master these three qualities, their students enjoy academic growth and achievement.
Dr. Nicoline Ambe is a Speaker, Educator and #1 Best Selling Author of several books. She has taught in several elementary schools, colleges, and universities across Canada and the United States for more than two decades. Dr. Ambe’s primary mission is to help parents raise high... Read More →
Venga para aprender como quedarse con más dinero al final del día. Ideas que le ayudarán a guardar dinero para la educación de sus hijos y a conocer los requisitos que se necesitan para ir a la universidad -- ejemplos de lo que se debe hacer/lograr en cada grado. Venga para que usted pueda ayudar a más estudiantes a ir a la universidad.
This session will offer an examination of the craft of illustration and how it sustains confidence in personal expression. Picture-making, in support of story-telling, crosses cultural and language barriers while providing the best platform for responsible risk-taking. Every child has a story to tell, whether modest or resplendent. Books that offer positive images of one's culture create the landscape in a child's mind that they are included and equal in the pursuit of a robust and realized life.
Author/Illustrator of more than 30 books for children. Come learn how I came to illustrate the cover for this year's Newberry winner, MERCI SUAREZ CHANGES GEARS, as well as ESPERANZA RISING. Let's talk about how integral picture books are in developing strong visual literacy, as... Read More →
Are you looking for ways to motivate and get through to your students? Do you use music in the classroom? Are out of the box techniques part of your teaching toolbox? If so, then join us for this super fun and informative presentation using music, multimedia, and motivational methods to get your students learning. Award winning educational hip hop & reggaeton artist, GuëroLoco, is back for CABE 2018 with new music, new K-12 methods, and a renewed passion for teaching and motivating in the bilingual classroom. His new music focuses on using real song lyrics and story telling to teach and to motivate. All attendees will receive free music & tips for creating their own songs to educate and inspire.
