Join us for a day of learning with fellow educators and district leaders who are passionate about creating inclusive systems for Emergent Bilingual learners. With the continued increase of Emergent Bilingual students in classrooms across Texas, it is crucial that we provide a framework grounded in the science of reading to identify and build on the language assets that students bring to the classroom.
Here’s what we’ll focus on:
- How to integrate language development and language arts standards and strategies into instruction
- How to support students at different levels of language development and within different grade levels—including high school
- How Biliteracy Trajectories, a research-based approach to viewing and interpreting students’ data, supports state legislation around creating a strategic plan for Emergent Bilingual students
Join us as we take a research-based approach to helping educators to more fully support literacy development in both languages. We look forward to seeing you there!
Agenda:
•9:00 am–9:15 am: Registration and networking (coffee & light refreshments)
•9:15 am – 9:30 am: Welcome
•9:30 am – 10:30 am: Keynote: Literacy Instruction for Emerging Bilinguals: Language Development, Language Arts, or Both?-Presented by: Doris Chávez-Linville, M.S. Ed, Director of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Innovation at Renaissance, and Dr. Carol Johnson, International Education Officer at Renaissance
•10:45 am – 11:45 am: Collaborative discussion and panel
•11:45 am – 12:30 pm: Lunch
•12:30 pm – 1:30 pm: Biliteracy Trajectories-Presented by: Doris Chávez-Linville, M.S. Ed, Director of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Innovation at Renaissance, and Dr. Carol Johnson, International Education Officer at Renaissance
•1:30 – 1:45 pm: Closing remarks