Thrive24

Target Audience: Teachers PK-5, Teachers 6-8, Teachers 9-12

Almost 100% of Newton's teachers are SEI-endorsed (endorsed in Sheltered English Instruction) and all teachers teach the academic language of their content area! Let's look at curricular materials' existing language supports for all learners, especially English learners, and/or identify what additional ELL supports could be embedded. Attendees should come ready to work with a curriculum unit, bringing the unit of their choice to the session. Educators will embed the following into existing units as needed: learning objectives, language objectives, strategic home language supports, visuals, and/or other language-enhanced supports. Intended outcomes for educators include: explore existing language supports in a unit, embed enhanced language supports, and explore AI as a resource for making some of this easier. This session works across all grade levels and any content area. **Please note: Viewing the SEI video (on ARXEd mandated training) is a prerequisite to this session. (Also found here: https://youtu.be/xBjSpk3e350 )**

Target Audience: Teachers, Special Educators, Specialists (Arts, Music, PE)

Are you overwhelmed by the increasing number of English Language Learners (ELLs) in your classroom? Do you struggle to find effective strategies to help them access the general education curriculum? This session is designed to equip you with practical tools and strategies to support your ELL students' academic success.
We will delve into six essential practices that classroom teachers can implement to create a high-quality learning environment for ELLs. 
By the end of this session, you will have a toolkit of practical strategies (and digital resources) to effectively support your ELL students and create a more equitable learning environment for all.

Target Audience: Teachers PK-5, Teachers 6-8 Teachers 9-12, Specialists (Arts, Music, PE)

As classrooms across the country continue diversifying, more mainstream teachers are welcoming newly arrived immigrant students with limited English proficiency. This presentation arms educators with key knowledge and actionable practices to drive academic achievement for these unique newcomer learners.

This workshop provides teachers with research-based strategies to simultaneously develop newcomer English language abilities while addressing grade-level standards. Participants will examine proven techniques for scaffolds, differentiation, and oral language growth. The presentation aims to build instructional capacity and confidence for empowering newcomers through responsive teaching and culturally inclusive classrooms where diverse learners thrive. Participants will leave with practical approaches that will enhance the educational experience for newcomers.
Outcomes:
1. Discover practical strategies for teaching newcomers.
2. Enhance confidence in supporting unique learner needs.
3. Leave with specific, actionable ideas for identifying language demands and oracy building with newcomers.

Overview:
This session focuses on helping elementary English Learner(EL) students become readers in English by using collaborative protocols, taping, and targeting areas of need through a cross-linguistic lens. Outcomes for educators include more insight, tools, and collaborative support for helping EL students who are reading below grade level or who may be learning to read for the first time in their non-native language.
Objectives:

1. Creating an asset-based vision for EL student’ progress when reading assessments highlight deficits
   
2. Considering differences and similarities in learning to read in a nonnative language
   
3. Analyzing student reading samples through a cross-linguistic lens
   
4. Using a collaborative protocol
   

Target Audience: Elementary teachers (Grades 2-5), ESL teachers, Special Education teachers, Reading Specialists


Workshop Outline:

1. Welcome & Introduction 
   
2. Overview of workshop goals and agenda.
   
3. Rationale for reframing reading progress for ELs
   
4. Differences and Similarities in learning to read in a non-native language
   
5. Cross-Linguistic Tools to learn about students’ languages
   
6. Analyzing a taped student sample
   
7. Using a Collaboration Protocol for ELs
   
   
   
   

Duration:
80 minutes
Outcome:
Participants will leave with tools that highlight cross-linguistic differences that can become a focus of reading instruction and a collaborative protocol to support reading growth and improvement in English for ELs.

Target Audience: Teachers PK-5, Para Professionals, Special Educators, Specialists (Arts, Music, PE)

Educators will be able to use strategies and know-how to create/modify subject-appropriate materials to engage their new non-English-speaking students in the academic work in their mainstream classrooms.
Participants will gain a first-hand understanding of the needs of their ELLs by experiencing what it feels like to be in a classroom environment where they do not comprehend the language of instruction. They will Participate in a 10-minute (approximately) lesson given without Sheltered Instruction, and the same lesson where the teacher uses sheltered instruction strategies AND specific independent work practices that engage the students with the subject through learning of the language of the subject.

Target Audience: Teachers PK-5, Teachers 6-8 Teachers 9-12, Specialists (Arts, Music, PE)

As classrooms across the country continue diversifying, more mainstream teachers are welcoming newly arrived immigrant students with limited English proficiency. This presentation arms educators with key knowledge and actionable practices to drive academic achievement for these unique newcomer learners.

This workshop provides teachers with research-based strategies to simultaneously develop newcomer English language abilities while addressing grade-level standards. Participants will examine proven techniques for scaffolds, differentiation, and oral language growth. The presentation aims to build instructional capacity and confidence for empowering newcomers through responsive teaching and culturally inclusive classrooms where diverse learners thrive. Participants will leave with practical approaches that will enhance the educational experience for newcomers.
Outcomes:
1. Discover practical strategies for teaching newcomers.
2. Enhance confidence in supporting unique learner needs.
3. Leave with specific, actionable ideas for identifying language demands and oracy building with newcomers.

Target Audience: Teachers PK-5


Overview:
This session focuses on helping elementary English Learner(EL) students become readers in English by using collaborative protocols, taping, and targeting areas of need through a cross-linguistic lens. Outcomes for educators include more insight, tools, and collaborative support for helping EL students who are reading below grade level or who may be learning to read for the first time in their non-native language.
Objectives:

1. Creating an asset-based vision for EL student’ progress when reading assessments highlight deficits
   
2. Considering differences and similarities in learning to read in a nonnative language
   
3. Analyzing student reading samples through a cross-linguistic lens
   
4. Using a collaborative protocol
   

Target Audience: Elementary teachers (Grades 2-5), ESL teachers, Special Education teachers, Reading Specialists


Workshop Outline:

1. Welcome & Introduction 
   
2. Overview of workshop goals and agenda.
   
3. Rationale for reframing reading progress for ELs
   
4. Differences and Similarities in learning to read in a non-native language
   
5. Cross-Linguistic Tools to learn about students’ languages
   
6. Analyzing a taped student sample
   
7. Using a Collaboration Protocol for ELs
   
   
   
   

Duration:
80 minutes
Outcome:
Participants will leave with tools that highlight cross-linguistic differences that can become a focus of reading instruction and a collaborative protocol to support reading growth and improvement in English for ELs.

Target Audience: Teachers PK-5, Para Professionals, Special Educators, Specialists (Arts, Music, PE)

Educators will be able to use strategies and know-how to create/modify subject-appropriate materials to engage their new non-English-speaking students in the academic work in their mainstream classrooms.
Participants will gain a first-hand understanding of the needs of their ELLs by experiencing what it feels like to be in a classroom environment where they do not comprehend the language of instruction. They will Participate in a 10-minute (approximately) lesson given without Sheltered Instruction, and the same lesson where the teacher uses sheltered instruction strategies AND specific independent work practices that engage the students with the subject through learning of the language of the subject.

Target Audience: Teachers PK-5, Teachers 6-8, Teachers 9-12

Almost 100% of Newton's teachers are SEI-endorsed (endorsed in Sheltered English Instruction) and all teachers teach the academic language of their content area! Let's look at curricular materials' existing language supports for all learners, especially English learners, and/or identify what additional ELL supports could be embedded. Attendees should come ready to work with a curriculum unit, bringing the unit of their choice to the session. Educators will embed the following into existing units as needed: learning objectives, language objectives, strategic home language supports, visuals, and/or other language-enhanced supports. Intended outcomes for educators include: explore existing language supports in a unit, embed enhanced language supports, and explore AI as a resource for making some of this easier. This session works across all grade levels and any content area. **Please note: Viewing the SEI video (on ARXEd mandated training) is a prerequisite to this session. (Also found here: https://youtu.be/xBjSpk3e350 )**

Target Audience: Teachers, Special Educators, Specialists (Arts, Music, PE)

Are you overwhelmed by the increasing number of English Language Learners (ELLs) in your classroom? Do you struggle to find effective strategies to help them access the general education curriculum? This session is designed to equip you with practical tools and strategies to support your ELL students' academic success.
We will delve into six essential practices that classroom teachers can implement to create a high-quality learning environment for ELLs. 
By the end of this session, you will have a toolkit of practical strategies (and digital resources) to effectively support your ELL students and create a more equitable learning environment for all.

Target Audience: Teachers 6-8 Teachers 9-12, Special Educators, Specialists (Arts, Music, PE)

In 2022-2023 Natasha Galichina (NSHS ESL Teacher) and Kathy Lobo (Brown MS ESL Teacher) received a Brown Professional Development Grant to write a handbook (printed and electronic) that is a desktop reference guide that includes some theory but mostly practice for how to shelter instruction to better meet the needs of English learners (ELs). The handbook for teachers of middle and high school aged students teaching all subject areas will be presented and shared in this session. The handbook addresses what ELs at a range of English proficiency levels need/would benefit from. Participants will receive the electronic link to the handbook. Some paper copies of the handbook will also be available.