BUILDING THE BASE, ELEMENTARY LITERACY

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In this five-day professional learning, participants will learn how to design equitable and quality learning opportunities by implementing high-challenge and high-support instruction for K-5 English Learners to simultaneously develop disciplinary knowledge and related conceptual, analytic, and language practices.  Some of the topics to be discussed in this institute include:

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• The global and instructional shifts needed in the education of young English Learners to achieve equity and quality learning opportunities

• The impact and power of

• How to enact high-challenge, high-support lessons that weave conceptual, analytic, and language practices seamlessly

• How to design lessons in three moments to actively engage K-5 students in high-quality learning experiences centered around quality interactions with peers and the teacher

• How to support students’ development from oral to written language

• How to weave lessons to design thematically-linked, spiraling units of instruction which revisit central practices and build student learning skills and stamina and that build their autonomy

• How to work with a variety of texts presented in multiple modalities