OVERVIEW

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In this institute participants engage in lessons and tasks that foster simultaneous language, literacy, and content development specifically designed for elementary students. 

 

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

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Educators of English Learners in grades K-5 who wish to develop a firm foundation of theoretical understandings and corresponding strategies needed to apprentice young learners into disciplinary practices and academic uses of English.

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Participants will:

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• Deepen knowledge of the shifts needed in the education of elementary level English Learners and what these shifts entail

• Build capacity in enacting high challenge, high support K-5 lessons that weave conceptual, analytical and language practices seamlessly

• Develop expertise in designing standards-aligned lessons in three moments to engage all English Learners in active participation that build their autonomy

• Learn how to design spiraling units of thematic instruction which revisit central practices and build student learning skills and stamina

• Understand how to work with a variety of age appropriate texts presented in multiple formats