Educators will gain an understanding of the characteristics of the learner and will be able to use that understanding to enhance instruction and create pathways to participation for all English learners in the classroom. Participants will for essential best practices.

The session can focus on a broad understanding of ELs/MLLs, focus, in a more targeted way, on the needs of SIFE or take more pointed look at SIFE with Developing Literacy.

This workshop-based session introduces participants to the spectrum of English learners. Through the session school-level administrators are supported to plan for the identification and programming of ELs & SIFE in their context as a means to target literacy growth and accelerate meaningful participation at the secondary level.

This session explores active reading strategies for ELs/MLLs across the content areas. These are practices that can be integrated into all classrooms. Includes framework of reading best practices and strategies for differentiation.