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Virtual Multilingual Symposium

"Region 10 and Region 11 are joining forces this year to bring you the ultimate virtual learning experience. Our theme is “Moving Forward: Excellence for our Multilingual Learners”. Our multilingual students and families enrich the school experience and boost the potential of all students by elevating the assets of multiple languages and cultures. This registration page is for the VIRTUAL Multilingual Symposium on June 28th, 2023 only. You must select each breakout session individually in addition to the Keynote speaker session. "

SESSION 0 - KEYNOTE
(Wednesday, June 28, 2023 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM)

Session ID: 2653894
Keynote: Moving Forward with the Essentials
Seats Filled: 161 / 290
Fee: $25.00
Location:REMOTE OTHER, ZOOM ROOM
Contact Person: Daisey Leyva

Important Breakout Information:
Each year, new initiatives around instructing emergent bilinguals are introduced. As our field evolves, it is essential was we remember to keep the most important instructional principles of serving multilingual learners. In this keynote, Tan will identify these core principles, explain why they are so important, and share examples of how to integrate them into their practice.

SESSION I
(Wednesday, June 28, 2023 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM)

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Session ID: 2653862 AI Comes in Peace: AI in the Classroom Seats Filled: 40 / 290 Fee: $25.00 Location:REMOTE OTHER, ZOOM ROOM Contact Person: Daisey Leyva Important Breakout Information: Artificial intelligence is around in more places than you may realize. So how can educators use this tool to help students? Chatbots (now including ChatGPT), machine learning, deepfakes, and voice experiences are all aspects of AI that students and staff need to be aware of– not only to be better digital citizens but so we can improve learning for all students, especially our multilingual students. Come learn about the AI movement and see how we can leverage this movement toward student use in a more equitable way.
Session ID: 2653869 Refugee 101 Seats Filled: 18 / 290 Fee: $25.00 Location:REMOTE OTHER, ZOOM ROOM Contact Person: Daisey Leyva Important Breakout Information: Attendees will: 1. Understand the differences between refugees and immigrants 2. Understand the conditions of refugee camps and how they impact students' world view, behavior, and academic learning 3. Understand the resettlement process, the services available to refugee students, and the barriers that face refugee families in transitioning into their new home. 4. Know the difference between ESL and SLIFE students 5. Be able to list effective solutions to problematic behavior often displayed by refugee students.
Session ID: 2653877 El poder de free writing Seats Filled: 15 / 290 Fee: $25.00 Location:REMOTE OTHER, ZOOM ROOM Contact Person: Daisey Leyva Important Breakout Information: The importance of free writing in the bilingual classroom. Spice up your students’ writing. Free writing can start as soon as kindergarten. K-6
Session ID: 2653883 Emergent Bilinguals and Accountability A-F Seats Filled: 31 / 290 Fee: $25.00 Location:REMOTE OTHER, ZOOM ROOM Contact Person: Daisey Leyva Important Breakout Information: Participants will walk away with how emergent bilinguals are counted in our A-F system.
Session ID: 2653889 Structuring Comprehensible Output Seats Filled: 63 / 290 Fee: $25.00 Location:REMOTE OTHER, ZOOM ROOM Contact Person: Daisey Leyva Important Breakout Information: Social and academic language are equally important. However, MLs often use social language when the task requires academic language. Therefore, it rests upon educators to explicitly teach and structure academic language output if MLs are to communicate proficiently like scientists, historians, musicians, engineers, and businesspeople. By the end of this interactive session, participants will have additional approaches to supporting MLs in communicating with academic language effectively at the word, sentence, organization, and context level. While the samples come from Grades 5 - 12, these approaches can be modified for the elementary school.

SESSION II
(Wednesday, June 28, 2023 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM)

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Session ID: 2653863 Digital Choices for Stronger EL Voices Seats Filled: 48 / 290 Fee: $25.00 Location:REMOTE OTHER, ZOOM ROOM Contact Person: Daisey Leyva Important Breakout Information: Too often our English Language Learners are not sharing their voices in the general education classroom. This presentation will highlight various learning tools including a discussion about AI to help those groups to demonstrate their brilliance and find their voices. Come collaborate and try out digital and hands-on tools together as we share our own voices and experiences in helping to support our ELLs.
Session ID: 2653879 Connecting Multilingual Students to College Seats Filled: 14 / 290 Fee: $25.00 Location:REMOTE OTHER, ZOOM ROOM Contact Person: Daisey Leyva Important Breakout Information: Multilingual families face difference challenges when sending their students to college. In this session, participants will learn various ways to connect with multilingual families and receive materials in multiple languages to support their schools and families with college enrollment.
Session ID: 2653886 Bringing EBs to PLCs Seats Filled: 73 / 290 Fee: $25.00 Location:REMOTE OTHER, ZOOM ROOM Contact Person: Daisey Leyva Important Breakout Information: This session is about bringing the what, why and how on EB students to PLCs. It will provide the audience with topics and ideas to present at their district/campus level PLCs to optimize instruction and maximize emergent bilingual student achievement. Participants will learn about, explore, discuss, internalize and gain readiness to implement PLCs on topics that include: language programs, language acquisition, language domains, PLDs, accommodations, CBLI, instructional methods, learning objectives, TELPAS, reclassification and more! We look forward to supporting and promoting learning about EB students to enhance EB student learning!
Session ID: 2653891 STEM and Dual Language: Inquiry Instruction that is Linguistically and Culturally Relevant Seats Filled: 17 / 290 Fee: $25.00 Location:REMOTE OTHER, ZOOM ROOM Contact Person: Daisey Leyva Important Breakout Information: This session is designed for educators and administrators that work with linguistic and culturally diverse learners who are interested inquiry-based instruction that provides our learners with STEM content that is meaningful and inclusive.
Session ID: 2653978 Hot Topic Conversations in Coaching: EB/EL Edition! Seats Filled: 9 / 290 Fee: $25.00 Location:REMOTE OTHER, ZOOM ROOM Contact Person: Daisey Leyva Important Breakout Information: Connect with other Emergent Bilingual and English Learner coaches & instructional leaders to solve relevant problems and share experiences to learn and grow together. There will be NO FORMAL PRESENTATION, but a structure for connecting and reflecting together in small group breakouts, based on the topic(s) of your choosing. Note: since the content and conversations are driven by participants, please ensure that you are in a space that will allow you to participate (speak, chat, & access resources) fully.

SESSION III
(Wednesday, June 28, 2023 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM)

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Session ID: 2653864 Talk Tasks and Discourse in Math and Science Seats Filled: 28 / 290 Fee: $25.00 Location:REMOTE OTHER, ZOOM ROOM Contact Person: Daisey Leyva Important Breakout Information: Oracy, or the ability to engage in academic discourse, is one of the primary indicators of Emergent Bilingual students' success in content and language development. Creating Talk-Tasks for math and science allows teachers to break complex grade-level standards into comprehensible knowledge outlines grounded in high-leverage academic language. Help your Emergent Bilingual students master the high-leverage academic vocabulary inherent in the math and science TEKs, so they learn content and language simultaneously through meaningful, engaging Talk-Tasks!
Session ID: 2653873 Dyslexia and Emergent Bilinguals: A Journey Towards Equity and Understanding Seats Filled: 41 / 290 Fee: $25.00 Location:REMOTE OTHER, ZOOM ROOM Contact Person: Daisey Leyva Important Breakout Information: The best road traveled is the one already explored. The experiences of others prior to our own journeys help us take our own steps to discovery even though the journey is as important as the destination. Bilingual dyslexia is a cobblestone path of knowns and unknowns pieced together and with our shared experience, you can begin paving your own path.
Session ID: 2653880 Keys to Creating Successful Secondary DLI Pathways Seats Filled: 15 / 290 Fee: $25.00 Location:REMOTE OTHER, ZOOM ROOM Contact Person: Daisey Leyva Important Breakout Information: In this session participants will learn about the process and key components for a successful secondary DLI expansion. Key components will include student and teacher recruitment, program structure, parent and family collaboration, curriculum and instruction, assessment, and professional development. Participants will also learn about implementing the Seal of Biliteracy and a vision for a certificate in translation and interpretation through the Career & Technical Education track.
Session ID: 2653888 Headbands: Engaging Vocabulary Instruction for Language Acquisition Seats Filled: 72 / 290 Fee: $25.00 Location:REMOTE OTHER, ZOOM ROOM Contact Person: Daisey Leyva Important Breakout Information: In this session, we will observe and experience how to use the popular board game Headbands as a means of supporting EB students' vocabulary development. Teachers and administrators will learn how to categorize vocabulary into meaningful groups, develop student questioning skills, and implement this highly-engaging game with students at any grade level.
Session ID: 2653892 Supporting Every Learner with Magic & Meaning Seats Filled: 12 / 290 Fee: $25.00 Location:REMOTE OTHER, ZOOM ROOM Contact Person: Daisey Leyva Important Breakout Information: This interactive, hands-on workshop focuses on collaborative writing activities that provide opportunities for multilingual learners to find their voice while also closing the achievement gap perpetuated by core instruction that doesn’t empower them. Join us as we practice strategies that bridge students’ cultural connection and explore the impact of illustrations as a model for engagement and project-based learning. The session will demonstrate how these activities help multilingual learners overcome their fear of writing and speaking in English and transform their self-perceptions, while honoring their inherent gifts and unique perspectives.	Registration for this session has ended

SESSION IV
(Wednesday, June 28, 2023 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM)

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Session ID: 2653865 Improving our EB's Speaking Habits Opportunities to Accelerate Oral Language and Development Seats Filled: 49 / 290 Fee: $25.00 Location:REMOTE OTHER, ZOOM ROOM Contact Person: Daisey Leyva Important Breakout Information: Little changes that will make a big difference in your EB's speaking habits. We know the more that students talk the more their vocabulary will grow. In this presentation, we will look at patterns in our EB students' speaking, and dive into simple, fun strategies to encourage speaking.
Session ID: 2653871 Guiding the Writer and not the Writing Seats Filled: 21 / 290 Fee: $25.00 Location:REMOTE OTHER, ZOOM ROOM Contact Person: Daisey Leyva Important Breakout Information: ***Please note this session is in Spanish. This course is designed to support Bilingual and Dual Language educators PreK-5. Our goal is to empower all students, through the writing process, in order to grow independent writers. The session will encourage educators to explore and apply best educational practices. Utilizing researched based strategies will promote growth in all modalities including reading, listening, and speaking all through the power of writing in the language of instruction.
Session ID: 2653875 Supporting Emergent Bilingual Learners, Families, and the Community Seats Filled: 21 / 290 Fee: $25.00 Location:REMOTE OTHER, ZOOM ROOM Contact Person: Daisey Leyva Important Breakout Information: Providing strategies, ideas, and insight on effective and influential techniques for supporting Emergent Bilingual learners with linguistic growth, increasing newcomer family and community involvement, and building relationships amongst all stakeholders.
Session ID: 2653882 Let's Grow Together! Language Proficiency Progress Tools for Students, Teachers, and Administrators Seats Filled: 68 / 290 Fee: $25.00 Location:REMOTE OTHER, ZOOM ROOM Contact Person: Daisey Leyva Important Breakout Information: Follow along on our journey in tracking TELPAS & Language Proficiency growth and student success. We will share our Action Plan Templates for sharing and analyzing data, planning, and setting goals for teachers, administrators, and campuses. We will also share our goal setting templates for students. We believe that every student should know and understand their language proficiency levels, TELPAS testing, and what it takes to reclassify. We hope you join us!
Session ID: 2653893 Finding Promise in Every Student Seats Filled: 9 / 290 Fee: $25.00 Location:REMOTE OTHER, ZOOM ROOM Contact Person: Daisey Leyva Important Breakout Information: Students acquiring English are between a quarter and half as likely to be identified as gifted compared to students who were not ELs. In an attempt to address the serious challenges associated with the under identification and under servicing of diverse populations of gifted students, we will focus on how to help identify and advocate for our EB/ GT students. We will discuss what traits and characteristics to look for and how to help increase the identification of this population of students for gifted programming.

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