October 25, 2024 Professional Learning Day

6-12 special educators and related service providers will work with their team chairs to leverage the Blume Method app in implementing the new IEP. 

1. You must sign up for this session by 8:00 AM on October 24, as an account must be created for you on the WIDA website. 
2. Participants will then receive an email from "WIDA Secure Portal" when their account has been set up. 
3. You can access this webinar by logging into the WIDA website through that email and clicking the "Professional Learning" tab. Then, scroll through the list of offerings until you find your session. Click "Learn More and Enroll" Click "Enroll Now". (blue box on the right hand side of the screen.

Duration
4 hours (You can start this webinar today. You will be given an opportunity to continue this learning on November 5.)

Learning Outcomes
K-12 educators will:

• Recognize the benefits of giving students tasks to solve together and time to exchange ideas about their reasoning.
• Reflect on and leverage good reasoning-focused tasks.
• Plan ways to support multilingual learners in becoming increasingly effective as they use language to express and co-construct mathematical ideas with others.

Description
Participants will engage in approximately four hours of self-paced learning. During the eWorkshop, participants will have the opportunity to learn about the benefits of giving students mathematics tasks to solve together and time to exchange ideas about their reasoning as well as how to find and insert reasoning activities into mathematics units. Participants will see and have opportunities to plan ways to support multilingual learners in becoming increasingly effective as they use language to express their own ideas and co-construct ideas with others.

Module Topics
Introduction
Module 1: The Value for Multilingual Learners of Mathematical Discourse
Module 2: Facilitating Mathematical Discourse
Module 3: Organizing Math Discourse
Module 4: Supporting Language for Learning in Mathematics
Additional Learning Opportunities
References
eWorkshop Survey

6-12 educators will explore resources to further their UDL learning and work. Resources will be posted here on Friday, October 25.

1. You must sign up for this session by 8:00 AM on October 24, as an account must be created for you on the WIDA website. 
2. Participants will then receive an email from "WIDA Secure Portal" when their account has been set up. 
3. You can access this webinar by logging into the WIDA website through that email and clicking the "Professional Learning" tab. Then, scroll through the list of offerings until you find your session. Click "Learn More and Enroll" Click "Enroll Now". (blue box on the right hand side of the screen.

Duration
4 Hours (You can start this webinar today. You will be given an opportunity to continue this learning on November 5.)

Learning Outcomes
Science and language educators who participate in this eWorkshop will learn multiple strategies for engaging multilingual students in phenomenon-based, three-dimensional science. After participating in the four modules, they will be able to:

• recognize sensemaking opportunities in science learning activities
• evaluate the relevance of a phenomenon to students’ interests and lived experiences
• identify strategies to facilitate multilingual learners’ contributions to scientific sensemaking
• identify instructional strategies that expand language repertoires through sensemaking

Description
This eWorkshop, developed in conjunction with experts in science education, provides multiple strategies for including multilingual students in the central work of making sense of phenomena in three-dimensional science. The activities and resources in the four modules provide opportunities to learn about high-quality, three-dimensional science instruction, the benefits it provides multilingual learners, and resources to promote equitable engagement among all your students.

Module Topics
Module 1: Engaging Multilingual Learners in Science Through Sensemaking
Module 2: Grounding Sensemaking in Powerful, Relevant Phenomena
Module 3: Facilitating Collaborative Sensemaking
Module 4: Expanding Language Repertoires Through Sensemaking

Signing up for this offering gives you one year of access to Novak Consulting's 10-hour asynchronous offering, "How SEL & UDL Intersect." 
You will have time on October 25 and November 5 to work through this offering. No additional time beyond the two PD days will be provided. Participants will be responsible for the additional hours to receive PDPs.

Course Objectives:

1. Learn about the components of UDL & SEL and why social-emotional learning is vital for both students and teachers. 
2. Understand how to create a safe environment for students where the whole child can thrive.
3. Learn how to integrate SEL practices in your teaching content throughout the day alongside UDL. 

As education has evolved, it has become clear that in addition to academics, it is critical for students to learn 21st-century skills, like collaboration, communication, critical thinking, and creativity to succeed in school and life. Our instruction must go beyond “teaching to the test” to empower students to excel. This requires us to integrate social-emotional instruction into our lessons every day.

Universal Design for Learning and Social-Emotional Learning create a powerful partnership in educating our youth. Yet, educators often feel like implementing too many initiatives at once can be overwhelming. There is a beautiful overlap between these two frameworks and this course explores how they complement each other to engage learners and focus on the whole child. When learners are self-aware and able to identify and regulate their emotions and can work well independently or with peers, they can tap into parts of their brain that may otherwise be shut off to learning.
Throughout this course, we will explore how to create an environment that fosters social, emotional, behavioral, and academic growth using both UDL and SEL in your learning environment.

1. You must sign up for this session by 8:00 AM on October 24, as an account must be created for you on the WIDA website. 
2. Participants will then receive an email from "WIDA Secure Portal" when their account has been set up. 
3. You can access this webinar by logging into the WIDA website through that email and clicking the "Professional Learning" tab. Then, scroll through the list of offerings until you find your session. Click "Learn More and Enroll" Click "Enroll Now". (blue box on the right hand side of the screen.

Duration
3 Hours (You can start this webinar today. You will be given an opportunity to continue this learning on November 5.)

Learning Outcomes
By engaging in this eWorkshop, participants will be able to:

• Create a sense of shared responsibility
• Honor student voices to incorporate cultural practices and home languages
• Challenge biases and assumptions
• Build student-centered teacher agency

Description
Multilingual newcomers are the fastest growing demographic in U.S. school systems. Building relationships and ensuring that schools create and maintain welcoming communities is essential for multilingual newcomers’ success. During this self-paced workshop, educators will be offered opportunities to challenge personal and systemic biases, create an atmosphere and system of shared responsibility, and incorporate and build on the rich resources that multilingual newcomers bring. Through multiple modalities, educators will explore topics that enhance their practice. Educators who participate in this workshop will be able to connect and share ideas with other educators.

Module Topics
Welcome
About
Strand 1: Collaborative School Systems
Strand 2: School Community Considerations
Strand 3: Administrators as Change Makers
Exhibit Hall
eWorkshop Survey 

1. You must sign up for this session by 8:00 AM on October 24, as an account must be created for you on the WIDA website. 
2. Participants will then receive an email from "WIDA Secure Portal" when their account has been set up. 
3. You can access this webinar by logging into the WIDA website through that email and clicking the "Professional Learning" tab. Then, scroll through the list of offerings until you find your session. Click "Learn More and Enroll" Click "Enroll Now". (blue box on the right hand side of the screen.

Duration
1 Hour

Learning Outcomes
K-12 educators or teams will strengthen their skills in:

• Reflect on strategies to discover students’ home and everyday literacy practices and build bridges to disciplinary literacy.
• Explore ways to plan opportunities to actively engage students to make meaning from text.
• Examine ways to explicitly teach the organization of ideas and language features in disciplinary texts.

Description
This self-paced online workshop is designed to empower educators with tools and strategies to enhance the reading comprehension of multilingual learners. Participants will learn how to leverage students' home and everyday literacy practices in order to build bridges to disciplinary literacy. Participants will also gain practical approaches to actively engage students in making meaning from text, with an emphasis on explicit teaching of language patterns in content specific texts.

Module Topics
Introduction Module
Module 1: Engaging Multilingual Learners in Active Reading
Module 2: Explicitly Teaching Organization and Language Patterns in Text

1. You must sign up for this session by 8:00 AM on October 24, as an account must be created for you on the WIDA website. 
2. Participants will then receive an email from "WIDA Secure Portal" when their account has been set up. 
3. You can access this webinar by logging into the WIDA website through that email and clicking the "Professional Learning" tab. Then, scroll through the list of offerings until you find your session. Click "Learn More and Enroll" Click "Enroll Now". (blue box on the right hand side of the screen.

Duration
3Hours (You can start this webinar today. You will be given an opportunity to continue this learning on November 5.)

Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Engage with theories and approaches that integrate inquiry-based thinking and student-led discourse in the social studies classroom
• Explore teacher-centered practices to uplift multilingual student voices and extend background knowledge through the use of multimodal text
• Synthesize literacy-centered research to encourage the presentation of multiple perspectives

.Description
In an increasingly connected world, Social Studies teaching and learning provides a unique opportunity to foster connections between our multilingual students’ identities as global citizens and their social context. It provides a platform to elevate multilingual experiences through their voices, highlight multiple perspectives, and develop a critical understanding of history. This self-paced workshop features concepts, theory, terminology and approaches that promote thinking and discourse through a global lens. The course also includes consideration of literacy across multimodal text types, the integration of content and language learning, and increased accessibility of materials through the use of technology, inquiry and translanguaging practices.

Module Topics
Introduction
Module 1: Welcome and Introduction
Module 2: Inquiry-Based Approaches for Student Discourse
Module 3: Text Types and Text Analysis in Social Studies
Module 4: The Power of Storytelling Through the Human Experience
Module 5: Multimodalities and Technology in the Social Study Classroom
Module 6: Conclusion and Resource Gallery
Additional Learning Opportunities
References
eWorkshop Survey

6-12 educators facilitating on November 5 will launch together and then have the remaining time to prepare for their session.

Bring the materials you need to help plan your session.