Three-Part Series: In collaboration with the PNW BOCES School Library System and HV RBERN, this series brings School Librarians and ENL educators together to strengthen collaboration and create literacy-rich initiatives that support multilingual learners and engage families. Participants will identify student and family needs, develop and refine projects through feedback, and create plans for sustainable collaboration. Teams should register and attend together.

In January 2023, U.S. Customs and Border Protection revealed significant encounters with approximately 16,182 migrants daily. This session builds awareness of trauma and stresses faced by undocumented immigrant students and identifies strategies and best practices to support both educators and students.

This workshop helps educators expand their focus beyond academics by integrating culturally responsive and trauma-informed approaches to foster emotional and intellectual growth for all students.

Explore AI-powered tools that personalize learning and enhance engagement for English Language Learners. Learn hands-on strategies that integrate technology into instruction meaningfully and equitably.

Participants will design student-centered learning cycles inclusive of ELLs, emphasizing problem-based learning, critical thinking, and authentic assessments to improve engagement and learning outcomes.

This workshop explores consistent routines for explicit vocabulary instruction and word-learning strategies that enhance students’ listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills across content areas.

Strengthen Integrated ENL Co-Teaching through collaborative planning, effective instructional strategies, scaffolds, assessment, and purposeful AI use. Across three sessions, participants will explore co-teaching roles, models, and practices while applying strategies to support Multilingual Learners. **ENL teachers are encouraged to attend with a co-teacher.**

Explore the question behind the referral: **Why is the multilingual learner struggling?** This workshop provides a culturally and linguistically responsive approach to examining student concerns, instructional access, language development, assessment, and interventions before referral. Through case studies and collaborative discussion, participants will learn to distinguish language differences from disabilities and make informed, equitable decisions for multilingual learners.

Explore how the Portrait of a Graduate’s six core attributes can support Multilingual Learners. Discover practical scaffolds, culturally responsive strategies, and tools that foster critical thinking, communication, and collaboration alongside language development.

This workshop focuses on developing an effective school intake protocol to support social, emotional, and academic transitions for newcomer and SIFE high school students.

Gain a comprehensive understanding of CR Part 154, including identification, placement, programming, and graduation pathways for ELLs. Review best practices and compliance requirements.

Understand the experiences of immigrant students and families, including unaccompanied minors, and learn ways to provide trauma-informed and culturally responsive support in schools.

This workshop will highlight practical instructional strategies across all language modalities- listening, speaking, reading, and writing-while exploring assessment practices that support English Language Learners. Participants will examine formative and summative approaches to assessment through the lens of Margo Gottlieb's framework of Assessment AS Learning, Assessment FOR Learning, and Assessment OF Learning. Attendees will leave with practical strategies and tools that can be immediately applied to support multilingual learners in diverse classroom settings.

Examine how to adapt the five pillars of reading instruction—phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension—for ELLs in linguistically diverse classrooms.

Learn how to shift from remediation to acceleration for Long-Term ELLs by using asset-based approaches, strengthening engagement, and building meaningful learning opportunities.

Discover how Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles can be used to plan linguistically inclusive instruction that fosters engagement, validation, and equitable access for ELLs.