OELA Webinars: Promoting the Success of Hispanic ELs
OELA has on-demand webinars with resources educators can use to support Hispanic ELs.
Hispanic Language Heritage Webinar Series
In collaboration with GlobalMindED, OELA hosted a two-part webinar series to inspire linguistically and culturally diverse students to cherish, nurture, and revere their primary culture, heritage, and language so they can realize the short- and long-term personal, educational, and professional benefits of being multilingual.
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Hispanic Language Heritage: Retention of Heritage Culture and Language(s) – This first webinar in the series focused on the cognitive, economic, educational, and sociocultural benefits of multilingualism with expert panelists from a variety of fields and professions.
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Hispanic Language Heritage: Language Assets for Career Preparedness – In this second installment, panelists discuss how multilingualism can shape career paths and shared how language skills have influenced their career trajectories.
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Culturally Responsive School Practices to Promote the Success of Hispanic English Learners – Presenters from OELA and Regional Education Laboratories Pacific examined the factors that impact the social and emotional well-being of Hispanic ELs, identified research-based strategies to establish culturally responsive school environments, and discussed state, district, school, and classroom strategies for promoting the success of Hispanic ELs.
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This FREE 1-hour webinar from the Saddleback Webinar Series is based on a shared belief that achieving equity for multilingual learners must be nonnegotiable. As we begin this new academic year, we must also commit to the notion that we cannot go back to “normal.” Instead, let us plan ahead and approach our work with multilingual learners through an equity lens. The presenter will unpack four key strategies to achieve this goal, and participants will apply them to their own context. |
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October 13–15
Hybrid Conference
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The National Family Engagement Summit is being held in-person AND virtually this fall. Join family engagement practitioners from around the country to reimagine what family engagement looks like in this new post-pandemic world. |
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October 14
Hybrid Conference
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Registration is now open for this 1-day virtual event that is open to members of the WIDA Consortium, international educators, and higher education faculty and staff. Registration includes access to live sessions, presentation handouts and materials, interactive breakout group opportunities, and all recorded content through the end of 2021. The keynote speaker will be Viet Thanh Nguyen, a professor at the University of Southern California. |
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November 10–13
Hybrid Conference
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La Cosecha 2021 will be a hybrid event, comprising both a virtual and an in-person conference. La Cosecha Conference offers you the unique opportunity to share best practices, resources, and current theory; build networks; and fuel community efforts to build a better future for our children as we “harvest” the best of our multilingual and multicultural communities. |
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November 19–21
Virtual Conference
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Join language educators at ACTFL’s virtual conference, featuring keynote speakers Omekonga Dibinga, Marcia Tate, and Shiza Shahid. The conference includes educational sessions and hands-on learning environments that will provide resources, ready-to-use techniques, and current trends in language education. |
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The Island Packet
Red Cedar Elementary School in Bluffton, South Carolina, has recently experienced a growth in their Hispanic student population with almost half of the school’s students receiving English language assistance. In the recent school year, despite unique linguistic and educational needs and the hardships associated with the pandemic, Red Cedar’s ELs outperformed ELs at many neighboring institutions. Among the factors contributing to the success of ELs are the expertise of the schools’ ESOL teachers and the support that the schools provide to Spanish-speaking family members in the form of communication in the home language and Spanish-speaking liaisons hired by the schools.
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The Business Journal
The James B. McClatchy Foundation will allot $4.1M to benefit young dual language learners in Central Valley, California. Dual language learners were disproportionately and negatively affected by the disruptions in education caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The grants from the Foundation will go to five school districts as well as to the California Education Partners. Among other things, grant money will be spent on training dual language educators and resources to support families of dual language learners.
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LinkedIn
In this LinkedIn post, Jana Echevarria acknowledges the unique circumstances that surround the beginning of the new school year. The author acknowledges that over the last year and a half, students, teachers, and administrators have endured a lot of stress. She makes suggestions to all three groups on how to foster a welcoming environment and deal with stressors. Among these suggestions are recommendations to the administrators to create systems that welcome diverse learners and their families, recommendations to the teachers to learn to pronounce students’ names correctly, and an encouragement to multilingual learners to value and use their home languages.
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EducationWeek
Even though ELs faced a number of unique challenges in remote instructional settings that resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic, they also experienced possible benefits from increased use of their home languages and immersion in their home cultures. This recorded webinar explores support strategies that educators of ELs can implement to leverage ELs’ assets as they return to school.
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Institute of Education Sciences
This Inside IES Research blog entry discusses the issue of ELs who have been diagnosed or are at risk for learning disabilities. As a subgroup, ELs are more likely than non-ELs to be classified with learning disabilities involving speech and/or language. The blog entry lists research studies funded by the National Center for Special Education Research that focus on ELs with or at risk of disabilities. The studies range from 2006–2021 and focus on the efficacy of interventions for speech and language development of ELs with or at risk for disabilities.
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NABE is accepting applications for the following award competitions: 2022 Student Essay Contest, 2022 Teacher of the Year, 2022 Bilingual Teacher Scholarship, and the 2022 Outstanding Dissertation. Visit NABE online to download the guidelines for the competitions.
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Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL): Virtual Institutes, October 6–28
CAL is offering these virtual institutes this fall:
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Leading Dual Language Programs for Student Success, October 18–28: This live interactive institute will prepare school leaders to gain a solid understanding of the benefits of dual language education, explore how they can develop a program that promotes student success in two languages, and increase their impact as leaders. The institute is based on Guiding Principles for Dual Language Education, 3rd Edition.
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With the #BlackMenTeach online campaign, the Initiative will feature Black male teachers nationwide to demonstrate that while they are underrepresented, there are many Black males who are dedicating themselves to serving their communities through teaching. Nominate a Black male educator by filling out the nomination form and emailing the Initiative at [email protected]. Be sure to include the educator’s name and contact information. You may also ask the educator to fill out the nomination response form and submit it to [email protected].
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Are you seeking distance learning opportunities to develop leadership and advocacy skills to meet the growing demands for PK–12 biliteracy/multilingual programs? Leadership for Equity in English Learner Education provides educators from any linguistic or cultural background with current research on biliteracy and knowledge in programmatic and instructional issues to increase student achievement and language learning. Instructional coaches, administrators, and teachers will be equipped as leaders and advocates by this virtual learning community.
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The International Center for Language Studies (ICLS)
Washington, DC
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Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District
Los Angeles County, CA
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Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN
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Submit a Resource
NCELA has more than 20,000 resources related to EL education in our resource library. Do you have a resource to submit? Take a look at our collection policy and submit a copy of the resource and/or a link to [email protected].
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