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Join Tonya Ward Singer, author of EL Excellence Every Day, as she uncovers specific actions to enhance EL excellence and student achievement within the general ed classroom.  

Join Maria Dove and Andrea Honigsfeld as they walk through the entire collaborative instruction cycle to help enhance English language learning. 

Learn new strategies from Diane Staehr Fenner and Margo Gottlieb to ensure English learners develop academic language and engage with challenging content. 

Hear from Debbie Zacarian about the critical role academic language plays in student achievement.

Soto, Zwiers, the Freemans, and Calderon, authors of the Academic Language Mastery Series, share the four key components of academic language mastery and the best practices to cultivate them. 

When it comes to accelerating EL achievement, there is no silver bullet. But this, Andrea Honigsfeld and Maria Dove promise you: when EL specialists and general ed teachers pool their expertise, your ELs’ language development and content mastery will improve exponentially. Hear firsthand from Andrea and Maria, authors of Collaborating for English Learners, what exemplary teacher collaboration looks like, which frameworks must be established, and how integrated approaches to ELD services benefit all stakeholders. 

Anyone invested in the future of our English learners—and we hope that’s all of you!--you won’t want to miss this. Join this once-of-a-lifetime collaboration of the field’s top practitioners and authors of Breaking Down the Wall as they discuss nine essential shifts for delivering on the promise of our English learners. 

Jeff Zwiers, author of The Communication Effect, describes how to improve all dimensions of learning (content, cognition, language, social, agency, etc.) by enhancing instruction with three main features of authentic communication.

This webinar will build on the book From Equity Insights to Action that addresses how educators, on the one hand, can recognize their students’ cultural and linguistic identities, backgrounds, multiliteracies, and complex experiences and, on the other hand, how they can engage in critical collaborative practices that champion equity for MLs.

Culturally Responsive Teaching for Multilingual Learners co-authors Sydney Snyder and Diane Staehr Fenner share practical, research-based look-fors, tools, and strategies that you can use to integrate CRT for MLs.