The classroom teacher plays a crucial role in providing access to content and building language proficiency for their English learners. This two-day summer series is framed by the four principles of the English Learner Roadmap and focuses primarily on deepening knowledge and implementing quality teaching and learning practices for English learner students. It will feature guidance provided in key California Department of Education resources; including: the ELD Standards, ELA-ELD Framework, and Improving Education for Multilingual and English Learner Students: Research to Practice. A light breakfast and lunch will be offered for both days of this series.

The SCOE State and Federal Programs Network meets monthly following the CDE State and Federal Directors meeting. District and charter school administrators are invited to join these meetings. Topics will be curated to include timely information with relevance for local context. This is a virtual meeting, conducted via Zoom. The Zoom link will be shared via personalized email and calendar invite (sent by program staff) prior to date of meeting.

2024 Building Thinking Classrooms Summer Intensive - Toolkit 4 (Option 1 - 6/27 to 6/28) Audience: TK-12 Math Educators who have implemented practices 1-11 OR Coaches, Administrators, and Leaders supporting this implementation. ***This is not intended for beginners. In this 2-day workshop, we focus on assessment and transferring collective knowing and doing to individual understanding. Expect to extend and refine the purpose and practice of facilitating the Launch, Body, and Closure in your thinking classroom. Explore the why, what, when, and how of crafting and providing each of your students a map of where they are and where they are going. Ensure that all students have equitable access to the content and competencies of their grade level standards.

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) eliminates barriers in the design of the learning environment and makes curriculum accessible to all students. WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES: Understand the underlying principles of UDL, Understand the basic neuroscience to reach all learners, Explore & use UDL principles for designing instruction tomeet student needs, Engage in professional conversations around UDLapplications across classrooms

How can we support the development of foundational literacy skills for our diverse multilingual-English learner students? It is critical to adapt instructional practices to meet the unique needs and characteristics of multilingual-English learners (MLL-ELs). This event will specifically address strategies to intentionally support MLL-EL students with phonological/phonemic awareness and phonics skills while simultaneously fostering the development of both expressive and receptive language.

How can teachers easily and effectively build language proficiency for their English learner/emergent bilingual students throughout their daily lessons.This interactive three-day in-person summer series provides teachers with a construct and set of strategies that can be effectively integrated into existing lessons and practices.

How can we support the development of foundational literacy skills for our diverse multilingual-English learner students? It is critical to adapt instructional practices to meet the unique needs and characteristics of multilingual-English learners (MLL-ELs). This event will specifically address strategies to intentionally support MLL-EL students with phonological/phonemic awareness and phonics skills while simultaneously fostering the development of both expressive and receptive language.