EVENTS

By September 30, districts are responsible for gaining stakeholder input and developing a Learning Continuity and Attendance Plan for the 2020-21 school year that addresses the needs of all pupils regarding the impacts of COVID-19, with specific attention to English learners and increasing or improving EL services.  What might a powerful Learning Continuity and Attendance Plan look like for English learners, that heeds research and builds upon learning from experiences with distance learning last Spring?  What should educators and communities be thinking about and considering in planning to ensure English learners are able to recoup learning loss and are not left further behind? [Addresses application of Principles 1, 2 and 3 of the EL Roadmap in context of pandemic].
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For questions or more information, please contact Dr. Margarita Gonzalez-Amador, EL RISE! Project Administrator, .

Join in a Californians Together Communities of Practice webinar for a collaborative discussion about leading and structuring schools in the return to distance learning in the new school year. Heeding lessons learned from last Spring’s ventures into Distance Learning, and committed to meeting the challenges of this pandemic era, we have an opportunity to hear how other districts are structuring schools to ensure English learners receive engaging and rigorous learning experiences and are provided daily ELD, how districts are organizing services to connect families and teachers in their shared task of supporting students, how access is being provided to the full curriculum, and learn how others are monitoring that English learners are served in distance learning. [Addresses application of Principles 1 and 2 of the EL Roadmap in context of pandemic]

For more detailed descriptions of the webinars:
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For questions or more information, please contact Dr. Margarita Gonzalez-Amador, EL RISE! Project Administrator, .

Teachers around the state have witnessed firsthand how our most vulnerable students, particularly our English learners, have fallen further behind as this unwanted disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic has magnified the inequities faced by our families. For our English learners, many students will return to school without having read, written or spoken English in six months. As we prepare for the start of a new school year, we hope it will look very different from what our students experienced in the Spring.  But for this to happen, it is essential that we create space for educators to come together to share experiences and explore strategies for supporting emergent bilingual students. In this session, Teach Plus California and Californians Together will bring together the experts on the ground, California teachers, to share, learn together and lift one another up, reflecting both on their experiences in the Spring and for some, in the first few weeks of a new school year. 

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Family engagement, connection and involvement in their children’s schooling is always important, but has particular urgency, meaning, implications and challenges in this pandemic era that relies on hybrid and distance learning.  Without careful planning and intentionality, this era could place new barriers in the way of English learner’s education, could exacerbate stresses on families, and damage relationships between schools and families.  With appropriate attention, however, the essential partnership between families and schools can support English learners and together we can leverage new opportunities with great benefits for our students.  And this can be the foundation for building family engagement more effectively into the life of schools long after the pandemic ends.  This session for administrators focuses on your role in planning for and supporting family engagement and the family role in supporting learning at home. Come hear about how other schools are establishing communication and translation systems, ensuring homes are adequately supplied for learning, training families on using technology and learning apps, building relationships with families, and creating resource and referral and support systems for families impacted by the health and economic impacts of COVID-19. [Addresses application of Principles 1 and 2 of the EL Roadmap in context of pandemic]
For more detailed descriptions of the webinars:
Register here!

For questions or more information, please contact Dr. Margarita Gonzalez-Amador, EL RISE! Project Administrator, .

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