Learn effective strategies and activities to increase your newcomer students’ inclusion and learning in the classroom.

Please join CAL for this engaging and interactive three-day virtual institute providing practical resources for building a welcoming environment, both socially and instructionally, for all students.

It is critical to address the unique cultural, social, and academic needs of newcomer youth entering U.S. schools to help them succeed in the classroom and beyond. Building on CAL’s decades of experience working with newcomers in educational and community settings, this institute focuses on two key components for optimizing success for newcomer students in the classroom:

Participants will receive proven strategies and practical resources they can use right away to create a welcoming environment for newcomer students and facilitate their learning. Designed for PreK-12 teachers, administrators, and other practitioners who work in educational settings with newcomer students and their families, such as social workers, counselors, and after-school specialists, CAL encourages teams of colleagues to attend.

Participants will learn how to:

• Recognize the diversity of newcomers in the schools, including special populations such as unaccompanied youth, students with limited and interrupted formal education, and students who have experienced displacement and migration
• Identify their own cultural perspectives, assumptions, and biases, and how these interact with others’
• Interact in culturally-relevant ways with immigrant and non-immigrant educators, students, and families
• Use effective approaches and instructional strategies with newcomers in the content classroom
• Access and create ready-to-use resources for classroom instruction

Presenters include CAL experts in immigrant and refugee integration and PreK-12 EL education, building on CAL’s decades of experience in working with language learners, immigrants, and refugees.

Each attendee will receive a workshop packet with materials that explicitly address how to promote welcome for newcomers within educational settings.

Questions? Email CAL with any questions you may have about our offerings.

Agenda

Dec 3: 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. & 1:30–3:00 p.m. ET

Cultural Perspectives, Influences, and Key Resources

• Building awareness of the diversity of newcomer students in the school, including special populations such as unaccompanied minors and students with limited and interrupted formal schooling
• Identifying our own perspectives and how these influence our interactions
• Learning more about our students and their families, and what they contribute to the school and the learning environment
• Fostering connections among your school’s students, families, and teachers, immigrants, and non-immigrants alike
• Determining how to apply resources in your school setting

Dec 10: 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. & 1:30–3:00 p.m. ET

Adapting Content Instruction for Newcomer Students

• Analyzing how to adapt content instruction and materials to meet the needs of newcomer students
• Determining how to promote oral language development and begin to bridge oral language skills to literacy development
• Designing classroom activities that allow newcomers to participate in grade-level content
• Analyzing the application of the college and career readiness standards (such as CCSS) for optimal achievement by all newcomer students

Dec 17: 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. & 1:30–3:00 p.m. ET

Adapting Content Instruction for Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education (SLIFE)

• Analyzing Assumptions of Western-Style Formal Education
• Analyzing cultural differences using the Intercultural Communication Framework (ICF)
• Determining how Schema Theory relates to Cultural Dissonance
• Designing lessons using the Components of MALP®

Self-Paced Content

• Participants will be expected to complete 4 hours of self-paced, asynchronous work in CAL’s Online learning management platform.

Schedule

• Three 4.5-hour synchronous, mini-workshop sessions, from 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. & 1:30–3:00 p.m. ET on December 3, 10, and 17, 2024.
• Self-paced, asynchronous content approximately 1 hour per week between December 3, 10, and 17, 2024
• Note: the asynchronous portion will be available for access for one year.

Cost

• Early bird pricing prior to Nov 8, 2024: $1,000 per person
• Individual price after Nov 8, 2024: $1,110/person.
• Send 2 people or more and pay $1,000 each.
• Cost includes all training materials.
• Register early, as space is limited.

Cost includes the following materials*:

• Each attendee will receive a workshop packet with materials that explicitly address how to promote welcome for newcomers within educational settings
• Links to digital activities

Venue

This Institute will be held online through a combination of interactive online web conferences and through self-paced assignments to be completed in CAL’s online learning platform.

Certificate of Completion

Participants will receive a CAL Digital Badge for 16 hours of attendance and engagement. A “CAL Newcomers Educator Level 1” badge will be issued through the Credly platform as a digital representation of an experience and learning at the end of an institute or workshop.

If you have questions about digital badging at CAL, please get in touch with us via email at credentialing@cal.org or call 202-362-0700, Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time.

Policies

Registration

To reserve your seat for this institute, please complete the online registration process. Please be aware that your seat at the workshop will only be confirmed once payment is received. If you are registering multiple participants, please have the name, title, school, and email addresses available before you begin the registration process. We encourage you to register as soon as possible as many workshops fill up quickly.

Payment

Before beginning the registration process, please determine your preferred method of payment (credit card, check, or purchase order). When paying by credit card using the online registration system, your seat will be immediately confirmed, and you will receive a confirmation email upon successful completion of the transaction. CAL accepts American Express, Discover, MasterCard, and VISA. For registrations to be paid by purchase order or check, please note that your seat will be tentatively reserved until payment is received. Once the payment is received, you will receive a confirmation email. There will be a fee of $15.00 for each check returned as uncollectible. Purchase orders should be uploaded directly to the registration system or emailed to payables@cal.org. For payment by check, or to pay for purchase orders, please make payable to the Center for Applied Linguistics and mail it to: Accounts Receivable, Center for Applied Linguistics, 4646 40th Street NW, Washington, DC 20016.

Cancellation Policy

Registrants: We encourage participants to let CAL know as soon as possible if they do not plan to attend the session. Participants may cancel their registration and receive a full refund up to three (3) weeks prior to the institute start date by sending an email to solutions@cal.org. After that date, no refunds will be available. However, registrants may choose to receive the institute materials by mail, postpone their attendance to a future CAL Institute, or transfer the registration to another individual up to three (3) days prior to the course start date. Contact us to discuss your options.

CAL: CAL reserves the right to cancel an event due to low enrollment or for reasons beyond our control. If we exercise this right, we will refund any registration fees which you have paid in advance. In some instances, registrants may have the option to transfer their registration to another event.

Fair Use of Materials

Individuals who have completed CAL training and workshops have permission from CAL to use materials while providing professional development to educators in their schools or school districts. These materials cannot be used to deliver fee-based services. Email CAL if you have questions about the use of CAL materials.

Questions?

If you have questions, please contact us via email at solutions@cal.org or call 202-362-0700, Monday–Friday, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time.