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SUMMARY:Newcomers in Your School: Cultural Connections and Instructional Strategies
DESCRIPTION:September 6th and 13th\, 2023 \nLearn effective strategies and activities to increase your newcomer students’ inclusion and learning in the classroom. \nREGISTER HERE \nPlease join CAL for this engaging and interactive two-day virtual institute providing practical resources for building a welcoming environment\, both socially and instructionally\, for all students. \nIt 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: \nParticipants 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. \nParticipants will learn how to: \n\nRecognize 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\nIdentify their own cultural perspectives\, assumptions\, and biases\, and how these interact with others’\nInteract in culturally-relevant ways with immigrant and non-immigrant educators\, students\, and families\nUse effective approaches and instructional strategies with newcomers in the content classroom\nAccess and create ready-to-use resources for classroom instruction\n\nPresenters 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. \nEach attendee will receive a workshop packet with materials that explicitly address how to promote welcome for newcomers within educational settings. \nQuestions? Email CAL with any questions you may have about our offerings. \nAgenda\nSeptember 6\, 2023: 9:30 am-12:30 pm & 2-3:30 pm EST\nCultural Perspectives\, Influences\, and Key Resources \n\nBuilding awareness of the diversity of newcomer students in the school\, including special populations such as\n\nunaccompanied minors\nstudents with limited and interrupted formal schooling\n\n\nIdentifying our own perspectives and how these influence our interactions\nLearning more about our students and their families\, and what they contribute to the school and the learning environment\nFostering connections among your school’s students\, families\, and teachers\, immigrants\, and non-immigrants alike\nDetermining how to apply resources in your school setting\n\nSeptember 13\, 2023: 9:30 am-12:30 pm & 2-3:30 pm EST\nAdapting Content Instruction for Newcomer Students \n\nAnalyzing how to adapt content instruction and materials to meet the needs of newcomer students\nDetermining how to promote oral language development and begin to bridge oral language skills to literacy development\nDesigning classroom activities that allow newcomers to participate in grade-level content\nAnalyzing the application of the college and career readiness standards (such as CCSS) for optimal achievement by all newcomer students\n\nSelf-Paced Content \n\nParticipants will be expected to complete 4 hours of self-paced\, asynchronous work in CAL’s Moodle platform\n\nSchedule\n\nTwo 4.5-hour synchronous\, mini-workshop sessions\, from 9:30 am-12:30 pm & 2-3:30 pm EST on September 6 and 13\, 2023.\nSelf-paced\, asynchronous content approximately 1 hour per week between September 6 and 13\, 2023.\nNote: the asynchronous portion will be available for access for one year.\n\nCost\n\nEarly bird pricing prior to Date that is 1 month before close of registration: $735 per person\nIndividual price after Date that is 1 month before close of registration: $865/person.\nSend 2 people or more and pay $735 each.\nCost includes all training materials\nRegister early\, as space is limited.\n\nCost includes the following materials*: \n\nEach attendee will receive a workshop packet with materials that explicitly address how to promote welcome for newcomers within educational settings\nLinks to digital activities\n\nVenue\nThis 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. \nCertificate of Completion\nParticipants will receive a CAL Certificate of Completion for 16 hours which may be used for continuing education credit. \nParticipants will receive a Digital Badge for attendance and engagement in any professional development offering facilitated by CAL’s PK-12 Language and Literacy Unit. A badge will be issued through the Credly platform as a digital representation of an experience\, learning\, or validation gained by the end of an institute or workshop. \nCAL-Credly badges can be shared and verified online easily and securely and linked to metadata that provides context and verification. They can be shared across the Internet for maximum visibility and recognition. \nIf you have questions about digital badging at CAL\, please contact us via email at credentials@cal.org or call 202-362-0700\, Monday-Friday\, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time. \nPolicies\nRegistration \nREGISTER HERE \nTo 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. \nPayment \nBefore 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. \nCancellation Policy \nRegistrants: 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. \nCAL: 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. \nFair Use of Materials\nIndividuals 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. \nQuestions?\nIf you have questions\, please contact us via email at solutions@cal.org or call 202-362-0700\, Monday-Friday\, 9 am – 5 pm Eastern Time.
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