Silvia Dorta-Duque de Reyes

Teaching for Transfer: Making the Spanish-English Connection

Tuesday, 2/8/22, 9:25 – 10:10 a.m.
Meeting Room: 2nd floor – Regent

Learn to plan, allocate materials, create, and deliver cross-linguistic lessons using this innovative approach to biliteracy. 

Teaching and Learning Strategies to Address the Social-Emotional, Academic, and Linguistic Needs of Newcomers

Tuesday, 2/8/22, 1:05 – 1:50 p.m.
Meeting Room: 2nd floor – Regent

Explore Benchmark Hello!, a newcomer program that affirms primary language and culture as it promotes the skills needed to ensure students' equitable access to and engagement in rigorous learning. 

Maria Campanario

Moving Beyond Beliefs to Action 

Tuesday, 2/8/22, 1:05 – 1:50 p.m.
Meeting Room: Bryant Room

Dialogue on the intersection of the eight features of Culturally Responsive Teaching and the three Pillars of Dual Language Education and ways to provide needed access for students.  

Innovative or Reimagined

Tuesday, 2/8/22, 1:05 – 1:50 p.m.
Virtual (pre-recorded and scheduled)

Examine ways to increase understanding of a culturally responsive approach to all literacy content areas that is intentional and nonjudgmental.  

Myriam Louzao and Ana G. Richter

Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Writer’s Workshop

Wednesday, 2/9/22, 8:30 - 9:15 a.m.
Meeting Room: 2nd floor – Murray Hill East

National Literacy Coach and State Lead Dual Language Spanish Immersion Coach and Curriculum Specialist discuss best practices for implementing a culturally and linguistically responsive writer’s workshop.

Dr. Arnhilda Badia and Silvia Dorta-Duque de Reyes

Getting Ready for Citizenship!

Wednesday, 2/9/22, 2:45 – 3:15 p.m.
Meeting Room: New York Room

Focus will be on the importance of civics education and citizenship as part of a high school-level newcomer program.  

Silvia Dorta-Duque de Reyes and Jill Kerper Mora

Lesson Design for Teaching for Transfer: A Metalinguistic Approach

Thursday, 2/10/22, 8:00 – 9:20 a.m.
Meeting Room: 2nd floor – Murray Hill East

Learn from a model of cross-linguistic-transfer lesson design and a continuum of metalinguistic knowledge development that cross-reference national Common Core en español standards.  

Debbie Zacarian, Dr. Margarita Calderón, and Margo Gottlieb

Beyond Crises: Where’s the Equity for Communities, Schools, and Classrooms?

Focus is on the interconnectedness of schools, families, and community life that fuels a strengths-based perspective on the education of multilingual learners and combats historic inequities.  

Dr. Margarita Calderón and Leticia Trower

Newcomers/Immigrant Children Are Coming to Your School! Let’s Get Ready! 

Hands-on session provides a framework for equitable integration and quality implementation leading to accelerated learning for older Newcomers who may have gaps in language and literacy.