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2023 Conference

2023 Conference

About Benchmark Education Company

Why do Benchmark Education's PreK-12 programs stand apart?

Benchmark Education Company is a leading publisher of inclusive, research-backed core, supplemental, and intervention literacy and language resources in English and Spanish and a provider of exceptional professional development to educators. The company was founded and continues to operate with the firm belief that literacy mastery changes lives. Our enduring goal is to empower all students with the agency and skills they need to succeed. We do this by publishing cutting-edge literacy resources of the highest quality, culturally relevant and multimodal, to support personal and emotional growth and inspire knowledge and achievement in all students.

Conference Speaker Sessions

Silvia Dorta-Duque de Reyes

Silvia is a National Biliteracy Consultant and Benchmark Education Company author. She is well known for her contributions in the areas of curriculum design, staff development, and parent involvement. Her area of expertise is biliteracy with a focus on academic language, writing, and the organization of instruction for explicit teaching of cross-linguistic transfer between Spanish to English.

Spanish Language Arts Institute (Pre-Conference)

Wednesday, 2/22/23, 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Meeting Room: B 110 / 111

Strategies to Address the Linguistic, Academic, and Socio-Emotional Needs of Newcomers

Thursday, 2/23/2023, 2:25 - 3:15 p.m.
Meeting Room: B112

Schools play an essential role in helping newcomers adapt and contribute as they integrate into our communities and society at large. By understanding the socio-emotional, linguistic, and academic needs of newcomers and by learning how to create an asset-oriented welcoming environment, administrators and teachers enhance learning for not only the newcomer student, but for the entire learning community. We will promote an asset-based approach as we demonstrate effective strategies to address the linguistic, academic, and socio-emotional needs of newcomers. Participants will receive practical and engaging ideas that will foster students’ self-advocacy, self-management, and responsible decision-making.

Cross-Linguistic Foundational Skills: The Spanish-English Connection

Friday, 2/24/23, 4:10 - 5:30 p.m.
Meeting Room: B113

Explicit cross-linguistic instruction is an innovative approach to biliteracy based on most current research. Rather than assuming that cross-linguistic transfer will occur without explicit teaching, we can organize literacy and language instruction intentionally and strategically to promote biliteracy. Learn to organize, sequence, and allocate foundational skills to promote knowledge and language development in Spanish and English. Cross-linguistic transfer routines and strategies that can be implemented across the various biliteracy programs models will be demonstrated. Participants will learn to plan, allocate materials, create, and deliver cross-linguistic lessons. Join us for this interactive workshop on cross-linguistic instruction with biliteracy as an outcome.


Maria Campanario

Maria has over four decades of experience in education. Her work with districts concentrates on building effective schools, literacy, issues of equity, multilingual learners, special education, and supporting organizational planning. Her focus is on equity and instruction that addresses the needs of socially, culturally, and linguistically diverse student populations.

His-Her-Their-Story Matters

Friday, 2/24/23, 1:40 - 2:30 p.m.
Meeting Room: A109

How can we as educators mitigate some of the external factors that adversely affect teaching and learning by becoming more culturally sustaining in our use of story and trade books? How will that mitigation disrupt disproportionality by giving our students a sense of belonging while expanding their perspectives?

What next?

Saturday, 2/25/23, 12:40 - 2:00 p.m.
Meeting Room: B116

What next? As educators we, our students, families, and communities are faced with a recent level of collective trauma that is exacerbated by systemic inequities. We will take this time to think about the multiple impacts that this trauma has on teaching and learning, how we might understand and respond to it, and how to create a positive learning environment for multilingual, multicultural students as well as ourselves as educators.

Authentic Voices Library en español

Authentic Voices Library en español features hundreds of original books that celebrate Hispanic culture while captivating young readers. These authentic Spanish texts reflect the complexity and dimensions of the world and introduce students to people, places, and things outside of their own experiences.

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Benchmark Hello!

Build language, boost confidence, and ensure readiness with the academic support in this comprehensive Newcomer program for recent arrivals—flexibly designed to meet a variety of implementation models.

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Reycraft Books

Culturally relevant trade books connect children to the world around them by reflecting their own experiences. Award-winning picture books, early chapter books, middle grade books, and graphic novels feature authors and illustrators from underrepresented communities. Teacher support for every title!

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Represent

Capture students’ imaginations with this forward-thinking new series of beautiful texts that share multiple perspectives and build content knowledge. Teacher’s Guides, Text Evidence Question Cards, and Content Activity Cards support thought-provoking lessons.

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Leading-Edge Spanish and Dual Language Resources

Click through to learn more about these best-selling series!

  • ⇲ Sound-Spelling Transfer Kit
  • ⇲ BEC Mis libritos de fonética
  • ⇲ RIGOR
  • ⇲ Listos y adelante/Ready to Advance
  • ⇲ Benchmark Adelante/Advance

Spanish Catalog

View our virtual ⇲ Spanish catalog to see all Benchmark Education Company biliteracy resources.

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