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.