Thursday Update-June 8, 2016

Happy Summer!

Have a safe, fun and restorative extended break.  

Many of you use your summer to reconnect and balance your lives, to enjoy our San Diego weather and also to learn!

WELCOME

This fall 2016-2017, we will be welcoming a new coordinator of Multilingual Education!

This role will have a significant 6-12 focus on EL, World Language and development of our 6-12 Dual Language Program, as well as a focus on K-5 Professional Development, curriculum, assessment and new teacher support.

Side by Side for Metalinguistic Awareness in MATH-

From Banting Elementary 2-3

There are many teams getting together this summer!

• 4th grade will be engaging in WIDE READING! Oh yea, a small team is reading 36+ mentor texts to evaluate their complexity and alignment to the themes in the CLM-They will share their work in August!
• K and 1st is planning English Language Development units to increase the explicit EL learning amongst our 90:10 students
• 6-7 is realigning their Social Studies and Science BUFS and planning their formative writing assessments with the Literacy Squared Rubrics in mind
• Groups at Blair and Banting are taking the INTRO TO GLOBAL EDUCATION Course, an online, self paced course to prepare to meet our program's third goal of Global Competency!
• Still many others are taking the online, self paced Dual Language Essentials (your aides are invited to participate-let them know to email me with their interest!)
• All new educators are taking Teaching for Biliteracy on August 1 and 8 (aides are invited, as well as those who want to "brush" up)
• Lastly, a small group is headed to Illinois to work directly with Cheryl Urow and Karen Beeman this August in their intensive Teaching for Biliteracy
• Most significant of all, 5 ADMINISTRATORS are going to the CENTER FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS to learn about how to most effectively lead our dual language programs at the sites

******Please check the CONNECT to get involved in these learning opportunities*******

SHOUT OUT to our Dual Program at Blair Elementary

See Tahereh DeLeon on Telemundo's Que pasa Wisconsin

http://goo.gl/Tb2mZh

Looking for a way to get involved, meet our parents in the community and get the word out on our program??

Join the Bethesda and Heyer Staff at Latino Fusion, Fridays July-September

Latino Fusion is a latin music celebration al aire libre, and they are inviting US to be a visible part of their work.  Get a small team from your site to go and talk up DL, great for parents too!

http://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090d4babaa2ba5ff2-latin

Summer Learning-ONLINE Intro to Global Education

Course: Intro to Global Education now through August 30th

Course: Introduction to Global Education

The Introduction to Global Education Course, offered through google classrooms in this completely online mooc, is intended for Administrators, Guidance, and Instructional Faculty,Coaches and Coordinators.

The course will guide participants through 10 modules designed to prepare participants with the knowledge and tools to frame conversations around Global Education, develop teams to support growth of Global Educational Opportunities and guide thinking around how what we do now supports global competency.  

The course presents with a shared reading from the Asia Society and Partnerships for 21st Century Learning (amongst other) and opportunities to show and share thinking, apply strategies to your context and think deeply about your next action step. (This course will not utilize a rubric for responses, nor require responses to posts that others make-but quality and collaboration are encouraged)

Course modules include:

1: Developing a Rationale for Global Education

2: Making meaning about the world from a local point of view

3: Easy shifts in Curriculum and Instruction so that students can Investigate the World

4: Cultivating the skill to recognize one’s own and other’s perspectives

5: SDW Frameworks which support Global Competency

6. Taking Action on issues of Global Significance

7. My next unit...gentle shifts towards Global Competency

8. Preparing for a School Wide Vision of Globally Competent Learners

9: Mobilizing the “people”-building the learning community

10: Recognizing Global Competency and Scholarship in SDW

The  course is accessible through google classrooms with the pin rgzpwsy; however, email dmgarcia to receive an invite to participate.

Let me know if you experience any difficulty in accessibility.

UNIVERSITY CREDIT THROUGH VITERBO IS AVAILABLE.

Contact D. Garcia at dmgarcia@waukesha.k12.wi.us if you are interested in taking this course for credit.

Summer Learning-Teaching for Biliteracy

Teaching for Biliteracy

Course for SDW Dual Language Teachers, Aides, Coaches, Admin

To ensure your success, the Teaching for Biliteracy Course is required before beginning the school year or within the first year of teaching.

Please “Save the Dates”!

August 1 and 8, 9am-12pm

Rm 129, tech lab @ Lindholm

This course consists of 12 hours of coursework and additional outside reading and qualifies meets the SDW Credits requirement for new teachers.  We will meet twice this summer and continue to meet six hours in the fall.

To maximize our time together, all participants will be asked to do some preparatory reading before we meet.  The reading preparation is on the back of this sheet.

A calendar invite has been sent to your google calendar.  Please accept both dates so that I can send the texts to you!

See you there!

Teachers and aides will be compensated for participation with successful completion.

Session 1

Essential Questions:

• What are our easy connections and our challenges in fully embracing the Learner profiles of 2014, rather than those of prior generations of emergent bilinguals?
• How does the Language Allocation Plan support a consistent plan for Bilingualism, Biliteracy, Academic Achievement and alignment? How might fidelity to the Language Allocation impact a program and student achievement?
• What evidence can you provide to support the 3 Premises?  How are these premises different from other thoughts, models or beliefs about bilingualism?

Readings (Read prior to class #1):

Teaching for Biliteracy, Cheryl Urow, Karen Beeman

P1-4 What do we mean by Teaching for Biliteracy

P4-14 Sociolinguistic Premises about Teaching for Biliteracy

P 23-32 Learner Profiles

P34-35 Premises

Optional:

P 36-42 Teacher Profiles

P 46-47 Premises

DL HBK-Language Allocation Plan

Session 2

Essential Questions

• An emergent bilingual includes all students learning through two languages, What planning and instructional choices might you make for emergent bilinguals in 2014 to ensure a common background experience from which to teach new content and language?
• How does today’s learning and discussion connect, relate or provide evidence for the 3 Premises of Teaching for Biliteracy?

Readings (Read Prior to class #2):

Teaching for Biliteracy, Cheryl Urow, Karen Beeman

P14-15 Creating Biliteracy Unit of Instruction, A Biliteracy Unit Framework

P15-18 PLanning for Biliteracy at the Classroom Level from the Learners Perspective

P 48-50  Planning for Strategic Language Use,

P 51-57 Integrate Content and Language,

P 60-61 Making Cross Linguistic Connections, The Biliteracy Unit Framework and the Three Premises

Biliteracy from the Start, Escamilla

P5-6 Simultaneous Emerging Bilingual Children: The new normal, Paired Literacy

P7 Literacy Based ELD Instruction

P8 Equal Attention to Oracy, Reading, Writing and Metalanguage

P9 Emphasis on Explicit Instruction and Collaborative Approaches

P 11 Table 1.4

Summer Learning-Dual Language Essentials online-at home or on the boat!

Course: Dual Language Essentials, online mooc

Dual Language Essentials course is intended to guide you through the essential preparation for leading and teaching in a Dual Language Program and will be available from January through August 30, 2016. Comprised of 11 sessions, each session will provide a reading resource and essential questions to guide your thinking and learning. Your opportunity will be to use the reading to prepare a discussion post to share and collaborate with other colleague in the course. A rubric to support the quality of your responses is below. A Since each participant enters the course with diverse background knowledge, this course has become a vibrant opportunity to grow as learners, leaders and advocates for the Dual Language Program-a program whose goal is to eliminate the achievement gap by providing students with a Bilingual and Biliterate Education in Spanish and English so that they are competent linguistically, academically, culturally and globally.

Participants will meet with ME to get set up and plan for pacing, then will only collaborate with other participants online! Easy! Learn when convenient to you!

The  course is accessible through google classrooms with the pin i6ql4k

Let me know if you experience any difficulty in accessibility.
UNIVERSITY CREDIT THROUGH VITERBO IS AVAILABLE.

*You will be compensated for your completion.
Contact D. Garcia at dmgarcia@waukesha.k12.wi.us if you are interested in taking this course for credit.