How can you integrate content, language, and support students in their analysis of the world and life experiences through the use of children’s books? Learn more about Carla España’s critical bilingual literacies framework from her co-authored text, En Comunidad: Lessons for Centering the Voices and Experiences of Bilingual Teachers. Carla will show sample lessons and unit designs that include poetry, language study, and action plans to design culturally and linguistically sustaining instruction for all children. Carla will also show examples of text collections that include children’s books at different levels for students and educators, helping all of us deepen our knowledge of topics such as identity; place and change, intergenerational connections; migration and immigration; community and connections; and changemakers.
Attend in-person in Cambridge, MA or virtually. Registration includes the speaker’s professional book and 30-day access to the recording. Register for this individual workshop or the three-part series.
Even our youngest learners have questions about race, both historically and in their current lives. As educators we need to be prepared and capable to facilitate conversations around these questions in our classrooms. In today’s political climate that task may feel even more challenging and the fact that we will make mistakes can feel daunting. That does not make this work less important.
Join Jennifer Orr to learn strategies you can employ to set yourself and your students up for success with these conversations and gain pedagogical understandings that can help you plan and navigate challenging conversations well.
Attend in-person in Cambridge, MA or virtually. Registration includes the speaker’s professional book and 30-day access to the recording. Register for this individual workshop or the three-part series.
Critical engagement that centers on matters of importance to children creates a space for them to systematically investigate questions or tensions about the world. This kind of work is generative, culturally sustaining, and allows for the development of new understandings, new questions, and issues of importance that make a difference in the lives of children and those around them. This workshop will share a critical comprehension framework that creates a space for teachers to connect their teaching to their students’ passions and inquiry questions.
Attend in-person in Cambridge, MA or virtually. Registration includes the speaker’s professional book and 30-day access to the recording. Register for this individual workshop or the three-part series.
Join literacy educators for the 34th Annual Literacy for All Conference at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA or virtually, no matter where you are in the world!
The Literacy for All Conference is a premier professional learning event designed for classroom teachers, reading specialists, literacy coaches, interventionists, literacy leaders, administrators and Reading Recovery teachers.
Join in on November 3–4, 2023 on Lesley University’s campus in beautiful Cambridge, Massachusetts or virtually for incredible sessions presented by leading experts! Topics from kindergarten through middle school will include early & intermediate literacy, intervention, coaching, phonics, spelling and vocabulary, readers’ and writers’ workshop, and Reading Recovery®.
Can’t join that day? Saturday sessions will be recorded and available to registered participants until February 1, 2024.
Don’t miss out! Register at CRRLC.LESLEY.EDU/LFA2023