Registration ends March 1, 2025. This is an in-person workshop.

This one-day in-person bilingual workshop, facilitated by a WIDA coach in Spanish, will invite participants to explore instructional planning for the bilingual classroom from an asset-based perspective, recognizing that bi/multilingual learners bring many contributions to the school community. Specifically, participants will discuss bi/multilingual students’ dynamic identities and linguistic repertoires in the classroom. This workshop will connect ways educators can intentionally maximize the linguistic practices of bi/multilingual learners through a multimodal approach to teaching and learning. Participants will collaborate to analyze instruction that is guided by the sociocultural context and is reflective of bi/multilingual learners’ linguistic and cultural practices.

Participants will be able to:

- Recognize the value of bi/multilingual learners’ assets to reflect on language ideologies

- Analyze ways to create meaningful contexts for language use connected to content concepts and skills

- Reflect on the demands of teaching and learning in the content areas