Dates: July 28-29, 2025
Times: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM EST
Format: In-person
Location: Teachers College, Columbia University
Price:
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Early Bird Discount: $425
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Regular Rate: $500, after May 1, 2025
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Group/Team Discount: $350 per person for groups of 10 or more. (If you qualify for a discount the price will appear at check out.)
Faculty
Alexandra Roman, Director of Multilingual Learning and Spanish Literacy
Alexandra Roman leads a team that supports Multilingual students, through designing institutes, adapting materials, creating new resources, and implementing the work in our reading and writing workshop classrooms. Alexandra understands the importance of Multilingual Learners and Spanish bilingual students having access to high leverage literacy instruction that promotes language and vocabulary development. She advocates for the adaptation of instruction that is designed to bring student’s lives, language, and culture into their daily instruction.
Learning Objectives
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Designing curriculum that builds on students’ funds of knowledge, lived experiences, and linguistic development
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Understanding Stages of Language development and how to support students trajectory being intentional around our planning for our diverse language learners
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Creating communities of care and belonging for all multilingual learners, especially newcomers
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Practical and affirming supports for multilingual learners that promotes agency and culturally affirming practices
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High leverage routines and structures to use inside and outside the classroom that promote language, vocabulary, and content knowledge around the curriculum
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Joyful vocabulary acquisition and classroom pedagogies to deepen students oral language and academic vocabulary using a variety of multimodal and knowledge building texts
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Planning instruction with deliberate language goals to support whole class, small group, and one on one feedback with students
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Teaching emergent bilingual and multilingual students with disAbilities
Who Should Attend
K-9 classroom teachers (literacy) curriculum and instructional specialists, coaches, principals, and school administrators.
Upon Completion
Participants who complete this conference will receive a Certificate of Participation. Licensed educators in NY state are also eligible for a Continuing Teacher Leader Education (CTLE) certificate for a total of up to 12 CTLE hours.
Logistics Overview
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Acceptance for the institute is contingent upon receipt of payment within 14 days (for all tickets purchased).
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For early bird pricing, payment should be received and accepted by April 30, 2025.
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Click here to access a Quote for your purchase, if needed.
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Once payment is received, please log in to your Dashboard (on our website) and assign the seat(s). If you need to make any modifications to seat assignments, please notify us at advancingliteracy@tc.columbia.edu.
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We understand that unforeseen circumstances may arise, and a participant who has been accepted to the institute may be unable to attend. If you must withdraw, please let us know as early as possible. Once payment is made, it confirms your commitment to attend. If you must withdraw after paying, a $75 withdrawal fee will apply. Additionally, if you withdraw within one month of the start of the institute, we will be unable to issue a refund.
