October 29, 2020
FROM NYSED:
Responding to the Challenges of Learning in a Masked Environment
This memo shares tips and strategies for addressing logistic and social emotional needs of students wearing masks in a school setting.
Current RBERN PD Offerings:
- Stories Beyond Borders Film Screening - TONIGHT! You must register by 4:00pm - 10/29
- Book Study: Teaching to Strengths: Supporting Students Living with Trauma, Violence, and Chronic Stress - Oct-Dec
- Regional ELL Collaborative: Hybrid Instruction- Balancing Teaching in Person and Online - 11/4
- SIFE Manual Series: Programming - 11/5
- Seal of Biliteracy Regional Collaborative Module 1: Getting Started - 11/9
- Supporting Immigrants in School Series Session 1: Key Immigration Issues - 11/16
- SIFE Manual Series: Instructional Routines Part 1 - 11/19
Supporting Immigrants in School Series Session 2: Approaches to Educating Refugees and Immigrants - 11/23
- SIFE Manual Series: Instructional Routines Part 2 - 12/3
Supporting Immigrants in Schools Online Workshop Series
These workshops are centered on a four-part video series that illustrates successful practices in creating safe, welcoming environments for immigrant students and families. Each session is based on Comprehensive Educator Modules developed by CUNY-IIE around the Supporting Immigrants in Schools Video Series videos: Key Immigration Issues, Immigration in Elementary Schools, Immigration in Secondary Schools, and Educating Refugee and Immigrant Students. The goal of this series is to help educators learn, act, and advocate in the classroom.
RESOURCE:
Greg's Top 50 Tech Tools to Remotely Support ELLs!
Check out this interactive page made by our colleague Greg Bailey at Hudson Valley RBERN that shares tools for:
- Creating Presentations
- Communication & Translation
- Accessibility
- Interactivity
Election Resources:
#MYMUSLIMVOTE is a non-partisan voter education and mobilization project that includes resources and videos in English, Arabic, Bangla, Dari/Farsi, Somali, French, Hausa, Fulani, Mandinka, Wolof & Urdu.
From School Library Services: Media Literacy Project Grant
The New York State Educational Media/Technology Association provides up to two annual Media Literacy Grants in the amount of $1,250 for certified teachers in New York State who are working with Pre-K-12 students on media literacy.
Examples include:
A film literacy course held after school
Learning about the effective creation and use of media in student work
Using video effectively in your lesson plans
NYS TESOL Conference Hands-On Workshops
Check out this sample of Hands-On workshops on the topics of culturally-responsive education, racial justice and technology in the remote and face-to-face classroom:
- More than Scaffolding Reading: Validating, Affirming, Honoring ELs - Valentina Gonzalez, Educational Consultant, Seidlitz Education
- Teaching Immigration Through Film: A Workshop for Secondary Educators -Tatyana Kleyn, Associate Professor, The City University of New York
- Migrant Students and Trauma - Michael O'Loughlin, Adelphi University;Susanne Marcus, ENL educator and consultant
- Worth the Risk: Towards Decentering Whiteness in English Language Teaching - Justin Gerald, Doctoral Student, Hunter College, The City University of New York
- The Synchronous Online Flipped Learning Approach - An 8-Step Cycle - Helaine Marshall, Director of TESOL/BE Programs, Long Island University Hudson
- Creating Breakout Rooms with Google Meet to Encourage Live Collaboration -Tan Huynh, MYP Individuals and Societies teacher, Empowering ELLs
- Determining Language Difference from Disability - Jamie Scripps, Rush Henrietta ENL Educator; Svetlana Stowell, RPC Specialist at Monroe #1 BOCES
- Taller de Bitmoji for All Teachers - Esther Park, ENL Educator; Suzy Cáceres, ENL Educator
- Adapting ELL Scaffolds for the Digital Classroom - Kelley Cordeiro, Long Island RBERN at ESBOCES ESL/Bilingual Programs; Erica Flores, Long Island RBERN at ESBOCES ESL/Bilingual Programs
About Mid-West RBERN
The purpose of Mid-West RBERN is to build capacity within school communities to cultivate strong leaders, high quality, meaningful instruction, and welcoming, inclusive environments for Multilingual Learners (MLLs). We are committed to developing partnerships that result in equitable educational outcomes for MLLs by capitalizing on the backgrounds, cultures, and strengths of diverse students and educators.
Find us on Twitter or Tweet about us using #mwrbern!
Email: midwestrbern@monroe2boces.org
Website: www.monroe2boces.org/rbern
Location: Monroe 2-Orleans BOCES, 3599 Big Ridge Road, Spencerport, NY, USA
Phone: 585-352-2790