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Five Ways to Celebrate Your Students Cultures

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Five Ways to Celebrate Your Students Cultures

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This article written by Lorea Martínez gives educators five different ways to celebrate and incorporate students’ culture into the classroom.

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Five Ways to Celebrate Your Students' Cultures

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Effective teachers cultivate positive relationships with students every day, no matter if the classroom is physical or virtual. They foster emotional connections among students, and help them to feel a sense of belonging and purpose. This is not a small task. In fact, it is possibly one of the most difficult but important things an educator can do.

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These learning for justice lessons can be filtered by grade level, subject, social justice domain and topic. They are premade lessons that teachers can use to help teach difficult social and cultural topics.

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For young white students, explorations of fair and unfair, just and unjust, can go a long way in advancing anti-racist white identity. Purposeful use of literature and basic study of white anti-racists are among the key ways educators can advance such aims.Teaching Tolerance presents four short biographies for early grades classrooms, with activity ideas.

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These robust, ready-to-use classroom lessons offer breadth and depth, spanning essential social justice topics and reinforcing critical social emotional learning skills.

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This resource on Colorín Colorado has several links to different articles and resources educators can use to help with English instruction in their classroom for many grade levels.

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For English language learners (ELLs) in upper grades, reading needs may vary greatly. Some students will read fluently in their native language, while others may come in with very limited literacy skills and will require creative approaches for teachers and literacy coaches. These resources include ideas for creating a safe, comfortable setting where adolescent ELLs can begin to catch up and increase confidence over time. For additional ideas, visit our sister site about adolescent literacy, AdLit.org.

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For English language learners (ELLs) in upper grades, reading needs may vary greatly. Some students will read fluently in their native language, while others may come in with very limited literacy skills and will require creative approaches for teachers and literacy coaches.

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The WIDA standards framework helps educators understand the language standards that students should be meeting at their grade level.

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This resource on Colorín Colorado has links to articles and resources that educators can use to help inform instruction of ELLs in content areas.

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There are a number of strategies that educators can use when teaching English language learners (ELLs) in content areas. If these strategies are new to you, an ESL specialist or colleague may be able to offer some more ideas on how to use these strategies effectively with students at different language levels.

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There are a number of strategies that educators can use when teaching English language learners (ELLs) in content areas. If these strategies are new to you, an ESL specialist or colleague may be able to offer some more ideas on how to use these strategies effectively with students at different language levels.

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This resource on the National Education Association website has many resources linked that can help educators make informed instructional strategies for multilingual students in their classroom.

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Making Family Engagement a Top Priority in SEL for Diverse Language Learners

Dr. Christina Cipriano from the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence explains why social-emotional learning for diverse language learners cannot simply be a translation of emotions, words, and terms since it wouldn't take into account the rich variability of cultural and linguistic nuances. To help learners from all cultures and backgrounds, the first and primary part of the SEL program approach includes full family engagement instead of considering it as an after-thought or add-on.

See the full interview with Dr. Cipriano on Reading Rockets.

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Resources for Multilingual Learners | NEA

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NEA and Colorín Colorado have partnered to provide resources that will help educators and families of Multilingual Learners provide the support needed for their students' success.

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Dictation (Speech-to-Text) Technology: What It Is and How It Works

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Dictation (Speech-to-Text) Technology: What It Is and How It Works

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This resource on Reading Rockets give several suggestions on how to access and use dictation technology.

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Dictation (Speech-to-Text) Technology: What It Is and How It Works

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Dictation is an assistive technology (AT) tool that can help kids who struggle with writing. Kids can use dictation to write with their voices, instead of writing by hand or with a keyboard - helpful for kids with dysgraphia, dyslexia and other learning and attention issues that impact writing.

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Social and Emotional Support for Immigrant Students

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Social and Emotional Support for Immigrant Students

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This resource on Colorín Colorado has several links to different articles and resources for educators to use to understand the social and emotional needs immigrant students may need. These students may need more support or targeted support to work through their social and emotional needs, and there are resources on this page to help with that.

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Featured Programs

Learn how the public schools in Brockton, MA support partnerships with multilingual families and the impact those partnerships are having.

You Are Welcome Here (#DearbornWelcome) is an award-winning 20-minute film from Colorín Colorado highlighting how the Dearborn, MI public school district is helping its immigrant students succeed.

Visit Wolfe Street Academy in Baltimore, MD, a school with more than 60% ELLs, to see how this community school is supporting its students and families through programs and services that include dental screenings, food giveaways, after-school activities, and much, much more!

Academia Cuauhtli (Austin, TX)

Academia Cuauhtli (a Nahuatl word that means "eagle") is a grassroots program that the National Education Association describes as "part ethnic studies, part language revitalization, and part professional development." To learn more about Academia Cuauhtli, see the following:

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Social and Emotional Support for Immigrant Students

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Learn how the public schools in Brockton, MA support partnerships with multilingual families and the impact those partnerships are having. You Are Welcome Here (#DearbornWelcome) is an award-winning 20-minute film from Colorín Colorado highlighting how the Dearborn, MI public school district is helping its immigrant students succeed.

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This language acquisition practice uses all of a students' language repertoire to communicate and learn. This shows the student that you value both English and a their home language.

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This theory suggests that emotional responses have an effect on language acquisition. It is important to create a low anxiety environment that is welcoming to all students.

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Teaching Philosophy and Language Acquisition Theories

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Teaching Philosophy and Language Acquisition Theories

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These language acquisition theories can shape a teaching philosophy because educators are using certain methods for students to learn a new language.

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When writing a teaching philosophy, it is important to remember what is important to you as an educator. You want to be clear about your instruction strategies, your values as a teacher, assessment strategies, and goals for yourself and students.

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Find a time during each day or week to reflect on your practice (Dené Poth, 2023)

Dené Poth, R. (2023). 6 tips for making reflection a consistent habit. Edutopia. https://www.edutopia.org/article/consistent-teacher-reflection-tips/

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Find a way to track your reflections that works for you. It is important to capture your thoughts throughout the day, so when you do reflect you remember (Dené Poth, 2023).

Dené Poth, R. (2023). 6 tips for making reflection a consistent habit. Edutopia. https://www.edutopia.org/article/consistent-teacher-reflection-tips/

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Before letting students leave class, take time to reflect with your students on how the lesson or unit went (Dené Poth, 2023). These quick reflections with students can guide your personal reflection later.

Dené Poth, R. (2023). 6 tips for making reflection a consistent habit. Edutopia. https://www.edutopia.org/article/consistent-teacher-reflection-tips/

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Many students who are working in their second language need time to read questions, translate in their head, find the answer, and translate back to English. Giving ELL students more time allows them to comprehend the questions fully.

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Visuals give ELL students more information than just the words from the question. This can help them comprehend the question before answering it.

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Giving word problems with information that is not important to solve the problem can be confusing for students. When there is extra information, students can get caught up in the wrong part of the problem. When ELL students have word problems with only the information they need, they will be more successful in showing their knowledge of the math skill.

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Sentence frames and stems can help ELL students with grammar and comprehension during assessments.

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There are many professional development opportunities through the Wisconsin Education Association Council that can educators learn more about supporting ELL students. There is a course on equity, restorative practices, learning Spanish, Affirming Asian American identities, and more.

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WIDA has many online professional developments that educators can take to become more informed on WIDA standards, multilingualism, family engagement, and more.

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WIDA intends to fully retire the 2012 Amplification of the WIDA English Language Development Standards, Kindergarten-Grade 12. However, we recognize that all member SEAs have different timelines for implementation of the WIDA ELD Standards Framework, 2020 Edition.