Gain strategies for empowering immigrant students, creating more welcoming classrooms and centering the immigrant voice across the curriculum.
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Immigrant Student Success PDP Course
The school year 2024/25 course is full.
Sign up here for the “educator workshops” newsletter to be notified when new trainings are added and enrollment starts for the 2025/26 course.
Course Objectives:
- Learn about current immigration facts, issues and policies
- Develop an asset-based perspective of immigrant and ELL students that celebrates their funds of knowledge
- Gain strategies for fostering belonging, identity and agency in immigrant and ELL students
Assessment:
- Portfolio assignments
- Final assignments
Eligible Training
These sessions are open to all, whether you are enrolled in the Immigrant Student Success PDP course or not.
Strategies for Building Belonging in K – 12 Classrooms
December 11, 2024, 1.5 Hours
7:00-8:30 PM ET
Teaching Multilingual Learners: Creativity, Collaboration, and Communities of Practice
January 29, 2025, 1.5 Hours
7:00-8:30 PM ET
Building Access to Document-Based Questions for Multilingual Learners
February 27, 2025, 1.5 Hours
6:00-7:30 PM ET
Spring dates and topics to come.
Anticipated topics:
- Family engagement
- Motivation and engagement
- College access and immigrant students
- Immigrant students in Massachusetts
Contact Ariana Moir at amoir@ilctr.org to learn more.
Previous topics:
If you missed any of these eligible trainings, you can still learn from them by watching the recordings.
Immigrant Student Success Virtual Conference
July 16, 2024, 4 Hours
10 AM-12 PM and 1:00-3:00 PM ET
United by Sport: Cultivating Health and Belonging from the Little to the Big Leagues
September 17, 2024, 1.5 Hours
7:00-8:30 PM ET
Dually Identified: How to Support Immigrant Students with Disabilities
October 29, 2024, 1.5 Hours
4:00-5:30 PM ET
Recordings coming soon.
Promoting Immigrant Student Mental Health and Wellbeing
November 19, 2024, 1.5 Hours
4:00-5:30 PM ET
Recordings coming soon.