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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.
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 Sports
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

Strategies for Building Belonging in K – 12 Classrooms

December 11, 2024, 1.5 Hours
7:00-8:30 PM ET