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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 2016

• Dual Identification of English Learners: Use of a PSW Model for Determining SLD with ELs (Samuel Ortiz)
• Critical Components of Successful Dual-Language Programs: Research & Implications for Practice (Rosa Molina, Kathryn Lindholm-Leary) (2) (3)

THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 2016

GENERAL SESSION I - Samuel Ortiz

BREAKOUT SESSIONS: ROUND I

• Identification of Potential ELs - Working Together - ESSA
• Inclusive Speech and Language Delivery for Bilingual Students
• Start the Conversation: How to Utilize Your Para-Professional During ELD
• Dual Identification of English Learners: Use of a PSW Model for Determining SLD with ELs
• Using Multiple Measures of English Proficiency for EL Reclassification Decisions (2) (3) (4)
• A District´s Perspective on Referring EL Students for Special Education Consideration (2) (3)
• El andamiaje pedagógico: Medio eficiente para facilitar el acceso a textos complejos
• Tackle Football Taught Me How to Teach ELs
• Career Path Opportunities for Innovative Education Professionals (no materials)
• English Learners and STEM: How Early Should We Start?
• Latino Parent Perceptions of the Value/Importance of Dual-Language Schooling for Their Children
• Examining Best Practices in Gifted Education to Identify and Serve Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students
• Empowering Effective Instruction Across Bilingual Models:  A Collective Data-Based Decision Making Process

BREAKOUT SESSIONS: ROUND II

• AMAO 1 and 2 Success:  Districts Not Rated for AMAO 3
• System-wide Response to Insure Growth for All Students
• Collaborative vs. Traditional Models for Educational Service Delivery and Evaluation with English Learners
• Fostering Biliteracy Pathways for Students
• Exchange to Engage (2)
• Equity and Academic Instruction: Reducing Disproportionality in a Multi-Tiered System of Support (2) (3) (4)
• In Their Words: Recruiting and Sustaining Bilingual Teachers
• Language is Culture: Exploring the Bilingual Endorsement; Co-Constructing Education and Operationalizing an Equity Lens
• Teaching English Learners in the Science Classroom
• Ensuring Meaningful Communication with Parents
• Unpacking the Every Student Succeeds Act
• Integrating Technology into the ELL Classroom (2) (3)

GENERAL SESSION II - Kathryn Lindholm-Leary

BREAKOUT SESSIONS: ROUND III

• AMAO Success Two Years in a Row
• Success Factors in Dual Language and Two-Way Bilingual Immersion Programs
• Moving to Multiple Measures:  An East County Plus Initiative for Stronger Data Points for Student Reclassification
• Standards Based Learning Systems and the ELP Standards: One District’s Approach (2)
• Looking Ahead: Preparing the New Generation of Oregonian Bilingual Teachers
• Teaching With Technology: Removing Language Barriers In The Classroom (2)
• What do you need to know about ESL funding?
• Impacts of ESOL PD on STEM Teachers’ Classroom Instruction
• Shared Practices: Integration of ELP 21 Standards across Content Areas
• ELPA21 Updates
• Lab Classrooms: Spreading Sheltered Instructional Strategies through Facilitated Observation & Planning

FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 2016

GENERAL SESSION III - Deborah Short

BREAKOUT SESSIONS: ROUND IV

• AMAO Success:  Presentation by Districts Meeting First Time
• English Learner Students with Special Needs
• Creating a Culturally Responsive Writers Workshop: Activating Student Voice (2) (3)
• What Works for Newcomer Students: Programs and Practices
• Using Information Gap Activities to Improve English Learners’ Oral Language Proficiency (2) (3)
• Empowering Elementary Classroom ELD Teachers: Tales from a Small District
• Don’t Blame the ELD Teachers If the Predominant ELD Paradigm is Inadequate and Failing our ELL Students! (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11)
• Maximizing ESL Co-Teaching in a Project GLAD Classroom
• Storyline: An Effective and Engaging Way to Teach ELD
• Promoting a Family and Community Based Approach to STEM Education
• Poder Comunitario: Engaging and Empowering Families through Leadership Development
• ELL Program Model Investigation (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10)
• Optimizing Interaction & Engagement Strategies for English Learners in the Secondary Classroom (2) (3) (4)

BREAKOUT SESSIONS: ROUND V

• Growing English Learners’ Reading Comprehension Through Building Vocabulary and Knowledge
• Learning and Leading: A Saturday Volunteer Program for Newcomers (2)
• Embracing Mexican Culture: Parent Outreach Through Dance in a Dual Language School
• Examining Supports for English learners at the District Level
• Studio Classroom: Best Practices in Action!
• Maximizing ESL Co-Teaching in a Project GLAD Classroom
• Pilas Family Literacy Program: A Community and School Partnership (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)
• HB 3499 (no materials)