All sessions are scheduled into rooms at the Convention Center unless otherwise noted. The discussion leader has worked with many teachers on the Navajo Nation who've shared their sources for relevant children's literature. Bring your contributions, too, and we'll share. After exploring and labeling the built environment, students broaden their perspective, and research and build important landmarks for our cultural history, while discovering their own.
Participants make four projects to fit all ages.
Participants explore extensive professional references as well as children's and young adult literature lists linked to a variety of genres and themes. The presenters demonstrate a replicable process of enhancing, not watering down, writing rubrics to reflect the profiles of elementary English language learners. They interactively guide participants through authentic student writing samples, explain implications for instruction, and connect findings to research. Finally, they provide one district's results and extensive handouts. The presenters will describe the itinerant ESOL program which has evolved in their district to meet the varied needs of students in grades Kindergarten to high school.