This session offers the opportunity to explore and practice research-based principles and techniques for collaborative, conversation-based instruction to:

• better meet the needs of Newcomers

• integrate Newcomers productively into content classrooms

• actively develop Newcomers’ academic language skills

This session offers the opportunity to explore and practice research-based principles and techniques for collaborative, conversation-based instruction to:

• better meet the needs of Newcomers

• integrate Newcomers productively into content classrooms

• actively develop Newcomers’ academic language skills

This session offers the opportunity to explore and practice research-based principles and techniques for collaborative, conversation-based instruction to:

• better meet the needs of Newcomers

• integrate Newcomers productively into content classrooms

• actively develop Newcomers’ academic language skills

Fall Institute: October 18-19 & 25-26, 2023 - Multi-Modal

• Day 1: Virtual (Zoom)

• Day 2: Virtual (Zoom)

• Day 3: Face-to-Face (JCSS Central Registration/Boardroom)

• Day 4: Face-to-Face (JCSS Central Registration/Boardroom)

Overview: The Center for Latino Achievement and Success in Education (CLASE) at The University of Georgia offers a 30-hour, interactive, foundational professional learning institute focused on a collaborative, conversation-based pedagogy for culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) classrooms and its application

• The linguistics of second language acquisition

• Strategies for integrating language goals into content teaching

• Tools for encouraging collaborative conversations

• Ways to make content and language standards real and relevant for all learners while maintaining rigor

• Our Online Professional Learning Platform

The power of this system is that it provides a structure for teachers to integrate focused language goals with rigorous content instruction, rather than creating "one more thing" that you have to find the time for. The Instructional Conversation (IC) System is a "way of teaching" and conceptualizing teaching and learning that positively impacts student language development and opens the space for formative assessment and differentiation. To get a better idea of what we are talking about, the research base behind ICs, and what an IC looks like, take a few minutes to view:

• A short video example of a real classroom enacting an IC. As you watch, notice the kinds of academic and social language that the students are using. Also, note that this is a mixed ability group with ELs (including one child who arrived in the US with no English only 4 months before this video was filmed):

  • Short Video Example of an Instructional Conversation (IC)

• A 30-minute video with an overview of the Instructional Conversation System:

  • Instructional Conversation Overview (IC)

• An interview of students talking about what they gain from ICs and how they perceive IC lessons impact their learning:

  • Students talk about Instructional Conversations

Cost: $800/person

Cost includes training materials provided electronically and physically via mail. Included amongst the materials is the course book, With a Little Help From My Friends: Conversation-Based Instruction for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CLD) Classrooms (Mellom, Hixon, & Weber, 2019). Additional copies can be purchased at Teachers College Press or Amazon.

Fall Institute: October 18-19 & 25-26, 2023 - Multi-Modal

• Day 1: Virtual (Zoom)

• Day 2: Virtual (Zoom)

• Day 3: Face-to-Face (JCSS Central Registration/Boardroom)

• Day 4: Face-to-Face (JCSS Central Registration/Boardroom)

Overview: The Center for Latino Achievement and Success in Education (CLASE) at The University of Georgia offers a 30-hour, interactive, foundational professional learning institute focused on a collaborative, conversation-based pedagogy for culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) classrooms and its application

• The linguistics of second language acquisition

• Strategies for integrating language goals into content teaching

• Tools for encouraging collaborative conversations

• Ways to make content and language standards real and relevant for all learners while maintaining rigor

• Our Online Professional Learning Platform

The power of this system is that it provides a structure for teachers to integrate focused language goals with rigorous content instruction, rather than creating "one more thing" that you have to find the time for. The Instructional Conversation (IC) System is a "way of teaching" and conceptualizing teaching and learning that positively impacts student language development and opens the space for formative assessment and differentiation. To get a better idea of what we are talking about, the research base behind ICs, and what an IC looks like, take a few minutes to view:

• A short video example of a real classroom enacting an IC. As you watch, notice the kinds of academic and social language that the students are using. Also, note that this is a mixed ability group with ELs (including one child who arrived in the US with no English only 4 months before this video was filmed):

  • Short Video Example of an Instructional Conversation (IC)

• A 30-minute video with an overview of the Instructional Conversation System:

  • Instructional Conversation Overview (IC)

• An interview of students talking about what they gain from ICs and how they perceive IC lessons impact their learning:

  • Students talk about Instructional Conversations

Cost: $800/person

Cost includes training materials provided electronically and physically via mail. Included amongst the materials is the course book, With a Little Help From My Friends: Conversation-Based Instruction for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CLD) Classrooms (Mellom, Hixon, & Weber, 2019). Additional copies can be purchased at Teachers College Press or Amazon.

Fall Institute: October 18-19 & 25-26, 2023 - Multi-Modal

• Day 1: Virtual (Zoom)

• Day 2: Virtual (Zoom)

• Day 3: Face-to-Face (JCSS Central Registration/Boardroom)

• Day 4: Face-to-Face (JCSS Central Registration/Boardroom)

Overview: The Center for Latino Achievement and Success in Education (CLASE) at The University of Georgia offers a 30-hour, interactive, foundational professional learning institute focused on a collaborative, conversation-based pedagogy for culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) classrooms and its application

• The linguistics of second language acquisition

• Strategies for integrating language goals into content teaching

• Tools for encouraging collaborative conversations

• Ways to make content and language standards real and relevant for all learners while maintaining rigor

• Our Online Professional Learning Platform

The power of this system is that it provides a structure for teachers to integrate focused language goals with rigorous content instruction, rather than creating "one more thing" that you have to find the time for. The Instructional Conversation (IC) System is a "way of teaching" and conceptualizing teaching and learning that positively impacts student language development and opens the space for formative assessment and differentiation. To get a better idea of what we are talking about, the research base behind ICs, and what an IC looks like, take a few minutes to view:

• A short video example of a real classroom enacting an IC. As you watch, notice the kinds of academic and social language that the students are using. Also, note that this is a mixed ability group with ELs (including one child who arrived in the US with no English only 4 months before this video was filmed):

  • Short Video Example of an Instructional Conversation (IC)

• A 30-minute video with an overview of the Instructional Conversation System:

  • Instructional Conversation Overview (IC)

• An interview of students talking about what they gain from ICs and how they perceive IC lessons impact their learning:

  • Students talk about Instructional Conversations

Cost: $800/person

Cost includes training materials provided electronically and physically via mail. Included amongst the materials is the course book, With a Little Help From My Friends: Conversation-Based Instruction for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CLD) Classrooms (Mellom, Hixon, & Weber, 2019). Additional copies can be purchased at Teachers College Press or Amazon.

Fall Institute: October 18-19 & 25-26, 2023 - Multi-Modal

• Day 1: Virtual (Zoom)

• Day 2: Virtual (Zoom)

• Day 3: Face-to-Face (JCSS Central Registration/Boardroom)

• Day 4: Face-to-Face (JCSS Central Registration/Boardroom)

Overview: The Center for Latino Achievement and Success in Education (CLASE) at The University of Georgia offers a 30-hour, interactive, foundational professional learning institute focused on a collaborative, conversation-based pedagogy for culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) classrooms and its application

• The linguistics of second language acquisition

• Strategies for integrating language goals into content teaching

• Tools for encouraging collaborative conversations

• Ways to make content and language standards real and relevant for all learners while maintaining rigor

• Our Online Professional Learning Platform

The power of this system is that it provides a structure for teachers to integrate focused language goals with rigorous content instruction, rather than creating "one more thing" that you have to find the time for. The Instructional Conversation (IC) System is a "way of teaching" and conceptualizing teaching and learning that positively impacts student language development and opens the space for formative assessment and differentiation. To get a better idea of what we are talking about, the research base behind ICs, and what an IC looks like, take a few minutes to view:

• A short video example of a real classroom enacting an IC. As you watch, notice the kinds of academic and social language that the students are using. Also, note that this is a mixed ability group with ELs (including one child who arrived in the US with no English only 4 months before this video was filmed):

  • Short Video Example of an Instructional Conversation (IC)

• A 30-minute video with an overview of the Instructional Conversation System:

  • Instructional Conversation Overview (IC)

• An interview of students talking about what they gain from ICs and how they perceive IC lessons impact their learning:

  • Students talk about Instructional Conversations

Cost: $800/person

Cost includes training materials provided electronically and physically via mail. Included amongst the materials is the course book, With a Little Help From My Friends: Conversation-Based Instruction for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CLD) Classrooms (Mellom, Hixon, & Weber, 2019). Additional copies can be purchased at Teachers College Press or Amazon.

Who: Educators Pre-K through 12th grade (IC & Non-IC Trained)

What:  Session offers the opportunity to explore and practice research-based principles and techniques for collaborative, conversation-based instruction to:

• better meet the needs of Newcomers

• integrate Newcomers productively into content classrooms

• actively develop Newcomers’ academic language skills

When: Tuesday, October 3, 2023 

• 9:00am-4:00pm

Where: UGA Gwinnett Campus

Cost: $250/person

Who: Educators Pre-K through 12th grade (IC & Non-IC Trained)

What:  Session offers the opportunity to explore and practice research-based principles and techniques for collaborative, conversation-based instruction to:

• better meet the needs of Newcomers

• integrate Newcomers productively into content classrooms

• actively develop Newcomers’ academic language skills

When: Thursday, September 7, 2023 

• 9:00am-4:00pm

Where: Virtual– via Zoom

Cost: $250/person

Who: Educators Pre-K through 12th grade (IC & Non-IC Trained)

What:  This practical, hands-on session introduces educators to the language “functions” embedded in disciplinary content standards. The interactive session moves beyond vocabulary lists and offers educators the opportunity to identify what Key Language Uses (e.g. Inform, Narrate, Explain, Argue) are embedded in the content standards and what associated Language Functions and Features the standards ask students master to demonstrate their conceptual understanding of content. We provide modeled examples and opportunities to intentionally plan for how to support students as they learn these processes. Additionally, we will discuss ways to access and activate students’ “funds of knowledge” so they can make real and relevant connections to the content standards, activating their assets (e.g. home language skills, background knowledge, and content literacy skills).

When: Tuesday, August 22, 2023 

• 9:00am-4:00pm

Where: Virtual– via Zoom

Cost: $250/person

WHAT: GCPS Integration Day

WHEN: Friday, July 21st; 9am-4pm

WHERE: Virtual (Zoom)

WHO: GCPS Educators who have attended a 2023 Summer IC Foundational Institute

WHY: 

• To integrate GCPS Summer Learning opportunities

• Leveraging the content learned to apply and incorporate the GCPS ESOL Instructional Framework into GCPS content instruction

Cost: $250/person

2 Days Virtual + 2 Days Face-to-Face

2 Days Virtual + 2 Days Face-to-Face

2 Days Virtual + 2 Days Face-to-Face

2 Days Virtual + 2 Days Face-to-Face

2 Days Virtual + 2 Days Face-to-Face

2 Days Virtual + 2 Days Face-to-Face

2 Days Virtual + 2 Days Face-to-Face

2 Days Virtual + 2 Days Face-to-Face