Helping English Learners Exit Your ELL Program: Impactful Strategies to Accelerate Student Success (Grades K-12)

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Increasingly English Learners (ELs) are becoming Long-Term English Learners – those who have not attained English proficiency after seven years. This trend has become a national challenge! The question is: what can we as educators do about it?

In this information-packed, fast-paced seminar, distinguished EL teacher and national presenter Rasheeda Hardy will share a wealth of practical strategies designed to accelerate success and help ELs exit from your ELL program. You will learn ways to facilitate rapid gains in the English language development of the students with whom you work, unlocking greater success across grade level content areas. If you are searching for new and innovative strategies to accelerate the language proficiency and academic skills of your ELs, this is a day you won't want to miss! You will also receive an extensive digital resource handbook to support your success long after the seminar.

You'll leave with an expanded toolbox of highly effective strategies to help you accelerate the success of your English Learners.

Students classified as English Learners (ELs) account for nine percent of enrollment in grades K-12 in the U.S. But each year the number of Long-Term English Learners (students who have not been reclassified as English proficient after seven years) in middle and high schools grows at an alarming rate. This trend has quickly become a national challenge!

How can we best support our ELs and reverse the trend of Long-Term English Learners? How can we accelerate the success of ELs and help them to exit from our ELL programs more rapidly? In this seminar I will share practical information, strategies, tools and answers you can use immediately. You will leave with ways to combat "unfinished learning" in your students and not allow your English Learners to fall through the cracks.

As an experienced EL teacher and Instructional Coach, I understand very well the challenges you face in helping your students attain English proficiency and develop high levels of academic achievement in English. I want to provide you with proven, successful and powerful practices designed to accelerate the language development and academic skills of your English Learners. These time-efficient tools and approaches are perfect for your ELs across all language proficiency levels.

Are you working hard and not seeing the results you want to? Join me to discover the answers to why schools are not meeting their desired outcomes with English Learners. Let me share what I have learned with you so that you can also experience the rewards of this kind of rapid progress. "Exiting" students from your ELL program because they have acquired the skills needed to demonstrate English language proficiency is the best kind of caseload reduction there is! You'll leave this seminar feeling invigorated and equipped with a toolbox full of ideas, resources and strategies you can use immediately … an answer to feeling burned out and overwhelmed. I look forward to meeting you at the seminar!

P.S. Armed with an extensive digital resource handbook and dozens of use-tomorrow strategies, you will leave this seminar with a renewed desire to make a significant difference in the lives of your English Learners.

Educators Working with English Learners (ELs) in Grades K-12: EL Teachers, Classroom Teachers Who Have EL Students, Interventionists, EL Paraprofessionals, Title I Staff, Instructional Coaches and Administrators

Extensive EL Instruction Digital Resource Handbook You will receive an extensive digital resource handbook giving you access to countless strategies before, during and after the seminar. The handbook includes:

For in-person seminars, registrants will also receive a printed copy of the resource handbook as long as their registration is received in the BER office at least 15 calendar days before the event.

Consultation Available Rasheeda Hardy will be available to answer your specific questions and address the unique needs of your own program.

Semester Credit Option Up to four graduate level professional development credits are available with an additional fee and completion of follow-up practicum activities. Details for direct enrollment with University of Massachusetts Global, a nonprofit affiliate, will be available at this program.

Meet Inservice Requirements Participants of both the Live Online Seminar and those completing the Recorded Version online can receive a certificate of participation that may be used to verify five continuing education hours. State CEUs are available for both versions of the course. For specific details, visit www.ber.org/ceus.

What you'll learn

• Proven strategies to accelerate student success and help ELs "exit," "reclassify" and move on from the English Learner designation
• Highly practical techniques and activities to prevent ELs from becoming "stuck" at intermediate levels of English proficiency … Position your English Learners for success
• A wealth of strategies to enable ELs to become confident, engaged students who overcome language and literacy barriers
• Hands-on lessons, student examples and an extensive digital resource handbook packed with ready-to-use, creative ideas and materials perfect for grades K-12 ELs