Culturally Sustaining Sheltered Instruction

Overview

The understanding of language supports needed and the validation of the wealth of assets emergent bilingual students bring to the classroom are critical for their academic success. This highly engaging institute will lead participants to:

Practically connect Culturally Sustaining practices and Sheltered Instruction strategies

Effectively support language and content acquisition for ALL learners in a bilingual/ dual language or ESL/ESOL program.

Speakers

Josephine Rubio

Josephine has a master's degree in Curriculum and Instruction with a focus on Bilingual and Biliterate Ed from the University of Texas at Austin. She is about to conclude her 24th year in education where she's been a Bilingual teacher, a Dual language teacher, a Bilingual Instructional Coach, a Dyslexia Specialist, and a Biliteracy Curriculum Writer. Before joining Velázquez Press as an education and parent engagement consultant, she worked as a multilingual specialist for a region education service center in Texas. Through all these years, she has developed a strong interest on the impact of teachers' identity and ideology into the view and support they provide their students and families. When Josephine is not training teachers or attending conferences, she is studying the bilingual brain with her two sons who are neuroscience majors or spending time with her daughter and husband.

Schedule At A Glance

Culturally Sustaining Sheltered Instruction

(Workshop Style)

Rationale:

Historically, the education system has focused on methods and programs. The worst enemy of multilingual learners are one size fits all approaches that do not take the time to center its purpose and understanding on who they are serving, rather they consider the students and the diversity they bring to the classroom as the problem.Culturally Sustaining Sheltered Instruction proposes that we get to really know our students, see their different cultures and languages as a tool for learning and add new culture, new language, and new knowledge in all the languages use to learn and in all content areas.

Understanding Who are Our students and their differentiated needs

Emergent Bilingual Students

Newcomers

Long-term Language Learners

Dual Language Learners learning Spanish

Students who speak English at home

Who are the teachers and their differentiated roles

Dual Language Teachers

Transitional Bilingual Teachers

ESL/ENL Teachers

Paraprofessionals

Content-Area Teachers

What is Culturally Sustaining Sheltered Instruction

Culturally Sustaining Practices

Why Sheltered Instruction is not Enough Anymore

Intro to the next 2 days of content

Realizations & Wonderings

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Culturally Sustaining Sheltered Instruction

(Workshop Style)

Rationale: There is no doubt that we can teach ALL students in a traditional, discovery type education. Some students will thrive and some will fall behind. Based on research, teachers will be presented with effective methods that facilitate learning and success for all students. We will revisit fundamental research theories characteristic of the instruction that should occur in every classroom that is composed of multilingual learners.

Instructional Methods:

Communicated

Sequenced

Scaffolded

Second Language Acquisition Methods and Theories we must take in consideration when using CSSI

Understanding the Bilingual Brain

Comprehensible Input

Affective Filter

Funds of Knowledge

Importance of Activation of Prior-Knowledge

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Culturally Sustaining Sheltered Instruction

(Workshop Style)

Rationale: Participants will take a closer look at the various resources available to them. In a guided, sheltered way, participants will use all the knowledge acquired to make plans that align to a Culturally Sustaining Sheltered Instruction Approach.

Understanding the Resources Provided by my State

Standards and Skills

Language Proficiency Skills

Understanding the Resources Provided by my District

Curriculum

Supplemental Material

Protocols

Understanding Other Resources

Journals

Glossaries

Dictionaries

Drawp

Let’s Put it all together and Plan for Instruction

Culturally Sustaining Sheltered Instruction

Virtual Event

August 9, 2023

6:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. PDT

8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. CDT

9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. EDT

Cost: $119.98
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