WABE 2025 Annual Conference: Full Schedule

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8:00am PDT

Empowering Teachers to Foster Students’ Multilingualism in the Elementary Classroom

Saturday May 3, 2025 8:00am - 9:00am PDT

This workshop invites teachers to reflect on their home languages, language proficiency and language ideologies, examining how these concepts shape their classroom practices. In the second part of the session, participants will collaboratively develop strategies to support students' home languages, integrating Social and Emotional Learning principles for a holistic approach.

Speakers

Dr. Patricia Ferreyra

Assistant Professor of Multilingual Education, Western Washington University

¡Hola! I'm a teacher educator and researcher working toward racial and linguistic justice. My research focuses on Latinx Spanish-English dual language teacher candidates. I examine their experiences with cultural and linguistic oppression, investigate whether their language ideologies... Read More →

Bianca Vergara-Garcia

Independent Educator, Independent Educator

Saturday May 3, 2025 8:00am - 9:00am PDT
Evergreen F (1st Floor, Olympic Tower)

Breakout Session

Audience Multilingual Teachers
Academic Range K-5

8:00am PDT

Integrative ELD: One Strategy with Endless Possibilities

Saturday May 3, 2025 8:00am - 9:00am PDT

Cedar Ballroom (2nd Floor, Olympic Tower)

Empowering multilingual learners includes mastering sentence structure. This session introduces a dynamic strategy that integrates ELD, ELA, and content standards to teach sentence structure and parts of speech. Already familiar with the Sentence Patterning Chart? Discover fresh ways to expand its use and make language learning both effective and fun. Join us to unlock endless possibilities from one simple strategy to build and enhance the superpowers of your multilingual learners.

Speakers

Dr. Sara Martinez

Educational trainer, instructor & consultant, Next Steps with Project GLAD®

Saturday May 3, 2025 8:00am - 9:00am PDT
Cedar Ballroom (2nd Floor, Olympic Tower)

Breakout Session

Audience Teachers
Academic Range K-5

8:00am PDT

Learning to Listen: Students Transform our Instructional Practice through “Learning Labs”

Saturday May 3, 2025 8:00am - 9:00am PDT

Evergreen A (1st Floor, Olympic Tower)

Professional development is most impactful when teachers apply their learning in real time. Educator’s mindsets and instructional practices transform when there is a clear focus on creating the conditions for multilingual students to be protagonists of their own learning. Teachers learn to listen to students in languages that may be unfamiliar to them and use this data to shift their teaching. This session will present a powerful tool for professional development, “learning labs,” how this practice has positively impacted collaboration and instruction, and how they can be implemented in any school setting.

Speakers

Thad Williams

Language Program Manager, Seattle Public Schools

Stevie Norman

Administrator, Seattle Public Schools

Sarah Coddington

Instructional Coach, Seattle Public Schools

Nicole Shimizu

Instructional Coach, Seattle Public Schools

Saturday May 3, 2025 8:00am - 9:00am PDT
Evergreen A (1st Floor, Olympic Tower)

Breakout Session

Audience Educators
Academic Range K-5

8:00am PDT

Transforming ML Learning with AI: Quick Strategies for Vocabulary, Background, and Oral Language

Saturday May 3, 2025 8:00am - 9:00am PDT

Evergreen E (1st Floor, Olympic Tower)

Discover how to use AI tools like ChatGPT to create quick, effective strategies for building background knowledge, enhancing vocabulary, and fostering oral language development in multilingual learners. This session provides practical, classroom-ready approaches tailored for tier 1 instruction, empowering educators to meet ML students’ unique needs.

Speakers

Bridget Clark

K-6 ML Instructional Coach, Adjunct Professor, Eastmont School District

Bridget Clark is an ML instructional coach with a background as both a classroom and ML teacher. She specializes in aligning ML instruction with Tier 1 practices by designing resources along a structured Support Continuum. Bridget is passionate about integrating technology—such... Read More →

Saturday May 3, 2025 8:00am - 9:00am PDT
Evergreen E (1st Floor, Olympic Tower)

Breakout Session

Audience Teachers, ML Specialists
Academic Range K-5