WABE 2025 Annual Conference: Full Schedule

1:45pm PDT

Sponsored Session - Fueling Linguistic Brilliance: GLAD Strategies to Ignite Multilingual Learners’ Voices

Friday May 2, 2025 1:45pm - 2:45pm PDT

In this interactive session, educators will explore powerful GLAD strategies that ignite multilingual learners’ linguistic brilliance and amplify their academic voice. Participants will engage in strategy demonstrations to see how structured supports foster language development. Through collaborative discussions and practical modeling, they will gain tools to create a classroom environment where all students confidently use and expand their linguistic power. Educators will leave with ready-to-use strategies and a renewed perspective on leveraging students' multilingual assets for academic success.

Speakers

Tabitha Aragon

Be GLAD Certified Agency Trainer, Be GLAD

Jennifer Chaves

Be GLAD Certified Agency Trainer, Be GLAD

Friday May 2, 2025 1:45pm - 2:45pm PDT
Evergreen E (1st Floor, Olympic Tower)

3:00pm PDT

Visual Supports: Tips & Tricks to Enhance Accessibility for Multilingual Learners

Friday May 2, 2025 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT

Evergreen E (1st Floor, Olympic Tower)

Join us for tips and tricks to be more intentional about including visual supports in your teaching! Learn how to sketch people and common icons, design charts, and locate the images you need to support vocabulary, plus get to know the research behind why visuals are so important for MLs.

Speakers

Lauren Monroe

Instructional Specialist, Highline Public Schools

Lauren Monroe is an instructional coach in a dual language elementary school in Highline Public Schools. She is a National Board Certified Teacher with over twenty years of experience in education serving a population of diverse learners. She completed a Master of Education of English... Read More →

Shawnda Fukano

Instructional Coach, Highline Public Schools

Shawnda Fukano is an OCDE Project GLAD trainer and a National Board Certified Teacher in English as a New Language. She has worked as an ELL classroom teacher, dual language coordinator, and instructional coach in Highline Public Schools for the past 19 years. She has a masters degree... Read More →

Friday May 2, 2025 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Evergreen E (1st Floor, Olympic Tower)

Breakout Session

Audience Teachers
Academic Range K-5

4:15pm PDT

Schoolwide WIDA Language Infusion: Collaborative Planning at the Elementary level

Friday May 2, 2025 4:15pm - 5:15pm PDT

Evergreen E (1st Floor, Olympic Tower)

Come learn how infusing language & content standards ignited teachers to collaborate and elevate language instruction at an elementary school. Expect to walk away with an understanding of this innovative model, and tools to implement a systemwide shift at any site. This session includes the voices of multiple stakeholders necessary to prioritize team collaboration, Tier 1 instruction, progress monitoring and expressive language growth!

Speakers

Kate Morin

Assistant Director of Multilingual Education, Mount Vernon School District

Cat D'Avignon

ML Specialist, Mount Vernon School District

Ashleigh Moe

Principal, Little Mountain Elementary

Megan Laney

Teacher, Mount Vernon School District

Friday May 2, 2025 4:15pm - 5:15pm PDT
Evergreen E (1st Floor, Olympic Tower)

Breakout Session

Audience Teachers, ML Specialists, Building Administrators
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, 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 as... 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

11:15am PDT

Moving students’ linguistic power forward one sentence at a time: Language objectives and sentence deconstruction

Saturday May 3, 2025 11:15am - 12:15pm PDT

Evergreen E (1st Floor, Olympic Tower)

How do your M/ELs tackle difficult sentences while reading and writing? How do they move their language forward at the sentence level? Pair a sentence deconstruction strategy with language objectives and PLDs to boost reading and writing proficiency. Leave with resources to easily implement this strategy across content areas.

Speakers

Dr. Jennifer Cowgill

Director of Multilingual Learning, ESD 123

Janae Bell

ELA Teacher, Finley Elementary School

Saturday May 3, 2025 11:15am - 12:15pm PDT
Evergreen E (1st Floor, Olympic Tower)

Breakout Session

Audience ML Specialists, Teachers
Academic Range K-12