New Date for Multicultural College and Career Day

We have confirmed March 8th as the rescheduled date for the Multicultural College and Career Day. Presenters, sessions, and times will remain the same. Click on the following link to register:

Multicultural College and Career Day Registration

Save the Date - Multicultural College & Career Day - October 19, 2022

 We are making the Multicultural College and Career Day an annual event, and this year's event will be on October 19th! Here is a little highlight reel from last year's event:

EL Summer STEM Field Trip

This year's English Learner Summer STEM Field Trip will take place here at CESA 11 on July 25, 2019!

It is sponsored by the Title I Migrant Education Program (MEP) and 2018-19 Immigrant Children & Youth Grant and is open to all CESA 11 districts. 

The Science Museum of Minnesota will be presenting the opening program and breakout sessions, and we'll also have the mobile planetarium set up for guided astronomy sessions.

Please see the flyer (or CLICK HERE) for more information and to register. You only need one registration form for each school, and you'll just indicate how many participants in each category (students by grade band, teachers, family members) will be attending from your school.

Multicultural Children's Book Day

Multicultural Children's Book Day is having a Twitter party to share about great multicultural children's and YA books. They also have a lot of free resources on their website: www.multiculturalchildrensbookday.com

January EL Coordinator Meeting Agenda

Here is a link to the agenda, which has been updated with the links to the resources and presentations shared at the meeting: January EL Coordinator Network Meeting Agenda

Multicultural Children's Book Day is January 29, 2019! Click on the link to learn more about how you can get involved!

https://multiculturalchildrensbookday.com/

High Impact Strategies for ELs Workshop

This workshop will focus on research-based strategies that educators can use to help English Learners develop their academic language skills in the four domains: reading, writing, speaking, and listening. The workshop will also address strategies to meet the social-emotional needs of newcomers and other ELs. Click on the link to view the flyer and register: High Impact Strategies Flyer

Welcoming the Refugee – Best Practices to Help the Displaced

This short blog article links out to two different projects that provide resources to help support refugee students and families: Welcoming the Refugee Article

WIDA National Conference

Registration is now open for the WIDA National Conference, being held in Detroit from October 23-26, 2018. The conference theme is "Schools and Communities Empowering One Another". October 23rd is the pre-conference date, and the main conference sessions are October 24-26th. For more information, click on the link below:

2018 WIDA National Conference

The Reading Together Project seeks to address the lack of children’s books that speak to the experience of being an Asian Pacific Islander (API) child or youth in the United States. The project supports the development of English literacy skills while recognizing cultural heritage, and creating opportunities for children and families to learn about API cultural heritage together.

Click on the link to download or order books from this project: Reading Together Project Website

Multicultural Children's Book Day - January 27th

HERE is a link to the Multicultural Children's Book Day website. They have resources, marketing materials, reading lists, and a free empathy kit for classroom teachers.