Newcomer Success Workshops

IN-PERSON WORKSHOPS

Overview:
This session is based on the book Catching the Moving Target: Guiding Newcomers to Mastery and offers compelling and practical steps for educators, leaders and decision-makers seeking to redesign how schools welcome and support newcomer multilingual learners. The comprehensive and customizable model combines research-informed, practice-proven approaches to both cognitive development and second language acquisition. After experiencing this session, participants will be prepared to go beyond compliance to create intentional, mastery-based learning opportunities that nurture language development, academic growth and emotional well-being from day one.

Objectives:

• Describe key practices for providing a Soft Landing to Newcomer Students and Families
• Understand the principles of a mastery-based system
• Plan for applying a mastery-based learning cycle that integrates accessible language and content
• Meaningfully assess progress across a student’s learning journey

​This session comes with a hard copy of Catching the Moving Target: Guiding Newcomers to Mastery.

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