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Two-Day CARE Coaching Event - Seattle, WA

Two Days, Two Topics—Double the Learning!

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June 30 Workshop
Unlocking Rigor: Practical Applications of
Webb’s Depth of Knowledge (DOK)

Join us for a full-day, interactive workshop with Sara Christopherson, Director of WebbAlign at WCEPS, that provides K-12 educators with hands-on experience in applying Webb’s DOK framework, a powerful tool to promote coherence within classrooms, schools, and districts. Together we will explore high-leverage uses of the tool and consider practical steps for implementation. 

Participants will:

  • Differentiate DOK levels, addressing common misconceptions. 
  • Apply the DOK framework to curriculum, instruction, and assessment contexts.
  • Develop an action plan for implementation or improvement.

Educators will leave this workshop equipped with tools and strategies to strengthen and enhance their practice.

July 1 Workshop
A New View on Classroom Assessment for Multilingual Learners with Dr. Margo Gottlieb

This workshop with Dr. Margo Gottlieb, introduces participants to classroom assessment practices in multiple languages as an approach to enhance and support biliteracy instruction and multilingual learners. This session addresses a core contradiction in current assessment practices: while schools celebrate linguistic diversity, they still rely heavily on English-only, high-stakes tests, often leading to inequitable outcomes and missing opportunities for progress monitoring of language and content. Participants will focus on shifting the assessment narrative from a monolingual, deficit-based approach to one that values and promotes multilingualism as asset-based by exploring the central messages:

  • Classroom assessment is a process, not an event.
  • Classroom assessment must be inclusive of multiple languages/audiences (stepping out of our comfort zone to learn & grow).
  • Translanguaging, multimodalities, and multiliteracies enhance instruction and assessment.

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THE DETAILS YOU NEED TO KNOW

  • Cost
  • Date: June 30 – July 1
  • Time: 9:00am – 4:00pm
  • Location: Tukwila School District, Tukwila, WA (3 miles from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport)
  • Audience: The workshop is ideal for a site-based team consisting of but not limited to any of the following roles: teachers, coaches, administrators, and stakeholders with key roles in supporting multilingual learner success. This workshop is adaptable across grade levels, content areas and bilingual program contexts.
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Sara Christopherson
Featured Speaker

Sara Christopherson, M.S. Curriculum and Instruction, is Director of WebbAlign at WCEPS. Sara has worked with teachers, assessment developers, and educational publishers on K-16 content development and evaluation for nearly 25 years. Drawing on her background in curriculum and instruction, as well as communications and educational publishing, Sara helps stakeholders to enhance and strengthen their use of Depth of Knowledge (DOK), understanding of alignment, interpretation of curriculum standards, instructional design and practice, and overall assessment literacy in support of a coherent system that supports all learners.  Sara is an active participant in the ongoing conversations in the field and presents regularly at national conferences and meetings. 

Margo Gottlieb, Ph.D.
Featured Author

Margo Gottlieb, Ph.D., has devoted her professional career to improving educational opportunities for multilingual learners, their teachers and other educational leaders. Over the years she has been a language teacher and coordinator, a bilingual facilitator, a director of assessment and evaluation, and a consultant to school districts, states, publishers, governments, universities, and organizations. Margo was a Fulbright senior specialist in assessment and evaluation and was recognized in 2016 by TESOL International Association’s 50@50 as an individual who has made a significant contribution to the TESOL profession within the past 50 years.

Having traveled extensively, Margo has presented in Asia, Central America, Europe, Indonesia, the Middle East, North America, the Pacific, Singapore and South America, as well as across the United States.

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4640 S 144th St.
Tukwila, WA 98168

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June 30 – July 1
9:00am – 4:00pm

Have questions?
educators@wceps.org