1. education
2. english as a second language

MELL
Conference Program
2014
Visualizing
ELL
Potential
STUDENTS + TEACHERS
+ PROGRAMS
November 19-21 2014
The Westin Kansas City
Crown Center
Organized by:
Missouri Migrant Education & English Language
Learning
With Support & Collaboration from:
Regional Professional Development Centers
In cooperation with:
MU Conference Office
Visualizing ELL Potential
STUDENTS + TEACHERS + PROGRAMS
4:30-5:30
Please Join Us!
Ask the Experts
Join us to ask questions of our
experts. There will be a board by
the registration table to post your
questions prior to each session.
Wednesday :
Jo Gusman
Jaime A. Castellano
Debbie Arechiga
Thursday:
Jaime A. Castellano
Melissa Castillo
Cristina Sanchez-Lopez
Session Tickets and Ticket Exchange
Participants will receive Session and Meal Tickets for their pre-selected sessions
and meals in the materials that they picked up at registration. Session and Meal
Tickets will be required for entrance into all sessions except for the 3:15 – 4:15
breakouts and the Ask the Expert sessions. Please review your session
selections. If you do not have a Session Ticket or would like to change your
session selection you can go to the Ticket Exchange. The session ticket
exchange, available to all attendees, is located near the registration area. MELL
staff will be available to assist you with your exchanges and requests for tickets.
Reception
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
5:00 - 6:30
Please join us for a glass of wine and hors d'oeuvres
before dinner at the National Geographic Hospitality Suite.
Please stop by the booth for more information
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Program
e
Conferenc
MELL-DESE
Shawn Cockrum
Migrant/Title III Director
Drew Linkon
Assistant Director of
Assessment
Yaya Badji
Supervisor
Diane Herx
Migrant Student Exchange
Diane Mora
Sarah Knoll
Instructional Specialists
Becky Smith
Instructional Specialist
Marlow Barton
Debra Cole
Instructional Specialists
2014
Visualizing
Region 1
Hannayd Ruiz
Migrant Recruiter
ELL Potential
Region 2
Robin Thompson
Migrant Recruiter
Key
Strand:
Region 3
Pendy Trujillo
Migrant Recruiter
Claudia Franks
Instructional Specialist
Region 4
Yeni Vasquez
Migrant Recruiter
Jesse DeLeon
Instructional Specialist
Region 5
Angel Castro
Migrant Recruiter

Academic Language & Literacy

Effective Practices

Program Management

National Initiative

Migrant
Audience:
EC = Early Childhood
ES = Elementary School
MJ = Middle/Junior High
SS = Secondary School
AD = Administrators
CH = Coaches
EL = ELL/ESL
CT = Content Teachers
SE = ELL/SpEd
FC = Family/Community
MG = Migrant
TE = Teacher Education
Participant Experience Level:
3
Beginning
Limited experience
Novice
2-4 years experience
Featured Speakers
Wednesday, November 19
Jo Gusman began her teaching career in 1974 as a bilingual education
instructional assistant and later a teacher. In 1981, her career led her to the
nationally known Newcomer School, where Jo worked in a multilingual setting
with refugee and immigrant non-English speaking children. It is there where she
developed her many Brain-Based ESL Strategies™. She has received numerous
awards from organizations such as the National Hispanic School Board
Association, California Reading Association, and the California Association for
Bilingual Education. Jo has been featured on national television (NBC) in a news
series titled, “The New Kids in Town.” In addition, Jo received recognition for
her teaching excellence from President Ronald Reagan and the U.S. Department
of Education. Jo is the creator of the Foundation-Frameworks-Tools School
Improvement Model© and author of many books. She is the founder of New
Horizons In Education, an education consulting company dedicated to assisting
school districts create highly effective programs for their bilingual-biliterate
students and their families.
Diane Staehr Fenner, Ph.D., is president of DSF Consulting, a small
business specializing in English learner (EL) achievement. She provides
professional development and technical assistance to districts, states,
universities, and organizations. Much of her work focuses on ensuring ELs
succeed with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), including
supporting the collaboration between English as a Second Language and
content teachers around implementing the CCSS for ELs. Prior to forming
DSF Consulting, she gained research and policy expertise with the George
Washington University’s Center for Equity and Excellence in Education.
Formerly an ESOL teacher and assessment specialist in Fairfax County
Public Schools, VA, Dr. Staehr Fenner writes a blog on the CCSS for ELs
for the popular Colorín Colorado website. Her new book Advocating for
English Learners: A Guide for Educators (2014) is available through Corwin
Press. She is currently writing another book on teacher evaluation that is
inclusive of ELs and students with disabilities.
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Featured Speakers
Thursday, November 20
Dr. Jaime A. Castellano is an award-winning principal, author, scholar, and
researcher; the 2010 principal/administrator of the year for Apache County, AZ; a
2012 finalist for the same award; a published author with four books in the field of
gifted education, including dozens of articles and chapters written for multiple
publications. Jaime is recognized as one of our nation’s leading authorities in
identifying and serving low-income, racially, culturally and linguistically different
gifted students; with particular expertise on identifying gifted Hispanic/Latino
students, Native American students, and gifted English language learners. A
Rationale for Connecting Gifted Education with Dual Language Programs is another
one of his popular publications. In 2013 he also developed and copyrighted the ELL/
SPED Screening Instrument, a tool designed to assist educators in determining if a
referral of an ELL/bilingual student to special education is warranted. Jaime
founded the Gifted Education Special Interest Group (SIG) with the National
Association for Bilingual Education (NABE) and the Professional Interest
Community (PIC) on Gifted and Advanced Learners for ASCD.
Debbie Arechiga is a literacy staff developer for The Tools for
Literacy Professional Development Model which has helped many teachers and
schools come closer to realizing the goal of every child becoming a successful
reader. Debbie has a passion for the discovery of new ideas and possibilities in
literacy. In the best tradition of education, she imparts not only valuable
teaching philosophy and useful tools, but the vision and can-do confidence that
genuinely empower teachers and students to make bold strides toward
literacy excellence. Teachers leave the Tools for Literacy training sessions
knowing they’ve been given practical and imaginative tools that will build
capable, confident readers. Debbie’s thorough modeling of techniques gives
teachers the practical how-to they need most of all. Her ability to provide
specific, focused direction for working with second language learners has been
a particular plus for many teachers and districts. School districts whose
teachers have attended the courses and implemented the methods she
presents have experienced significant positive impacts on student achievement.
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Featured Speakers
Friday, November 21
Dr. Melissa Castillo, Lead consultant for MelCast Educational
Consulting, works with educators in several states across the country on
the explicit development of academic language and literacy, vocabulary,
sheltered instruction techniques, coaching and guiding educational
organizations in planning and implementing training to build capacity. Dr.
Castillo co-authored Language & Literacy for ELLs Creating Systematic
Change For Academic Achievement. She is also a contributing author to 99
Ideas and Activities for Teaching English Learners and The SIOP® Model for
Teaching Mathematics to English Learners. Her professional experience
includes many years as an elementary teacher in a Dual Language and
Bilingual program, professional development coordinator, and director of
ELD programs at the primary and secondary level. Her doctoral research
focused on effective instructional programs for language minority students,
specifically coaching teachers to successful implementation of researchbased practices in Sheltered English Immersion classrooms.
Cristina Sanchez–Lopez is an education specialist at the Illinois Resource
Center (IRC). She collaborates with educators in the US and Canada on ELLs
and special education; middle school mathematics; literacy across the content
areas; multilingual education, engaging parents, and supporting Pre-K educators
who serve English Language Learners (ELLs). Prior to coming to the IRC,
Cristina taught at the elementary, middle school and university levels in the US
and Mexico. At present, Cristina teaches graduate courses in the areas of ELL
reading and the foundations of language minority education. Cristina has been
working extensively with her colleague, Theresa Young (SLP), in collaborating
with school problem-solving teams as they support ELLs. Cristina is co-author
on the book Special Education Considerations for English Language Learners:
Delivering a Continuum of Services (Caslon Publishing) as well as various articles
and chapters on addressing the needs of ELLs. Cristina and her husband have
raised their daughter bilingually.
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Wednesday
7:00-8:15 Breakfast
Program
Century C Ballroom
AM
8:00-8:20 Opening
8:30-11:00 Featured Speakers
Session 101: ELA Standards and ELL: Processes and Strategies to Use Immediately!
Jo Gusman
Century A
Learn effective processes and strategies to help meet the diverse needs of your ELLs. Participants in this
session will use Jo Gusman’s 4 Cs – Culture-Context-Content-Contact Model© for planning and teaching
highly effective reading lessons. They will also experience Mind-Brain-Education Science reading processes
that help ELLs better process and comprehend text.
Session 102: Strategies to Successfully Advocate for English Learners
Diane Staehr Fenner
Century B
Drawing from her book Advocating for English Learners: A Guide for Educators, the presenter will build a
case for the urgent need to advocate for English Learners’ success. She will share practical strategies so
educators can build their EL advocacy skills to help support ELs’ strong voices in school.
Please take a moment to evaluate the session you have attended
11:15-12:15 Breakout Sessions
Session 103: Curriculum Mapping to Maximize Your Instructional Time
Mary Forst, Heather Barbeau & Melissa Wheeler (Bayless)
Where do you start when planning a curriculum for your ELL students? We will show how Bayless Elementary ELL
Specialists used the Missouri Learning Standards, WIDA ELD Standards, and our district curriculum to develop an ELL
Curriculum Map which includes content driven vocabulary, ELA standards and incorporates the four domains.
(Repeated #205)
Location: Pershing East
Strand: Effective Practices, National Initiatives
Level: ALL
Audience: ES, EL
Session 104: Early Childhood/Kindergarten - Developing Oral Language & Emerging Literacy
Dana Maple & Adrianna Henderson (Branson)
This presentation is geared toward ELL Educators in the Early Childhood and Kindergarten range. We will focus on
engaging activities to develop oral language while facilitating emergent and early literacy practices. Participants will see
activities based on songs, poems, chants, and rhymes to build oral language and concepts of print.
Location: Century B
Strand: Academic Language and Literacy, Effective Practices
Level: ALL
Audience: EC, ES, EL
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Program
Wednesday
AM
11:15-12:15 Breakout Sessions (Continued)
Session 105: Much Ado about ESOL: Using Reader’s Theater
Erin Ivanov (St Joseph)
Active engagement is critical in building reading comprehension and motivation skills, and what better way to engage
students than by putting them into a story! Not only is Readers Theatre engaging; it is a great tool for students to
practice fluency, think creatively, and work interactively. Let’s act!
(Repeated #218)
Location: Pershing North
Strand: Academic Language and Literacy, Effective Practices
Level: ALL
Audience: ES, SS,AD, CH, EL
Session 106: DUAL WHAT?: One District’s Journey Toward Language Enrichment Education!
Landon Wood (Confluence Academy)
Presenters will describe their decision making process to pilot a dual language program. They will share research and
give honest answers about dual language curriculum selection, recruiting highly qualified faculty members, cost of the
program, developing the best program model for your school’s demographics and MORE.
Location: Pershing South
Strand: Program Management
Level:
Audience: ALL
ALL
Session 107: Creative Writing With iPads
Marya Leaich & Anna Coe (Hazelwood)
iPads have become a resource used in schools around the nation. Learn how to teach your students to expand their
creative writing using different apps on the iPad. You will learn the benefits of using technology and leave with items
you can use immediately. Bring an iPad if you can.
(Repeated #215)
Location: Mission
Strand: Effective Practices
Level: Novice, Advanced
Audience: ES, EL
Session 108: The Art of Personalized Literacy for ELL students
Ike Moore (Capstone Publishers-myON reader)
Pershing West
Using an innovative digital approach, schools are dramatically increasing student engagement and reading scores with
personalized literacy experiences that provide anytime, anywhere access to just right books. With reading supports,
naturally recorded audio, highlighting and an embedded dictionary students, engage in reading and educators track
progress and forecast reading growth.
Location: Pershing West
Strand: Academic language and Literacy
Level: ALL
Audience: ALL
Please take a moment to evaluate the session you have attended
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Program
Wednesday
AM/PM
11:00-6:30 Exhibitors
11:15-12:15 Breakout Sessions (Continued)
Session 109: You’re Invited! Teach in China this Summer in July!
Gloria and Charles Juedemann (We Teach in China)
Learn how you can experience the culture and educational system of China up close and personal! Use your skills to
work with Chinese English Teachers to help them improve their speaking, listening, reading and writing skills and
provide some methods of teaching for them to use in their own classrooms.
Location: Shawnee
Strand: Effective Practices
Level: ALL
Audience: ALL
Session 110: Judging a Book by its Cover - Using Guided Reading
Merica Clinkenbeard (Hollister)
Century A
Participants in this session take part in a mock guided reading lesson using a non-fiction text. As the mock lesson
proceeds, participants will practice reading strategies that support academic language and content. Participants will
take away tools and templates to easily create their own lesson plans when they return home.
Location: Century A
Strand: Effective Practices
Level: ALL
Audience: ES, SS, CH, EL, CT,TE
12:30-1:45 Luncheon Century C Ballroom
Keynote: Jo Gusman
2:00-3:00 Breakout Sessions
Session 111: What? ELL and PBL? Exploring Potential
Samantha Anth (Hazelwood) & Debra Cole (Ed Plus)
Have you wondered what Project or Problem Based Learning (PBL) is and how you can make it work for ELLs? Join
us for an overview of PBL. Problem-solve common barriers to implementation of PBL. Learn to realize the potential
of ALL students. Leave with a start to your own unit.
Location: Pershing North
Strand: Effective Practices
Level: ALL
Audience: ES, SS, EL
Session 112: Unique Elementary ELL Model is a solution to Rapid ELL Growth
Debra Stidham (Independence) & Wendy Mejia (Raytown)
This session will describe how the Independence School District restructured their program. The ELL Elementary
Success Center targets students with support, which resulted in dramatically increased ACCESS scores. The Raytown
School District is adopting a modified version of the model this school year, and its program will also be described.
Location: Pershing South
Strand: Program Management
Level:
Audience: ES, AD, CH, EL,
ALL
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Wednesday
Program
PM
11:00-6:30 Exhibitors
2:00-3:00 Breakout Sessions (Continued)
Session 113: The ESL Binder: A Resource for mainstream Classroom Teachers
Judy Shreves (Warren County)
This session will demonstrate the benefits of providing an ESL Binder to classroom teachers. The presenter will
share the information she has culminated into a great resource. Basic contents that needed to aid the teacher in
understanding the academic and social needs of an ELL will be discussed.
Location: Century A
Strand: Effective Practices, Program Management
Level: ALL
Audience: ALL
Session 114: Language Objectives for Elementary ELLs: Rigor in Reading and Writing
Laura Lukens (North Kansas City Schools) & Linda New Levine (ESL/EFL Consultant)
Teachers are urged to incorporate academic oral language interaction into content classrooms in order to help
students achieve higher levels of literacy. Specific language objectives targeting language form, language function, and
scaffolding strategies will be demonstrated. Participants will be guided to create appropriate language objectives for
their students.
Location: Century B
Strand: Academic language and Literacy, Effective practices
Level: All
Audience: ES, AD, CH, EL, CT, SE
Session 115: Incorporating Visualization Tools to Build ELL Potential
Cammy Goucher (Neosho)
The benefit of any tool depends on how it is used. This is especially true of technology. This session will provide
ways to involve ELLs in learning through the effective integration of technology into already developed lessons. You
will leave with materials and resources for immediate use with your students.
(Repeated #207)
Location: Pershing East
Strand: Effective practices
Level: ALL
Audience: EC, ES, SS, AD, EL,
Session 116: Surprise! We Are Here
Peggy Strange (McDonald County)
Hear the story of one rural district that has whole-heartedly embraced the children of the world. Many students
have come to the US as refugees from places as diverse as Somalia and Myanmar. Learn strategies to assist students
who come with very little formal education or English proficiency skills.
Location: Pershing West
Strand: Effective Practices, Program Management, Migrant
Level:
Audience: ALL
ALL
Please take a moment to evaluate the session you have attended
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Program
Wednesday
PM
11:00-6:30 Exhibitors
2:00-3:00 Breakout Sessions (continued)
Session 117: Boost Academic Talk
Patricia Lewis (National Geographic)
Turn up the volume on Academic talk. Give students the tools they need to use their academic language skills.
Through collaborative practices and individual techniques, your classroom will be bursting with exciting discussions.
Location: Shawnee
Strand: Academic Language & Literacy, Effective Practices
Level:
Audience: ES, EL
ALL
Session 118: iPad, iMovie, iSuccess
Sam Bennion & Brandi Shores (East Newton)
How I used the iPad app "iMovie" to engage students, increase autonomy and motivation, and accomplish ESL
Objectives. Participants will become familiar with how iMovie can be used in the ESL classroom to facilitate student
progress across the four modalities. Bring your own iPad with iMovie installed.
(Repeated #210)
Location: Mission
Strand: Effective Practices
Level:
Audience:
ALL
ALL
3:15-4:15 Breakout Sessions
Networking Meetings
Pershing North
Exhibitors
Century Ballroom Foyer
Ask DESE
Century B
Poster Sessions
Pershing East
Virtual School Visits
Pershing West
4:30-5:30 Ask The Experts in Century C Ballroom
Jo Gusman
ELA Standards and ELL
Jaime A. Castellano
Gifted ELL
Debbie Arechiga
Reaching & Teaching ELLs in the Classrooms
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Thursday
7:00-8:15 Breakfast
Program
Century C Ballroom
AM
8:15-8:20 Opening
8:30-11:00 Featured Speakers
Session 201: Talent Development for ELLs: Identifying & Developing Potential
Jaime A. Castellano
Century A
Identifying and developing the talent and potential of English language learners is important to their
individual and collective future. This session will be dedicated to identifying and sharing classroom practices
for talent development and creating an infrastructure at the school and district level that supports this
unique population of students.
Session 202: Reaching and Teaching ELLs in Regular Classrooms
Debbie Arechiga
Century B
This presentation will provide both the knowledge and ability to use effective scaffolding strategies or
“energizers” to support ELLs’ reading and writing. Peek into real classrooms through video footage to see
how to apply these techniques throughout literacy events during whole class, small group and side by side
instruction.
11:15-12:15 Breakout Sessions
Session 203: Getting to The Core with Math Language
Elena Okanovic & Heather Tuckson (St. Louis Public)
Presenters will share resources to implement math standards. Participants will learn strategies for teaching content
and language together to ensure students gain deep conceptual understanding of math standards. They will gain
resources to differentiate and learn how to incorporate writing using language functions and sentence frames in
math instruction.
Location: Century A
Strand: Academic Language and Literacy
Level: Novice, ALL
Audience: ES, EL
Session 204: Addressing the High Stakes of Academic Language
George Haynes (Francis Howell)
Elementary ESOL teachers are rightly required to live within the educational communities and the demands of several
buildings, multiple administrators, and competing requirements regarding how to deliver instruction. The only way to
survive, thrive and successfully rise above this challenge is to have a tenacious focus on academic language.
(Repeated #305)
Location: Century B
Strand: Academic language and Literacy, Program Management
Level: ALL
Audience: ES, AD, EL
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Thursday
Program
AM
8:00-4:30 Exhibitors
11:15-12:15 Breakout Sessions
Session 205: Curriculum Mapping to Maximize Your instructional Time
Mary Forst, Heather Barbeau & Melissa Wheeler (Bayless)
Where do you start when planning a curriculum for your ELL students? We will show how Bayless Elementary ELL
Specialists used the Missouri Learning Standards, WIDA ELD Standards, and our district curriculum to develop an ELL
Curriculum Map which includes content driven vocabulary, ELA standards and incorporates the four domains.
(Repeated #103)
Location: Pershing North
Strand: Effective Practices, National Initiatives
Level: ALL
Audience: ES, EL
Session 206: Beyond Tacos and Sombreros: Latino Cultural Competence
M. Virginia Braxs (Washington University)
This workshop will reflect on Latino culture key topics, such as the concept of time, the importance of family and communication
skills, among others, and how these issues play an important role in the classroom teaching & learning experience as well as in the
interaction between teachers, students, and parents.
Location: Pershing South
Strand: Effective Practices
Level: ALL
Audience: ALL
Session 207: Incorporating Visualization Tools To Build ELL Potential
Cammy Goucher (Neosho)
The benefit of any tool depends on how it is used. This is especially true of technology. This session will provide
ways to involve ELLs in learning through the effective integration of technology into already developed lessons. You
will leave with materials and resources for immediate use with your students.
(Repeated #115)
Location: Pershing East
Strand: Effective Practices
Level: ALL
Audience: ALL
Session 208: Practicing Grammar Correction and Revision to Improve Student Writing
Kate Berger (Saint Louis Language Immersion Schools )
This session presents ways to develop students' writing skills through frequent short compositions, followed by
comprehensive corrective feedback and revision. By establishing a routine, based on practical correction codes,
teachers can provide meaningful, integrated, and differentiated support for their students, helping them learn to write
with greater accuracy and control.
(Repeated #306)
Location: Pershing West
Strand: Academic Language and Literacy; Effective Practices
Level: Novice, Advanced
Audience: MS, SS, EL, CT, TE
Please take a moment to evaluate the session you have attended
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Program
Thursday
AM/PM
8:00-4:30 Exhibitors
11:15-12:15 Breakout Sessions (continued)
Session 209: Kurzweil Education Systems
Corey Navis (Kurzweil Education Systems)
Adapt instruction, not curriculum to support English Language Learners: ELLs face two challenges: learning a new
language while simultaneously encountering unfamiliar academic material. Kurzweil 3000 Firefly offers an integrated
literacy software solution, providing powerful reading, writing, study skill and test-taking support for ELLs from
elementary students to adults.
Location: Shawnee
Strand: Academic Language and Literacy
Level: ALL
Audience: ALL
Session 210: iPad, iMovie, iSuccess
Sam Bennion & Brandi Shores (East Newton)
How we used the iPad app "iMovie" to engage students, increase autonomy and motivation, and accomplish ESL
Objectives. Participants will become familiar with how iMovie can be used in the ESL classroom to facilitate student
progress across the four modalities. Bring your own iPad with iMovie installed.
(Repeated #118)
Location: Mission
Strand: Effective Practices
Level: ALL
Audience: ALL
12:30-1:45 Luncheon Century C Ballroom
Keynote: Jaime Castellano
2:00-3:00 Breakout Sessions
Session 211: Science Instruction in the ELL Classroom
Adrienne Johnson (Missouri Western State University)
This session will advance participants' understanding of how to plan for both language and content area instruction in
the diverse ELL classroom. Using the science classroom as a model, participants will learn how to engage learners in
the content area, while developing rich academic language skills.
Location: Pershing South
Strand: Academic Language and Literacy, Effective Practices
Level: ALL
Audience: ES, MJ, SS, EL, CT
Session 212: Create a Connected Collaborative Community
Sarah Hanf (Cape Girardeau) & Samantha Anth (Hazelwood)
Have you ever thought about how to incorporate more PD and collaboration into your busy schedule? Join us to
learn how to use Twitter as a collaborative professional development resource. You will sign up for Twitter, learn
how to tweet, and find professional journal articles, blogs and chats using Twitter.
Location: Century B
Strand: Effective Practices, Program Management
Level: All
Audience: EC, ES, SS, AD, CH, EL
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Program
Thursday
PM
8:00-4:30 Exhibitors
2:00-3:00 Breakout Sessions (Continued)
Session 213: Using the new DESE ELL/SPED Pre-referral Flowchart
Lori Hanna (former DESE)
This session will explore the ELL/SPED pre-referral process by reviewing each step of the DESE’s Consideration of Factors that May
Impact Academic Success for ELLs Flowchart. Participants will discuss examples scenarios for each of the steps using guiding
questions and identify possible data collection points.
Location: Pershing North
Strand: Effective Practices and Program Management
Level: All
Audience: EL, SE, CH, AD
Session 214: Same Goals but Different Roles: A Visual Transformation
Carla Owen (Springfield)
Research shows instructional coaching leads to achievement, but what exactly does an ELL coach do? ELL Coaching
can provide job embedded professional learning and leadership in ways that are strategic. Learn how ELL teachers can
take on the role of an ELL Coach to be more effective collaborators in their buildings.
Location: Century A
Strand: Program Management
Level: Novice, Advanced
Audience: ALL
Session 215: Creative Writing with iPads
Marya Leaich & Anna Coe (Hazelwood)
iPads have become a resource used in schools around the nation. Learn how to teach your students to expand their
creative writing using different apps on the iPad. You will learn the benefits of using technology and leave with items
you can use immediately. Bring an iPad if you can.
(Repeated #107)
Location: Shawnee
Strand: Program Management
Level: Novice, Advanced
Audience: ES, EL,
Session 216: Cooking Up Math, Science and Literature
Barbara Eckenfels & Mary Standish (Washington)
Cooking is an exciting, interactive way to integrate reading, math, language development, writing and science. In this
session we will share some of our “literature and science recipes” with you that you can incorporate into your own
lessons/curriculum. Join us for some hands on, fun cooking activities for your ELLs!
Location: Mission
Strand: Academic Language and Literacy
Level: ALL
Audience: EC, ES, EL, CT, SE
Please take a moment to evaluate the session you have attended
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Program
Thursday
PM
8:00-4:30 Exhibitors
2:00-3:00 Breakout Sessions (continued)
Session 217: Examples of Best Practices in Using Imagine Learning
Justin Hewett (Imagine Learning)
There are currently over 100 schools in Missouri using Imagine Learning to serve their ELLs. Whether you want to
improve your implementation or are just curious what everyone is up to, come listen to teachers from Park Hill,
Kansas City, and North Kansas City talk about their best practices.
Location: Pershing East
Strand: Effective Practices
Level: Novice, Advanced
Audience: ES, SS, SE, AD, CH, EL
Session 218: Much Ado about ESOL: Using Reader’s Theater
Erin Ivanov (St Joseph)
Active engagement is critical in building reading comprehension and motivation skills, and what better way to engage
students than by putting them into a story! Not only is Readers Theatre engaging; it is a great tool for students to
practice fluency, think creatively, and work interactively. Let’s act!
(Repeated #105)
Location: Pershing West
Strand: Academic Language and Literacy, Effective practices
Level: ALL
Audience: ES, SS,AD, CH, EL
Please take a moment to evaluate the session you have attended
3:15-4:15 Breakout Sessions
Networking Meetings
Pershing North
Exhibitors
Century Ballroom Foyer
Ask DESE
Century B
Virtual School Visits
Pershing West
4:30-5:30 Ask The Experts in Century C Ballroom
Jaime A. Castellano
Gifted ELL
Melissa Castillo
Language & Literacy for ELLs
Cristina Sanchez-Lopez
RtI2 for ELLs
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Friday
7:00-8:15 Breakfast
Program
Century Ballroom
AM
8:15-8:20 Opening
8:30-11:00 Featured Speakers
Session 301: Language & Literacy for ELLs: Creating Systematic Change for
Academic Achievement
Melissa Castillo
Century A
Participants will be introduced to four principles coined “TIPS” for facilitating a language-rich interactive
classroom that are easy to implement, research-based methods that impact ELL academic achievement.
The uniqueness of this model is its strong emphasis on structured oral language development as a vehicle to
developing literacy across content areas.
Session 302: Developing Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Multi-tiered Systems of
Support (MTSS, or RtI2) for ELLs
Cristina Sanchez-Lopez
Century B
In this session participants will become familiar with a framework and resources that will support schools
and districts in developing more culturally and linguistically responsive MTSS or RtI2 for their English
Language Learners. Participants will examine seven integral factors that help contextualize ELLs’ instruction,
intervention and assessment within this system.
11:15-12:15 Breakout Sessions
Session 303: The GO TO Strategies: Scaffolding Options for Teachers
Laura Lukens (North Kansas City Schools) & Linda New Levine (ESL/EFL Consultant)
How can teachers create scaffolded, yet rigorous and relevant lessons for ELLs? This workshop introduces resources
that enable teachers to incorporate a variety of research-based strategies in content lessons. After presenters model
strategies, participants plan scaffolded lessons using strategies resources. Participants receive copies of all resources
shared in the workshop.
Location: Century A
Strand: Effective Practices
Level: ALL
Audience: ALL
Session 304: Working with ReadWorks.org
Katy Booher (Webb City)
Do you find it difficult to plan targeted effective lessons due to limitation? Come to this session and learn how to use
a reading passage from the FREE website ReadWorks.org as the foundation of an entire unit designed to help students
acquire academic English vocabulary and sharpen all four modalities.
Location: Century B
Strand: Academic Language and Literacy, Effective Practices
Level: ALL
Audience: ES, MJ, SS, EL, TE
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Session 305: Addressing the High Stakes of Academic Language
George Haynes (Francis Howell)
Elementary ESOL teachers are rightly required to live within the educational communities and the demands of several
buildings, multiple administrators, and competing requirements regarding how to deliver instruction. The only way to
survive, thrive and successfully rise above this challenge is to have a tenacious focus on academic vocabulary.
(Repeated #204)
Location: Pershing North
Strand: Academic language and Literacy, Program Management
Level: ALL
Audience: ALL
Session 306: Practicing Grammar Correction and Revision to Improve Student Writing
Kate Berger (Saint Louis Language Immersion Schools )
This session presents ways to develop students' writing skills through frequent short compositions, followed by
comprehensive corrective feedback and revision. By establishing a routine, based on practical correction codes,
teachers can provide meaningful, integrated, and differentiated support for their students, helping them learn to write
with greater accuracy and control.
(Repeated # 208)
Location: Shawnee
Strand: Academic Language and Literacy; Effective Practices
Level: Novice, Advanced
Audience: MJ, SS, EL, CT, TE
Session 307: Teaching English Around the World
Sandra Anderson (St. Louis Public)
The session will introduce opportunities provided through the U.S. State Department for K-12 teachers and teacher
educators who are interested in teaching English abroad. The presenter will explain which overseas teaching
programs are available, the process for applicants, where to find application information, and share insights and
experiences.
Location: Pershing East
Strand: Program Management
Level: ALL
Audience: ALL
Session 308: iPad Apps for K-5 ELL
Amber Murdock and Laura Mosely (Fort Osage)
Technology can be a useful tool to help students reach their potential. In this session we will collaborate about what
iPad apps are useful for our students K-5th grade. Participants will be able to download apps and check them out.
Bring your iPad and get ready to learn and share!
Location: Mission
Strand: Effective Practices
Level: ALL
Audience: ES, EL, SE
Please take a moment to evaluate the session you have attended
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Session 309: Meet the Parents
Claudia Franks (Southwest RPDC)
Parent participation is a key indicator of student success. Working with parents from different cultures can be
challenging. Empower yourself to meet that challenge and to lead your school towards greater success in meeting
the needs of the parents of your ELs.
Location: Pershing South
Strand: Program Management
Level: ALL
Audience: ALL
Session 310: Map it Out with Bubbl.us
Jessica Cinco (Arizona State University)
Fast, fun and free-- that’s exactly what you get with bubbl.us! This interactive session introduces a website that helps
students organize thoughts with easy to manipulate graphics thereby allowing structural issues to quickly be seen and
corrected at the start of the speech or essay crafting process.
Location: Pershing West
Strand: Effective Practices
Level: Novice, ALL
Audience: MJ, SS, EL, CT
Thank you to our 2014 Conference Sponsors
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American Reading Company
The Westin Kansas City at Crown Center
Get the kids of Missouri reading!
MELL and First Book are teaming up to get brand new books to the kids we serve!
Every $2.50 donated will help us get one book for a child in need.
Help MELL get to our goal of $1000 for books for ELL students across Missouri.
Donate today at: http://supporters.firstbook.org/goto/MELL
First Book is an international nonprofit that elevates the quality of education
for children in need by making available high-quality affordable books and
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Since 1992, First Book has distributed over 100 million new books to programs
and schools serving kids in need. First Book’s network-130,000 strong, with
approximately 7,000 additional educators and programs joining every month-is
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