Name: Beyond Compliance
Start: 2024-09-28T08:30:00-07:00
End: 2025-05-31T12:45:00-07:00
Location: UNLV Bennett Professional Development Center Room 112

PD series designed for all educators who work with multilingual learners with or at-risk of having learning disabilities.
About this Event

This professional development series is designed for all educators who work with multilingual learners with or at-risk of having learning disabilities. These students have unique strengths and challenges that should guide their literacy instruction. Attendees will explore how to center the intersection of students’ developing language, culture, and disability in planning literacy instruction. Join us in these 4 sessions!

Cost to attend is $50 per session per person.

Attend three sessions and the fourth one is FREE!

You can attend individual sessions or the entire series.

Session 1: September 28, 2024

Part I: Intersection of Language, Culture, and Disability (Gloria Carcoba Falomir, Ph.D.)

Part II: Where am I? Centering Multilingual Learners with Disabilities’ Funds of Knowledge in Literacy Instruction (Fatmana Kara Deniz, Ph.D.).

Session 2: November 2, 2024

Part I: What Did You Say? Listening and Speaking in Literacy Instruction (Tracy G. Spies, Ph.D.)

Part II: Developing Academic Language (Gloria Carcoba Falomir, Ph.D.)

Session 3: April 5, 2025

Part I: They Can Read, But They Don’t Understand: Reading Instruction for Multilingual Learners with Learning Disabilities (Suheyla Sarisahin, Ph.D.)

Part II: Writing Across the Instructional Day (Tracy Spies, Ph.D.).

Sesion 4: May 31, 2025

Part I: Pssst... You Don’t Have to be Bilingual: Capitalizing on MLLDs’ Home Language to Develop English Literacy (Suheyla Sarisahin, Ph.D.)

Part II: Numbers, Numbers, and More Numbers: Data-Based Decision Making in Literacy Instruction (Fatmana Kara Deniz, Ph.D.)