439-822 Co-Teaching for Multilingal Learners Ensure ML Meet Challenging Content Standards
Description
Schedule:
- August 18, 2025: 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm
- September 18, 2025: 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
- October 2, 2025: 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Location: Appleton Area School District - 2701 N Oneida St Suite C3, Appleton, Wisconsin 54911
Price: $275
Content Questions: Gretchen Lettau (gretchen.lettau@cesa2.org)
Registration Questions: events@cesa2.org
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About this Event: Are you looking for ways to ensure multilingual learners can meet the same challenging content standards as their English-proficient peers? Teachers will engage in opportunities to read, discuss, and reflect on the language of their content standards aligned to the English Language Development Standards. They will also co-plan for using language to make meaning, co-assess for content and language, and determine instructional strategies to support content and language development for all students.
NOTE: Participants will need to purchase the texts on their own:
• Gibbons, P. (2015). Scaffolding Language Scaffolding Learning: Teaching English in the Mainstream Classroom. Heinemann.
• Honigsfeld, A. and Dove, M. (2017). Co-Teaching for English Learners. Corwin.
• WIDA ELD Standards 2020 Framework
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Our Presenters:
Gretchen Lettau is a consultant in the Language and Culture Center of Excellence supporting the areas of Language Acquisition, English Learners, and Dual Language Education. Gretchen has worked as a teacher and coordinator for 20 years with culturally and linguistically diverse populations. She comes to CESA 2 after working in the Menasha Joint School District as a high school history, ESL and Bilingual teacher, and coordinator for the EL and Bilingual Programs. Throughout her career, Gretchen has collaborated with school districts in the areas of best practices, EL Co-teaching methods, academic language development, literacy and language practices when implementing workshop models, program reviews, and professional learning. Gretchen has a Master’s Degree in Curriculum and Instruction, and holds administrative licenses for the principalship and director of curriculum and instruction.
Dr. Amy Swick began her teaching career in the Washoe County School District in Reno, Nevada. While teaching second grade, third grade, and English Learners at Echo Loder Elementary School, she trained in Reading Recovery and received a Master’s Degree in Literacy from the University of Nevada-Reno. After moving back to the Fox Valley area, Amy has worked as an EL/Newcomer teacher at McKinley Elementary School, district literacy coach for grades 3-6, and as the EL/Bilingual Coordinator in the Appleton Area School District. During her time in the Appleton Area School District, Amy has collaborated with other districts to provide staff development in best practices for English Learners, EL Co-teaching methods, academic language instruction, and culturally and linguistically responsive practices. She teaches graduate classes for the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh as an adjunct professor and supports current teachers in obtaining their Master’s Degree. Amy is a lifelong learner and received her Doctorate in Educational Leadership from Edgewood College in 2019.
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