ELL Best Practices: Newcomers, SLIFE, and LTELs (Grades K-12)

Presented by Jennifer Benedict Medina
Outstanding EL Teacher, Author and International Presenter

Specifically Designed for Educators Working With English Learners (ELs) in Grades K-12: EL Teachers, EL Paraprofessionals, Instructional Coaches and Administrators

The most effective EL teaching strategies for supporting Newcomers, SLIFE (Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education) and LTELs (Long-term English Learners)
Highly practical tools and activities to move SLIFE and LTELs towards proficiency
Strategies to increase your newcomers' engagement and success
Receive an extensive EL instruction digital resource handbook packed full of ideas, strategies, lessons, and useful resources you can use immediately to help your English Learners

Practical Ideas and Strategies

Looking to unlock success for your English Learners? Supporting Newcomers, SLIFE, and Long-Term English Learners (LTELs) requires a specialized, responsive approach that addresses both language development and academic success. These students often face unique challenges—learning English while adapting to a new culture, recovering from interrupted schooling, or struggling to meet grade-level expectations despite years in U.S. schools. This NEW seminar, led by outstanding EL teacher Jennifer Benedict Medina, is designed to provide you with the most effective, research-based strategies to meet these needs. In this strategy-packed day, Jennifer shares best practices for designing instruction that builds both language and content knowledge, fosters student engagement, and provides the scaffolds necessary for meaningful progress.

Discover how to:

Build welcoming, culturally responsive classroom environments that set students up for success
Support language development while closing academic gaps
Differentiate instruction for varying levels of proficiency and prior schooling

You'll leave this seminar with a wealth of ready-to-use strategies, an extensive digital resource handbook, and renewed confidence in your ability to support your English Learners with care, clarity, and impact—no matter where they start.

Ten Key Benefits of Attending

Better Support Newcomers, SLIFE, and LTELs
Proven and proactive teaching strategies to better support English learners at various stages of language development
Target Instruction to Meet Diverse Needs
Specific strategies to target your instruction to meet the diverse needs of your Newcomers, SLIFE and LTELs … Dozens of innovative, alternative ways for ELs to demonstrate their understanding and how to assess and grade student learning based on proficiency levels
Identify and Support SLIFE and LTELs
Discover the most effective strategies to identify who your SLIFE (Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education) and LTELs (Long-Term English Learners) are … Gain practical approaches to emotionally and academically support them in the classroom
Quickly Create Highly Engaging Lessons for Newcome
A wealth of strategies to enable ELs to become confident, engaged students who overcome language and literacy barriers … Learn how to more effectively encourage, engage and support newcomers as they build confidence to participate and demonstrate their learning
Assess and Grade Based on Proficiency Levels
Learn how to provide alternative ways for English Learners to demonstrate their understanding and how to accurately assess and grade student learning based on their proficiency levels
Utilize Research-Based Instructional Strategies
Implement research-based instructional strategies to more effectively address the diverse learning needs your Newcomers, SLIFE and LTELs … Strategic plans and structured steps to take that are individualized, effective and evidence based
Foster a Supportive Environment for English Learners
Acquire practical tools to create a more welcoming, inclusive classroom that supports language development across all domains: reading, writing, grammar, listening, and oral language
Empower SLIFE and LTELs
Empower and motivate your SLIFE and LTELs to access and stay engaged with age-appropriate materials, grade-level content, and culturally responsive teaching practices
Improve Collaboration With School Teams
Learn how to improve collaboration with school teams to provide targeted instruction that effectively meets the specific needs of newcomers, SLIFE, and LTELs
Receive an Extensive Digital Resource Handbook
Receive a comprehensive digital resource handbook complete with practical ideas, strategies, lessons, and useful resources you can immediately use in your instruction

Outstanding Strategies You Can Use Immediately

Here's what you'll learn:

Innovative instructional strategies specific to meeting the needs of Newcomers, SLIFE and LTELs
Accelerated learning methods and strategies to optimize opportunities for academic growth and achievement of ELs
Effective ways to optimally support ELs in reaching their full potential
Increase academic gains using data to collaborate with colleagues
How to increase motivation and student engagement to help ELs make strong academic gains in English and the content areas
Exciting, hands-on, and engaging ways to enhance language instruction within grade-level content
High-impact strategies to help accelerate your ELs' content area knowledge
How to effectively help support the social and emotional needs of newcomers, SLIFE and LTELs
Ways to scaffold and differentiate your instruction to best meet the needs of your ELs
Easy strategies to share with colleagues who need help with supporting Newcomers, SLIFE and LTELs
Ideas, Ideas, Ideas … Outstanding strategies for increasing ELs' achievement and motivation and support teachers with ELs in ELD pull out or mainstream classrooms

A Message From Your Seminar Leader

Dear Colleague:

Teaching students who are new to the English language and our culture is extremely rewarding. It also brings many challenges to ensure that our second language learners are gaining access to mainstream curriculum and learning alongside every student, despite the varied educational experiences and language levels found within one classroom. Add to this, the educational gaps – it is important for every teacher to be equipped with tools and strategies that are effective, engaging, and practical so both the teacher and student can feel successful.

With many years of experience working with ELs in both mainstream and EL classrooms, I have worked to maximize language development in the classroom and minimize barriers and challenges by creating engaging, ready-to-use strategies and activities that work in the classroom. Learning must be engaging for newcomers during the difficult transition to a new language, school, and culture and also motivating for ELs with educational gaps.

I can't wait to share ideas with you that will help you enhance your current program. You'll leave this session with a collection of practical lessons and strategies you can implement immediately. While designed with ELs in mind, these approaches benefit all students and reflect the core of great teaching.

Sincerely,
Jennifer Benedict Medina

P.S. You will leave my seminar with dozens of outstanding strategies you can use to address your Newcomers, SLIFEs and LTELs learning needs!

Who Should Attend

Educators Working with English Learners (ELs) in Grades K-12: EL Teachers, EL Paraprofessionals, Instructional Coaches and Administrators

Special Benefits of Attending

Extensive Digital Resource Handbook
Each participant will receive an extensive digital resource handbook specifically designed for this seminar. The handbook includes:

Dozens of powerful strategies to help Newcomers, SLIFEs and LTELs get the most out of your lessons
Effective ideas for engaging students to maximize learning success
Strategies for supporting the social and emotional needs of all your ELs
Fun and innovative approaches to accelerate language acquisition and content area learning, and to make the most of your instructional time

For in-person seminars, registrants will also receive a printed copy of the resource handbook as long as their registration is received in the BER office at least 15 calendar days before the event.

Share Ideas
This seminar provides a wonderful opportunity for participants to meet and share ideas with other educators interested in EL teaching strategies for supporting Newcomers, SLIFE and LTELs.

Consultation Available
Jennifer Benedict Medina will be available for consultation regarding your questions and the unique needs of your own program.

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