The purpose of this eWorkshop is to learn how to build on students' linguistic and cultural assets to foster additive bilingualism. Participants will be part of an online Professional Learning Community that supports participants’ collaboration and fosters ownership of their learning. Over the course of 15 weeks (January -April) participants engage in 6 modules that each consist of 3 sections: Explore, Make it Work, and Share. They select ideas to try out in their classrooms and share their experiences with colleagues in online discussion boards and one online meeting. The estimated time needed to complete the eWorkshop is 20 hours.

Webinar Date: March 30, 2022
Time: 3:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
Cost: Free (Registration paid for by WDE)

The essential question for this eWorkshop is: How can we build on students' linguistic and cultural assets to foster additive bilingualism?

Modules 1-5 contain the following guiding questions that support participants in responding to the essential question during Module 6.

1. How does speaking a language other than English benefit students in U.S schools?
2. How do bilingual learners access information and express what they know when they are learning through
        two languages?
3. How is teaching on the "Second Language Pathway" different from teaching on the first? What are the
        implications for school leaders?
4. How do bilingual learners transfer the knowledge they have gained through one language to express
        themselves in another language?
5. How can educators help bilingual students increase their communicative competence in a second
        language? What are the implications for school leaders?