Fall 2026 CoTESOL Convention

This session will focus on research, strategies, and resources available to empower your ML and Newcomer students.  One resource available is SIOP®, approved by CDE and listed an approved provider on the advisory list.  Research will also be shared from noted reading researcher Freddie Hiebert on ways to increase reading achievement. Jim Cummins and Jana Echevarria, a SIOP® author, will discuss their research and strategies via video clips. Resources authored by this noted researchers will also be shared.

CDE CLDE Credit: 5.11 Quality Standard III. Element B

Audience: Elementary Education (EE); Intensive English Program/Higher Education (IEP/HE); Content Area (CA); Secondary Education (SE); Teacher Education/Action Research (TE/AR)

Multilingual students face the dual challenges of adjusting to a new country and navigating an unfamiliar school system, often carrying unacknowledged trauma from their past or their journey to the U.S. For students with interrupted education and trauma-affected backgrounds, these experiences create both hurdles and opportunities. This session equips educators with actionable, low-prep strategies to support resilience and improve language output among marginalized students. Attendees will gain a practical methodology focused on the "how" to make a tangible difference in their classrooms.

Objectives
● Participants will evaluate techniques that support the learners who are missing years of formal education and also have experienced trauma.
● Participants will leave the session with actionable strategies that can be implemented immediately.
● Participants will create a short list of techniques that they feel prepared to implement.

Audience: Elementary Education

Reading connects learners to the world—and to each other. This session equips teachers with strategies to use real-life texts that inspire confidence and conversation, from workplace signage to community flyers to digital messages. Reading connects learners to the world—and to each other. This session equips teachers with strategies to use real-life texts that inspire confidence and conversation, from workplace signage to community flyers to digital messages.

Audience: Adult Education (AE)