WABE 2026 Annual Conference

When ELD specialists and classroom teachers plan with intention around high impact strategies, language learning shifts from routine to action! This session dives into the core moves of high‑impact co‑teaching, offering a clear look at how each co-teachers’ strategic role accelerates language development. Using a thoughtful planning guide and language‑rich strategies in three clear unit phases, co-teachers provide language learners what they need to achieve unit outcomes. The model culminates with all students producing high‑level language and literacy tied to a social‑justice‑focused action plan—affirming that for multilingual learners language is action.

This highly collaborative, interactive session will revisit frameworks for supporting our multilingual learners’ (MLLs) language development and the continuum of Second Language acquisition, begin to unpack basic “talk moves” and other ELD strategies and understand how integrating these routines into our classrooms and schools can scaffold and support equitable opportunities for academic discourse for every student, specifically our MLLs and complex learners.