Building Multilingual Learner Profiles: Designing Responsive Literacy & Language Instruction
Discover how truly knowing your multilingual learners can transform instruction! In this interactive session, educators will explore four authentic multilingual learner case studies that illuminate the diverse language, literacy, and cultural assets students bring to the classroom. The presenters will also share critical moves and practical tools that support gathering meaningful student information. Join us to continue building your multilingual learner toolkit in order to design responsive, strengths-based literacy and language instruction.
FORMAT: VIRTUAL - Meeting link will be forwarded to registered and paid participants.
DATE: Thursday, 1/22/26
TIME: 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
FACILITATORS: Mary Sandoval, ENL Instructional Coach & Katherine Nelson, Language & Literacy Specialist
CONTACT: Mary Sandoval and Abbey Ferris, acarcny@gmail.com
FEE: *No fee for ACARC members - Reading Council enrollment fee: $30 (paid online); $10 for non-member
CTLE HOURS: 1.5
REGISTRATION: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?I=5285192&D=13206
$30 – ACARC Yearly Membership*
Includes access to all ACARC professional development events for 2025–26.
(Note: Dr. Guice’s Book Clubs require an additional fee.)
Non-member Fee:
$10 per event
*Your membership includes:
Access to all other Virtual and Hybrid ACARC PD events throughout the year
Annual membership in both ACARC and the New York State Reading Association (NYSRA)
A discounted rate for the annual NYSRA Conference in November
Please note: Dr. Guice’s full-year book study group requires an additional fee.