Empowering Multilingual Learners with Adverse Childhood Experiences

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Description:

One of the most significant challenges facing students across the nation is the high prevalence of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). Nearly half of all children and youth in the United States have encountered trauma, violence, or chronic stress due to abuse, neglect, or other household challenges. In addition to these alarming statistics, many multilingual learners and their families face unique disruptions, including living in war zones, experiencing persecution, undertaking perilous journeys to seek safety in the U.S., family separation, fear of deportation, and homelessness.

Despite extensive resources for counselors addressing trauma, there is a noticeable gap in materials designed specifically for educators working with multilingual learners who have experienced ACEs. This three-part interactive series will address this gap by presenting evidence-based strategies, tools, and examples of instructional and school-wide practices. The three sessions will focus on recognizing and leveraging the strengths and assets of these students and their families to foster a supportive and empowering educational environment.

Overarching Learning Objectives:

  • Understanding Strengths-Based Practices
    Collaboratively examine the urgency and essential elements of strengths-based approaches in educational settings.
  • Application to Communities
    Explore how strengths-based practices can be applied to support students, families, schools, and local communities effectively.
  • Instructional Strategies
    Investigate evidence-based instructional strategies to create strengths-based classroom and school environments that empower multilingual learners with adverse childhood experiences.

Format: Synchronous live Zoom sessions
Total Duration: 10 hours of MA approved professional development hours
Capacity: 15-30 participants per Zoom cohort

Course Features

Includes live, interactive community-based learning

  • Focuses on strategies to support multilingual learners facing trauma
  • Research-based and practical approaches
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What Will You Learn?

  • This course equips educators to empower multilingual learners living with adversity. The course is guided by research, evidence based practices and the collective expertise of practitioners.

Course Content

Module 1: The urgency for a strengths-based approach
Key Topics: • Defining the prevalence of adverse childhood experiences (e.g., abuse, neglect, and household challenge) and its relation to the experiences of multilingual learners. • Debunking deficit-based narratives and their outcomes. • Shifting to a strengths-based stance. What does the research tell us? • Introducing evidence-based tools for enacting a strengths-based approach in our work as teachers, specialists, counselors, school principals, and other stake holders with multilingual learners.

Module 2: Creating a Strengths-Based Learning Environment
Key Topics: How can we create a learning environment that supports the inherent and inherent qualities and values in our students so they feel a sense of safety, belonging, value, competence, and the confidence to speak on behalf of themself and others? Fostering belonging in the classroom design Building Positive Relationships Connecting learning to students' lives Promoting students' voice and choice Using consistent routines and practices

Module 3: Fostering Family/Guardian Engagement
Key Topics: • Moving from What We Don’t Know • Building Partnerships on Student’s Success • Guiding Principles for Engaging Families • Involving Families in Classroom- and School-Based Events

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