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for Language Departments

 

2nd annual Summer CI Strategies Camp (3)

New Beginnings

  • Connection Call
  • 2 Workshops (Up to 3 hours each)
  • Follow-up Call
2nd annual Summer CI Strategies Camp (3)

Team Transition

  • Connection Call
  • 2 Workshops (Up to 3 hours each)
  • Follow-up Call
  • Strategic Plan Creation
2nd annual Summer CI Strategies Camp (3)

Evolving Together

  • Connection Call
  • 3 Workshops (Up to 3 hours each)
  • Department Meeting
  • Follow-up Call
  • Strategic Plan Creation
2nd annual Summer CI Strategies Camp (3)

Spreading Our Wings

  • Connection Call
  • Curriculum Audit
  • 3 Workshops (Up to 3 hours each)
  • (1) Full Day Workshop
  • Department Meeting
  • Follow up Call
  • Strategic Plan Creation
2nd annual Summer CI Strategies Camp (3)

Total Transformation

  • Connection Call
  • Curriculum Audit
  • Assessment Review
  • 3 Workshops (Up to 3 hours each)
  • (1) Full Day Workshop
  • Observations & Coaching
  • 2 Department Meetings
  • Follow up Call
  • Strategic Plan Creation

Book A Connection Call with Noemí to Explore the Best Option for You!

Customized Workshops

 

Available for a half day or full day workshops on any of the below topics.

Bring technology and creativity together with tools that save time, boost engagement, and make AI approachable for every teacher.

  • AI Tools for Language Educators — Save hours and elevate your lessons with AI-powered prep and feedback tools.

  • AI Toolbox for Educators — Go beyond ChatGPT and explore innovative classroom-ready tools like MagicSchool, Canva, and Curipod.

  • AI Toolbox for Students — Teach AI literacy and empower students to use tech responsibly and creatively.

  • Chatbots for the WIN! — Build interactive AI chatbots that provide personalized speaking and writing practice.

  • Engaging Uses of Generative AI — Discover dozens of ways AI can enhance learning, creativity, and communication.

Keep students motivated with authentic communication, interactive strategies, and CI-based activities that make learning stick.

  • Culture + Comprehensible Input = The Perfect Pair! — Use authentic culture to drive communication and meaningful input.

  • Differentiation + CI in the Language Classroom — Meet every learner where they are with accessible, CI-based strategies.

  • Let’s MovieTalk! — Bring stories to life and provide rich repetition through the engaging MovieTalk strategy.

  • Moving & Grooving: Using Authentic Music with Elementary Students — Use music to build community, culture, and joy in your lessons.

  • Empowering Multilingual Learners at ALL Levels — Ensure every student feels seen and supported through inclusive, equitable instruction.

Design purposeful learning experiences aligned with standards, literacy growth, and proficiency goals.

  • Designing Backwards: Standards-Based Assessment Techniques — Align your assessments with proficiency and watch student growth soar.

  • Supporting Text-Based Comprehension & Communication Skills — Strengthen literacy and communication with scaffolded strategies that work.

  • Cultivating Multilingual Literacy Skills — Build reading and writing proficiency while keeping students communicating in the target language.

  • Nurturing Language Growth — Support early learners and students with language learning differences through inclusive, effective practices.

  • Personalizing the Path to Proficiency — Empower students to reflect, set goals, and track growth with self-assessment and portfolios.

Foster connection, empathy, and intercultural understanding through authentic resources and inclusive classroom practices.

  • Building Bridges: Cross-Cultural Literacy in Bilingual Education — Celebrate multilingualism and design lessons that build global awareness.

  • Change the Narrative — Transform your classroom library into a mirror of identity and belonging for every learner.

  • Give Every Student a Voice! — Create a classroom culture where multilingual students feel empowered, valued, and heard.

  • Lead with Inquiry: A Project-Based Approach to Language Learning — Use inquiry and global goals to inspire curiosity and real-world connections.

Combine technology, artistry, and communication to help students express themselves in powerful, meaningful ways.

  • Share Your Story! Digital Storytelling in the Language Classroom — Help students create and share their own stories through digital media.

  • Culture + CI = The Perfect Pair! — (Can also fit here!) Make culture the heartbeat of your CI lessons through art, film, and music.

  • Moving & Grooving — (Can be cross-listed here too!) Turn music into a language-learning superpower.

  • Lead with Inquiry — Inspire creative, interdisciplinary projects rooted in curiosity and authentic communication.

Customized Workshops

 

Available for a half day or full day workshops on any of the below topics.

AI & Innovation

AI Tools for Language Educators

Maximizing productivity is essential, and artificial intelligence is here to help language teachers! Discover how AI-powered tools can revolutionize content creation, save valuable time, and enhance effectiveness in the language classroom. Let’s unlock the potential of certain AI tools to save time and positively impact students’ language learning journeys.

AI Toolbox for Educators

ChatGPT is wonderful, but what other AI tools are available? There are many educational AI resources that build on ChatGPT technology, which are free, provide extra functionality and features, and make using AI more convenient for educators. We will explore many tools such as EduGPT, Diffit.me, Canva, Twee, MagicSchoolAI, Curipod, QuestionWell, Brisk, Schmely, and many more!

AI Toolbox for Students

Empower your students with AI Literacy! Let’s discuss current school policies, how we can navigate AI with our students responsibly and which guidelines to implement into your classroom. In this workshop we will explore ways students can use AI to enrich their learning with self-directed platforms, richer learning experiences, enhance creativity,
conversational practice and more. We will explore the use of several AI tools designed
to assist our students such as Khanmigo, Goblin Tools, Canva, Mizou, SchoolAI and many more!

Chatbots for the Win!

Let’s ditch the generic, one-size-fits all model and create a truly impactful learning experience for our students! This workshop will delve into customizing cutting-edge conversational AI chatbots built on Generative AI platforms. We’ll explore how to craft the most engaging prompts, ensuring an exceptional student learning experience. Beyond speaking practice, we’ll even tailor chatbots to act as intelligent writing and knowledge tutors. Discover how these chatbots can become your secret weapon, boosting student confidence and providing individualized feedback. This workshop is perfect for educators who want to revolutionize language learning by harnessing the power of personalized, AI-driven conversations.

Engaging Uses of Generative AI

Artificial Intelligence can be used in so many different ways in schools to improve
teaching, learning, creativity, productivity, support, and more for educators and students.
Explore dozens of uses for generative AI including support for reading, writing, daily tasks, tutoring, coding, conversations, feedback, and much more.

Comprehensible Input & Engagement

Culture + CI = The Perfect Pair!

This workshop will highlight how to use the target language to teach authentic cultural
content in your classroom through a variety of activities. Using art, music, games,
legends, geography, film and current events to connect with the target culture but also
ensure that it is comprehensible for your novice learners. Come learn techniques &
strategies to communicate with your learners and dive deep into a target culture!
By leading with culture, we will use authentic resources to help guide each of the CI activities. For example, using the strategies: movietalk with films, embedded reading with legends/current events, gallery walk with art & music and different games with geography. We will also explore how ChatGPT can help us create & modify texts to ensure that they are on the right proficiency level for students. Participants will experience each of these techniques and later, select content from their target culture to explore and plan future lessons.

Differentiation + CI in the Language Classroom

This workshop is tailored for K-12 World Language educators seeking to enhance their instructional practices to meet the diverse needs of students. Participants will explore the principles of differentiation and comprehensible input, gaining practical strategies to create an inclusive language classroom where every learner can thrive. The session will blend theory with hands-on activities, templates and tools they can immediately apply to promote language acquisition.

Let’s MovieTalk!

Ready for MovieTalk? In this session, you will experience a MovieTalk, brainstorm and design one of your own using available resources and get some spotlight by practicing a MovieTalk with colleagues! We will also discuss pre-viewing, while viewing and post viewing activities to get students ready, ensure they comprehend and demonstrate the language acquired! Get ready to learn, strategize and share with this great strategy to provide lots of engaging repetition!

Moving & Grooving

Moving & Grooving: Using Authentic Music with our Elementary Students!

Embark on a rhythmic journey in ‘Moving & Grooving”, offering dynamic strategies to
integrate culturally rich and authentic music into elementary language instruction.
Discover innovative ways to enliven lessons, foster language acquisition, and create a vibrant, inclusive classroom where students connect with language through the universal language of music.

Give Every Student a Voice!

Language can serve as a bridge or a barrier. This workshop will target the development
and implementation of effective communication strategies to empower multilingual learners. Together, we will explore how language can be a tool for empowerment, understanding, and dismantling systemic barriers. Participants will engage in a dynamic exploration of methodologies aimed at creating inclusive environments where multilingual students feel heard and valued. We will delve into practical techniques and tools that foster an atmosphere of understanding, appreciation, and support for linguistic
diversity within educational settings.

Curriculum, Literacy & Assessment

Designing Backwards

Standards Based Assessment Techniques

Let’s use the World Language Standards to guide our summative assessments and day to day formative assessments! We will tailor assessments to each mode of communication and track evidence to demonstrate a student’s growth from one proficiency level to the next. We will also design Integrated Performance Assessments with meaningful rubrics to
support student success. Let’s elevate your teaching by aligning assessments with
language proficiency to ensure a comprehensive and effective language learning experience for your students!

Supporting Text-Based Comprehension

Supporting Text-Based Comprehension & Communication Skills for Language Learners

This workshop delves into strategies and techniques to bolster text-based comprehension
and communication skills, providing educators with practical tools to help guide one’s language learning journey. Gain insights into effective instructional practices that foster reading comprehension, vocabulary development, and critical thinking skills in a
language acquisition context. Discover how to scaffold content, provide language
support, and differentiate instruction to ensure all students can access and engage with the curriculum. Explore activities and approaches that encourage language production, meaningful discussions, and collaborative learning, laying the foundation for improved
verbal expression and language fluency.

Cultivating Multilingual Literacy Skills

This full-day workshop is designed to empower bilingual educators to enhance literacy development in all language classrooms. The session will delve into effective strategies for fostering reading and writing skills while ensuring students actively communicate in the target languages. Participants will engage in hands-on activities, collaborative
discussions, and explore resources that can be integrated into their classrooms.

Nurturing Language Growth

Understanding Early Language Development and Addressing Language Learning Disabilities

Gain a comprehensive understanding of the stages of early language development in
children, from pre-K through elementary school. Develop the knowledge and skills
needed to identify signs of language learning disabilities in students. Learn how to adapt curriculum materials, implement differentiated instruction, and utilize assistive technologies to support students with language learning disabilities. Explore
collaborative approaches to intervention planning by working with special education
professionals, speech-language pathologists, and other support staff. Discover how collaborative efforts can enhance language support and positively impact the overall educational experience for students with language learning challenges. Let’s create inclusive, supportive, and effective language learning environments for ALL students.

Storytelling, Projects & Digital Creation

Building Bridges: Cross-Cultural Literacy in Bilingual Education

This full-day workshop focuses on building cross-cultural literacy skills within the context of bilingual education. Educators will explore how to create an inclusive learning environment that celebrates the diversity of languages and cultures represented in the student body. The workshop will provide practical tools for teachers to weave cultural understanding into language instruction, promoting a holistic approach to bilingual literacy.

Change the Narrative

Explore literature’s power to shape identity and foster belonging. This workshop will offer strategies to analyze reading materials, promote critical literacy, and create inclusive learning environments. Elevate your classroom library as a mirror for your learners, enabling them to see themselves in the narratives and feel empowered by diverse stories.
In this workshop, participants will discuss the impact of diverse narratives on building a sense of belonging, analyze current reading materials through an inventory audit, discuss classroom practices that promote a sense of belonging for all learners, and share ideas/strategies for overcoming challenges in implementing inclusive reading materials.
Partner work, small group and whole group activities will lead these different discussions and participants will be provided with resources & questions to consider from the Learning for Justice frameworks. “Readers: Change the Narrative” aims to empower educators to be catalysts for positive change in the narratives of their students, fostering
a sense of belonging for all.

Voices from the Classroom & Beyond

 

Noemi is a powerful educator, intentional leader, and fantastic human. She designs learning experiences that are practical, culturally relevant, and grounded in best practices. I would recommend her to anyone; she facilitates learning experiences of the highest quality, and anyone who works with her will be highly satisfied!

Dr. Ashley Warren

District Supervisor, West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District

Noemi Rodriguez is a highly recommended professional in the field of professional development and mentoring. Her expertise and guidance have made a significant impact on my teaching career, leading me to achieve both success and a genuine passion for education. Noemi’s dedication to helping others grow and develop professionally is evident through her personalized and impactful mentorship. I highly suggest seeking her guidance if you desire to enhance your skills and find inspiration in your teaching journey. She is truly one of a kind.

Mrs. Jenny Rousos

Spanish Teacher, Bridgewater-Raritan Regional School District

Where Learning Comes to Life

 

From hands-on collaboration to meaningful conversations, our workshops are filled with creativity, connection, and growth.

Here’s a glimpse of what it feels like to learn, laugh, and lead together with Lo Logramos. 🦋

Scenes from our workshops

Watch the magic in action

 

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