The Title III Symposium provides valuable instructional tools and research-based strategies to ensure that emergent bilingual students attain
English proficiency while learning academic content that will ensure they meet the state’s academic achievement standards. Statewide practitioners,
including TEA staff, will offer sessions on innovative approaches for supporting our emergent bilingual students.
2025 Title III Symposium Recap Video
Welcome to the 2025 Title III Symposium! Check out what you can expect by attending this amazing conference to support educators of emergent bilingual students.
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Join us at the Title III Symposium in San Antonio from July 12th to July 14th.
2026 Focus Topics
- Establishing strong community partnerships and effective parent, family, and community engagement activities
- Ensuring access to emergent bilingual students and their families
- Developing a school/classroom environment that is responsive to the needs of students and families from a variety backgrounds.
- Creating LPAC procedures for identification, placement, and reclassification of emergent bilingual students
- Providing ongoing support for and monitoring linguistic growth and content performance
- Strategic lessons to facilitate the transition to English literacy
- Creating a recruitment and retention plan
- Planning a comprehensive professional development plan that is responsive to campus and district needs
- Incorporating ELPS into content-area instruction
- Monitoring instructional practices for emergent bilingual students
- Ensuring linguistic accommodations for emergent bilingual students
- Using data to guide instruction
- Linguistically sustaining practices, curriculum, assessments, and resources aligned to program goals
- Structuring academic content instruction to ensure mastery of TEKS, higher-order thinking skills, and academic proficiency (L, S, R, W) in English.
- Planning content-based language instruction that is, communicated (context-embedded resources, accessible language, repeated practice), sequenced (explicit language instruction, connections to prior learning) and/or scaffolded (modeling, structured language supports, task-based approach)
Valuable information to link content and instructional strategies in innovative ways to ensure the success of emergent bilingual students
Networking opportunities to connect and share examples of the tremendous things happening in your districts, schools, and classrooms.
Feelings of inspiration being refreshed and renewed to support our State’s EB students as they follow their individual journeys toward achieving success.