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2023 Hybrid Title III Symposium - San Antonio, Texas - July 17-18, 2023
Home Call for Proposals Registration Venue/Hotel Exhibitors Keynote Awards

Welcome



We are pleased to welcome you to the 2023 Hybrid Title III Symposium. There is much to
celebrate as we join together in the lovely river city of San Antonio, Texas, and share relevant,
research-based strategies to ensure that emergent bilingual students experience an increase in
academic achievement and positive school outcomes. The theme guiding this year's Symposium
is: Building the Blueprint - Constructing Success for Emergent Bilingual Students.

This year's event will take place in the Henry B. González Convention Center and will include a
Networking Social on Sunday, July 16 from 5 to 7 pm, to build connections and share ideas. We invite you
to enjoy appetizers and drinks while previewing poster sessions highlighting best practices utilized by
talented educators across the state. During the Symposium you will choose from a variety of breakout
sessions presented by Texas colleagues. These sessions will provide valuable information that links content
and instructional strategies in innovative ways to support emergent bilingual student success. The
intentional selection of sessions and leveraging these networking opportunities will allow you to connect
and share examples of the tremendous things happening in your schools, and classrooms.

We are excited to see you this summer. Take a moment to review the site and register today!

Dr. Lara Headshot

Sincerely,
Dr. Julie Lara, Director
Emergent Bilingual Support Division
Office of Special Populations and Monitoring
Texas Education Agency
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Purpose



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.

Rounder

Key Takeaways/Objectives


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.

Engineers

Feelings of inspiration, being refreshed and renewed to support our State's emergent bilingual students as they follow their individual journeys toward achieving success in our communities.

2023 Focus Topics



Leadership & Family and Community Empowerment


  • Establishing strong community partnerships
  • Effective parent, family, and community engagement activities
  • Ensuring equitable access to emergent bilingual students and their families
  • Developing a school/classroom environment that is responsive to the needs of students and families of diverse backgrounds
  • Leveraging resources to support emergent bilingual students

Program Model and Design


  • Providing ongoing support for and monitoring linguistic growth and content performance
  • Adhering and monitoring program implementation
  • Ensuring equitable access to emergent bilingual students and their families
  • Strategic lessons to facilitate transition to English literacy

Staffing and Professional Development


  • Creating a recruitment and retention plan
  • Planning a comprehensive professional development plan that is responsive to campus and district needs
  • Training on primary language literacy and strategies for making cross-linguistic connections, culturally and linguistically sustaining practices, content based language instruction, and the Texas English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS)

Lesson Planning and Methods


  • 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

Curriculum and Resources


  • Culturally and 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)

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Symposium Schedule

Sunday, July 16

Time What location
4:00pm-7:00pm Early Check-In 2nd Floor Foyer
5:00pm-7:00pm Networking Social - NEW 2nd Floor Foyer
5:00pm-7:00pm Exhibitor Time 2nd Floor Foyer

      Join us for our Networking Social, a time to build connections and share ideas. Enjoy appetizers and drinks while previewing poster sessions highlighting best practices utilized by talented educators across the state.

Monday, July 17

Time What location
7:30-8:30 Light Breakfast & Exhibitor Time Hemisfair Ballroom Foyer
8:30-10:00 Welcome and Awards Hemisfair Ballroom
10:00-10:30 Break/Poster Session Breakout Foyer
10:30-11:45 Breakout Session 1 Breakout Rooms
12:00-1:00 Lunch Hemisfair Ballroom
1:15-2:30 Breakout Session 2 Breakout Rooms
2:30-3:00 Poster Session - Snack Provided Breakout Foyer
3:00-4:15 Breakout Session 3 Breakout Rooms
4:15-5:30 Exhibitor Time Breakout Foyer

Tuesday, July 18

Time What location
7:30-8:30 Light Breakfast & Exhibitor Time Hemisfair Ballroom Foyer
8:30-9:00 Welcome and TEA Updates Breakout Foyer
9:00-10:00 Keynote Hemisfair Ballroom
10:00-10:30 Break/Poster Session Breakout Foyer
10:30-11:45 Breakout Session 4 Breakout Rooms
12:00-1:00 Lunch Ballroom
1:15-2:30 Breakout Session 5 Breakout Rooms
2:30-3:00 Poster Sessions - Snack Provided Breakout Foyer
3:00-4:15 Breakout Session 6 Breakout Rooms

Continuing Professional
Education Hours

Educators attending both days of the conference will be awarded 12 CPE credit hours upon completion of the overall symposium evaluation.

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