HMH at ALAS 2016

Dear ALAS Colleagues:

Welcome to the 2016 ALAS Summit! We at HMH^® continue to work diligently to leverage our company's proven assets in support of the ALAS community we have served since its inception. At HMH, we recognize that your attendance reflects your commitment to serving and ensuring that the Latino youth, English learners and other students in your district receive the highest quality instruction that not only fosters academic growth, but also nurtures passionate, lifelong learning.

HMH is a proud ALAS sponsor, and we are committed to developing curriculum solutions that are current in their focus, and enduring in their legacy. As new paradigms for empowering English learners’ academic language growth emerge, HMH continues to produce content that ensures your teachers are inspired and prepared by implementing the best practices that yield positive results both in and outside of school.

Our HMH/ALAS team looks forward to meeting you and engaging in conversations about your district, its needs, its resources, and how we can support your efforts and the momentum you are building in your district.

With kind regards,

Robert F. Sheridan
Vice President, Strategic Partnerships

Join HMH during one of our compelling discussions on topics that impact today's English learners.

Concurrent Sessions:

• Making a Difference for Long-Term English Learners: Effective Uses of Technology For Success With Rigorous Performance Standards
  
  Thursday, 10/13, 2:00 PM—3:00 PM
  Room: Freedom G, Sheraton Hotel
  
  Dr. Elena Izquierdo will hold a Breakout Session entitled: Making a Difference for Long-Term English Learners: Effective Uses of Technology For Success With Rigorous Performance Standards. This session will focus on how implementing a digital learning environment for long-term English learners can be challenging, given the need for students to collaborate with others as they grow academic language. When digital and print learning environments work hand-in-glove, through leveraging the best medium for specific learning objectives, then English learners experience an optimal environment for their academic language and literacy growth.
  
  This session will engage participants in an exploration of how online learning can optimize the academic language and literacy growth of long-term English learners in this era of academic rigor. Participants should bring a laptop or tablet to this session.
  
  
• Make Teacher Learning Go Viral Using the EdCamp Model
  
  Friday, 10/14, 11:00 AM—12:00 PM
  Room: Independence D, Sheraton Hotel 
  
  EdCamp, along with HMH, will facilitate a roundtable discussion about how participant-driven professional learning has impacted participating schools. EdCamps leverage collaborative technology and social media to build kinship among educators and improve the professional development experience, especially as schools implement new technology programs. This session will provide attendees with information and hand-on activities for utilizing the EdCamp model to make teacher learning go viral in your district.

Roundtable Sessions:

• Sharing Successful Strategies for Engaging EL Families
  
  Thursday, 10/13, 8:30 AM—10:00 AM
  Room: Liberty A/B, Sheraton Hotel
  
  Lise Ragan, one of the authors of the research-based HMH Family Engagement program, will facilitate a series of roundtable discussions on the topic of successful strategies and professional development for developing and sustaining effective engagement of English Learner families. Participants in the discussions will share what their districts have done to engage EL families of students Pre-K–12, and what the results have been. The Facilitators will share strategies and results from pilot districts in Massachusetts, Texas, California, New York, and Florida.
  
  
• Rigor for English Learners
  
  Friday, 10/14, 3:00 PM—4:30 PM
  Room: Liberty A/B, Sheraton Hotel
  
  Dr. Elena Izquierdo, Associate Professor, Dual Language/Biliteracy/ELL Education, University of Texas at El Paso, will facilitate a discussion of the essential role academic rigor plays in ensuring English learners are prepared to meet today’s more challenging academic standards.

English Learner Support Across the Curriculum

HMH Family Engagement © 2017 is a comprehensive program for Pre-K–12 that brings English learner families and educators together to improve the academic achievement of their students. Offering a unique combination of professional learning and program resources for partnering with families, HMH Family Engagement ensures families have the knowledge and insights into the topics that impact student success. Hear from program authors, Sylvia Acevedo and Lise Ragan, as they discuss best practices and strategies that build capacity and effective partnerships with EL families and educators in their white papers located on the Family Engagement Forum. Contact your Account Executive for a free 30-day preview of the program.

HMH Family Engagement: Making a Difference

Escalate English™ © 2017 is an English language development program for students in Grades 4–8, who are—or are at risk of becoming—long-term English learners. The program is designed to help students raise their proficiency and realize their potential by providing language-rich, intellectually challenging experiences to engage and motivate students. Learn more about how Escalate English helps students raise their proficiency and realize their potential.  Hear from program consultant, Dr. Elena Izquierdo, as she shares how to help English learner students achieve success while accessing rigorous content in her Access to Rigor for EL Success white paper. Contact your Account Executive for access information for our 120-day preview of Escalate English today.

Escalate English © 2017 Overview Hear more from Dr. Elena Izquierdo as she discusses three strategies to support English learners.

On Our Way to English® is a comprehensive English language development solution for children in Grades K–5 at the Newcomer to Intermediate/Advanced levels who are continuing to make expected progress in proficiency. On Our Way to English brings domain-based instruction to every language learner through best practices and instruction. Driven by the latest ELD Standards, On Our Way to English is fully supportive of 21st-century teaching and learning and brings every student to the core through an innovative, blended delivery of print and digital content.

English 3D® is a powerful, NEW English Language development program designed to accelerate proficiency in the academic language, speaking, listening, and writing skills vital to success in school and in life. Dr. Kate Kinsella, English 3D program author and an authority on English Language Development, has devoted her career to understanding the hurdles that many English learners encounter in school and developing ways to help them prevail. The program addresses the individual needs of students across the spectrum of language acquisition, differentiating instruction to ensure efficient and effective acceleration. With English 3D, schools and districts across the country can finally help struggling English learners confidently develop the critical language and literacy skills they need to fulfill to achieve academic success and become accountable, engaged civilians. For more information about English 3D, and to see sample content, visit our website: hmhco.com/english3d

READ 180® Universal is an evidence-based, blended learning solution that combines the leading research in brain science and cognitive functioning with over 15 years of efficacy studies and best practices to help struggling students accelerate to reading proficiency. Developed for Grades 4 and up, READ 180 Universal uses adaptive technology to create personalized instructional paths for students while building background knowledge with engaging and age-appropriate content at each level. It includes second language supports, including Spanish captioning and translations at key areas of instruction that can help students with beginning and intermediate English proficiency levels access the texts, build background knowledge, and experience success.  To learn more about READ 180 Universal and see sample content, visit our website: hmhco.com/read180

HMH Assessments

Proven, High-Quality Instruments to Assess Your English Learners

From early childhood to adult learning, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt^® provides the products you need to appropriately assess language proficiency, cognitive ability, achievement, accelerated program eligibility, and more.

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