Engaging Educators 2025

This session is designed to share information about four practical concepts that enhance academic language for all students. By learning about these concepts, educators will learn how strategies that are essential for students learning English can be beneficial for all students in all classrooms. Educators will learn about a webinar series that provides research behind these concepts and strategies that can be used immediately to strengthen inclusive Tier 1 Core practices and support students in building academic language within a multi-tiered system of support (MTSS) framework.

Discipline-specific literacy ensures opportunities for students to engage in learning that uses reading and writing skills specific to each field’s content knowledge whereby students demonstrate and publish their learnings. This session will support educators across ELA, science, and social studies ground their students in complex, grade-level texts. Join us to explore high-quality instruction that will place productive struggle squarely on the students’ shoulders.
Becky Michael, Sarah Shaffer, and Bre Wilton are the Nebraska Department of Education’s Education Specialists in the areas of ELA, science, and social studies, respectively. Please join us for Part A and Part B sessions as we’re excited to visit with you about disciplinary literacy!

Join Becky Michael for Part B of Literacy Across Content Areas where we will specifically look at the expert content within ELA. We will also visit Nebraska's ACT data and some ways we can improve our students' performances.