Conference Session: A Comprehensive Approach to Early Learning: Integrating Language, Content, and Literacy for young Dual Language Learners

Session description

In this session, participants will discover SEAL’s Comprehensive Approach to Learning through an engaging draw-and-tell presentation. The focus will be on developing an early learning environment that effectively integrates Language, Content, and Literacy, with a special emphasis on supporting Dual Language Learners. Participants will learn how to combine these domains to enhance academic success and literacy development, ensuring that all children, particularly those learning in multiple languages, thrive in a joyful and rigorous setting, with oral language development as the foundation for their social and academic growth.

‍Date: March 8, 2025
Time: 3:50 – 4:50 PM PST

‍Location: Oakland Marriott City Center ‍

Panelists

‍• Sara Rizik-Baer, Program Manager, SEAL
• Patricia Pate, Senior Program Manager - Knowledge Hub, SEAL

Event host: Oakland Literacy Coalition

About the Event:

The Oakland Literacy Coalition’s annual Literacy & Justice for All Symposium brings together school and community educators, practitioners, funders, leaders, influencers, and community stakeholders committed to sharing and learning effective strategies, approaches, and tools that address the literacy needs of all learners. This event provides fighters for literacy justice with expanded spaces for professional learning in community and a chance to collaborate with literacy allies and champions across the region.

Our work toward literacy justice is critical. 1-in-3 children who started school during the pandemic need extensive literacy support. At the state level, California has the lowest literacy rate in the country with only 77% of adults considered mid to highly literate. In our hometown of Oakland, only 1-in-3 students are reading on or above their grade-level.