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Ingrid Heidrick

Sep 17, 2026

15:00
When teachers are thinking about their planning and they're going to sit down and they're planning a literacy lesson, what are the first language demands that teachers can look for? And how can they identify the places where multilingual learners may need additional support before the lesson even begins?
15:20
So I'm going to go back to the text.
15:24
What is this text about? Okay, that's the first question I want teachers to ask themselves.
15:30
Now, of course, I know teachers have read the text, right? And they've been teaching the text now for a number of years, depending on, you know, how long they've been using the curriculum.
15:39
But I want them to stop thinking about skills for a second.
15:43
Let's put that to the side.
15:45
What is this text about? And I want to give you a specific example.

31 MINS LATER

46:36
So how can a school community, how can teachers work together to provide that integrated instruction throughout the entire day?

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