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Allyson Newton, NBCT

@allysonnewton.bsky.social

Previously: - K-8 ESL teacher in NC - WIDA Professional Professional Learning Specialist & Content Developer Currently: - Senior SIOP® Product Manager at Savvas Learning Company (SIOP.Savvas.com) - A renewed National Board Certified Teacher

184 Followers  |  215 Following  |  8 Posts  |  Joined: 17.11.2024  |  1.8918

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🎉 Join us at #WIDA2025!
Don’t miss SIOP Author, Dr. Katie Toppel’s workshop on Tues, Oct 28th (2:45pm). Then stop by the Savvas Booth #27 for a meet & greet (4:15-4:45pm), snacks, & prizes!

👉 savvas.com/SIOP
#MLLchat #ELs @katietoppel.bsky.social #SIOP #ELsCan #K12 #ELskychat #EduSky #EduSkyChat

28.10.2025 14:30 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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🏫 Building background supports academic language development for ALL students.
➡️ Download our FREE SIOP® strategies resource for ideas and inspiration: ow.ly/gj2z50X1Hr3

#SIOP #ELsCan #MLLChat #K12 #ELs #ELskychat #EduSky #EduSkyChat #PD4uAndMe

01.10.2025 17:33 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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🌟Reserve your spot TODAY for the 2025 SIOP® Virtual Conference taking place July 8–10!
👉 Savvas.com/SIOP2025

Don’t miss this engaging event PACKED w/ POWERFUL TEACHING STRATEGIES to support ALL students—especially multilingual learners.

#ELSky #EduSky #EduSkyChat #PD4uAndMe #MLL #K12 #TeacherPD

20.06.2025 22:29 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Productive Vocabulary Practice for Multilingual Learners: Proven Techniques for Your Classroom - edWeb Join this edwebinar to discover techniques and activities you can use to support productive vocabulary practice in your classroom.

FREE WEBINAR with SIOP Author Dr. Katie Toppel!
@katietoppel.bsky.social
4/28 at 4pm Eastern
"Productive Vocabulary Practice for Multilingual Learners: Proven Techniques for Your Classroom"
home.edweb.net/webinar/ell2...

See You There!
#ELSky #EduSky #EduSkyChat #PD4uAndMe #MLL #ELs #K12 #SIOP

23.04.2025 17:30 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Productive Vocabulary Practice for Multilingual Learners: Proven Techniques for Your Classroom - edWeb Join this edwebinar to discover techniques and activities you can use to support productive vocabulary practice in your classroom.

📣 Join us! 🙌
FREE edWeb webinar on 4/28 with SIOP author Dr. Katie Toppel:
"Productive Vocabulary Practice for Multilingual Learners: Proven Techniques for Your Classroom"
Register Here:
home.edweb.net/webinar/ell2...

Share please.
#ELSky #EduSky #EduSkyChat #PD4uAndMe #MLL #ELs #K12 #SIOP

15.04.2025 14:56 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
SIOP 2025 Do you have multilingual learners who struggle to reach their academic goals? The 2025 SIOP Virtual Conference will enhance your lesson planning for teaching ELs and Multilingual Learners.

Join us for the 2025 SIOP® Virtual Conference, July 8–10!
Reserve your spot:
✅ savvas.com/SIOP2025

🎥 Watch the highlight reel: player.vimeo.com/video/107640...

Can't attend live? Recordings available for 90 days!

#ELSky #EduSky #EduSkyChat #PD4uAndMe #MLL #ELs #K12 #SIOP

18.04.2025 16:54 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Lewiston Public Schools Success Story Learn how Lewiston Public Schools is implementing the SIOP Model to support its growing multilingual learner population.

Looking for a teaching model to help support multilingual learners in a gen-ed setting? In this latest School Story, we learn about how educators at Lewiston Public Schools are supporting not just their #MLLs, but all learners with the SIOP® Model: www.savvas.com/resource-cen...

#ELSky #Edusky #K12

12.03.2025 17:36 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Multilingual Learners: 3 Ways to Build Knowledge - edWeb Join this edWebinar to discover proven strategies for building students’ background knowledge to help them access content area texts and materials.

💫You Don't Want to Miss This!💫
FREE edWeb WEBINAR with SIOP® Author Dr. Jana Echevarría on 3/11/25 at 4pm EDT:
"Multilingual Learners: 3 Ways to Build Knowledge"
Register Today!: home.edweb.net/webinar/ell2...

#ELskychat #EduSky #EduSkyChat #PD4uAndMe #K12

27.02.2025 16:29 — 👍 4    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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🙌 Registration is OPEN for the 2025 SIOP® Virtual Conference (July 8-10)!

Register Today! Savvas.com/SIOP2025

🎯Discover proven teaching techniques to support English learners in any K-12 content classroom—Math, Science, Social Studies, ELA, & more!

#EduSky #EduSkyChat #PD4uAndMe #MLL #ELs #K12

18.12.2024 16:08 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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2025 SIOP® Virtual Conference Session Proposal Submission Form SIOP® Virtual Conference Dates - July 8-10, 2025 Please submit one form per session proposal by Wednesday February 26, 2025 (11pm Pacific Time). We are looking for engaging, highly interactive se...

We want to hear from you. 👋
Consider presenting a session at the 2025 SIOP® Virtual Conference (7/8-10), & share your experience supporting
#Englishlearners #ELs #Multilinguallearners #MLLs #MLs.

Submit your Session Proposal here:
➡️ tinyurl.com/SIOP25Prop

#EduSky #ELSky

22.01.2025 15:03 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
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Looking for a user-friendly coplanning/lesson planning tool to support English learners #ELs/ #MLLs with research-based teaching practices?
Check out this SIOP® 1-pager created by Dr. Katie Toppel @katietoppel.bsky.social:

👉 learning.savvas.com/SIOPPlanning...

#EduSky #EduSkyChat #PD4uAndMe #K12

03.01.2025 18:38 — 👍 7    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Supporting Neuroplasticity in Multilingual Learners Challenging, culturally responsive assignments can create a dynamic that supports students’ language development and critical thinking.

We can provide scaffolds and still create appropriate challenge for multilingual learners. Check out this article I co-authored in @edutopia.org ! #ELskychat

www.edutopia.org/article/main...

15.01.2025 04:29 — 👍 12    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 0
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Meet Me in the Middle: Becoming an Accomplished Middle Level Teacher Meet Me in the Middle: Becoming an Accomplished Middle Level Teacher [Wormeli, Rick] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Meet Me in the Middle: Becoming an Accomplished Middle Level Teacher

@rickwormeli.bsky.social 's book "Meet me in the Middle" was transformative for my teaching. This brought home that assessment/the grade is not what is important, but making sure students are provided with opportunities to master the learning is what is important.
www.amazon.com/Meet-Me-Midd...

10.12.2024 16:56 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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The past two days I've had a blast sharing #edtech tools and digital resources to support comprehension with
@apsupdate
reading coaches. #literacy
📖 @readworks.bsky.social
✅ @diffitapp.bsky.social
🪄 @magicschoolai.bsky.social
💯 @quizizz.bsky.social
🎨 CanvaEDU
#EduSky

10.12.2024 15:43 — 👍 19    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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Congratulations, Dr. Trower!!!!!! Well deserved!!!!

05.12.2024 13:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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SAVE THE DATE!
2025 SIOP® Virtual Conference
July 8-10

Gain impactful teaching ideas to empower your English learners/Multilingual learners.

Submit a Session Proposal ➡️ tinyurl.com/SIOP25Prop
Registration is opening soon.

#EduSky #MLLs #ELs #MLs #EnglishLearners #K12 #elsky #mlchat #SIOP

19.11.2024 13:22 — 👍 11    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1

Language development [should be] understood as a product of meaningful engagement in instruction, not a prerequisite.

01.12.2024 03:12 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Explore the Distributive Property of Multiplication via #MathPlay 🧮✖️

#ITeachMath #MTBoS #MathIsFun #STEM #ElemMathChat #Math #Maths #MathEd #EduSky

18.11.2024 22:30 — 👍 63    🔁 16    💬 2    📌 10

This is awesome!!!!!!

26.11.2024 04:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Alt text: A promotional graphic for #EduSkyChat with a light blue and white theme. It features an illustration of a laptop with a BlueSky logo in the center of the screen. Around the logo, there are illustrated faces of five diverse individuals connected by red lines, symbolizing connection and conversation. The text reads: "Please join us for #EduSkyChat! TONIGHT Monday 11/25/24, 6pmPT/8pmCT/9pmET. Join us for a discussion about Self-Care for Educators💙 with moderator Cate Tolnai here on BlueSky! Follow the hashtag #EduSkyChat on BlueSky to join the conversation!"

Alt text: A promotional graphic for #EduSkyChat with a light blue and white theme. It features an illustration of a laptop with a BlueSky logo in the center of the screen. Around the logo, there are illustrated faces of five diverse individuals connected by red lines, symbolizing connection and conversation. The text reads: "Please join us for #EduSkyChat! TONIGHT Monday 11/25/24, 6pmPT/8pmCT/9pmET. Join us for a discussion about Self-Care for Educators💙 with moderator Cate Tolnai here on BlueSky! Follow the hashtag #EduSkyChat on BlueSky to join the conversation!"

TONIGHT! Join #EduSkyChat with moderator @catetolnai.bsky.social

Topic: Self Care for Educators

6pm PST click on the hashtag and use the RECENT tab
or use deck.blue to create columns for the chat.

See you tonight!

25.11.2024 17:17 — 👍 15    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Yes! 🙌

21.11.2024 06:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Congratulations!

21.11.2024 06:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Last batch of new #EduSky friends for tonight! FOLLOW!

@sustainteaching.bsky.social
@RandiAlbertsen.bsky.social
@techdrea.bsky.social
@techielibgrl.com
@jcwrack.bsky.social
@allysonnewton.bsky.social

21.11.2024 02:47 — 👍 13    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

This feed us now up to 200 or so ELL/ESL educators or others who are connected to the field. Let me know if you want to be added bsky.app/profile/did:...

20.11.2024 12:08 — 👍 25    🔁 10    💬 13    📌 1

I would love to be added :-) 🙋🏻‍♀️

21.11.2024 01:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Love this!
Keep up the fantastic work!

19.11.2024 22:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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My Coffee Shop Tools & Templates in Multiple Sizes! Yikes - it's been a while since I've posted here y'all- but I've been sharing these when I go into schools & districts or when I'm speaking...

Here are some of my favorite tools & templates that can be used for tons of different purposes: mini anchor charts for table groups, stem/frame banks, vocabulary cards, & much more! 5 different sets with templates all here! #edusky #elsky #mlls #mlchat movingbeyondformls.blogspot.com/2024/08/my-c...

19.11.2024 00:52 — 👍 10    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1
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Teacher Tips for Supporting English Learners (Opinion) Students' stress over learning a new language in a new environment can affect their academic success. Proper support can ease that.

Teacher Tips for Supporting English Learners www.edweek.org/teaching-lea... is NEW @edweek.bsky.social post

19.11.2024 12:14 — 👍 26    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 1

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