June 29 – July 2, 2026 @ Moore Hall, UCLA
9:00am – 2:30pm (30 minute lunch)
Facilitated by: Nataly Casillas
Are you looking for ways to engage your multilingual learners? Join us for interactive workshops that bring to life strategies and lesson progressions that create curiosity and interest that support and create access to language for our multilingual learners. This workshop series explores and shares research-based lesson sequences designed to help students engage with cognitive strategies, unpack language, and learn to engage in both oral and written responses, in order to create opportunities for students to become lifelong readers and writers.
The Workshop Program will Focus on the following:
- Planning culturally relevant and sustainable lesson sequences to engage your students
- Facilitating rigorous and exciting readings of text that are accessible to all
- Getting students excited about improving their reading and writing through discourse and revision
- Showcasing proven, research-based pedagogy that will significantly impact the way you think about teaching and learning for all of your students



Nataly Casillas (she/her/ella) is a South East LA middle school English and English Language Development teacher in LAUSD. She enjoys helping students humanize their educational learning and experiences to create rich, meaningful, and relevant connections between their learning, their knowledge, and their journey.