Join Us for an Interactive Virtual Book Study Plus an Opportunity to Meet the Author

Join Us for an Interactive Virtual Book Study Plus an Opportunity to Meet the Author. Whether you are new to a school or have been there a while, the beginning of the year brings forth the opportunity to envision how you will deepen the impact coaching makes on teacher and student learning. We invite individuals and teams of coaches, principals and district leaders to explore strategies and imagine the possibilities within their own context.

How can teachers easily and effectively build language proficiency for their English learner/emergent bilingual students throughout their daily lessons.This interactive three-day in-person summer series provides teachers with a construct and set of strategies that can be effectively integrated into existing lessons and practices.

This in-person Project GLAD® Research & Theory Foundations professional learning session takes participants through best first instruction for students and provides the research and theory behind Project GLAD®, language development, the brain, motivation and literacy.

How can we support the development of foundational literacy skills for our diverse multilingual-English learner students? It is critical to adapt instructional practices to meet the unique needs and characteristics of multilingual-English learners (MLL-ELs). This event will specifically address strategies to intentionally support MLL-EL students with phonological/phonemic awareness and phonics skills while simultaneously fostering the development of both expressive and receptive language.

Utilizing an asset-based approach, this English language development (ELD) collaborative integrates school and community members in local teams to co-design and implement a comprehensive approach to ELD (including integrated and designated ELD) that is culturally sustaining, aligned to content, and responsive to secondary students’ literacy and language learning needs.

This professional learning opportunity will cover: foundational elements that need to be assessed and why. implementation and scoring 3 screeners/diagnostic assessment tools (Spelling Inventory, PAST, & a Phonics Survey). analyzing the information you will acquire from administering these assessments. how to use data to inform differentiated instruction.