Upcoming Offerings:
EL RISE!: English Learner Roadmap Aligned Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP) Toolkit Workshops: Using Research-based Tools to Promote Equity for English Learners (In partnership with the Center for Excellence for English Learners)
This interactive workshop will help local educational agency (LEA) teams design an LCAP that is aligned to the research-based CA English Learner Roadmap Policy and focuses on identifying actions, services, programs, and resources that ensure equitable opportunities and outcomes for English learners. Participants will engage with the resources included in the Toolkit and explore the ways they might be used to identify and analyze the needs of their English learners. The training will help LEA teams to identify the Dashboard data and how to use the additional features that are a click away to focus on the achievement of English learners, and more effectively understand the achievement and status of their English learners.
For more information or registration on these professional development opportunities, please contact your local County Office of Education (see below) or Dr. Margarita Gonzalez-Amador, EL RISE! Project Administrator, at info@elroadmap.org.
Kern COE (February 18 and 23, 2021)
Contact Lisa Vargas, Title III/EL Coordinator, C & I, Accountability, at anvargas@kern.org
Santa Clara (March 2 and March 16, 2021)
Contact Yee Wan, Ed.D., Director of School Climate, Leadership, and Instructional Service Department, at yee_wan@sccoe.org.
Yolo (March 4 and March 18, 2021)
Contact Heather Schlaman, Program Specialist, English Learner Services and Assessment at Heather.Schlaman@ycoe.org.
Los Angeles (March 9 and March 22, 2021)
Contact Mirna Miranda-Welsh, Ed.D., Title III EL Specialist/Coordinator II, at miranda-welsh_mirna@lacoe.edu.
EL RISE!: Leading School Improvement with English Learners at the Heart: The English Learner Roadmap for Administrators Strand of Five Modules (In partnership with Californians Together)
This series of five modules (over a two-year period) is designed to support district and site administrators as they take up the challenge of doing all of this to enact the comprehensive EL Roadmap Policy. Each module of the Leadership/Administrator Strand involves participants in specifically examining their role in leading improvement processes and supporting evidence-based practice and results in a plan for inquiry and implementation to pursue before the next module. Each module also provides a volume of the EL Roadmap Administrators Toolkit with tools, readings, resources, and activities.
For more information or registration on these professional development opportunities, please contact your local County Office of Education (see below) or Dr. Margarita Gonzalez-Amador, EL RISE! Project Administrator, at info@elroadmap.org.
San Mateo (February 23, March 16, April 15, and May 11, 2021)
Contact Erika Ng, Coordinator, English Learner Support Services, at eng@smcoe.org.
Structuring District and School Site Support for Newcomer Students In partnership with Californians Together
Every year, at all points in the school year, immigrant students enroll in California schools as newcomers. These newly-arrived students from other nations enter our schools with a set of unique needs. This workshop, designed for site and district administrators and EL directors/coordinators provides an overview of who these newcomers are and their needs, and effective school and district responses. Learn about newcomer program models, supporting effective instruction, approaches to assessment and placement, and creating safe-havens. Tools and resources will be provided for inquiry, planning, and strengthening services.
For more information or registration on these professional development opportunities, please contact your local County Office of Education (see below) or Dr. Margarita Gonzalez-Amador, EL RISE! Project Administrator, at info@elroadmap.org.
Santa Clara (February 24 and March 17, 2021)
Contact Yee Wan, Ed.D., Director of School Climate, Leadership, and Instructional Services Department at yee_wan@sccoe.org.
Tulare (March 18 and May 3, 2021)
Contact Alesha Moreno-Ramirez, Staff Development & Curriculum Specialist, at alesha.ramirez@tcoe.org
EL RISE! is a momentum-building, support system to help English learning students thrive and lead in a culturally diverse global world. EL RISE! helps students in the following ways:
- Providing educators easy access to professional learning
- Ensuring English Learners can have access to intellectually rich instruction
- Giving students the tools to participate in a globalized environment
- Achieving access and equity
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About
EL RISE! stands for English Learner Roadmap Implementation for Systemic Excellence, and is a partnership of:
- Californians Together
- Center for Equity for English Learners (CEEL)
- Sobrato Early Academic Language (SEAL)
EL RISE! is funded by a grant from the California Department of Education to support implementation of the visionary 2017 CA English Learner Roadmap policy.
Over the next three years, the three agencies will work with and through 20 County Offices of Education who collectively serve 76.7% of the state’s English learners - partnering with county offices to develop capacity to support LEAs in making meaning of the Roadmap principles, understanding their English learner/dual language learner population, becoming familiar with research on dual language development, developing local implementation plans, and implementing those plans across multiple roles and parts of the system.
For more information visit our More About Us page.