Upcoming Professional Development:

Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy: Creating the Conditions for English Learners to Thrive (In partnership with SEAL)

Creating an inclusive, linguistically, and culturally affirming classroom community is a central priority for effectively serving English learners. By providing students with mirrors to positively reflect their intersectional identities and windows to embrace the diversity of our world, we can create classrooms and communities that respond to our student's strengths, needs, socio-emotional health, and identities. This two-session webinar series, with embedded pre-session work and follow-up reflection and application, focuses on how teachers can enact Principle 1 of the English Learner Roadmap in their virtual or in-person classrooms. Teachers will learn specific skills and strategies for leveraging their students’ and families’ cultural and linguistic assets, celebrating and affirming identity, strengthening classroom community, and facilitating collaborative learning spaces.

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. 

Intended Audience: Elementary teachers/bilingual program teachers, administrators, paraprofessionals, COE staff, and site/local teams of educators

Imperial (April 22 and May 6, 2021) Contact Erika Morquecho, Director of District and School Support at erika.morquecho@icoe.org

San Diego (April 29 and May 24, 2021) Contact Izela Jacobo, Coordinator, at izela.jacobo@sdcoe.net

Integrated & Designated ELD:  Teacher as a Language Coach (In partnership with SEAL) 

How can teachers easily and effectively build language proficiency for their EL/DLL students throughout their daily lessons?  This two-hour interactive webinar, including one hour of pre-session asynchronous work, provides teachers with a construct and set of practices that can be quickly integrated into existing lessons and practices, including Designated ELD.  Aligned to Principle 2 of the EL Roadmap, participants will learn to effectively identify and address the strengths and needs of English learners by providing targeted scaffolds and supports to actively deepen students’ use of sophisticated academic language for speaking and writing, tapping into their linguistic genius.  Teachers will be prepared with tools and resources that can be implemented the next day in their virtual and in-person classrooms.  Our students’ brilliance shines through when we create the conditions for educational equity and access.

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. 

Intended Audience: Elementary teachers/bilingual program teachers, COE staff, and site/local teams of educators

Imperial (May 20, 2021) Contact Erika Morquecho, Director of District and School Support at erika.morquecho@icoe.org

San Mateo (May 4, 2021) Contact Erica Ng, EL Coordinator, at eng@smcoe.org

San Diego (May 18, 2021) Contact Izela Jacobo, Coordinator, at izela.jacobo@sdcoe.net

Tulare (May 20, 2021) Contact Alesha Moreno-Ramirez, Staff Development & Curriculum Specialist, at alesha.ramirez@tcoe.org

 

English Learner Roadmap 101 for Parents and Families (In partnership with SEAL) 

Families play a crucial role in the success of their children’s academics. Ensuring they are informed about the English Learner Roadmap will serve as an important bridge to foster stronger school relationships, personal investment, and robust implementation of the English Learner Roadmap. In this session, district and/or site personnel will be prepared to deliver English Learner Roadmap workshops to their families so they are:

• Familiar with the English Learner Roadmap context, policy, and principles
• Poised to understand their role in effective implementation of the English Learner Roadmap at their child’s school

All print and media resources will be provided so district and/or site personnel are able to empower families to support schools in centralizing the needs of English Learners.

Ventura (May 13) Contact Dr. Leticia Ramos, Director English Learner and Dual Language, at leramos@vcoe.org 

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. 

Future dates coming soon! 

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. 

Future dates coming soon! 

Integrated and Designated ELD Institute for Secondary Teachers (In partnership with Californians Together) 

Integrated and Designated ELD in conjunction with culturally and linguistically sustaining practices are the foundational components of effective and responsive secondary schools for meeting the needs of English Learners. In this institute  participants will: 

• build an understanding of how to integrate support for language development with disciplinary content knowledge 
• learn how to plan responsive Designated ELD that is linked to academic content 
• become acquainted with high-leverage instructional strategies 
• focus on all four domains of language 

Participants will become acquainted with the guidance provided in key California Department of Education resources,  including the English Learner Roadmap, ELD Standards, ELA/ ELD Framework, and the newly published Improving Education for Multilingual and English Learner Students: Research to  Practice.

Future dates coming soon! 

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. 

Future dates coming soon! 

ELD for Elementary Teachers and Administrators Institute (In partnership with SEAL) 

Equitable access to a comprehensive education including both Integrated and Designated ELD instruction is a civil right for English Learners. These four sessions, with embedded pre-work, will support teachers in designing responsive Designated ELD lessons that build upon students’ knowledge across the disciplines. Teachers will expand their understanding of backward planning to identify English Learners’ strengths and needs to provide targeted language instruction. Scaffolds and supports presented in these sessions include language functions, graphic organizers, differentiated frames, language transfer strategies, and formative assessments that ensure students to effectively engage with complex texts and tasks.  Through this work, teachers will develop the tools needed to create the academic conditions students need to flourish.

To support deep learning and application of concepts,  the County Office of Education will facilitate two Communities of Practice (CoPs) to develop a network of practitioners in order to engage in discussing, sharing, applying, and reflecting best practices to build a repertoire of resources and ideas that apply to your local context.  These CoPs will take place in between synchronous learning sessions.

Future dates coming soon! 

Elementary Dual Language Pedagogy Institute for Administrators/ Leaders (In partnership with SEAL) 

The Elementary Dual Language Pedagogy Institute for Administrators/ Leaders is a four-part series designed to support planning, implementing, strengthening, and sustaining dual-language programs. It draws from a “hot off the presses” chapter written by Dr. Laurie Olsen from the recently released CDE book, Improving Multilingual and English Learner Education: from Research to Practice.  New research findings, updated case studies, and promising practices will engage participants in key strategies to implement and expand effective, transformative, and sustainable dual language programs and pathways that center and elevate English Learners. Administrators and leaders will engage in workshop style sessions that will address: matching a model to context, whole school versus strand, how to recruit and support teachers and effective instruction, how to engage families in bilingual school partnerships, how to build assessment systems that honor biliteracy, and how to be an advocate and champion of dual language. Participants will leave with concrete, actionable protocols and activities they can replicate with site teams to build their own effective programs.

Future dates coming soon! 

Elementary Dual Language Pedagogy Institute for Teachers- Year 1 (In partnership with SEAL) 

Creating an inclusive, linguistically, and culturally affirming dual language classroom community is a central priority for effectively serving English Learners. The Elementary Dual Language Pedagogy Institute for Teachers is designed to develop the foundation and strategies that teachers need in order to implement effective, transformative, and sustainable dual-language programs. Based on a new chapter written by Dr. Laurie Olsen from the recently released CDE book Improving Multilingual and English Learner Education: from Research to Practice, the four Institute sessions will provide bilingual teachers with specific skills and strategies for:

• grounding their work in bilingual pedagogy, 
• strategically coordinating authentic literacy instruction,
• facilitating learning that capitalizes on cross-language connections and the power of the bilingual brain, and
• leveraging their student's and families' cultural and linguistic assets.

To support deep learning and application of concepts,  the County Office of Education will facilitate two Communities of Practice (CoPs) to develop a network of practitioners in order to engage in discussing, sharing, applying, and reflecting best practices to build a repertoire of resources and ideas that apply to your local context.  These CoPs will take place in between synchronous learning sessions.

Future dates coming soon!