Professional Learning by Topic

This workshop offers an incredible opportunity to empower our multilingual students, helping them connect their rich identities as global citizens with their social environments. By exploring essential concepts, innovative theories, and dynamic approaches, we encourage participants to think critically and engage in meaningful discussions through a global lens.

Time to complete: approx. 3 hours

This one-day academy is designed for Spanish/English bilingual K-12 educators, administrators, coaches, curriculum coordinators and support staff with minimal experience using el Marco de los estándares del desarrollo auténtico del lenguaje español de WIDA (Marco DALE).

In this interactive webinar, we'll explore how to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) effectively to create engaging and standards-based activities for your multilingual learners. We'll focus on techniques to avoid generic results and tailor AI prompts to the specific needs of multilingual learners, aligned with the WIDA English Language Development (ELD) Standards Framework. This webinar is designed to be interactive, with opportunities to crowd-source examples for using AI effectively to promote content-based language learning for your multilingual students. Share one example prompt; get 10+ in return! Join the conversation and collaborate with fellow language specialists!

Register for the May 8, 2025 webinar

Join this workshop dedicated specifically for K-12 bilingual educators to dive deeper into the Marco DALE framework and unlock new insights on Language Expectations, Functions and Features. You'll analyze mentor texts with an eye towards enriching your teaching practice and empowering your students. Don’t miss this chance to elevate your skills and make a lasting impact in your classroom.

Time to complete: approx. 2 hours

This workshop aims to help educators unlock the potential of multilingual learners by integrating mathematics instruction with language development. Join this exploration of innovative strategies that enhance mathematical reasoning while fostering linguistic growth, setting the stage for your students to thrive in both math and language skills!

Time to complete: approx. 4 hours

This workshop is designed to provide educators with a range of strategies for engaging multilingual students in the important and exciting journey of sensemaking in science. Collaboratively developed with leading experts in science education, this workshop will equip you with creative approaches to include multilingual learners in the vital process of understanding and exploring phenomena in three-dimensional science.

Time to complete: approx. 4 hours

Join an innovative workshop for bilingual educators that offers bite-sized strategies to unlock new possibilities for your teaching and make a lasting impact on student success. Discover and apply micro tools and multimodal resources to help you overcome common challenges in classroom assessment.

Time to complete: up to 1 hour

This workshop will introduce educators to the WIDA PreK-3 Essential Actions, a set of actions that support a language-focused approach to family and community engagement, and teaching and learning practices.

Educators will have an opportunity to build their knowledge and understanding of the Essential Actions and key concepts embedded in the Essential Actions. They will also reflect on their own ideologies, practices and settings.

Time to complete: approx. 2 hours

What is joyful learning? How can you integrate play for multilingual children into your everyday teaching practices? These are a few of the questions we will address as we explore play for multilingual children in PreK-third grade. This WIDA Webinar will provide a brief introduction to Teaching in PreK-3, an emerging WIDA topic area, followed by a specific focus on play. We will discuss what joyful learning is, why it is ideal for multilingual children’s language development and learning, and present ideas about how you might integrate more joyful learning into PreK-third grade classrooms and programs.

Register for the December 2024 webinar.

Get ready to explore the world of play for young multilingual children! In this workshop, you'll discover the benefits of play for language development and overall learning. Gain strategies for creating joyful, engaging learning experiences that will inspire and empower every child. Ignite the power of play and watch your young multilingual learners thrive!

Time to complete: approx. 2 hours

This workshop, tailored for K-12 educators, will enhance your classroom practices through intentional language instruction, utilizing the WIDA English Language Development Standards Framework, 2020 Edition. Draw out the potential of every student, fostering an inclusive learning environment where all voices are heard and valued. Embark on a journey to elevate language learning and make a lasting impact on our students' success.

Time to complete: approx. 1 hour

Multilingual newcomers are the fastest growing demographic in U.S. school systems. Building relationships and ensuring that schools create and maintain welcoming communities is essential for multilingual newcomers’ success. In this workshop, learn to elevate the diverse perspectives and resources that multilingual newcomers bring, creating enriching learning environments for all. Make a positive, lasting impact for your newcomers, their classmates and your school community.

Time to complete: approx. 3 hours

Ready to dive into reading instruction? This dynamic online workshop will equip educators with powerful tools and strategies to elevate reading comprehension for multilingual learners. Explore how leveraging students' home and community literacy practices can unlock their potential and connect them to content knowledge.

Time to complete: approx. 1 hour

Reframe and elevate the language development of your multilingual learners identified as long-term English learners (LTELs) by engaging in this workshop designed for both K-12 educators and administrators. Help your students break through obstacles and reach higher levels of English proficiency that brings them confidence and academic purpose.

Time to complete: approx. 1 hour

Multilingual newcomers are the fastest growing demographic across U.S. school systems, arriving in K-12 classrooms at increased rates in more and different locations than ever before. These students enter our buildings offering unique cultural and linguistic assets while also possessing distinct academic, social-emotional and linguistic needs. Let’s meet to discuss how we can build and strengthen systems that promote multilingual newcomers’ success in classrooms across the consortium! During this webinar, you will be introduced to the latest trends relating to our nation's multilingual newcomers, engage in research-backed approaches centering their learning, and participate in goal setting for future programming with multilingual newcomers and their families in mind.

Register for the April 1, 2025 webinar

In this webinar we’ll examine the Key Language Uses in writing in both Spanish and English. You’ll go through an analysis of bilingual writing examples and mentor texts using the lens of the Key Language Uses and los usos clave del lenguaje del Marco DALE.

Register for the January 23, 2025 webinar

Join this workshop that delves into each of the components of the WIDA ELD Standards Framework, 2020 Edition! Discover powerful strategies to empower multilingual learners, fostering their achievement and language development. Elevate the potential of every student and create a vibrant learning environment where all voices are heard and celebrated.

Time to complete: approx. 4 hours

This two-day academy is designed for elementary grade-level teachers, English language development specialists, and instructional coaches.

In this interactive academy, educators will explore a pedagogical approach that apprentices multilingual learners into writing in various academic genres. Examples will focus on the genre of science and how this approach develops multilingual learners’ writing skills and their awareness of how language works in written form. This will allow them to become effective and informed writers across content areas.

This two-day academy is designed for secondary content-area educators (Social Studies, Science, ELA), English language development specialists, and instructional coaches.

In this interactive academy, educators will explore a pedagogical approach that apprentices multilingual learners into writing in various academic genres. Examples will focus on the genre of social studies and how this approach develops multilingual learners’ writing skills and their awareness of how language works in written form. This will allow them to become effective and informed writers across content areas.