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Creating Conditions for Dual Language Learners to Thrive in Early Education

This interactive Institute is being offered as part of the CDE Educator Workforce Investment Grant through grantee English Learner Roadmap Implementation for Systemic Excellence! (EL RISE!) and their partner Sobrato Early Academic Language (SEAL). This Professional Learning Series (PLS) for early educators is designed to improve educator effectiveness in meeting the needs of Dual Language Learners and their families in the foundational years of preschool. The sessions will focus on four themes critical to DLL success: Partnering with Families, Complex Oral Language, Making Languages Visible & Tangible, and Early Literacy & Engaging with Text. The sessions will also be organized around a thematic unit that will be shared with participants. Teachers will learn strategies to provide access to authentic opportunities to engage with interesting, complex, and rich text.

Audience: Early Education/preschool teachers, Early Education/preschool administrators/directors, Early Education leads/TOSAs

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09/13/2022

09/22/2022

10/13/2022

10/26/2022

Imperial COE

To Register, use the link: https://icoe.k12oms.org/1159-220021

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09/27/2022

10/05/2022

11/29/2022

12/08/2022

Kern and Ventura COE

To Register, use the link: https://vcoe.k12oms.org/1617-219250

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09/27/2022

10/05/2022

11/29/2022

12/8/2022

Los Angeles COE

To Register, use the link: https://lacoe.k12oms.org/1539-221596

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09/27/2022

10/05/2022

11/29/2022

12/8/2022

San Diego COE

To Register, use the link: https://sdcoe.k12oms.org/902-218900

EL Master Plan: Designing Local Policy Aligned to the CA English Learner Roadmap

This interactive Institute is being offered as part of the CDE Educator Workforce Investment Grant through grantee English Learner Roadmap Implementation for Systemic Excellence! (EL RISE!) and their partner from the Center for Equity for English Learners (CEEL). This Institute will help LEA teams create a plan to develop a district-wide English Learner Master Plan aligned to the research-based California English Learner Roadmap policy. Participants will receive resources included in the Center for Equity for English Learners’ English Learner Master Plan Playbook to develop a strategy for beginning or refining their approach to writing their EL Master Plan. Alignment with EL Roadmap principles and elements will be highlighted.

Audience: Administrators and District teams from the EL RISE! 20 County Office of Education

Upcoming Dates

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10/18/2022

11/02/2022

Higher Education Institute: (Re)designing Educator Preparation Focused On Equity For English Learners/Multilingual students

This interactive Institute is being offered as part of the CDE Educator Workforce Investment Grant through grantee English Learner Roadmap Implementation for Systemic Excellence! (EL RISE!) and their partner from the Center for Equity for English Learners (CEEL). We invite higher education colleagues who prepare future teachers, counselors, and administrators to engage in collaborative reflection and redesign processes to well-equip their candidates to serve culturally and linguistically diverse students in P-12 settings.

Join us for this virtual two-session institute to:

(1) learn about the Center for Equity for English Learners (CEEL) English Learner Roadmap Toolkitfor Institutions of Higher Education developed to support credentialing programs in the areas of teaching, counseling, and administration to better align with the recently passed California English Learner Roadmap policy for TK-12 students (2017), and

(2) engage with IHE teams to use the resources included in the Toolkit to develop a strategy for (re)designing preparation programs or coursework to address future educators' teaching and learning needs.

Audience: Open to teams of IHE colleagues from UCs, CSUs, and private institutions who are responsible for designs and implementing teacher, counselors, and administrator preparation programs.

Upcoming Dates

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10/07/2022

10/28/2022

Cohort A

To Register, use the link: https://forms.gle/qXYDwXx3UY8Z1LY67

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02/24/2023

03/10/2023

Cohort B

To Register, use the link: https://forms.gle/qXYDwXx3UY8Z1LY67

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04/21/2023

05/12/2023

Cohort C

To Register, use the link: https://forms.gle/qXYDwXx3UY8Z1LY67

EL RISE! Introduction to the English Learner Roadmap Asynchronous Course

Join a virtual community of educators and administrators to learn more about the California English Learner Roadmap. This reflective, self-paced digital professional learning provides school districts with innovative solutions for asynchronous professional growth. In this 90-minute digital professional learning, TK-12 educators and administrators will access and be introduced to the California English Learner Roadmap. This course will provide resources, best practices, and guided support for educators and administrators as they move forward on their journey of implementing the California English Learner Roadmap Policy. Integrating these resources in instruction will support educators to improve and customize learning for all students, especially English learner students.

Enrollment Information:

Self-enroll in this asynchronous course at https://bit.ly/ELRISECourse

Video with closed captions: https://youtu.be/IY6VTj2coCo

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

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.

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