Upcoming Offerings:

This series for early educators is designed to improve educator effectiveness in meeting the needs of Dual Language Learners (DLLs) and their families in the foundational years of preschool. The sessions will focus around four themes critical to DLL success:

• Partnering with Families
• Complex Oral Language
• Making Languages Visible and Tangible
• Early Literacy and Engaging with Text

Since language develops deeply when it is embedded in and through thematic content, these sessions will be organized around a thematic unit that will be shared with participants. Participants will engage in synchronous and asynchronous activities during and after sessions, which will allow them to enact and utilize strategies to enhance learning.

Upcoming Dates

It has been nearly ten years since Reparable Harm:  Fulfilling the Unkept Promise of Educational  Opportunity for California’s Long Term English  Learners shed light on the needs of Long-Term  English Learners and called on education leaders to  provide solutions for these students. Californians  Together continues its work with a new report  focused on how schools and districts can best meet  the needs of Long-Term English learners, which will  be released June 2021. Using the new report as  guidance, this institute will include an overview of  what the data says about LTELs across California, a  summary of research and key policy changes over the  past ten years, findings from a landscape survey of  districts across California, examples from districts with  promising practices, and key policy recommendations  for education leaders. The institute will provide  templates and guidance in shaping inquiries into your  own LTEL population, and will acquaint participants  with resources for developing and strengthening  programs and services. 

Audience: District, County, and Site leaders

Upcoming Dates

The Elementary Dual Language Pedagogy Institute  for Elementary 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.  

Audience: Site administrators, Districts staff and  administrators, Superintendents, Site/local teams of  educators, COE staff

Upcoming Dates

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  Elementary 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: 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  Elementary 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 students and families cultural and linguistics assets. 

Audience: Classroom teachers bilingual/dual  language programs, Site/local teams of educators

Upcoming Dates

Instructional coaches play a critical role in creating  classrooms and communities that respond to our  students’ strengths, needs, socio-emotional health,  and identities. This three-session webinar series,  with embedded pre-session work and follow-up  reflection and application, focuses on how coaches  can support teachers in enacting the English  Learner Roadmap policy. Participants will learn  specific skills and strategies for supporting their  teachers in leveraging students’ and families’  cultural and linguistic assets, harnessing formative  assessment to guide instruction, and facilitating  intentional, collaborative planning of integrated and  designated ELD using the ELD standards.  

Audience: All classroom teachers, Classroom teachers  bilingual/dual language programs, site/local teams of  educators, paraeducators, COE staff

Upcoming Dates

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

• Introduction to the English Learner Roadmap for  Families 
• Raising Bilingual Children 
• Interactive Read Alouds 
• Telling Our Stories 

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.  

Audience:Site administrators, District Staff and  administrators, COE Staff, Other Parent Liaisons/Teacher  on Special Assignment focused on Family Engagement

Upcoming Dates

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. 

Audience: Secondary teachers and teacher leaders, all  content areas

Upcoming Dates

This two-year professional learning strand is designed for middle and high school teachers, instructional coaches and administrators, and teacher educators.. The main focus areas of the institute are Integrated and Designated English language development (ELD) and asset-based pedagogy, especially culturally and linguistically sustaining practices, as they are the foundational components of effective and responsive secondary schools for meeting the needs of Multilingual learner (ML) and English learner (EL) students. Participants will build deep understandings of how to cultivate asset-based classrooms and provide responsive, intellectually rich instruction that attends to ML and EL students’ academic, linguistic, and socio-emotional development. High-leverage instructional practices featured in this professional learning strand intentionally support content and language development, promote active engagement, and integrate the domains of language (oracy, listening, reading, and writing). Participants will become acquainted with the guidance provided in key California Department of Education resources, including the English Learner Roadmap, CA ELD Standards, CA ELA-ELD Framework, and the newly published Improving Education for Multilingual and English Learner Students: Research to Practice. 

Audience: Secondary teachers and teacher leaders,  all content areas

Upcoming Dates

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 English  Learner Roadmap policy, 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.  

Audience: All classroom teachers and Site/local teams of  educators

Upcoming Dates

This series for early educators is designed to improve educator effectiveness in meeting the needs of Dual Language Learners (DLLs) and their families in the foundational years of preschool. The sessions will focus around four themes critical to DLL success:

• Partnering with Families
• Complex Oral Language
• Making Languages Visible and Tangible
• Early Literacy and Engaging with Text

Since language develops deeply when it is embedded in and through thematic content, these sessions will be organized around a thematic unit that will be shared with participants. Participants will engage in synchronous and asynchronous activities during and after sessions, which will allow them to enact and utilize strategies to enhance learning.

Upcoming Dates

This series for early educators is designed to improve educator effectiveness in meeting the needs of Dual Language Learners (DLLs) and their families in the foundational years of preschool. The sessions will focus around four themes critical to DLL success:

• Partnering with Families
• Complex Oral Language
• Making Languages Visible and Tangible
• Early Literacy and Engaging with Text

Since language develops deeply when it is embedded in and through thematic content, these sessions will be organized around a thematic unit that will be shared with participants. Participants will engage in synchronous and asynchronous activities during and after sessions, which will allow them to enact and utilize strategies to enhance learning.

Upcoming Dates

California’s newly arrived students from other  nations face a particular set of unique needs. This  institute, designed for K-12 educators, begins with  an overview of who these newcomers are, and  their cultural and social needs. The institute will  then focus on the academic needs of these  students to help them succeed in the classroom  and beyond. Participants will receive strategies  and practical resources they can use right away to  create a welcoming environment for newcomer  students and facilitate their learning. 

Audience: K-12 teachers and K-12 teacher leaders

Upcoming Dates

Every year, at all points in the school year, immigrant  students enrolled in California schools as newcomers.  These newly arrived students from other nations face  a particular set of unique needs. This institute,  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 inquiries, planning and strengthening services. 

Audience: District, County, and Site leaders

Upcoming Dates