Empowering Multilingual Learners with Meaningful Education
We are a team of four teachers launching a relatively new secondary ELD program, building curriculum while simultaneously teaching across multiple proficiency levels.
Designing Advisory for Access, Belonging, and Connection
Our project will help us build out an advisory curriculum for our newcomer program, “The School of Language,” with the goal of promoting a sense of agency, belonging and connection to our community of immigrants and our high school at large.
Designing Impactful ELD for Dual Language Classrooms
This project supports a core team of five dual language immersion teachers in developing and implementing culturally responsive English Language Development (ELD) practices in our classrooms.
Marshall Elementary Multilingual Learner Support Project
The purpose of this project is to establish a system of support for students who are multilingual learners, also known as English Learners. At Marshall Elementary, there has been an upsurgence in the number of multilingual learners. In this project, selected teachers from general education, special education, and Response to Intervention will work together to create units of study and implement common instructional practices in English Language Development (ELD) in our classrooms. In this community of practice, we will engage in job-embedded professional development to ensure long term, sustainable implementation of ELD practices.
GLAD Training for ELD Teachers
Four elementary ELD educators at three schools in our district will pursue training in Guided Language Acquisition and Development (GLAD) strategies to enhance and revitalize our own teaching. During the second year of our project, we will co-plan content-integrated units with classroom teachers at our schools. This project will make our teaching richer and more interactive, and will enable students to learn science and social studies content as they learn English. It will also create more support for English learners in the general education classroom, meet a need for teacher collaboration, and amp up instruction for all students.
Cultivating Conversation: Increasing Student Talk in the Classroom
Our project aims to transform our classrooms into spaces filled with the voices of our English language learners and newcomers (rather than teachers).