English Language Development and Dual Language

Session 3: Nov 8, 2022
3:15pm - 5:15pm  |  Virtual

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. 

Processes and protocols will be shared that ensure English learners experience a coherent, articulated, and aligned set of pathways across a school site. Also enroll in the Santa Cruz COE CoP.

Audience: instructional coaches and TOSAs, especially at the elementary level, teacher leaders.

Session 2:  Oct 20, 2022  |  Session 5:  March 2, 2023 
Session 3:  Dec 14, 2022  |  Session 6:  April 20, 2023   

Session 4:  Jan 17, 2023

3:15pm - 5:15pm  |  Virtual

This virtual series with embedded pre-session work and follow-up reflection and application focuses on how teachers can enact Principles 2-4 of the English Learner Roadmap for culturally and linguistically sustaining classrooms in the dual language context. Facilitated by Sobrato Early Academic Language (SEAL). Presented by SEAL as part of EL RISE.

Audience: K-6 teachers, instructional coaches, instructional leaders and site administrators.

Session 1: Oct 4, 2022  |  Session 4:   Feb 2, 2023
Session 2:  Oct 27, 2022  |  Session 5: March 7, 2023  

Session 3:  Jan 26, 2023  |  Session 6, April 11, 2023 

3:15pm - 5:15pm  |  Virtual

This virtual series with embedded pre-session work and follow-up reflection and application focuses on how teachers can enact Principles 2-4 of the English Learner Roadmap for culturally and linguistically sustaining classrooms in the dual language context. Facilitated by Sobrato Early Academic Language (SEAL). 

Audience: K-6 Dual Language Program Teachers, Instructional Coaches & Leaders.

Session 1:  Oct 11, 2022  |  Session 4: Jan 12, 2023

Session 2: Oct 26, 2022  |  Session 5: Feb 8, 2023

Session 3: Dec 13, 2022  |  Session 6: March 8, 2023

3:30pm - 5:30pm  |  Virtual

Equitable access to a comprehensive education including both integrated and designated ELD instruction is a civil right for English learners. These six 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. When English learners are centralized, we can prevent Long Term English Learners. (LTELS)

Audience: Classroom teachers, Site administrators.

Session1:    Oct 18 2022 

Session 2:  Nov 29, 2022  

Session 3:  Jan 31, 2023  

Session 4:  March 7, 2023 

3:30pm - 5:30pm  |  Virtual

This virtual training series will be framed by the four Principles of the English Learner Roadmap policy and focus primarily on deepening knowledge about and implementing quality teaching and learning practices for EL students. The Strand will feature guidance provided in key California Department of Education resources, including the English Learner Roadmap policy, ELD Standards, ELA-ELD Framework, and Improving Education for Multilingual and English Learner Students: Research to Practice.

Audience: 6-12 ELD and content area teachers, instructional coaches and instructional leaders.

Nov 1, 2022

3:30pm - 5:30pm  |  Virtual

How can elementary teachers leverage academic texts to deepen their English learner’s language proficiency? This two-hour webinar, with embedded pre-session work and follow-up application, will equip teachers to select high quality mentor texts in order to build students’ ability to effectively express themselves in written and oral formats. 

Teachers will learn how to guide their students to effectively make meaning by analyzing texts and text excerpts for critical text features. Then, through whole group integrated ELD and small group designated ELD, students practice and incorporate these sophisticated language structures into their repertoire, thereby increasing proficiency in English. 

Through the process, English learners develop critical skills to engage with and produce academic language and texts, to both leverage linguistic strengths and address needs.

Audience: All classroom teachers. teachers on special assignment, and instructional coaches.

Session 1: Dec 7, 2022

Session 2: Jan 19, 2023

3:30pm - 5:30pm  |  Virtual

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 students’ strengths, needs, socio-emotional health and identities. 

This two-session webinar series, with embedded pre-session work, focuses on how teachers can enact Principle 1 of the English Learner Roadmap policy 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.

Audience: Upper elementary teachers in grades 4-6, Site/local teams of educators, Paraeducators, and COE staff

Jan 25, 2023

3:15pm - 5: 15pm  |  Virtual

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

Nov 16, 2022  |  Feb 15, 2023  |  March 15, 2023

Time:  3:15pm - 4:30pm  |  Virtual

Are you passionate about improving outcomes for multilingual learners?  Do you want to incubate innovation in your classroom? Join a  community of teachers to  extend and expand your expertise focused on the  implementation of strategies and practices from EL RISE Elementary ELD trainings. 

Audience: Participants in current and past EL RISE Elementary offerings including teachers, coaches, principals and district staff

Nov 30, 2022  |  Feb 22, 2023  |  March 29, 2023

3:30pm - 4:45pm  |  Virtual

Are you passionate about improving outcomes for multilingual learners?  Do you want to incubate innovation in your classroom? Join a  community of dual language teachers to  extend and expand your expertise focused on the  implementation of strategies and practices from EL RISE Elementary ELD trainings. 

Audience: Participants in EL RISE Dual Language Pedagogy Strand

Quarterly meetings  |  10am - 12pm

Tues, Nov 29, 2022  |  Wed, Feb 1, 2023  |  Wed, March 22, 2023

Supports   district teams (District Admin, Site Admin, teachers, over the course of the school year as they take on a focused improvement effort centered around equity for multilingual learners. This year's network will focus on the use of the Multilingual Learner Shadowing Protocol to monitor the impact of of improvement efforts on the engagement of multilingual learners in academic conversations that build content knowledge and conceptual understanding.  Contact: Sofia Sorensen.

Audience: District-based teams of district lead, site administrator, teacher, and family/community school coordinator or liaison.

Grades TK12

Initial ELPAC: August

Summative ELPAC: December

Standardized administration and scoring of the ELPAC. Synchronous debrief of ELPAC speaking training quizzes, support for coordinators and general Q and A.  LEA ELPAC Coordinators should contact Sofia Sorensen, ssorensen@santacruzcoe.org for specific dates and times.

Audience: ELPAC Coordinators and Test Examiners

Dates TBD or by request.   Don't see what you need listed here? Please contact Barbara Huebner to discuss.  

Possible Topics

• Multilingual Learner Shadowing

• Unpacking the ELPAC

• Formative Assessment of ELD using ELPAC-like tasks and rubrics

• Developing Language Objectives

• Accelerating Language Development with Tech Tools

• English Learnier Toolkit of Strategies