Visit our Events Page to view upcoming biliteracy events around the country.
The Center for Teaching for Biliteracy also provides a wide range of professional development services for schools, districts, and other educational organizations, including
- Dual Language Program Design (for new programs)
- Dual Language Program Needs Assessment (for existing programs)
- In-district workshops tailored to meet the needs of the dual language program, including:
- Characteristics of well-implemented dual language programs
- Effective district and school-based leadership within dual language programs
- Structures that work as a system to support effective dual language implementation
- Vision and Pedagogy
- Language and Content Allocation Plan
- Biliteracy Schedules
- Biliteracy Curriculum
- Yearlong standards-based biliteracy maps
- Biliteracy units and assesses in each program language
- Plan for ongoing and continuous dual language program development
- Best-practices in dual language instruction
- Teaching for biliteracy (simultaneous literacy)
- Best practices in teaching Spanish literacy in dual language programs
- Best practices in teaching English literacy to students in dual language programs
- Best practices for transfer and contrastive analysis between languages, i.e. the Bridge
- The importance of developing oracy and background knowledge
- Integrating language, literacy, and content
- Best practices in teaching language
- High leverage biliteracy strategies
- Assessment for biliteracy
- Curriculum design and implementation
- Advocacy
- Collaboration with parents, schoolboards, and other community stakeholders
We tailor the professional development to meet your goals, so please contact us to set up a meeting to discuss your professional development needs: info@teachingforbiliteracy.com
The graph below outlines just a sample of some of the workshops we offer. You can also download some sample professional development proposals by clicking on the button at the bottom of this page.
| Title of Workshop |
Areas of Focus |
Audience |
| Teaching for Biliteracy |
- Research based strategies and practices for effective literacy instruction in two languages
- Differentiating biliteracy instruction for students with a wide range of linguistic development and academic achievement, including English language learners and Spanish language learners
- Sample units and lessons for supporting biliteracy development and for implementing the Bridge between languages
- Authentic strategies for Spanish literacy instruction in the United States
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- Bilingual, one-way immersion dual language and two-way immersion dual language teachers
- Curriculum specialists, reading specialists, special education educators and other educators working with students in bilingual or dual language programs of education
- School based administrators with bilingual and dual language programs
- Central office and district-wide administrators
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The Strategic Use of Language in Bilingual and Dual Language Classrooms
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- Creating units and lesson plans that build on and expand students’ first languages
- Effective strategies for integrating content, literacy, and language development in two languages
- Planning and implementing the Bridge for cross-linguistic transfer
- Using the Bridge to teach metacognitive and metalinguistic skills
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- Bilingual, one-way immersion dual language and two-way immersion dual language teachers
- Curriculum specialists, reading specialists, special education educators and other educators working with students in bilingual or dual language programs of education
- School based administrators with bilingual and dual language programs
- Central office and district-wide administrators
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The Bridge for Biliteracy
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- Research based strategies for initiating the Bridge between languages
- Literacy strategies that integrate language acquisition and content area development across two languages
- Metacognitive and metalinguistic areas of instruction for the Bridge
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- Bilingual, one-way immersion dual language and two-way immersion dual language teachers
- Curriculum specialists, reading specialists, special education educators and other educators working with students in bilingual or dual language programs of education
- School based administrators with bilingual and dual language programs
- Central office and district-wide administrators
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Creating Effective Learning Environments for English Language Learners
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- Research based classroom strategies for differentiating instruction in literacy and content areas
- Effective practices for integrating language acquisition and academic instruction
- Creating language and content objectives to organize instruction
- Unit and lesson planning for students with a wide range of linguistic development and academic abilities
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- General education teachers working with English language learners
- Bilingual and ESL teachers
- Reading specialists, special education, and other support educators working with English language learners
- Curriculum specialists
- School based administrators
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Dual Language Instruction and Programming: Two-Way and One-Way
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- Dual language non-negotiables
- Best practices in dual language instruction
- Integrating language and content instruction
- Infrastructure and programmatic supports to ensure effective dual language instruction
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- New and veteran dual language teachers and administrators
- Curriculum specialists, reading specialists, special education educators and other educators working with students in dual language programs
- Central office and district-wide administrators
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On site on going professional development
Download Proposal #1
On site and distance learning
Download Proposal #2
On site professional development for a variety of audiences
Download Proposal #3
