Center for Teaching for Biliteracy In-Person and Online Events:

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March 18 and 19, 2026:  NEW!  Online Biliteracy Curriculum Design for Dual Language 

In this interactive two-day institute, participants will explore how the Teaching for Biliteracy Recommendations can guide curriculum mapping decisions that support students in meeting the three pillars of dual language. We will examine real examples of standards-based biliteracy maps, discuss how to use published resources within your program’s framework, and share tools that can help your team assess and refine curriculum maps.

Target Audience:

  • Teachers
  • School and District Administrators
  • Program leadership teams
  • NOTE:  Teams with a decision-maker on board will find particular success, as may tools focus on systemic decision-making and implementation

 

April 14 and 15, 2026: NEW! Online: Biliteracy Assessments- Tracking Student Growth in Two Languages

This two-day virtual institute will explore biliteracy assessments for language proficiency and academic achievement as a framework for monitoring and supporting students’ literacy development in each program language and across languages within the context of the Biliteracy Unit Framework (BUF) and the multilingual perspective.

Participants will leave with practical strategies to empower students, support biliteracy growth, and engage families and communities in creating a system of accountability.

Participants will:

  • Distinguish between monoliteracy and biliteracy approaches to assessment
  • Apply formative assessment strategies to monitor and support biliteracy growth
  • Identify classroom practices that document student growth in language development and academic achievement

Target Audience:
This session is ideal for teachers, school leaders, and program administrators working in dual language and biliteracy programs, particularly those focused on language development and formative assessment.

 

28 y 29 de abril, 2026: ¡NUEVA SESIØN! En Línea – La enseñanza de la lectoescritura bilingüe (biliteracidad)

Los(as) (les) invitamos a que participen en el Instituto de dos días de La enseñanza de la lectoescritura bilingüe, una experiencia dinámica exclusivamente en español y diseñada para educadores que trabajan en:

  • Programas bilingües o de lenguaje dual
  • Programas de lenguaje dual de una sola vía o de dos vías
  • Grados K-5

A raíz de esta capacitación profesional, los participantes podrán:

  • Utilizar estrategias efectivas para el uso estratégico del español (u otro idioma que no sea el inglés) y el inglés como parte de la enseñanza de la lectoescritura bilingüe
  • Describir las prácticas más efectivas para la enseñanza de la lectoescritura bilingüe
  • Utilizar estrategias prácticas para implementar el Puente entre lenguas
  • Utilizar el esquema de la unidad de la lectoescritura bilingüe (BUF, por sus siglas en inglés) para diseñar e impartir instrucción basada en los estándares, el desarrollo de lenguaje, refleja las mejores prácticas de la enseñanza de la lectoescritura
  • Crear estructuras programáticas para apoyar la enseñanza de la lectoescritura bilingüe y para garantizar la sustentabilidad a largo plazo

 

May 13 & 14, 2026:  Updated!  Online Teaching for Biliteracy Two-Day Institute

Join us for a two-day live, online institute designed for educators in bilingual and dual language programs. Through a highly interactive format, the institute will feature:

  • Effective strategies for the strategic use of Spanish (or another non-English language) and English in biliteracy instruction
  • Best practices for teaching literacy in both languages
  • Practical strategies to implement the Bridge and bridging languages
  • The Biliteracy Unit Framework (BUF) for designing and delivering standards-based instruction that integrates language, literacy, and content
  • Programmatic structures to support biliteracy instruction and to ensure sustainability, including:
    • Language and content allocation plans
    • Biliteracy schedules
    • Biliteracy curriculum maps

 

June 23-25, 2026:  In-person 3-Day Teaching for Biliteracy Summer Institute in Grandview, WA

The Teaching for Biliteracy Summer Institute brings together district and school-level teams of educators to engage in a deep dive into the instructional, programmatic, and curricular elements of teaching for biliteracy and the Bridge. This robust, multi-day institute will include large-group networking experiences and small-group sessions focused on specific biliteracy topics.

The institute will feature:

  • What biliteracy is, how it differs from monoliteracy, and instructional implications for each language.
  • Biliteracy unit framework for developing and delivering standards-based biliteracy units of instruction that integrate the teaching of language, literacy, and content.
  • Best practices in teaching Spanish (or other non-English language) and English literacy.
  • Sample biliteracy instruction and strategies that support the Bridge between languages.
  • Planning the strategic use of language on the part of the teacher.
  • Biliteracy schedules, language and content allocation plans, biliteracy curriculum maps, and other programmatic systems and structures to support biliteracy instruction.
  • Networking opportunities for dual language stakeholders in a variety of positions.

Target Audience:

  • This institute is designed for educators working in dual language programs that provide Spanish literacy (or a non-English language) and English literacy to students in one-way (AKA development bilingual or maintenance bilingual) or two-way programs.
  • It is recommended that teams of teachers and administrators attend together. Effective makeup of teams includes teachers and decision-makers, and those who support teachers such as coaches, specialists, principals and assistant principals, curriculum directors, literacy directors, bilingual directors, assistant superintendents, and school board members. We take a systems approach to implementing teaching for biliteracy; therefore, we will be sharing several structures that will require understanding and support on the part of teachers, leadership, and decision-makers to ensure they are well-implemented.