Webinar Series

Ongoing opportunities to work with individual cohorts of teachers, administrators, and district leaders.

All Things WORLD LANGUAGES, Webinar Series

The series is designed to share best practices for supporting WL students and teachers in the classroom. Participants will leave with a toolkit of valuable tips and strategies.
Time: Meet once a month for 60 min during the academic year
Audience: All teachers, all languages, all levels
Delivery: Virtual & Co-facilitated by Educators across districts

All Things IMMERSION, Webinar Series

The series is designed to share best practices for supporting Dual Language Immersion teachers in the classroom. Participants will leave with a toolkit of valuable tips and strategies.
Time: Meet once a month for 60 min during the academic year
Audience: All teachers, all languages, all levels
Delivery: Virtual & Co-facilitated by Educators across the Southeast (in partnership with the South Atlantic Language Collaborative)

Professional Development

Interactive opportunities to create classroom impact through teacher actions.
Complete Interest Survey at the top of the page to request PD below.

Engaging Students Through Performance-Based Assessments

Participants will explore how formative and summative performance assessments play a role in our students’ proficiency pathway. They will leave with examples and tools to re-design, adapt or create engaging and well-designed assessments for their students.
Time: 120-180 min
Audience: All teachers, all languages, all levels
Delivery: Virtual or In-Person

Level Up: Differentiation Strategies for a Proficiency-Driven Language Classroom

Participants will explore effective strategies for differentiation and progression using the world language standards to help students level up. Participants will leave with clear, ready to implement strategies they can use the next day to support learners across all proficiency levels.
Audience: all languages, all teachers, all levels
Time: 120 min or 180 min (half-day)
Delivery: In- Person

SC World Language Standards: The Roadmap to World Language Proficiency

Participants will explore the SC World Language Standards and use them as the primary tool to plan effective lessons and tasks that will support learners in their pathway to proficiency. Participants will leave with a series of hands-on activities to engage students in the classroom.
Audience: all languages, all teachers, all levels
Time: 180 min or 360 min (half day or full day)
Delivery: Virtual or In-Person

Biliteracy Development in the Dual Language Immersion Classroom: The Integration of Language & Content

Participants will explore the integration of language and content through co-planning and structural practices. By the end of this session, participants will leave with key instructional strategies for biliteracy development in a Dual Language Immersion classroom.
Audience: Dual Language Immersion educators (Target Language Educators and ELA Partner)
Time: 180 min (half-day)
Delivery: In-Person

Second Language Acquisition: Revisiting Classroom Practice for Student Engagement

Participants will examine how students acquire a second language and use research-based insights to revisit and redesign their own classroom activities for greater student engagement and proficiency.
Audience: all languages, all teachers, all levels
Time: 60 minutes
Delivery: Virtual

Shaping Up our Integrated Performance Assessments (IPAs)

Participants will revisit and calibrate their own Integrated Performance Assessments (IPAs) to better align with best practices while strengthening student engagement and proficiency.
Audience: all languages, all teachers, all levels
Time: 180 min (half-day)
Delivery: In-Person

Measuring What Matters: Standards Based Rubrics & Language Performance

Participants will explore how to assess a performance task through Standards Based rubric and translate proficiency scores into grades.
Audience: all languages, all teachers, middle school and high school level
Time: 120 min
Delivery: In-Person

Presentation

Sharing of information to build participant knowledge and capacity.
Complete Interest Survey at the top of the page to request Presentations below.

The SC Seal of Biliteracy: Validating the Linguistic Strengths of our WL Students

In this presentation we will discuss what the SC Seal of Biliteracy is and how it validates our students’ linguistic strengths. We will explore steps to implement it in your school or district.
Time: 90 min
Audience: All world language teachers, multilingual specialists, and administrators
Delivery: Virtual or In-Person