Module 1: Foundations for a Strong, Successful, and Sustainable Dual Language Program September 28, 2024
Provides a firm foundation in the basics of dual language education. Focuses on the importance of engaging families and community members in creating and sustaining bilingualism/biliteracy, high academic achievement, and sociocultural competence. Shares strategies for ensuring equity for all and the importance of having a language allocation plan, high鈥恞uality standards鈥恇ased curriculum, and assessment and accountability practices that reflect the uniqueness of a dual language program.
Presented in English
Module 2: Best Practices in dual Language Education | Las mejores pr谩cticas para la educaci贸n en dos idiomas October 26,2024
Provides a firm foundation in understanding and implementing the best instructional practices that will ensure student鈥檚 bilingualism/biliteracy and high academic achievement in both Spanish and English. Addresses the unique needs and best instructional practices of a Spanish biliteracy program. Offers ideas and concrete examples of ways teachers can create a highly effective learning environment that values the cultural and linguistic assets that all students contribute to the classroom community and supports their development of sociocultural competence.
Presented in Spanish (No interpretation in English available)
Module 3: Becoming a Reflective Dual Language TeacherNovember 16, 2024
Outlines a teacher reflection system based on the Key Points from the Guiding Principles for Dual Language Education, 3rd edition, and aligned with the California English Learner (EL) Roadmap to support the reflection process of classroom teacher. Builds teachers鈥 capacity in implementing a high鈥恞uality dual language program within their classrooms and developing their leadership skills to advocate for a strong dual language program. Supports teachers in identifying next steps to move toward higher levels of practice in support of all the language learners in their classroom.
Presented in English
Module 4: Authentic Spanish Reading Instruction | La pedagog铆a para la ense帽anza aut茅ntica de la lecturaJanuary 11, 2025
Provides Spanish dual language teachers opportunities to engage in a contrastive analysis between initial literacy instruction pedagogy in English and Spanish, which will enhance their sociocultural competence when teaching students who are either native speakers of Spanish or Spanish Learners. Introduces research鈥恇ased instructional methods appropriate for teaching literacy in Spanish. Makes connections to the California CCSS en espa帽ol and California Spanish Language Development Standards. Provides model lessons and resources for immediate classroom application.
Presented in Spanish (No interpretation in English available)
Module 5: Academic Spanish Language Development for Dual Language Teachers | El desarrollo del espa帽ol acad茅mico para maestros de doble idioma February 8, 2025
Equips teachers in biliteracy programs with high leverage instructional tools to develop student鈥檚 academic language in both English and Spanish and to support both the teachers鈥 and their students鈥 sociocultural competence. Presents research鈥恇ased strategies teachers can utilize when planning using the California CCSS en espa帽ol and California Spanish Language Development Standards or both Integrated and Designated Spanish Language Development (SLD). Presents teachers with multicultural resources that will facilitate students鈥 academic language development and highlight cross鈥恖inguistic connections between the two languages. Allows for reflection on the value of home languages and the linguistic decisions bilinguals make in different contexts, thus enhancing their sociocultural competence. Delivers differentiated language development instruction as well as ways to assess students鈥 linguistic abilities to inform their instruction.
Presented in Spanish (No interpretation in English available)
Module 6: Spanish Grammar Instruction: The 鈥淲hat鈥 and the 鈥淗ow鈥 | La pedagog铆a de la ense帽anza de la gram谩tica en espa帽ol: El 鈥渜u茅鈥 y 鈥渃贸mo鈥March 8, 2025
Focuses on the progression of key language skills as described in the California CCSS en espa帽ol and California Spanish Language Development Standards. Presents and models research鈥恇ased instructional strategies to teach grammar, orthography, and conventions that will support students鈥 understanding of 鈥渉ow Spanish works.鈥 Explores culturally relevant language resources to study language patterns and varieties and connect these to the development and importance of sociocultural competence. Gives teachers tools needed to create a language rich environment.
Presented in Spanish (No interpretation in English available)
Module 7: Cross鈥怢inguistic Transfer in a Dual Language Program | Las transferencias interling眉铆sticas en el programa de doble idiomaApril 12, 2025
Focuses on identifying the language features and building a bridge between the Spanish and the English languages. Explores the difference between code鈥恠witching, translanguaging, concurrent translation, and cross鈥恖inguistic transfer. Uses mentor text to examine the subsystems of language that can be addressed through cross鈥恖inguistic transfer strategies and how sociocultural competence can be embedded in cross鈥恖inguistic transfer instruction. Gives teachers an opportunity to participate in interactive model lessons. Examines ways on assessing language formally and informally to support students鈥 biliteracy development and sociocultural competence development through cross鈥恖inguistic transfer instruction.
Presented in Spanish (No interpretation in English available)
Module 8: Best Practices for Spanish Writing Instruction in a Dual Language Classroom | Las mejores pr谩cticas para la ense帽anza de la escritura en espa帽ol en un aula de educaci贸n en dos idiomasMay 3, 2025
Emphasizes a comprehensive literacy approach and biliteracy model that presents different types of writing through the lens of the biliterate writer. Focuses on the stages of Spanish writing development, using the California CCSS en espa帽ol and California Spanish Language Development Standards as guides to writing instruction and to help build sociocultural competence. Presents how to craft focused mini鈥恖essons that teach explicit Spanish writing strategies and embedding linguistic support for emergent bilinguals in the writing process. Shows how to use culturally relevant teacher鈥恈reated mentor text to model the writing process and the role that multicultural touchstone texts play in studying genre/text type, craft, and structures. Develops students鈥 awareness and ability to write for their readers and understanding of real鈥恖ife purposes for writing. Demonstrates how to differentiate instruction and support through small group and writing conferences while also assessing student writing through a biliteracy lens to guide instruction.
Presented in Spanish (No interpretation in English available)