EL Rise 2021-2022 Offerings

An Educator Workforce Investment Grant

2021 – 2022 Offerings

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About Us EL RISE! ENGLISH LEARNER ROADMAP IMPLEMENTATION FOR SYSTEMIC EXCELLENCE

EL RISE! is a collaboration between Californians Together, SEAL (Sobrato Early Academic Language) and Loyola Marymount University’s Center for Equity for English Learners, funded through an Educator Workforce Investment Grant from the California Department of Education to support statewide implementation of the visionary and comprehensive 2017 CA English Learner Roadmap State Board of Education policy. Over three years, EL RISE! will work with and through 20 County Offices of Education to support LEAs in making meaning of the EL Roadmap principles, understanding their English learner/dual language learner populations, becoming familiar with research on dual language development, developing local implementation plans, and implementing those plans across multiple roles. The goals of EL RISE! are: • Strengthen the capacity of County Offices of Education to support LEAs in planning, professional learning, and continuous improvement processes to centralize and meet the needs of their English learners in alignment with the EL Roadmap; • Increase educators’ knowledge of the EL Roadmap and research-based practices for English learners, and understanding of the implications for multiple roles and levels of the system • Build skills and strategies for implementing English Learner Roadmap policy-aligned evidence-based practices • Facilitate the development of shared vision and priorities for local plans and implementation of the EL Roadmap leading to greater coherence • Support the design, improvement and sustainability of strong research-based language acquisition programs and services for English learners, including dual language programs • Develop local policies and LEA system mechanisms focused on English learner needs and aligned to the EL Roadmap EL RISE! professional learning opportunities and technical assistance are therefore customized based upon facilitated locally-driven planning processes, and will be offered through a multiplicity of delivery options to address local priorities and contexts.

OUR STATEWIDE NETWORK:

Anchor County Offices: Los Angeles, Tulare, Sacramento, Yolo Partner County Offices: Contra Costa, Kern, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, San Mateo, San Diego, Riverside, Ventura Participating County Offices: Butte, Imperial, King, Merced, Orange, San Joaquin, Solano, Stanislaus

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San Diego County Office of Education - EL Data Dashboard/progress monitoring for Anchors and Partner COEs, and website and online offerings Imperial County Office of Education SELPA – Improving Outcomes for English learners with Disabilities National Resource Center for Asian Languages – Professional Development for Asian language teachers in dual language/bilingual Evaluator - Pete Goldschmidt, CSU Northridge

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Table of Contents Offerings by Audience ............................................................................................................................ 4 Californians Together Offerings............................................................................................................... 6 County Office Internal Cross Division................................................................................................. 7 ELR 101 for School Board Members .................................................................................................... 8 Integrated and Designated ELD Institute for Secondary Teachers .................................................. 9 Integrated and Designated ELD Strand for Secondary Teachers .................................................. 10 Local Planning for EL Roadmap Implementation for school/site district teams ........................... 11 Developing and Strengthening Programs and Services to meet the Needs of Long-Term English Learners ............................................................................................................................................. 12 Developing and Strengthening Programs and Services to Meet the Needs of Newcomers ....... 13 Meeting the Unique Needs of Newcomers in the Classroom ........................................................ 14 Superintendents Forum ..................................................................................................................... 15 Leading School Improvement with English learners at the Heart: The English Learner Roadmap for Administrators Strand of Five Modules -Modules 1 - 2 .............................................................. 16 Community of Practice for Leading School Improvement with English learners at the Heart: The English Learner Roadmap for Administrators Strand of Five Modules -Modules 1 - 2 .................. 17 English Learner Roadmap for Administrators Strand of Five Modules -Modules 3 - 5 .................. 18 Preparing to Lead Integrated and Designated ELD ........................................................................ 19 LMU CEEL Offerings ................................................................................................................................ 20 English Learner Master Plan Institute: Designing local policy aligned to the California English Learner Roadmap ............................................................................................................................. 21 Sobrato Early Academic Language Offerings ..................................................................................... 22 English Learner Roadmap Comprehensive Series .......................................................................... 23 The English Learner Roadmap Elementary Teacher Strand Modules 1-2 ...................................... 24 The English Learner Roadmap Elementary Teacher Strand Modules 3-5 ...................................... 25 The Elementary English Learner Roadmap Dual Language Teacher Strand Module 1 - 2 .......... 26 The Elementary English Learner Roadmap Dual Language Teacher Strand Module 3 - 5 .......... 27 Dual Language Pedagogy Institute for Elementary Administrators/Leaders ................................ 28 Dual Language Pedagogy Institute for Elementary Teachers ........................................................ 29 Creating Conditions for Dual Language Learners to Thrive In Early Education............................. 30 Supplemental Workshops ................................................................................................................. 31 Elementary Coaching to Enact the English Learner Roadmap ...................................................... 32 Elementary English Learner Roadmap 101 Family Webinar-Trainer of Trainer Model .................. 33 californianstogether.org/el-rise

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Strategy and Practice Workshops .................................................................................................... 34 Leveraging Elementary Academic Text to Deepen Language Proficiency ................................. 35 Elementary Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy: Creating the Conditions for English learners to Thrive .................................................................................................................................................. 36 Integrated and Designated ELD: Elementary Teacher as a Language Coach............................. 37 ELD for Elementary Teachers and Administrators Institute .............................................................. 38 National Resource Center for Asian Languages Offerings ................................................................. 39 Institute for English Learners / Emergent Bilinguals The California English Learner Roadmap Policy in Action.................................................................................................................................. 40 Imperial County SELPA .......................................................................................................................... 41 Improving Outcomes for English Learners with Disabilities............................................................. 42 San Diego County Office of Education ................................................................................................ 43 Orientation to the CA English Learner Roadmap ............................................................................ 44 Developing an English learner Data Dashboard, Systems and Culture ........................................ 45

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Offerings by Audience Offerings specific for Anchor County Offices and Anchor LEAs County Office Internal Cross Division................................................................................................. 7 Local Planning for EL Roadmap Implementation for school/site district teams ........................... 11 Leading School Improvement with English learners at the Heart: The English Learner Roadmap for Administrators Strand of Five Modules -Modules 1 - 2 .............................................................. 16 Superintendents Forum ..................................................................................................................... 15 Preparing to Lead Integrated and Designated ELD ........................................................................ 19

Offerings for Administrators/Leaders Developing and Strengthening Programs and Services to meet the Needs of Long-Term English Learners ............................................................................................................................................. 12 Developing and Strengthening Programs and Services to meet the needs of Newcomers ....... 13 Community of Practice for Leading School Improvement with English learners at the Heart: The English Learner Roadmap for Administrators Strand of Five Modules -Modules 1 - 2 .................. 17 English Learner Roadmap for Administrators Strand of Five Modules -Modules 3 - 5 .................. 18 English Learner Master Plan Institute: Designing local policy aligned to the California English Learner Roadmap ............................................................................................................................. 21 Dual Language Pedagogy Institute for Elementary Administrators/Leaders ................................ 28 ELD for Elementary Teachers and Administrators Institute .............................................................. 37 Institute for English Learners / Emergent Bilinguals The California English Learner Roadmap Policy in Action.................................................................................................................................. 39 Improving Outcomes for English Learners with Disabilities............................................................. 41 Orientation to the CA English Learner Roadmap ............................................................................ 43 Developing an English learner Data Dashboard, Systems and Culture ........................................ 44

Comprehensive Series for Elementary Teachers and Teacher Leaders The English Learner Roadmap Elementary Teacher Strand Modules 1-2 ...................................... 24 The English Learner Roadmap Elementary Teacher Strand Modules 3-5 ...................................... 25 The Elementary English Learner Roadmap Dual Language Teacher Strand Module 1 - 2 .......... 26 The Elementary English Learner Roadmap Dual Language Teacher Strand Module 3 - 5 .......... 27 Dual Language Pedagogy Institute for Elementary Administrators/Leaders ................................ 28 Dual Language Pedagogy Institute for Elementary Teachers ........................................................ 29 Creating Conditions for Dual Language Learners to Thrive In Early Education............................. 30

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Supplemental Workshops for Elementary Teachers and Teacher Leaders Elementary Coaching to Enact the English Learner Roadmap ...................................................... 31 Elementary English Learner Roadmap 101 Family Webinar-Trainer of Trainer Model .................. 32

Strategic Practice for Elementary Teachers and Teacher Leaders Leveraging Elementary Academic Text to Deepen Language Proficiency ................................. 34 Elementary Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy: Creating the Conditions for English learners to Thrive .................................................................................................................................................. 35 Integrated and Designated ELD: Elementary Teacher as a Language Coach............................. 36 ELD for Elementary Teachers and Administrators Institute .............................................................. 37 Institute for English Learners / Emergent Bilinguals The California English Learner Roadmap Policy in Action.................................................................................................................................. 39 English Learners with Disabilities....................................................................................................... 41 Orientation to the CA English Learner Roadmap ............................................................................ 43

Offerings for Secondary Teachers and Teacher Leaders Integrated and Designated ELD Institute for Secondary Teachers .................................................. 9 Integrated and Designated ELD Strand for Secondary Teachers .................................................. 10 Institute for English Learners / Emergent Bilinguals The California English Learner Roadmap Policy in Action.................................................................................................................................. 39 English Learners with Disabilities....................................................................................................... 41 Orientation to the CA English Learner Roadmap ............................................................................ 43

Offerings for K-12 educators and leaders Meeting the needs of Newcomers in the classroom ...................................................................... 14 Institute for English Learners / Emergent Bilinguals The California English Learner Roadmap Policy in Action.................................................................................................................................. 39

Offerings for other educational audiences ELR 101 for School Board Members .................................................................................................... 8 Creating Conditions for Dual Language Learners to Thrive In Early Education............................. 30 Elementary Coaching to Enact the English Learner Roadmap ...................................................... 31 Elementary English Learner Roadmap 101 Family Webinar-Trainer of Trainer Model .................. 32 Orientation to the CA English Learner Roadmap ............................................................................ 43

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County Office Internal Cross Division Description: A facilitated process of bringing together staff across divisions to make meaning

of the English Learner Roadmap policy and its application to endeavors across-departments within the county office - helping to develop a shared vision and plan for infusing the Roadmap into work with LEAs. Each year of the grant, this cross-division group is reconvened to reflect upon progress and refine plans for coherent and meaningful implementation of the Roadmap across the County Office work.

Audience: Anchor County Office Staff Number of Sessions: One session Duration of each virtual offering: Four hours Available to: Anchor Counties Available: October 2021 – June 2022

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ELR 101 for School Board Members Description: This session for School Board Members provides a basic overview of the

comprehensive and visionary English Learner Roadmap state policy. It is designed to address the role of local governing bodies in supporting and overseeing planning, resource allocation, and implementation of responsive and effective programs and services for English learners that are aligned with the state policy. What questions should you be asking? What opportunities does this assets-oriented and visionary state policy open up for your schools? How can you ensure your schools are enacting the vision, mission and principles of the EL Roadmap? Sign up and gain answers and tools for being a school board member that centralizes the needs of your English learner students.

Audience: Anchor County LEA School Boards Number of Sessions: One session Duration of each virtual offering: 1.5 hours Available to: Anchor Counties Available: August 2021 – June 2022

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Integrated and Designated ELD Institute for Secondary Teachers Description: Integrated and Designated ELD and culturally and linguistically sustaining

practices are the foundational components of effective and responsive secondary schools for meeting the needs of English learner students. This Institute is designed for middle and high school teachers, instructional coaches and administrators. Participants will be immersed in the ELD standards, build an understanding of how to integrate support for language development with disciplinary content knowledge, learn how to plan responsive Designated ELD that is linked to academic content, and become acquainted with high-leverage instructional strategies that build comprehension, support active engagement, intentionally build language, and focus on all four domains of language (oracy, listening/comprehension, reading and writing). Participants will become acquainted with the guidance provided in key California Department of Education resources, including the English Learner Roadmap policy, ELD Standards, ELA-ELD Framework, and the newly published Improving Education for Multilingual and English Learner Students: Research to Practice.

Audience: Secondary teachers and teacher leaders, all content areas Number of Sessions: Two online sessions Duration of each virtual offering: Two hours each session with asynchronous work in

between sessions

Available to: Anchor Counties and Partner Counties and Participating Counties Available: August 2021 – June 2022 Materials Required: Digital download of Improving Education for Multilingual and English Learner Students: Research to Practice

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Integrated and Designated ELD Strand for Secondary Teachers Description: The sessions 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. An outline for the professional learning strand is provided below: Module One will focus on how to cultivate assets-oriented, inclusive, and affirming classrooms through culturally and linguistically sustaining pedagogy, social-emotional learning, critically consciousness empathy, and family and community responsiveness.

Modules Two - Four will focus on increasing the intellectual quality of instruction and meaningful access through Integrated and Designated ELD, including how to plan with the ELD standards in tandem with content standards, integrate content and language learning, and prioritize high-leverage instructional practices to promote disciplinary literacy and oracy development.

Module Five will focus on teachers’ roles in creating and sustaining equitable systems that support students’ quality teaching and learning experiences, including assessment processes, lesson and unit planning in communities of practice, and program design.

County Offices will facilitate a Community of Practice with this offering Audience: Secondary teachers and teacher leaders, all content areas Number of Sessions: Ten online sessions over two years – Year One: 4 sessions; Year Two: 6

sessions

Duration of each virtual offering: Two-hours each session with asynchronous work in

between sessions

Available to: Anchor Counties and Partner Counties Available: August 2021 – June 2022 Materials Required: Digital download of Improving Education for Multilingual and English Learner Students: Research to Practice

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Local Planning for EL Roadmap Implementation for school/site district teams Description: The visionary, comprehensive EL Roadmap state policy sets forth a set of

principles to guide LEA implementation of research-based and assets-oriented programs and services for English learners. Determining your own local priorities and setting forth your own local path to implementing the EL Roadmap requires local planning. This set of facilitated sessions is designed to lead cross-role/cross-site teams within a district to make shared meaning of the EL Roadmap, and set priorities for implementation. Using reflection/assessment tools, dialogue prompts and planning templates, teams will lay-out a plan for pursuing those priorities and a structure for revisiting and refining their own local roadmap of implementation.

Audience: Anchor LEA teams Number of Sessions: One session Duration of each virtual offering: Customized to meet the needs of the Anchor LEA Available to: Anchor LEAs Available: August 2021 – June 2022

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Developing and Strengthening Programs and Services to meet the Needs of Long-Term English Learners Description:

It has been nearly ten years since Reparable Harm: Fulfilling the Unkept Promise of Educational Opportunity for California’s Long Term English Learners shed light on the needs of Long-Term English Learners and called on education leaders to provide solutions for these students. Californians Together continues its work with a new report focused on how schools, districts, and the state can best meet the needs of Long-Term English learners, which will be released June 2021. Using the new report as guidance, this institute will include an overview of what the data says about LTELs across California, a summary of research and key policy changes over the past ten years, findings from a landscape survey of districts across California, examples from districts with promising practices, and key policy recommendations for education leaders.

The institute will provide templates and guidance in shaping inquiries into your own LTEL population, and will acquaint participants with resources for developing and strengthening programs and services.

Audience: District, County, and Site leaders Number of Sessions: Two online sessions Duration of each virtual offering: Two hours each session with asynchronous work in

between sessions

Available to: Anchor Counties and Partner Counties and Participating Counties Available: October 2021 – June 2022 Materials Required: copy of the new report which will be provide during the session

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Developing and Strengthening Programs and Services to Meet the Needs of Newcomers Description: Every year, at all points in the school year, immigrant students enroll in California

schools as new immigrants. These newly arrived students from other nations face a particular set of unique needs. This workshop, designed for site and district administrators and EL Directors/Coordinators, begins with an overview of who these newcomers are, and their needs: cultural orientation and dealing with culture shock, impacts of the immigration experience, basic survival English, overcoming gaps or differences in prior schooling, developing a pathway to high school graduation. Examples of how schools and districts have responded effectively to these needs will include structuring newcomer programs, assessing foreign transcripts and language/academic status, supporting the socioemotional needs of newcomer students, accommodating new enrollment throughout the school year, approaches to extending school time, and supporting classroom teachers to embrace and serve newcomers. The institute will provide templates and guidance in shaping inquiries into your own newcomer population, and will acquaint participants with resources such as the U.S. Department of Education Newcomer Toolkit for developing and strengthening programs and services.

Audience: District, County, and Site leaders Number of Sessions: Two online sessions Duration of each virtual offering: Two hours each session with asynchronous work in

between sessions

Available to: Anchor Counties and Partner Counties and Participating Counties Available: August 2021 – June 2022

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Meeting the Unique Needs of Newcomers in the Classroom Description: California’s newly arrived students from other nations face a particular set of

unique needs. This institute, designed for K-12 educators, begins with an overview of who these newcomers are, and their cultural and social needs. The institute will then focus on the academic needs of these students to help them succeed in the classroom and beyond.

Participants will receive strategies and practical resources they can use right away to create a welcoming environment for newcomer students and facilitate their learning.

Audience: K-12 teachers and K-12 teacher leaders Number of Sessions: Two online sessions Duration of each virtual offering: Two hours per session with asynchronous work in

between sessions

Available to: Anchor Counties and Partner Counties and Participating Counties Available: October 2021 – June 2022

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Superintendents Forum Description: The visionary, comprehensive and assets-oriented English Learner Roadmap

policy adopted by the State Board of Education sets a vision, mission and research-based principles to be used by LEAs in planning and implementing programs and services for English learners. It is essential that Superintendents understand the policy and the implications for local planning and accountability. This two-hour forum is specifically designed for Superintendents – providing the overview that leaders need, and creating a a space in which leadership can learn from and engage in dialogue with other district leaders about what it takes to lead the kind of equity-oriented, English learner centered reforms that the EL Roadmap calls for

Audience: Anchor County Superintendents Number of Sessions: One online session Duration of each virtual offering: Customized to meet the needs of the audience Available to: Anchor Counties Available: May 2022 – June 2022

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Leading School Improvement with English learners at the Heart: The English Learner Roadmap for Administrators Strand of Five Modules Modules 1 - 2 Description: Administrators are the linchpin of implementation - the leader who articulates

urgency, the ears and eyes to assess what needs to be done for English learners, the supporter for teachers and staff engaged in the hard work of changing practices, a cheerleader and critical friend, a reminder to keep the focus on students, and the manager of critical resources needed to support the work. This series of five modules (over a two-year period) is designed to support district and site administrators as they take up the challenge of doing all of this to enact the comprehensive English Learner Roadmap policy.

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Module 1: An orientation to the EL Roadmap, reflection about leading change for English learners, practical tools for planning Modules 2 -5: Focus on Principle One of the EL Roadmap, offering readings, talking points, approaches to initiating and supporting dialogue in a school about the principle, tools for observing and assessing the degree of implementation, ways in which an administrator can support research-based practices, practical resources, and action planning.

In between Modules, administrators are supported with guidance for inquiries to build understanding of the experiences of English learners in their schools, tools to observe practices in their school, activities that can be used to support dialogues and implementation at their site

Each module of the Leadership/Administrator Strand involves participants in specifically examining their role in leading improvement processes and supporting evidence-based practice and results in a plan for inquiry and implementation to pursue before the next module. Each module also provides a volume of The EL Roadmap Administrators Toolkit with tools, readings, resources, and activities. The five modules together provide a solid and comprehensive learning and support structure preparing administrators to lead implementation of research-based, assetsoriented programs and services for English learners.

Facilitator: Anchor COE staff and CalTog staff Audience: District and Site Administrators Number of Sessions: Four online sessions Duration of each virtual offering: Three hours each session with asynchronous work in

between sessions

Available to: Anchor Counties Available: August 2021 – June 2022 Materials Required: Digital Download or hardcopy of Volumes 1 and 2 of the ELR for

Administrators Toolkit

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Community of Practice for Leading School Improvement with English learners at the Heart: The English Learner Roadmap for Administrators Strand of Five Modules -Modules 1 - 2 Description:

This Community of Practice is an opportunity for the administrators enrolled in the strand are able to: • deepen their professional learning • connect to other leaders • reflect on Leading Implementation and Creating Assets-Oriented & Student Responsive Schools in a safe, collaborative setting • support implementation efforts We ask that each administrator brings at least one member of his/her team to the CoP to better support local implementation efforts

Audience: District and Site Administrators who participated in the 2020-2021 English learner Administrator strand

Number of Sessions: One online session Duration of each virtual offering: Three hours each session with pre and post work Available to: Anchor Counties and Partner Counties Available: August 2021 – October 2022 Materials Required: Digital Download or hardcopy of Volumes 1 and 2 of the ELR for

Administrators Toolkit

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English Learner Roadmap for Administrators Strand of Five Modules Modules 3 - 5 Description: Administrators are the linchpin of implementation - the leader who articulates

urgency, the ears and eyes to assess what needs to be done for English learners, the supporter for teachers and staff engaged in the hard work of changing practices, a cheerleader and critical friend, a reminder to keep the focus on students, and the manager of critical resources needed to support the work. This series of five modules (over a two-year period) is designed to support district and site administrators as they take up the challenge of doing all of this to enact the comprehensive English Learner Roadmap policy.

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Modules 3 -5: Each module focuses on Principles 2, 3 and 4 of the English Learner Roadmap policy, offering readings, talking points, approaches to initiating and supporting dialogue in a school about the principle, tools for observing and assessing the degree of implementation, ways in which an administrator can support research-based practices, practical resources, and action planning.

In between Modules, administrators are supported with guidance for inquiries to build understanding of the experiences of English learners in their schools, tools to observe practices in their school, activities that can be used to support dialogues and implementation at their site

Each module of the Leadership/Administrator Strand involves participants in specifically examining their role in leading improvement processes and supporting evidence-based practice and results in a plan for inquiry and implementation to pursue before the next module. Each module also provides a volume of The EL Roadmap Administrators Toolkit with tools, readings, resources, and activities. The five modules together provide a solid and comprehensive learning and support structure preparing administrators to lead implementation of research-based, assetsoriented programs and services for English learners.

Audience: District and Site Administrators Number of Sessions: Six online sessions Duration of each virtual offering: Three hours each session with asynchronous work in

between sessions

Available to: Anchor Counties and Partner Counties Available: October 2021 – June 2022 Materials Required: Digital Download or hardcopy Volumes 3-5 of the ELR for Administrators Toolkit

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Preparing to Lead Integrated and Designated ELD Description: Creating a comprehensive ELD program is a central priority for effectively serving English learners. By planning before the academic year begins and carefully nurturing the program during the first weeks of school, administrators can create schools that accelerate learning for English learners. This three-hour session focuses on how administrators can enact Principle 2 of the English Learner Roadmap policy in their virtual or in-person school. Participants will learn specific skills and strategies to lead staff, assess instructional materials, and guide a strong Integrated and Designated ELD program.

Audience: District and Site Administrators Number of Sessions: One online session Duration of each virtual offering: Three hours Available to: Anchor Counties; EL RISE! will also host a fall webinar for Partner and

Participating Counties

Available: August 2021 – September 2021

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English Learner Master Plan Institute: Designing local policy aligned to the California English Learner Roadmap Description: This interactive institute will help LEA teams create a plan to develop a district-

wide English Learner Master Plan aligned to the research-based California English Learner Roadmap policy. Participants will engage in discussions to guide planning for the development of visionary policies, programs, and services that ensure equitable opportunities and outcomes for English learners. Participants will receive resources included in the Center for Equity for English Learners’ English Learner Master Plan Playbook to develop a strategy for beginning or refining their approach to writing their EL Master Plan. Alignment with EL Roadmap principles and elements will be highlighted.

Audience: Administrators Number of Sessions: Two online sessions Duration of each virtual offering: Three hours each session with asynchronous work in

between sessions

Available to: Anchor Counties and Partner Counties Available: October 2021 – June 2022

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English Learner Roadmap Comprehensive Series The English Learner Roadmap comprehensive series is a complete training series. Participants are expected to participate in the full sequence including the communities of practice (if included) to get the full experience.

The English Learner Roadmap Elementary Teacher Strand Modules 1-2...................................... 24 The English Learner Roadmap Elementary Teacher Strand Modules 3-5...................................... 25 The Elementary English Learner Roadmap Dual Language Teacher Strand Module 1 - 2.......... 26 The Elementary English Learner Roadmap Dual Language Teacher Strand Module 3 - 5.......... 27 Dual Language Pedagogy Institute for Elementary Administrators/Leaders ............................... 28 Dual Language Pedagogy Institute for Elementary Teachers ....................................................... 29 Creating Conditions for Dual Language Learners to Thrive In Early Education ............................. 30

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The English Learner Roadmap Elementary Teacher Strand Modules 1-2 Module 1 Description: 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 and follow-up reflection and application, 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.

Module 2 Description: English learners possess a wealth of linguistic, cultural, and social assets that are to be valued, affirmed and leveraged for effective learning. This two-session webinar series, with embedded pre-session work and follow-up application and reflection, focuses on how teachers can begin to enact Principle 2 of the English Learner Roadmap policy in their virtual and in-person classrooms. Teachers will hone in on Integrated thematic ELD that gives students context for developing language proficiency. Participants will also learn to effectively identify and address the strengths and needs of English learners by providing scaffolds and supports using graphic organizers, language functions, and differentiated sentence and response frames. Our students’ brilliance shines through when we create the conditions for educational equity and access.

County Offices will facilitate a Community of Practice with this offering Audience: All classroom teachers, Site/local teams of educators, and Paraprofessionals Number of Sessions: Four online sessions Duration of each virtual offering: Two-hours each session with asynchronous work in

between sessions

Available to: Anchor Counties and Partner Counties Available: August 2021 – June 2022

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The English Learner Roadmap Elementary Teacher Strand Modules 3-5 Module 3 Description: Classrooms alive with purposeful academic oral language have a profound impact on English learner success. When elementary teachers create the conditions for students to meaningfully engage and interact with the content AND provide rich scaffolds so they can express their understanding of that content, English learners thrive! This two-session webinar series, with embedded pre-session work and follow-up application and reflection, focuses on how teachers can enact Principle 2 of the English Learner Roadmap policy in their virtual or in-person classrooms. Also aligned with CA’s ELA/ELD Framework, teachers will learn research-based practices for facilitating collaborative discourse, harnessing formative assessment to design responsive lessons in Designated ELD, and leveraging home language to promote English proficiency.

Module 4 Description: How can elementary teachers design interactive and responsive learning opportunities that engage English learners in deepening content knowledge, meaning making, and authentic writing? This two-session webinar series, with embedded pre-session work and follow-up application and reflection, will spotlight how teachers play a critical role in supporting students’ ability to navigate through complex texts and topics while providing strategic supports and scaffolds that build towards independence. Teachers will leave the two sessions with techniques for Integrated and Designated ELD that both prepare students for complex academic tasks as well as respond to their individual linguistic strengths and needs.

Module 5 Description: This module focuses on Principles 3 and 4 of the EL Roadmap by looking deeply at how teachers can support and leverage system conditions to be most effective for English learners. System policies and practices include grade level teaming, whole school articulation and assessment. Culturally and linguistically valid and reliable assessment, which supports instruction and attainment of English proficiency, is one way that teachers can create the conditions that allow ELs to thrive. Teachers need high quality professional learning, consistent opportunities for colleague collaboration, and refinement of their craft. We will look deeply at the role of formative and summative assessments in supporting multilingual learners and explore how teachers can maximize collaborative opportunities with their staff. We will close the EL Roadmap Module series with shared reflection on teacher practice and next steps.

County Offices will facilitate a Community of Practice with this offering Audience: All classroom teachers, Site/local teams of educators, and Paraprofessionals Number of Sessions: Six online sessions Duration of each virtual offering: Two-hours each session with asynchronous work in

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Available to: Anchor Counties and Partner Counties Available: August 2021 – June 2022

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The Elementary English Learner Roadmap Dual Language Teacher Strand Module 1 - 2 Module 1 Description: Creating an inclusive, linguistically, and culturally affirming dual

language classroom community is a central priority for effectively serving English learners. Through providing students with mirrors to positively reflect their intersectional identities and windows to embrace the diversity of our world, we can create bilingual classrooms and communities that respond to our students’ strengths, needs, socio-emotional health, and identities. This webinar series, with embedded pre-session work and follow-up reflection and application, focuses on how teachers can enact Principle 1 of the English Learner Roadmap policy in the dual language immersion context. Bilingual 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 that capitalize on the power of the bilingual brain.

Module 2 Description: English learners possess a wealth of linguistic, cultural, and social

assets that are to be valued, affirmed, and leveraged for effective learning. This webinar series, with embedded pre-session work and follow-up application and reflection, focuses on how teachers can begin to enact Principle 2 of the English Learner Roadmap policy in the dual language immersion context. Dual language teachers will hone in on Integrated thematic ELD that gives students context for language proficiency while building cross-cultural competence and cross-language connections. Participants will also learn to effectively identify and address the strengths and needs of dual language learners by providing scaffolds and supports using graphic organizers, language functions, and differentiated sentence and response frames. Our students’ brilliance shines through when we create the conditions for educational equity and access.

County Offices will facilitate a Community of Practice with this offering Audience: Classroom teachers bilingual/dual language programs, Site/local teams of educators, Paraprofessionals, COE staff Number of Sessions: Four online sessions Duration of each virtual offering: Two-hours each session with asynchronous work in

between sessions

Available to: Anchor Counties and Partner Counties Available: August 2021 – June 2022

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The Elementary English Learner Roadmap Dual Language Teacher Strand Module 3 - 5 Module 3 Description: Classrooms alive with purposeful academic oral language have a

profound impact on English learner success. When dual language elementary teachers create the conditions for students to meaningfully interact and transfer content in both languages AND provide rich scaffolds so students can express understanding, English learners thrive! This twosession webinar series, with embedded pre-session work and follow-up application and reflection, focuses on how dual language teachers can enact Principle 2 of the English Learner Roadmap policy in their virtual or in-person classrooms. Also aligned with CA’s ELA/ELD Framework, dual language teachers will learn research-based practices for facilitating meaningful collaborative discourse, fostering metalinguistic awareness, strategic separation and interaction of the two languages, and planning for Designated ELD in a bilingual context.

Module 4 Description: How can dual language elementary teachers design interactive and responsive learning opportunities that engage multilingual learners in meaning making and authentic writing across the languages. This webinar series, with embedded pre-session work and follow-up application and reflection, will spotlight how teachers play a critical role in supporting dual language students to navigate through complex bilingual texts and topics while capitalizing on the genius of the bilingual brain. Key to writing development is strategic and aligned literacy instruction authentic to each language with purposeful attention to cross linguistic transfer.

Teachers will leave the two sessions with techniques that prepare students for complex academic tasks, as well as respond to their individual linguistic strengths and needs.

Module 5 Description: This module focuses on Principles 3 and 4 of the EL Roadmap by looking deeply at how dual language teachers can support and leverage system conditions to be most effective for English learners. System policies and practices include grade level teaming, whole school articulation and bilingual assessment. Culturally and linguistically valid and reliable assessment, which supports instruction and attainment of bilingual proficiency, is one way that teachers can create the conditions that allow ELs to thrive. Dual language teachers need high quality professional learning, consistent opportunities for colleague collaboration, and refinement of their craft. We will look deeply at the role of formative and summative assessments from a bilingual lens and explore how teachers can maximize collaborative opportunities with their colleagues. We will close the EL Roadmap Module series with shared reflection on teacher practice and next steps.

County Offices will facilitate a Community of Practice with this offering Audience: Classroom teachers bilingual/dual language programs, Site/local teams of educators, Paraprofessionals, COE staff Number of Sessions: Six online sessions Duration of each virtual offering: Two-hours each session with asynchronous work in

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Available to: Anchor Counties and Partner Counties Available: August 2021 – June 2022

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Dual Language Pedagogy Institute for Elementary Administrators/Leaders Description: The Elementary Dual Language Pedagogy Institute for Elementary Administrators/

Leaders is a four-part series designed to support planning, implementing, strengthening, and sustaining dual language programs. It draws from a “hot off the presses” chapter written by Dr. Laurie Olsen from the recently released CDE book, Improving Multilingual and English Learner Education: from Research to Practice. New research findings, updated case studies, and promising practices will engage participants in key strategies to implement and expand effective, transformative, and sustainable dual language programs and pathways that center and elevate English learners. Administrators and leaders will engage in workshop style sessions that will address: matching a model to context, whole school versus strand, how to recruit and support teachers and effective instruction, how to engage families in bilingual school partnerships, how to build assessment systems that honor biliteracy, and how to be an advocate and champion of dual language. Participants will leave with concrete, actionable protocols and activities they can replicate with site teams to build their own effective programs.

Audience: Site administrators, Districts staff and administrators, Superintendents, Site/local teams of educators, COE staff

Number of Sessions: Four online sessions Duration of each virtual offering: Two-hours each session with asynchronous work in

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Available to: Anchor Counties and Partner Counties Available: August 2021 – June 2022

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Dual Language Pedagogy Institute for Elementary Teachers Description: Creating an inclusive, linguistically, and culturally affirming dual language classroom community is a central priority for effectively serving English learners. The Elementary Dual Language Pedagogy Institute for Elementary Teachers is designed to develop the foundation and strategies that teachers need in order to implement effective, transformative, and sustainable dual language programs. Based on a new chapter written by Dr. Laurie Olsen from the recently released CDE book Improving Multilingual and English Learner Education: from Research to Practice, the four Institute sessions will provide bilingual teachers with specific skills and strategies for: • • • •

grounding their work in bilingual pedagogy, strategically coordinating authentic literacy instruction, facilitating learning that capitalizes on cross language connections and the power of the bilingual brain, and leveraging their students and families cultural and linguistic assets.

County Offices will facilitate a Community of Practice with this offering Audience: Classroom teachers bilingual/dual language programs, Site/local teams of

educators

Number of Sessions: Four online sessions Duration of each virtual offering: Two-hours each session with asynchronous work in

between sessions

Available to: Anchor Counties and Partner Counties Available: August 2021 – June 2022

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Creating Conditions for Dual Language Learners to Thrive In Early Education Description: This Professional Learning Series (PLS) for early educators is designed to improve

educator effectiveness in meeting the needs of Dual Language Learners and their families in the foundational years of preschool.

The sessions will focus around four themes critical to DLL success: Partnering with Families, Complex Oral Language, Making Languages Visible & Tangible, and Early Literacy & Engaging with Text. Participants will begin by exploring how to affirm children’s home language, culture and identities in the school community, in order to make learning more relevant, meaningful and successful. In addition, because language develops deeply when it is embedded in and through thematic content, these sessions will be organized around a thematic unit that will be shared with participants. Teachers will learn to model expressive language and create environments where rich vocabulary and concepts come to life. They will learn how to use visuals to help children make meaning and provide critical scaffolds. Finally, teachers will learn strategies to provide access to and authentic opportunities to engage with interesting, complex and rich text.

Participants will engage in synchronous and asynchronous activities during and after sessions, which will allow them to enact and utilize strategies to enhance learning.

Audience: Early Education/Pre-School teachers, Early Education/Pre-School Administrators/Directors, Early Education Leads/TOSA

Number of Sessions: Four online sessions Duration of each virtual offering: Two-hours each session with asynchronous work in

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Available to: Anchor Counties and Partner Counties Available: August 2021 – June 2022

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Supplemental Workshops Supplemental workshops are additional offerings that are open to all participants and can be taken concurrently with any offering.

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Elementary Coaching to Enact the English Learner Roadmap Description: Instructional coaches play a critical role in creating classrooms and communities that respond to our students’ strengths, needs, socio-emotional health, and identities. This threesession 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.

County Offices will facilitate a Community of Practice with this offering Audience: All classroom teachers, Classroom teachers bilingual/dual language programs, Site/local teams of educators, Paraeducators, COE staff Number of Sessions: Three online sessions Duration of each virtual offering: Two-hours each session with asynchronous work

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Available to: Anchor Counties and Partner Counties and Participating Counties Available: August 2021 – June 2022

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Elementary English Learner Roadmap 101 Family Webinar-Trainer of Trainer Model Description: Families play a crucial role in the success of their children’s academics. Ensuring

they are informed about the English Learner Roadmap policy will serve as an important bridge to foster stronger school relationships, personal investment, and robust implementation of the English Learner Roadmap policy. In this session, district and/or site personnel will be prepared to deliver English Learner Roadmap workshops to their families. The workshop that are being shared are: • Introduction to the English Learner Roadmap for Families • Raising Bilingual Children • Interactive Read Alouds • Telling Our Stories All print and media resources will be provided so district and/or site personnel are able to empower families to support schools in centralizing the needs of English Learners.

Audience: Site administrators, District Staff and administrators, COE Staff, Other Parent Liaisons/Teacher on Special Assignment focused on Family Engagement

Number of Sessions: One online session Duration of each virtual offering: Two hours Available to: Anchor Counties and Partner Counties and Participating Counties Available: August 2021 – June 2022

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Strategy and Practice Workshops Strategy and practice workshops are drawn from the content from the English Learner Roadmap Comprehensive Series. These workshops are designed for participants who cannot commit to the comprehensive series. If a participant is enrolled in a comprehensive series, they should not attend any of these workshops.

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Leveraging Elementary Academic Text to Deepen Language Proficiency Description: 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: Site administrators, District Staff and administrators, COE Staff, Other Parent Liaisons/Teacher on Special Assignment focused on Family Engagement

Number of Sessions: One online session Duration of each virtual offering: Two hours with pre-work before session Available to: Anchor Counties and Partner Counties and Participating Counties Available: August 2021 – June 2022

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Elementary Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy: Creating the Conditions for English learners to Thrive Description: 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, socioemotional 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: All classroom teachers, Classroom teachers bilingual/dual language programs, Site/local teams of educators, Paraeducators, COE staff Number of Sessions: Two online sessions Duration of each virtual offering: Two-hours each session with asynchronous work

between sessions

Available to: Anchor Counties and Partner Counties and Participating Counties Available: August 2021 – June 2022

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Integrated and Designated ELD: Elementary Teacher as a Language Coach Description: 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 Number of Sessions: One online session Duration of each virtual offering: Two-hours Available to: Anchor Counties and Partner Counties and Participating Counties Available: August 2021 – June 2022

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ELD for Elementary Teachers and Administrators Institute Description: Equitable access to a comprehensive education including both integrated and

designated ELD instruction is a civil right for English learners. These four 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.

County Offices will facilitate a Community of Practice with this offering Audience: Classroom teachers, Site administrators Number of Sessions: Four online sessions and one additional online session for administrators Duration of each virtual offering: Two-hours each session with asynchronous work in

between sessions

Available to: Anchor Counties and Partner Counties and Participating Counties Available: August 2021 – June 2022

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Institute for English Learners / Emergent Bilinguals The California English Learner Roadmap Policy in Action Description: NRCAL will present a series of webinars to develop and share best practices for

teaching English learners / Emergent Bilingual students of Asian languages and/or students in Asian language programs. The sessions are guided by the four principles of the English Learner Roadmap policy, and will include presentations by in-service teachers and facilitated discussions.

The institutes is open to all Asian Language Teachers in California.

Audience: All educators Available to: Anchor Counties and Partner Counties and Participating Counties Available: Dates and times will be announced at a later time

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Improving Outcomes for English Learners with Disabilities Description:

Imperial County Office SELPA, the state Lead on English Learners with Disabilities, will offer LEAs customized offerings.

Audience: All educators Available to: Anchor Counties and Partner Counties and Participating Counties Available: Dates and times will be announced at a later time

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Orientation to the CA English Learner Roadmap Description: An online asynchronous module for people seeking a basic foundational

introduction to the CA EL Roadmap’s vision, mission and four principles General Foundational Intro to the ELR.

Audience: All educators Available to: Anchor Counties and Partner Counties and Participating Counties Available: Dates and times will be announced at a later time

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Developing an English learner Data Dashboard, Systems and Culture Description: San Diego County Office of Education will provide technical assistance in

creating data systems and an English Learner focused Dashboard analytic capacity to the county offices for comprehensive work on the English Learner Roadmap policy implementation.

Initially for District assessment staff, EL directors – in second year, for site administrators as well.

Audience: Anchor and Partner County Office of Education and Participating Counties Available to: Anchor Counties Available: Dates and times will be announced at a later time

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The EL RISE! Design Team: Dr. Laurie Olsen, EL RISE! Design Lead Dr. Margarita Gonzalez-Amador, EL RISE! Project Administrator Victoria Weiss, EL RISE! Project Specialist Karina Barron, EL RISE! Project Assistant Martha Hernandez, Californians Together Executive Director Shelly Spiegel-Coleman, Californians Together Strategic Advisor Dr. Magaly Lavadenz, CEEL Executive Director Dr. Elvira Armas, CEEL Director of Programs and Partnerships Dr. Anya Hurwitz, SEAL Executive Director Jennifer Diehl, SEAL Director of Innovation and Strategy Charice Guerra, SEAL Program Manager & District Relations Administrator Pete Goldschmidt, EL RISE! Evaluator Alia Congdon, EL RISE! Evaluator

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