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CURRICULUM ALIGNMENT

Formative and summative assessment tools that measure incremental student growth aligned to language & literacy standards (ACTFL, CCSS, state/local standards) Instructional strategies & skills for building an inclusive & successful 90%+ target language classroom community Instructional strategies for language and literacy development for Novice to Advanced students Departmental alignment to build a standards-gased, multi-year, guaranteed viable curriculum, and common assessment tools to measure & communicate student outcomes

ON-SITE OR VIRTUAL WORKSHOPS Onsite costs defrayed by travel agreement. See page 4.

ASSESSMENT SUPPORT & TEAM CALIBRATION

Develop tools, materials, & shared protocols, training, & support to implement a student growth cycle) & develop data-driven next steps recommendations, with a focus on historically-underserved student groups.

DISTANCE VIDEO CONSULTING

Initial individual & team consultations and video staff development during pre-planning, two planning/data collection sessions during Quarter One, two sessions during Quarter Two, & a final session during Semester One post-planning (or the equivalent marking periods/terms). Staff will plan, implement, & score/calibrate instruction & assessment for the Description & Narration cycles.

DEMO LESSONS & EMBEDDED COACHING IN CLASSROOMS

If onsite costs can be defrayed (see page 4), we can offer up to two days of onsite demo teaching & coaching with no additional consulting fees.

COMPLETE SEMESTER OF MULTI-LEVEL MATERIALS (FRENCH, ENGLISH, SPANISH, GERMAN, LATIN, & ITALIAN ONLY)

Use our Year of Free Curriculum & the templates & support provided to Partner Schools to modify the materials to align with department/teacher content goals.

E-LIT LEVELED CLASSROOM LIBRARIES FOR EACH TEACHER (FRENCH, ENGLISH, SPANISH, & GERMAN ONLY)

Use our E-Lit digital classroom libraries to implement or strengthen independent guided reading in language development programs.

BOOKS & PRINT PERMISSIONS

All staff will receive e-readers of Tina's books, and the district will provide print copies (at printing cost) for all staff. All staff will be granted limited print and usage/distribution permissions for all provided digital materials.

ABOUT TINA HARGADEN

Tina Hargaden has been teaching French, Spanish, Reading, Language Arts, English Language Development, and Social Studies since 2003. She holds a Masters in Curriculum and Instruction and has pursued extensive training in literacy and language acquisition. She is the author of Foundations: A Natural Approach to the (Transition) Year and Stepping Stones, a literacy-focused curricular framework for language development courses and programs. Tina has presented and keynoted at many workshops and state, regional, and national conferences, and consulted with many departments, districts, and teachers. She is the founding director of the World Language Proficiency Project.

High leverage, transferable skills that are essential for quality instruction — go slow, make it compelling, make it personalized. Talk to and with the kids, about stuff they’re interested in, using comprehensible language.

- Tashia Maureen, Spanish and English Language Development

The training provided me with a system, instead of just the next fun idea to try to jam into a class period. I feel like I am teaching real language. The oral language used for authentic communicative purposes, culminating in "writing and discussing" has changed everything for me. Students learn the words because they own the content and the new words pop up as they need them. Very natural for the brain. My Level 1 students are producing output I never thought possible.

- Jennifer Smith, German

THE WORLD LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY PROJECT

Founded in 2017, the World Language Proficiency Project is a for-profit curriculum development and teacher training partner to teachers and districts worldwide.

Through our Free Year of Curriculum, developed for and in collaboration with teachers during the Covid-19 crises, our Summer Institutes, and our Partner Schools program, we support educators in implementing the Stepping Stones curricular framework, a multi-year, spiral framework for developing students' communicative language proficiencies and crosscurricular literacy. We are ethically and materially committed to environmental and social justice and their deep intersection with racial justice and the eradication of White Supremacy Culture in our educational systems, and our most important mission is to equip educators with tools and instructional frameworks to ensure equitable access to successful outcomes for all students, in particular Black students, Indigenous students, students of color, and students from historicallyoppressed, marginalized, and underserved communities, including the LGBTQ+ community.

We actively seek and prioritize partnerships with educators and leaders of color, and those whose work impacts students from communities of color, and we can get pretty creative about how to work out the financial arrangements. Contact us at pd@ciliftoff.com to see how we can work together to build a more just, equitable, and multilingual world.

This workshop was so valuable. I learned, and will implement, how to plan a non-fiction lesson around some of the topics our textbook covers. I am not using the textbook, but with these strategies, I can use the topics. I teach Spanish 3 & 4, so I will use your scaffolded guides to writing and your support materials for oral practice. All the ideas with using photos and matching up cards for comparing and contrasting will just further support the students. I have seen so much from my students this year and your workshop has re-inspired me and helped me to see how to build proficiency in the upper levels.

- Kay Cee Mills, Spanish 3 and 4

This workshop helped me understand how to scaffold output writing and speaking for my upper levels and develop a unit structure based around content, so I have more of a plan to move from building background knowledge and providing language input, to output. I feel well-equipped to plan units for levels 4-5 and my IB/AP classes. I want to invite our dual language teachers (elementary and middle) school teachers to this training, as well as our ESL/ELD content area teachers.

- Adrienne Brandenburg, Spanish and English Language Development

This framework lays out the stepping stones to run a proficiency-based program founded on brain-based best practices leading to stunning results and success for students and teachers.

I have always known

teaching could be like this.

- Stephanie Connor Mignone, German

PARTNER SCHOOLS BENEFITS Summer Institutes registration for all staff is included for Partner Schools.

Print manuals may be added for a nominal charge.

Print & limited modification/reuse/ distribution permission for all Stepping Stones materials & resources, Tina's books, & E-Lit leveled texts, for all staff Initial setup during summer or preplanning: Phone, Zoom, and/or email consultation with administrators & department heads, teacher readiness surveys, materials preparation Four hours pre-planning: Design baseline assessments & first four weeks of Description in adopted levels (first year, second year, or both, and in rare instances, all levels)

Two hours training/consulting during Quarter One: Plan the second three weeks of Description, summative portfolio assessments, & the first two weeks of Narration Four hours training/consulting at the end of Quarter One: Cross-score & calibrate Description work samples& plan the second four weeks of Narration & portfolio performance assessment Four hours during Semester One post-planning: Cross-score & calibrate Description work samples, reflect & draw action steps from student data

PARTNER SCHOOLS RESPONSIBILITIES Provide print copies of the book Foundations (580 pgs) & the Stepping Stones Guide to Assessment (280 pgs) through in-house services or our Partner Schools Pricing printing and shipping agreement (email pd@ciliftoff.com for more information on Partner Schools Pricing for print materials.)

Provide releases for use of randomized & anonymized samples of written student work and accompanying scores, in teacher training materials and internal curriculum and materials development Provide permission for use of randomized & anonymized data on school and community context, & quantitative & qualitative data on teacher and student outcomes, including scores on rubrics & other assessment tools Provide release time for the department to convene for video training/consults : four hours during pre-planning, two hours during the first three weeks of Quarter One (or the equivalent), four hours after completion of Q1 (or the equivalent) summative assessments and prior to the start of Q2 (or the equivalent), and four hours during Semester One (or the equivalent) post-planning

ONSITE WORK & TRAVEL AGREEMENT

ON-SITE WORKSHOPS

All training provided through the no-cost Partner Schools program is virtual. If on-site work is requested, the workshops can be extended to a half- or full-day format, with no additional consulting fee, provided the district can defray the staff developer's travel costs through the travel agreement provided here. For more details, or to check our staff's availability, please email pd@ciliftoff.com. To inquire about payment arrangements or documentation requirements, please email accounts@ciliftoff.com.

ON-SITE DEMO LESSONS & EMBEDDED COACHING

If onsite costs can be defrayed, we can offer each of our Partner Schools up to two days of onsite demo teaching & coaching with no additional consulting fees. Onsite costs for these days include the costs of providing substitute educators to release department members to observe in others' classrooms, and can include a full or half day to debrief, learn, & practice skills and strategies observed in the demonstration sessions.

If additional days are requested beyond the two provided days, we will assess an additional Consulting Daily Fee of $3200 for one day, $4900 for one and a half consecutive days, and $5400 for two consecutive days. This is in addition to the fees per visit outlined in the Travel Agreement below. Please contact accounts@ciliftoff.com with inquiries.

TRAVEL AGREEMENT

For our Pilot Partner Schools, during the 2021-2022 school year, Semester One, we offer on-site workshops and consulting with no daily consulting fee. Travel costs will be paid by the partner school or district, prior to securing the training dates. Please make arrangements early for Semester One of SY 2021-22, as dates fill quickly. For each visit, the flat fees are as follows: $1280.00 Transportation Allowance and $200.00 Materials and Preparation Allowance. For each day of consulting, the following daily fees will be added: $180.00 Housing Per Diem and $120.00 Meals Per Diem. A one-day visit would thus total $1780, and a two-day visit would total $2080. In the event of cancellation due to weather, natural disaster, or public crisis, the school/district assumes the risk of forfeiture of the monies remitted. For inquiries, email accounts@ciliftoff.com.

LEARN MORE Foundations

A Natural Approach to the (Transition) Year Tina Hargaden's latest book, a step-by-step guide to transition to the Stepping Stones curricular framework

Free Year of Curriculum

Multi-Level, Multi-Lingual, Multicultural Resources Free downloadable and printable resources for an entire year of engaging, visually-scaffolded, high-quality curriculum aligned to Stepping Stones

E-Lit Leveled Libraries

Written for Comprehension...and Engagement Our multi-level libraries are designed to scaffold even beginning students, with specially-designed visuals and text on a wide variety of topics

Curriculum Club

Step-by-step coaching, materials, and guidance Our online coaching program designed to help you use the Year of Free Curriculum and implement Stepping Stones with confidence

Summer Institutes

Comprehensive World Language teacher training Five-day institutes with one goal: to equip you to succeed with the Stepping Stones frameworks and materials in the fall