2025 CAL Multilingual Learners Education Academy

July 14, 2025

• Introduction to Second Language Acquisition
• SIOP Overview
• Lesson Preparation Component
  • Content and Language Objectives
  • Meaningful Activities
  • Adapting Materials
• Collaborative Lesson Planning

July 15, 2025

• Building Background Component
  • Links to Student Backgrounds
  • Emphasizing Key Vocabulary
• Comprehensible Input Component
  • Enhancing Comprehension
  • Differentiating Comprehensible Input Techniques
• Collaborative Lesson Planning

July 16, 2025

• Strategies Component
  • Learner Strategies (cognitive, metacognitive, language learning, and socio-affective)
  • Scaffolding Techniques
  • Higher Order Questioning
• Interaction Component
  • Teacher/Student and Student/Student Interaction
  • Translanguaging vs. Translating
• Collaborative Lesson Planning

July 17, 2025

• Practice & Application Component
  • Academic Language Opportunities
  • Integrating the Four Language Domains
• Lesson Delivery Component
  • Student Engagement
  • Pacing and Differentiation
• Review & Assessment Component
  • Comprehensive Review of Key Vocabulary and Concepts
  • Providing Feedback
  • Assessing Student Comprehension
• Collaborative Lesson Planning

July 14, 2025

• Key characteristics and elements of effective SIOP Model professional development workshops
• Best practices for facilitating face-to-face and virtual learning and PD
• SIOP Model review with modeling of workshop activities for second language acquisition, SIOP Model overview, and the Lesson Preparation component
• PD Planning Time

July 15, 2025

• SIOP Model review with modeling of workshop activities for the Building Background and Comprehensible Input Components
• Characteristics of participants and differentiating professional learning
• PD Planning Time

July 16, 2025

• SIOP Model review with modeling of workshop activities for the Strategies and Interaction Components
• Adult Learning Theory
• PD Planning Time

July 17, 2025

• SIOP Model review with modeling of workshop activities for the Practice & Application, Lesson Delivery, and Review & Assessment Components
• PD Planning Time

July 14, 2025

• SIOP Model review and renewal designed to deepen knowledge and implementation with a focus on second language acquisition and the Lesson Preparation Component
• Key characteristics and elements of effective SIOP Model professional development and implementation support
• PD Planning Time

July 15, 2025

• SIOP Model review and renewal to deepen knowledge and implementation with a focus on the Building Background and Comprehensible Input components
• Special considerations when coaching with the SIOP Model
• Supporting the lesson planning process using the SIOP Model
• PD Planning Time

July 16, 2025

• SIOP Model review and renewal to deepen knowledge and implementation with a focus on specific features of the Strategies and Interaction components
• Special considerations for working with adult learners
• Co-teaching and collaboration through the development and support of PLCs
• PD Planning Time

July 17, 2025

• SIOP Model review and renewal to deepen knowledge and implementation with a focus on specific features of the Practice & Application, Lesson Delivery and Review & Assessment components
• Developing a school/district SIOP implementation plan
• PD Planning Time

July 14, 2025

• Cultural Perspectives, Influences, and Key Resources 
• Diversity of newcomer students in the school, including special populations such as Students with Limited and/or Interrupted Formal Schooling (SLIFE)
• Cultural Proficiency Frameworks
• Funds of Knowledge/Identity
• Creating welcoming classrooms/schools for newcomer students and their families
• Translanguaging and Translating

July 15, 2025

• Adapting Content Instruction for Newcomer Students
• Developing academic language and literacy
• Adapting content instruction and materials to meet the needs of newcomer students
• Bridging oral language development to literacy and digital literacy
• Designing classroom activities that allow newcomers to participate in grade-level content

July 16, 2025

• Adapting Content Instruction for Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education (SLIFE)
• Analyzing assumptions of Western-Style formal education
• Analyzing cultural differences using the Intercultural Communication Framework (ICF)
• Determining how Schema Theory relates to cultural dissonance
• Designing lessons using the Mutually Adaptive Learning Paradigm® (MALP®)

July 17, 2025

TBD

July 14, 2025

• Introduction to MTSS
• Demographics
• Disabilities: Definitions & Characteristics
• Differentiating second language acquisition (SLA) from Learning Disabilities

July 15, 2025

• Overview of MTSS
• RTI & MTSS Models – History & Use
• Tiers 1, 2 & 3 - instructional, assessment, and monitoring practices
• Goals, Language Planning, Universal Screening, Monitoring & Assessment
• Conducting Needs Assessment

July 16, 2025

• Roles & Responsibilities for Tier 1 Educators
• Supporting Tier 1 Educators
• Scaffolding, Differentiation, and Curriculum Development for Tier 1 Teachers with Tier 1, 2, and 3 Students
• Sample Lesson - Demonstration
• Case Study Discussions
• Needs Assessment

July 17, 2025

• Steps for when MTSS is not Effective
• Special Education Evaluation Process for Multilingual Learners
• Developing Linguistically Appropriate IEPs
• Role of the Parent in MTSS & Special Education Evaluation