CAL offers a growing cadre of self-paced online courses to help educators learn while they earn credit. These online courses are based on our decades of research on how language is learned and extensive experience in working with educators to help language learners succeed. Each course provides an introduction to the research base of the topic focused on strategies, and information to enhance educator knowledge and practical tools that can be used in the classroom.

The cost is affordable and each course can be done at your own pace. At the end of each course, participants will receive a CAL Certificate of Completion that can often be used to obtain continuing educational credits from your school or district.

CAL also offers tiered pricing to schools and districts who wish to have groups of teachers participate in our online courses.

CAL Online Courses

PICO: Promoting Interaction in the Classroom and Online: CAL SIOP Essentials

Designed to help educators increase student interaction and language production during classroom learning or remote instruction.

Building Background and Comprehensible Input: CAL SIOP Essentials

Designed to help teachers leverage their own instructional strategies and students’ backgrounds to build comprehension and language learning in the content classroom.

Foundations of Literacy for English Learners: The Nature of Reading

Designed to provide teachers and administrators with research on how English learners learn to read in a second language and the supports they need to be successful at decoding and comprehending.

Academic Literacy Development for English Learners

Designed to provide teachers and administrators with an overview of research-based approaches to academic literacy development for English learners in the mainstream classroom.

Fundamentals of Sheltered Instruction: Featuring the SIOP Model

Designed to increase knowledge about how language is learned in the content area classroom and explore the characteristics and benefits of sheltered instruction.