Professional Development
Educators seek effective program models and instructional strategies to serve the growing need for language instruction, both in the United States and around the globe. Supported by our ongoing research and drawing on our decades of experience in the classroom, CAL provides educators with effective strategies and practical tools they can use to help language learners succeed in school and beyond.
Our professional development services and materials incorporate a wide range of effective methods and techniques. These include a principles-to-practice approach to teacher training; a standards-based approach to language and literacy development, academic instruction, and assessment; and innovative instructional models, such as sheltered instruction and dual language education.
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Teaching Reading to Students Learning English: Training of Trainers or Direct Strategies
Research-based strategies and effective tools for teaching reading to English learners.
CAL SIOP Training of Trainers Workshops
SIOP TOT workshops help educators enhance their use of the SIOP Model and better integrate content and language instruction for English learners.
CAL SIOP for Dual Language Programs: Developing Academic Language and Content in Two Languages
Learn SIOP methods that are especially tailored for your bilingual classrooms.
CAL SIOP Overview Workshop
Learn how to plan and deliver CAL SIOP Model lessons integrating content and language for linguistically and culturally diverse students.
Promoting Cultural Proficiency to Boost Outcomes for All Students
Strategies to promote cultural proficiency in your school and tools to establish Communities of Inclusion, creating educational equity for all students.
Critical Thinking & Problem Solving in Context: Workforce Development in Your Community
Learn approaches to addressing critical thinking and problem solving with adult English learners.
Assessment and Evaluation for Language Learners: Principles and Classroom Practices
Principles of effective language assessment guide development of practical standards-based assessment tools to support and enhance instruction.
Leading Dual Language Programs for Student Success: A CAL Leadership Workshop
Strengthen leadership of effective dual language programming with strategies and tools to promote student achievement in the classroom and beyond.
Fostering Spanish Language and Literacy Development - En español
Research-based strategies to provide effective academic language and literacy instruction in Spanish.
Newcomers in Your School: Cultural Connections and Instructional Strategies
Effective strategies and proven techniques designed to increase learning and inclusion for newcomer students in the classroom.
Research-Based Vocabulary Instruction for English Learners
Effective research-based strategies to foster vocabulary acquisition of English learners to meet content and language acquisition standards in the classroom.
Math and Science: Skills and Strategies to Adapt for English Learners
Effective strategies and scaffolding methods to help English language learners understand math and science content, with authentic classroom videos and teacher workbook.
English Learners and Effective Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) Strategies
Key steps of the RTI process to identify students in need of additional support and to develop an RTI plan to promote student success.
Foundations of Dual Language Education
Research-aligned strategies and tools to promote bilingualism, biliteracy, and multicultural competence for emergent bilingual students, featuring the Guiding Principles for Dual Language Education.
English that Works: Designing and Delivering Workforce ESL Instruction
Strategies and tools to help adult English learners succeed in the workplace, including working within WIOA guidelines.
English for Civic Life: Designing and Delivering Effective EL/Civics Instruction
Strategies to combine work readiness and career pathways material with existing civics and citizenship content.
Is Your Lexeme Extreme? Writing for Your Audience
Learn to write for audiences with low levels of literacy and non-native speakers of English
Strategies to Strengthen Refugee Orientation and ESL Provision
Effective strategies and practical tools to maximize the impact of refugee orientation and English instruction for newcomer students.
Oral Language Development for English Learners
Research-based tools to promote oral second language and vocabulary development, with authentic classroom videos and teacher workbook.
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