Course Summary
Schedule a live Professional Development session with SPG.
Topics include:
-Understanding the ELPS language standards (Arizona)
-Understanding the WIDA language standards
-Effective Targeted SEI Instruction (Arizona)
-Effective Integrated SEI Instruction (Arizona)
-Effective Integrated ELD Instruction (WIDA states)
-Lesson Planning for SEI Instruction (Arizona)
-Lesson Planning for ELD Instruction (WIDA states)
-Customize your PD session!
PD sessions are highly interactive and build upon best practices in multilingual learning. Workshops are led by our Literacy and Multilingual Learning team, with Dr. Johanna Even and Michelle Arquines, M.A.T. Each participant will receive a personalized Certificate of Completion of the PD workshop at the end of the session.
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Course Curriculum
Johanna Even
Dr. Johanna Even leads our school and district services work. Dr. Even brings over 30 years of experience in K-12 education -as a bilingual teacher, literacy coach, principal, leadership coach, and district curriculum and instruction leader.
Her experience spans grades K-12 - district and charter schools - dual language, transitional bilingual and SEI immersion, and multiple states (California, Texas, Arizona, and New York). As such, she is acutely aware of the importance of understanding context when designing and implementing programs to support multilingual learners. Most recently, Dr. Even has been serving as education director for an outfit called Hopewell, a nonprofit social services agency. She has expertise in the areas of literacy, multilingual learners, and leadership development. She co-authored a book called Empowering English Learners for Classroom Success.
