June PD Offerings
| Date | Course Information |
| June 2 - August 1 |
Culturally Responsive Teaching Micro-Credential Courses
Audience: ACPS Teachers
Instructor: Office of Community Engagement Location: Virtual Description: Register for any of these three asyncronous courses and work toward the ACPS Culturally Responsive Teaching Micro-Credential. All assigned tasks will be completed in Schoology. For a preview of course materials and content use this link. Upon successful completion of all three courses, an ACPS micro-credential in Culturally Responsive Teaching will be earned. Registration deadline is July 25, 2025! |
| June 9 - 19 |
Registration Link: Book Study: Culturally Responsive Teaching & the Brain
Audience: ACPS Teachers
Time: 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
Instructor: Office of Community Engagement Location: Virtual Description: CRT and the Brain is the foundational course for culturally responsive teaching in Albemarle County Public Schools and is the prerequisite for all other credentialing in ACPS’s Culturally Responsive Education program. This course takes approximately 15 hours to complete: 5 hours of reading, 5 hours of live/synchronous participation, and 5 hours of asynchronous activities to prepare for synchronous sessions. Live sessions in this course will be virtual. Participants will complete activities in a digital notebook and prepare a summary of their professional learning to meet course requirements.
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June 23 - 26 Must attend all 4 days! |
Registration Link: Developmental Design Middle School 1
Audience: ACPS Middle School Teachers & Administrators
Time: 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Compensation: $1,080**
Instructor: DD Staff Location: Center 1 School Side Description: The Developmental Designs approach encompasses both the academic and social needs of adolescents. It provides structures for teaching to the whole child so that academic growth is enhanced, rather than limited by the social and emotional realities of adolescence. Developmental Designs practices and principles create equitable, trauma informed classrooms with the goal of adolescent responsible independence. **Hourly employees will be paid at their regular rate
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June 24 - 26 Must attend all 3 days! |
Registration Link: Responsive Classroom Core
Audience: ACPS Elementary Teachers & Administrators
Time: 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Compensation: $1,080**
Instructor: RC Staff Location: Center 1 School Side Description: Learn to create a safe, joyful, and engaging learning environment ideal for student success and growth. Responsive Classroom is an evidence-based approach to teaching that is deeply rooted in social-emotional learning and focused on engaging academics, positive community, effective management, and developmental awareness. You will learn to create safe and joyful learning communities where every student can thrive—while helping your students develop strong social, emotional, and academic skills. **Hourly employees will be paid at their hourly rate
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July PD Offerings
| Date | Course Information |
| July 7 - 17 |
Registration Link: Book Study: Culturally Responsive Teaching & the Brain
Audience: ACPS Teachers
Time: 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Instructor: Office of Community Engagement Location: Virtual Description: CRT and the Brain is the foundational course for culturally responsive teaching in Albemarle County Public Schools and is the prerequisite for all other credentialing in ACPS’s Culturally Responsive Education program. This course takes approximately 15 hours to complete: 5 hours of reading, 5 hours of live/synchronous participation, and 5 hours of asynchronous activities to prepare for synchronous sessions. Live sessions in this course will be virtual. Participants will complete activities in a digital notebook and prepare a summary of their professional learning to meet course requirements.
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July 8 - 10 Must attend all 3 days! |
Registration Link: Newcomers in Your School: Cultural Connections and Instructional Strategies
Audience: ACPS Pre-K – 12 Teachers & Administrators working with Afghan Students
Time: 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Instructor: Center for Applied Linguistics Location: Large PD Space Description: Learn effective strategies and activities to increase your newcomer students’ inclusion and learning in the classroom; it is critical to address the unique cultural, social, and academic needs of newcomer youth entering U.S. schools to help them succeed in the classroom and beyond. This session will include specific, targeted focus on supporting the academic integration of Afghan newcomers who arrived following the evacuation in 2021, and is designed for educators working with Afghan students. |
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July 28 - 30 Must attend all 3 days! |
Registration Link: SIOP 101
Audience: ACPS Pre-K – 12 Teachers
Time: 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Instructor: Carole Jones Location: Lakeside Middle School Description: SIOP (Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol) is a research-based method that provides teachers with a structured framework to effectively deliver content area instruction to English Language Learners (ELLs), ensuring they can access academic material while simultaneously developing their English language skills. This PD will provide hands on activities and strategies that promote academic and language growth for ELLs, but that are applicable to all students. |
External PD
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May 10 - July 5 |
Registration Link: Longwood University's Southside Writing Project
Content: ELA
Cost: $855 for Virginia Residents
Location: Virtual, Asynchronous Description: This summer, Longwood University’s Southside Virginia Writing Project will offer its 8-week online asynchronous Summer Writing Institute: Teachers as Writers, Writers as Teachers. Participants will grow themselves as writers and teachers of writing as they write across genres, participate in peer writing groups, dive into the research on best writing practices across the JK-12 and higher education spectrum, and more. Register or reach out to the SVWP’s Director for more information. Participants may earn up to 90 recertification points for this 3-credit course. |
| June 5 |
Registration Link: VDOE PD: Building Mastery through Integrated STEM Instruction in Grades K-8
Audience: K-5 Teachers, 6-8 Science, Math, CTE Teachers, LTIs, and School & Division Leaders
Time: 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Cost: Free
Location: Martinsville, VA
Description: The VDOE is pleased to offer science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) professional development opportunities for Grade K-8 teachers and school and division leaders. These sessions will focus on VDOE resources to support the implementation of the 2024 Computer Science, 2023 Mathematics, and 2018 Science Standards of Learning as independent disciplines and using an integrated instructional approach. Furthermore, this professional development incorporates Career and Technical Education (CTE) competencies, emphasizing workplace readiness and academic and career exploration.
Each professional development will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and lunch will be provided to selected attendees. Space will be limited. The registration deadline is May 5, 2025.
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| June 13 - 14 |
Registration Link: Virginia Council of Teachers of Mathematics Annual Conference
Content: Math
Cost: $275
Location: Virginia Beach, VA
Description: Lighthouse Learning: Guiding the Future of Mathematics Education
Aims to illuminate the path towards innovative and inclusive math education. This conference will focus on data literacy, leveraging cutting-edge technologies, fostering creativity, ensuring access and equity, and empowering visionary leaders. This conference will shine a light on best practices and forward-thinking strategies that prepare educators and students for a bright future in mathematics.
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| June 16 - 18 |
Information Link: Virginia Holocaust Museum: The Alexander Lebenstein Teacher Education Institute: From Context to Classroom Part I
Content: History
Time: 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Stipend: $200 Registration Fee: $30 reimbursed with successful course completion
Location: Richmond, VA Description: From Context to Classroom Part I is open to teachers who have never completed the Alexander Lebenstein Teacher Education Institute. To complete class requirements, you must fully participate, which includes pre-reading and the use of the online platform Canvas and a final project. Sessions focus on the Holocaust’s historical background and pedagogy which link to the Virginia Standards of Learning requirements. You will hear historian-led lectures and learn about best practices and resources that you can use in the classroom when teaching the Holocaust. Educators will have opportunities to explore and interact with Museum resources. The registration deadline is May 31, 2025. |
| June 16 |
Registration Link: VDOE PD: Building Mastery through Integrated STEM Instruction in Grades K-8
Audience: K-5 Teachers, 6-8 Science, Math, CTE Teachers, LTIs, and School & Division Leaders
Time: 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Cost: Free
Location: Newport News, VA
Description: The VDOE is pleased to offer science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) professional development opportunities for Grade K-8 teachers and school and division leaders. These sessions will focus on VDOE resources to support the implementation of the 2024 Computer Science, 2023 Mathematics, and 2018 Science Standards of Learning as independent disciplines and using an integrated instructional approach. Furthermore, this professional development incorporates Career and Technical Education (CTE) competencies, emphasizing workplace readiness and academic and career exploration.
Each professional development will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and lunch will be provided to selected attendees. Space will be limited. The registration deadline is May 5, 2025.
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| June 18 |
Registration Link: VDOE PD: Building Mastery through Integrated STEM Instruction in Grades K-8
Audience: K-5 Teachers, 6-8 Science, Math, CTE Teachers, LTIs, and School & Division Leaders
Time: 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Cost: Free
Location: Henrico, VA
Description: The VDOE is pleased to offer science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) professional development opportunities for Grade K-8 teachers and school and division leaders. These sessions will focus on VDOE resources to support the implementation of the 2024 Computer Science, 2023 Mathematics, and 2018 Science Standards of Learning as independent disciplines and using an integrated instructional approach. Furthermore, this professional development incorporates Career and Technical Education (CTE) competencies, emphasizing workplace readiness and academic and career exploration.
Each professional development will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and lunch will be provided to selected attendees. Space will be limited. The registration deadline is May 5, 2025.
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| June 19 |
Registration Link: African American Teaching Fellows Summer Institute 2025
Audience: ACPS Teachers, Staff, & Administrators
Time: 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Cost: Free
Location: Hillsdale Conference Center (550 Hillsdale Dr. Charlottesville, VA 22901)
Description: Join us for our annual Summer Institute, a powerful Juneteenth celebration honoring Black educators and community leaders. With the theme Empower, Educate, and Elevate, this event highlights the incredible work of Black educators through a dynamic keynote speaker, an insightful panel discussion, and engaging conversations . Enjoy time with fellow educators, explore possible vendors, and connect over great food and music in a vibrant, uplifting atmosphere. This is more than an event, it’s a movement to recognize, support, and celebrate those shaping the future of education. Don’t miss this opportunity! Reserve your spot today! Licensed staff: Register in the PLMS to earn 5 professional development points!
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| June 24 - 26 |
Registration Link: WIDA: Scaffolding Learning through Language Webinar Series
Audience: ACPS EL Teachers
Time: 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Cost: $350
Location: Virtual Description: This webinar series provides educators with a fresh look at how to engage multilingual learners in rigorous content area learning with a balance of challenge and support. The purpose of the workshop is to encourage educators to consider classroom practices that move multilingual learning forward and upward together within the content of meaningful experiences where learning is mediated through language. Participants will explore how rigorous, well-sequenced curriculum contributes to rich classroom interactions that mediate learning and move students toward independent success. Topics that educators will explore are a) valuing students’ resources for learning, b) developing a strong community of learners, and c) engaging students in rigorous curriculum. |
| June 24 |
Registration Link: VDOE PD: Building Mastery through Integrated STEM Instruction in Grades K-8
Audience: K-5 Teachers, 6-8 Science, Math, CTE Teachers, LTIs, and School & Division Leaders
Time: 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Cost: Free
Location: Stafford, VA
Description: The VDOE is pleased to offer science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) professional development opportunities for Grade K-8 teachers and school and division leaders. These sessions will focus on VDOE resources to support the implementation of the 2024 Computer Science, 2023 Mathematics, and 2018 Science Standards of Learning as independent disciplines and using an integrated instructional approach. Furthermore, this professional development incorporates Career and Technical Education (CTE) competencies, emphasizing workplace readiness and academic and career exploration.
Each professional development will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and lunch will be provided to selected attendees. Space will be limited. The registration deadline is May 5, 2025.
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| July 8 - 10 |
Registration Link: CARLA Online Summer Institute: TeachTok: Social Media Hacks to Level Up your Language Teaching Game
Audience: ACPS Upper Elementary & Secondary WL, EL, & DL Teachers
Cost: Early Registration through 4/26 - $200, Regular Registration - $250 Location: Virtual Description: This institute has been specifically designed for second language teachers who want to familiarize themselves with the implementation and creation of authentic social media activities in the language classroom. During this institute, participants will take a functional approach to understanding social media and how it can be used in the language classroom. They will begin by familiarizing themselves with each platform’s navigation and features, and see step-by-step demonstrations of how each has been used in language classrooms to raise learners’ linguistic and intercultural awareness. Next, participants will explore current popular social platforms (Bluesky/Threads, Instagram, TikTok) and identify which aspects of their target language(s) and culture(s) are represented in each one’s ecosystem. Finally, participants will design an authentic social media activity in each platform that targets a relevant aspect of language and/or culture in their target community. Participants will leave the course with three authentic social media activities, a list of online resources containing others, and the confidence to navigate social platforms expertly and independently in search of high-quality target-language content. |
| July 8 - 10 |
Registration Link: CARLA Online Summer Institute: Teaching for Proficiency in Dual Language Immersion
Audience: ACPS DL Teachers
Cost: Early Registration through 4/25 - $200, Regular Registration - $250 Location: Virtual Description: This popular summer institute, designed especially for K-12 Dual Language Immersion (DLI) practitioners, will introduce participants to the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines, which have served as a framework for language assessment and instruction across levels since their initial publication in 1982. Participants will examine how the proficiency levels and sublevels have been defined and, also, how they have evolved over time from focusing on oral language assessment to include all modes of communication. The presenters will also share research on assessing performance toward proficiency of DLI students. With an understanding of the proficiency framework, participants will apply the guidelines as an organizing principle to DLI classrooms, syllabi, and lesson planning, with the goal of developing lessons, learning tasks, and classroom-based, formative assessments that are consistent with a proficiency-based approach in a dual language immersion context. |
| July 14 - 16 |
Information Link: Virginia Holocaust Museum: The Alexander Lebenstein Teacher Education Institute: From Context to Classroom Part II
Content: History
Time: 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Stipend: $200 Registration Fee: $30 reimbursed with successful course completion
Location: Richmond, VA Description: From Context to Classroom Part II is recommended for teachers who have already completed the first TEI class (From Context to Classroom Part I). To complete class requirements, you must fully participate, which includes pre-reading and the use of the online platform Canvas and a final project. Sessions focus on the Holocaust’s historical background and pedagogy - building upon From Context to Classroom Part I, allowing for a closer examination and a deeper understanding of this history. You will hear historian-led lectures and learn about best practices and resources that you can use in the classroom. Educators will have opportunities to explore and interact with Museum resources. The registration deadline is May 31, 2025. |
| July 20 - 23 |
Registration Link: Virginia Association for Teachers of Family and Consumer Sciences Professional Development Institute
Content: CTE - Family & Consumer Science/ Culinary
Registration: VATFACS Member - $335, Non-VATFACS Member - $415
Location: Virginia Beach, VA |
| July 20 - 23 |
Content: CTE - Marketing
Cost: VAME Member - $325, Non-VAME Member - $375
Location: Harrisonburg, VA Description: Registration deadline is July 1, 2025.
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| July 21 - 24 |
Registration Link: Virginia Business Education Association Summer Conference
Content: CTE - Business
Cost: Registration Coming Soon!
Location: Richmond, VA |
| July 21 - 24 |
Registration Link: Virginia Technology and Engineering Education Association Summer Conference
Content: CTE - Technology & Engineering
Cost: $400
Location: Williamsburg, VA |
| July 22 - 24 |
Registration Link: CARLA Online Summer Institute: Empowering Language Teachers to Leverage AI for Student Success
Audience: ACPS Secondary WL & EL Teachers
Cost: Early Registration through 4/25 - $200, Regular Registration - $250 Location: Virtual Description: This institute will give teachers greater insight into how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be leveraged to improve language learning within their educational context. Participants will first explore the brave new world of AI, considering what it does well and what it does not. They will also discuss ways to keep students and their data safe while working with AI. Participants will then learn how to effectively use AI to make lesson planning easier and activity design more engaging. During the institute, participants will have plenty of hands-on opportunities to create lesson plans and activities to use right away in their classrooms. |
| July 25 - 26 |
Registration Link: Longwood University Summer Literacy Institute
Content: ELA
Registration: $199
Location: Longwood, VA Description: Longwood's 21st Summer Literacy Institute will be held on campus with the theme, Literacy For All! Join educator and author Jarred Amato, author John Schu, and author and storyteller Sylvia Liu, in addition to a variety of concurrent sessions celebrating children’s and young adult’s literature. Gain new teaching ideas for your classroom or library. Earn professional development recertification points or graduate credits by attending.
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| July 28 - 30 |
Registration Link: DCJS: Virginia School Safety Training Forum
Audience: ACPS Administrators, Counselors, Threat Assessment Team Members, & Safety Coaches |
Asynchronous Learning
ACTFL On Demand Digital Learning
Audience: ACPS WL Teachers
Cost: Varies based on course
Description: Are you looking for the best way to get connected with the most up-to-date and effective resources in language education? ACTFLearn Central, ACTFL's hub for best-in-class professional development is your key to finding what you need, when you need it.
The ACTFLearn Central platform provides an engaging and accessible way for individuals, schools, and districts to access a robust set of digital courses that cover important topics in language teaching, such as the World-Readiness Standards for Language Learning, technology, curriculum development, and more.
Members have exclusive access to specific digital courses, recorded webinars, and other unique resources to help educators advance in their careers. ACTFL will continue to develop and provide updated opportunities through the platform. Members can access ACTFLearn Central via their ACTFL Portal.
Artificial Intelligence Explorations for Educators
Dates: July 7 - August 31, 2025
Audience: ACPS Teachers
Audience: ACPS Teachers
Cost: ISTE Members - $186, Non-members - $249
Description: Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer the stuff of the future; today's students can expect to interact with AI in both their personal and professional lives. To prepare students for success, educators need to understand how AI technologies can be leveraged to facilitate learning and solve real-world problems.
In Artificial Intelligence Explorations for Educators, you’ll learn to identify the various types of AI, hear about AI technologies on the horizon and build some of your own tools to make AI concrete and accessible for you and your students.
This is a 15-hour, self-paced course with ongoing instructor support. No previous knowledge of AI or experience coding is required.
CAL Solutions Online Education
Audience: ACPS Teachers
Cost: $155 each
Location: Virtual
Description: 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.
The following courses are currently available:
- PICO: Promoting Interaction in the Classroom and Online: CAL SIOP Essentials
- Building Background and Comprehensible Input: CAL SIOP Essentials
- Academic Literacy Development for English Learners
- Foundations of Literacy for English Learners: The Nature of Reading
- Fundamentals of Multilingual Learner Instruction: Featuring the SIOP Model
CARLA Online Summer Institutes - Asynchronous
Registration Link: Culture as the Core in the Second Language Classroom
Dates: July 14 - August 1, 2025
Audience: ACPS WL, EL, & DL Teachers
Audience: ACPS WL, EL, & DL Teachers
Cost: Early Registration through 4/25 - $300, Regular Registration - $350
Description: Transformative learning often happens when people experience cultural and linguistic contact with people different from themselves. This institute will explore how to make these experiences happen in and through classrooms. We will explore a wide range of tools for understanding self and 'others' without falling into stereotypes or reductive simplifications. While cultivating deeper understanding on how language-culture-identity informs our teaching, we will envision ways to integrate culture and language learning that include authentic materials and inter- and transcultural habits of mind. Throughout the course, participants will be engaged in constructive conversation, hands-on practice, and reflection. In the end, participants will be able to conceptualize culture teaching in ways that suit their teaching and learning context.
Library of Virginia: Brown Teacher Research Fellowship
Audience: Virginia 4th-12th Grade History and Social Science Educators
Stipend: $3,000
Location: A portion of your research must be completed at the Library of Virginia
Description: The Library of Virginia is pleased to announce the Anne and Ryland Brown Teacher Research Fellowship. The goal of the program is to enhance knowledge and training in history and social science instruction in the commonwealth of Virginia by providing educators with an opportunity for in-depth study and the development of teaching materials in collaboration with members of the Library of Virginia’s professional staff. Over the course of the summer, Brown Fellows work with Library of Virginia staff members to pursue research on an approved topic and produce educational materials based on the results of their findings. Brown Fellows are also required to make presentations regarding their research and finished projects at educational conferences. Visit the information page for more information regarding candidacy and application materials.
Medical Training for School Personnel
The following Professional Development Training sessions are intended for both School Nurses and staff. Staff must take the training before they take students with any of these conditions on a Field Trip. Register for the course in the PLMS and then email your certificates of completion to Eileen Gomez.
- Seizure Training for School Personnel
- American Lung Association - Asthma Basics
- Recognizing and Responding to Anaphylaxis
- Diabetes Awareness Training
- Diabetes Training for Non-Medical Personnel
- Diabetes Training for Non-Medical Personnel Refresher
- Insulin Pump Training
- Continuous Glucose Monitor
Please contact Eileen Gomez if you have any questions about these training modules.
SURN Online Courses
This summer, SURN at William & Mary School of Education is pleased to offer eight online courses designed for teachers. Each course lasts five weeks, with a new module opening each week, and are asynchronous so that teachers can work flexibly through the modules. Expect to spend 4-6 flexible hours online each week, engaging in activities that help build your repertoire of practical strategies for deeper teaching. Modules provide a combination of practical strategies, current research, readings, videos, reflective opportunities, and a connect-to-practice assignment, which will receive individualized feedback from the course facilitator. These are non-credit bearing William & Mary courses that offer 30 hours of professional learning.
- Dates: June 16 to July 20, 2025
- Format: Online & Asynchronous
- Courses:
- Classroom Management
- Cultivating Student Engagement
- Instructional Coaching
- Meaningful Formative Assessment
- Mentoring Novice Teachers
- Multilingual Learners 101
- Project Based Learning
- Teaching for the 5Cs
- Cost: $175 per course
Registration and more information about each course is available at this link.
TESOL Modular Education
Audience: ACPS EL Teachers
Cost: TESOL Members - $59/module, Non-members - $79/module
Description: Leverage the Building Blocks for Excellence. Access multiple, online self-study modules on key elements of English language teaching with TESOL ME. Designed to meet the needs and schedules of busy educators like you, each highly practical six-hour module offers evidence-based strategies alongside real-life implementation. TESOL ME will:
- Deepen your understanding of specific teaching practices relevant to your English language learners and teaching context.
- Explore topics and techniques that are new to you or refresh and expand your existing knowledge.
- Help you meet the evolving needs of your English language learners.
Currently available modules:
- Series 1: High Leverage Teaching Practices
- High-leverage practices (HLTPs) bring together education research and instructional practice to offer teachers and students trusted, effective, pedagogically sound strategies.
- Series 2: The 6 Principals
- The 6 Principles are a core set of principles for the exemplary teaching of English learners. They offer universal guidelines drawn from decades of research in language pedagogy and language acquisition theory.
- Series 3: Social-Emotional Learning
- In this series, English language teachers will be equipped with the necessary knowledge and skills to practice self-care and be confident in implementing social-emotional learning in their classrooms to support and benefit their learners.
WIDA eLearning
WIDA offers free Professional Learning via the WIDA Secure Portal that you can complete when you want, where you want, and at your own pace. This is intended for all EL Teachers! Complete the workshops individually or expand your learning with your local professional learning community. Take advantage of interactive and engaging learning. Enjoy relevant, practical content that you can put into action immediately!
The following workshops are available until August 31, 2025:
- Engaging Multilingual Learners in Science: Making Sense of Phenomena
- Exploring the WIDA PreK-3 Essential Actions
- Teaching Multilingual Learners Social Studies through Multiple Perspectives
- Developing Language for Learning in Mathematics
- Newcomers: Promoting Success through Strengthening Practice
- Desarrollando el español: Las expectativas del Lenguaje
- Making Language Visible in the Classroom
- WIDA ELD Standards Framework: A Collaborative Approach
- Evaluaciones del desarrollo del lenguaje a nivel de salón
- Let's Play! Multilingual Children's Joyful Learning in PreK-3
- Reframing Education for Long-term English Learners
- Reading Comprehension Across Content Areas with Multilingual Learners