Bridges professional development is “blended,” combining face-to-face sessions with online learning. We use the Teaching Channel, an online platform, to maintain contact with and support a community of learners in between our face-to-face sessions. This support includes live and recorded webinars, troubleshooting challenges, reflecting on practice, and sharing resources. All Bridges professional development sessions are eligible for CTLE credit.
We offer a series of four sessions for teachers implementing Bridges Stand-alone ENL. These sessions are designed to train teachers to target language and literacy instruction and practice in a centers-based learning model:
- Orientation to Stand-alone ENL
- Leveling Readers
- Small Group Reading & Writing Instruction
- Conferencing & Progress Monitoring
These four sessions support teachers to implement our language arts-based curriculum, Integrated ENL/ELA, designed to build academic thinking, language, and literacy for SIFE with Developing Literacy:
- Overview of Curriculum & Resources
- Developing Active Readers
- Writing Instruction & Evidence-Based Feedback
- Targeted Language Instruction
We offer professional development to bilingual administrators at the school, district, and regional level in order to strategize and plan around:
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Intake and assessment procedures for SIFE with Developing Literacy
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Support in implementation of the curriculum alongside teachers
Participants walk away with resources – and a community of practitioners to contact when setting up systems for their schools.
Offered in Spring 2020, this two-day course, led by Lisa Auslander, provides an overview of three key areas of teacher training to enable successful SIFE learners in sheltered, inclusion content area, or emerging/transitioning ENL classrooms. We will focus on instructional protocols, socio-emotional learning strategies, and collaborative team teaching tools to build capacity of teachers and teams. CTLE credit available. For more information, please see the course flyer.
