Summer Administrator Course

An interactive learning opportunity for school and district leaders to collaborate around designing equitable school environments. The course includes:

• Teacher team inquiry, planning, and collaboration
• Social-emotional learning in planning and instruction
• Culturally and linguistically responsive, trauma-informed assessment and interventions
• Effective leadership strategies
• Methods to coordinate the implementation of culturally and linguistically responsive teaching
• Concrete strategies, tools, and resources to develop systems and structures for serving multilingual learners
• Reflection and understanding your own strengths and areas of improvement as a leader for multilingual learners

Module 1 | Leading for Multilingual Learner Access

Participants reflect on their personal journeys in language and literacy leadership. Facilitators introduce levers for multilingual learner success and set a roadmap for the course.Participants analyze a case study to inform their practice.

Module 2 | Instructional Teams for Multilingual Learner Success

The focus of the session will be on why instructional teams matter for MLLs Participants will identify effective practices in leading culturally and linguistically responsive instructional teams. Participants analyze team scenarios and inventory their own strengths and areas of improvement in leading instructional teams.

Module 3 | Integrating Social-Emotional Learning into Classrooms and Schools with a Focus on the Multilingual Learner Experience

Facilitators familiarize participants with concepts of SEL and trauma-informed instruction with specific implications for MLLs, particularly newcomers. Participants reflect on their own experiences of SEL and use case studies to consider ways to integrate SEL strategies into instruction and whole-school approaches.

Module 4 | Shifting from Margin to Center – Developing Data Systems for MLLs

Participants build awareness and reflect on how data systems can inform decision making and build a holistic and more precise/more diagnostic understanding of to respond to the needs of multilingual learners. The course explores tools that support building more culturally and linguistically responsive data practices. Participants inventory their current systems for capturing and sharing English learner data in their school or district.

Module 5 | The Role of leadership in Building Multilingual Learner Success 

Participants will study leadership vignettes and reflect on leadership skills required to serve multilingual learners. Participants will also reflect on how to implement the levers described in the course for building MLL success. They will develop an action plan for future use, utilizing what they have learned in the course.