Summer Educator Professional Learning
Elevate Your Practice With Leading Research
Join us this summer for timely, engaging professional learning to strengthen your whole team’s leadership and knowledge with the following offerings:
Join us this summer for timely, engaging professional learning to strengthen your whole team’s leadership and knowledge with the following offerings:
Every summer, QTEL holds professional learning institutes focused on developing educator expertise to engage multilingual learners and all other students in deep, generative learning.
Join the institutes to learn from expert speakers and facilitators who will guide you to a deeper understanding of powerful models of learning that cultivate global competencies and academic development for multilingual learners and all other students.
Chaminade Resort
July 15 – July 19
8:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. (PT)
Register by July 1
Mary Schmida is a Senior Research Associate in WestEd’s English Learners and Migrant Education Services team. She designs and facilitates in-person and virtual professional learning experiences for teachers that exemplify powerful learning opportunities for students who are English Learners.
Charlotte Convention Center
July 29–August 2
8:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. (ET)
Register by July 15
Haiwen Chu is a Senior Research Associate in WestEd’s Quality Teaching for English Learners initiative. Chu specializes in secondary mathematics education. He designs educative curriculum materials that expand the expertise of mathematics teachers to support their English Learners.
I loved this institute. The days passed quickly because we were engaged and interested in the tasks and theory presented.
Meeting federal grant requirements effectively and efficiently can help accelerate student learning and success. This summer, expand your knowledge of how to meet these requirements with the Summer Finance Training for School and District Leaders hosted by WestEd, a NASBA-certified continuing professional education (CPE) sponsor.
This highly rated, interactive fiscal compliance training series will help district and charter school administrators, business officers, and program directors establish and improve practices needed to comply with complex federal requirements associated with the following:
August 19 and 20
8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. (PT)
August 21
8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (PT)
Register by July 29
Anthony Mukuna is a Senior Project Director – School Finance at WestEd. Mukuna is a recognized expert in accounting and finance with experience working with local and state entities.
Being in a job that requires so much finance knowledge can be overwhelming. Y’all do a great job of presenting and explaining. I learn every time I attend one of your sessions.
– Patricia Keaney, Director of Special Education, Pascagoula-Gautier School District
With the number of English learners growing across the country, practitioners are searching for effective instruction and intervention to support language development and learning needs of these students. WestEd aims to support the early identification and the teaching and learning of English Learners with disabilities with three summer offerings trusted by educators to provide effective, timely, culturally relevant supports. For English Learners with disabilities, we help you determine the when, why, and how of effective instruction and intervention.
Through engaging professional learning, educators gain a deep understanding of accessible grade-level instruction in mathematics and reading (Tier 1) for students who are English Learners. Workshop will draw from Culturally Responsive Design for English Learners: The UDL Approach within a Multitiered System of Support for English Learners framework designed on the model demonstration research sponsored by the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) to provide instruction, tiered intervention and pre-referral data gathering and problem solving to make informed special education referral decisions.
June 25 – June 27
9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (PT)
Register by June 18
We enhance your whole-person understanding of the policies, procedures, and best practices identified through IDEA for assessing English Learners who may have a disability.
July 23 – July 25
9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (PT)
Register by July 16
In this brief 90-minute overview, our facilitators will cover the fundamentals for site and district administrators for ensuring appropriate culturally responsive instruction intervention practices, culturally sensitive special education evaluation and IEP development, and dual services for English Learners identified with disabilities.
August 13
9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. (PT)
Register by August 6
I am very appreciative of all the information on modifications and/or accommodations I can use.
– Karina Vanderbilt
Decades of research prove that Reading Apprenticeship services support teaching and learning across a range of demographics and educational settings. This research demonstrates that the Reading Apprenticeship approach results in more engaging and effective teacher assignments with significant impact on student literacy and overall test scores.
Participants in our Essentials I and II offerings will receive a copy of the third edition of Reading for Understanding: How Reading Apprenticeship Improves Disciplinary Learning in Secondary and College Classrooms. The third edition of the landmark book in the field of adolescent literacy contains strategies for boosting the reading independence of middle, secondary, and college students.
In this course, participants explore concepts from the field of writing studies alongside the Reading Apprenticeship framework and routines to revise and/or create new materials and activities for college writing courses. Note: CEUs will be available for an additional cost from California State University-Monterey Bay, College of Extended Education. Purchasing CEUs is completely optional, and not required for registration in the course.
June 10 – August 2
Fully asynchronous
Register by May 13
Reading Apprenticeship 101 is a facilitated asynchronous learning experience. This summer, we invite you to participate in an online professional development opportunity that will introduce you to the Reading Apprenticeship Framework’s four dimensions of learning—social, personal, cognitive, and knowledge-building—and the development of these interacting dimensions through metacognitive conversation.
June 10 – July 28
Fully Asynchronous
Register by May 13
Reading Apprenticeship Essentials I is a learning experience designed to provide teachers with a comprehensive foundation to the Reading Apprenticeship framework. Get started with new ways to create a positive learning community that centers student strengths and texts. This summer, our Essentials I offering provides a solid foundation in the Reading Apprenticeship framework’s four dimensions of learning—social, personal, cognitive, and knowledge-building—and the development of these interacting dimensions through metacognitive conversation.
Take your Reading Apprenticeship practice to the next level in Essentials II. Building on your existing knowledge of the Reading Apprenticeship framework’s four dimensions of learning—social, personal, cognitive, and knowledge-building—you will have the opportunity to experience and learn specific cognitive and knowledge-building routines. Our facilitators will guide you and your teams through our approach to embedding these routines into your instruction to increase students’ abilities to mobilize personal schema and build knowledge about disciplinary text, language, and concepts.
Multiple independent studies show that participation in Reading Apprenticeship shifts teacher practice and improves student learning and engagement. After 25 years, Reading Apprenticeship remains relevant and effective because of iterative cycles of research, development, and practice in multiple contexts. Read more.