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Professional Development and Tools
to Empower English Learners
About Us
At SupportEd, we know that English Learners (ELs) bring many strengths to their schools and communities. SupportEd provides educators and other stakeholders in ELs’ education the skills and resources they need to champion ELs’ success within and beyond their classrooms.
Services
We understand the challenge, hard work, and joy of serving ELs. Our staff, comprised of experienced English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) educators, administrators, and researchers, is uniquely qualified to support your district’s EL needs. Learn more about our 2021-22 online professional development offerings.
Culturally Responsive Teaching for Multilingual Learners: Tools for Equity
Our nation’s moment of reckoning with the deficit view of MLs has arrived. Our book is an essential resource to help you strengthen your work with MLs and their families. It includes research-based tools, authentic classroom videos, and reflection exercises that will help you identify your implicit bias, mitigate deficit-based thinking, and successfully integrate culturally responsive teaching practices into your classrooms and schools.
“SupportEd brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise from across the ESOL field and profession. Their collaborative approach to training results in professional development programs that are not only grounded in research and best practices, but are practical and teacher-focused.”
– John Segota, Associate Executive Director for Public Policy and Professional Relations, TESOL International Association
12-Hour Facilitated Online Courses
Summer Session: June 28 – August 9, 2021
Strategies for Building ELs’ Academic Language
Explore research-based practices for supporting ELs as they acquire both language and content knowledge. Based on our bestselling book Unlocking English Learners’ Potential, this course focuses on building ELs’ academic language at the word, sentence, and discourse level.
Strategies for Making Content Accessible to ELs
Based on our bestselling book Unlocking English Learners’ Potential, this course explores best practices for scaffolding content instruction for ELs, supporting oral language development, and implementing formative assessments.
Culturally Responsive Teaching Strategies and Tools
A culturally responsive school climate is integral in supporting today’s multilingual learners (MLs) and their families. Explore the meaning of culture and its implications for teaching, and unlock a toolbox of strategies to strengthen your use of culturally responsive teaching practices.
Effectively Advocating for ELs
Based on our bestselling book Advocating for English Learners, this course explores strategies to advocate for ELs in your own context to provide equitable learning opportunities and supported parent involvement in your school.
Effectively Reaching SLIFE
This course delves into the specific strengths and challenges of students with limited or interrupted formal education (SLIFE). It explores topics such as supporting and engaging SLIFE and their families; developing of materials, activities, and programs; and effectively instructing SLIFE.
News Updates
- Summer News - Over the first half of 2021, SupportEd has partnered with districts across North America as they transition back to in-person instruction. We helped navigate the implementation of programs to support English Learners (ELs) and Multilingual Learners (MLs) as part of the American Recovery Plan. Here, we’ll share how we’ve been providing three types of online… Learn more
- Winter News - In 2020 we have continued to adapt to the changing instructional landscape by providing facilitated online courses, self-paced on-demand courses and book studies, virtual professional development, and ongoing technical assistance projects to foster the success of English learners. - Facilitated Online Courses - ➤ Upcoming 12-Hour Facilitated Online Courses (January 25 – March 8, 2021) Registration… Learn more
