ASYNCHRONOUS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

SELF-PACED COURSES:

Supporting EL and Immigrant Students and Families: It's More than Just Language: Students who are learning English are more than just language learners – they are usually members of immigrant families who are navigating the complexities of acculturation, trauma, resettlement, and/or isolation while also building on their strengths and developing resiliency. In this course, we will examine our students’ and families’ strengths and needs with a holistic, social-emotional lens.

Immigrant Family & Community Engagement in Schools: Parent involvement - or what we now call family engagement - is increasingly being used as a strategy to support student achievement and to close opportunity gaps. Join us to learn about best practices for engaging the immigrant, refugee, and English Learner families in your school or district! The content is regularly updated and includes information pertaining to the current immigration climate. This course is 15 hours, broken down into 3 five-hour courses, and is worth one (1) graduate credit.

Notes:

1. We partner with English Learner Portal and University of Massachusetts Global for much of our online professional development in order to offer graduate credit.

2. Our online courses on unaccompanied youth and refugees have been discontinued due to massive federal changes in how the programs for those populations are structured.