ExcEL Leadership Academy is a collaborative professional development opportunity to grow your knowledge and strategies for teaching Multilingual Learners. ExcEL Leadership Academy is completed online, however we will have monthly cohort meetings to support each other in the completion of courses. For each micro-credential you will create an online portfolio documenting your understanding and implementation of strategies to support multilingual learners. 

ExcEL is classroom based action research. You will analyze research, develop a plan, implement your plan, and evaluate your impact on learning. Each component asks for a written reflection of 300-500 words and the implementation asks for evidence of your lesson and learning.

Space in our cohort is limited. Please email Jessica Rosado for more information

Find information, links, and videos for upcoming and archived webinairs for teaching and supporting Multilingual Learners.

An extensive website full of articles and videos with research and strategies for working with Multilingual Learners and their families.

WIDA (World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment) is a member-based organization dedicated to the research, design and implementation of a high-quality, standards-based system for k-12 multilingual learners. WIDA offers annual self-paced eworkshops to grow skills, strategies, and knowledge about supporting multilingual learners in k-12 classrooms. Participant require a WIDA Secure Portal account. Please email jrosado@rsu21.net or ejardine@rsu21.net about your interest in any eworkshops.

This guided learning toolkit from ELLevation provides 6 modules for self-paced learning. dModules include the following topics:

• What is Academic Language? (11 min)

• The Relationship Between Language and Math (6 min)

• 3 Ways to Increase Engagement with Math (5 min)

• Fostering Academic Conversations in Linguistically Diverse Classrooms (podcast)

• Lesson Planning for Math Class to Support MLs (5 min)

• Leveraging Rich Prompts to Drive Math Discourse (46 min)