This Professional Learning Series (PLS) for early educators is designed to improve educator effectiveness in meeting the needs of Dual Language Learners (DLLs) and their families in the foundational years of preschool.

The sessions will focus around four themes critical to DLL success: Partnering with Families, Complex Oral Language, Making Languages Visible & Tangible, and Early Literacy & Engaging with Text. Participants will begin by exploring how to affirm children’s home language, culture and identities in the school community, in order to make learning more relevant, meaningful and successful. Teachers will learn to model expressive language and create environments where rich vocabulary and concepts come to life. They will learn how to use visuals to help children make meaning and provide critical scaffolds. Finally, teachers will learn strategies to provide access to and authentic opportunities to engage with interesting, complex and rich text. In addition, because language develops deeply when it is embedded in and through thematic content, these sessions will be organized around a thematic unit that will be shared with participants.

Participants will engage in synchronous and asynchronous activities during and after sessions, which will allow them to enact and utilize strategies to enhance learning.

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