Trainings
2021 Summer Institutes
Quite simply, the most comprehensive training ever developed for proficiency-focused World Language teachers. See exactly how the Stepping Stones curricular framework and the Free Year of Curriculum work in demo classes, and then learn the nuts and bolts in afternoon Teacher Talk sessions. Virtual again for 2021.
Partial scholarships are a substantial discount!
Click below and navigate to the FAQ tab to learn more and register using our scholarships for teacher leaders of color and new-to-the profession teachers (and their mentors, too!). We have a “no cut” scholarship policy. If you assert that you meet the criteria, you’re in!
FREE Summer Workshop Series
✅ 5 best ways to get daily grades with NO work outside class time
✅ How to get your lesson planning on auto-pilot so you can plan for multiple levels in 15 minutes…or less
✅ How to get your students invested in assessing their own work, and hand in summative assessments that take about 45 minutes per class to assess and enter into your gradebook…and also give super-useful, meaningful, standards-aligned data, with almost NO time outside the work day
✅ 5 ways you can use the leveled readings from our FREE year of curriculum to build students’ literacy each and every day…with almost ZERO prep
✅ What is the “Daily Instructional Framework” that is saving so many language teachers SO MUCH TIME and DRAMATICALLY cutting down their overwhelm
✅ A proven system of AUTHENTIC, STUDENT-CENTERED, inherently differentiated portfolio assessment that gets your STUDENTS to work harder than you…so they LEARN more and get INVESTED in their growth
✅ A checklist of over 38 student jobs that can make your teaching time more like “I’m the Boss Time” or “Get Me My Marker Time”
✅ A six-level classroom management system that builds relationships, deescalates conflict, and eliminates backtalk
✅ How to teach the same topic or theme to ALL your levels, with very little prep
✅ The 4 best easy-to-learn, low-prep, concrete strategies that can be leveled up or down for various levels of student ability, that get students talking and interacting in the language…because they WANT to!
✅ EXACTLY what to say in the very first minutes and days of class to get your students comfortable and excited about interacting in their new language
✅ How to explain your course to students, families, and administrators so they will see the IMMENSE VALUE in this approach to language teaching
✅ How to conduct grammar lessons that STICK in students’ minds, both “pop up” in-the-moment grammar points and “Language Study Days” that ENGAGE students in grammar by presenting it like a puzzle
Learn more about the Stepping Stones Curricular Framework:
Curriculum Club 2021-2022
Step-by-step support along the way to implement Stepping Stones, the most comprehensive system for teaching World Language ever developed…and all the templates for the materials from our Free Year of Curriculum, so you can modify, personalize, and adapt them for your students.
Professional Development Workshops
Contact us to inquire about arranging in-person or distance training and consultations with departments, districts, and Educational Service organizations, or to arrange a community workshop in your area. See the flyer below for our “out of the box” trainings, or eschedule a Quick Inquiry Call to begin the process of customizing a workshop to meet your specific training needs.
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