Multilingual Education Services

Designed for Your Needs

Here are some of the most commonly requested trainings that are designed to help your staff meet the needs of your students.

• Bridging the Science of Reading and the Science of Biliteracy. Critical connections all educators need to make in developing biliteracy for multilingual students. 
• Aligning Program Services, Instruction and Professional Development across the Comprehensive Needs Assessment, School Improvement Plan and Multilingual School Plan.
• Instructional modeling and planning
• Developing writers and readers within every multilingual learner
• Beyond decoding, teaching reading for meaning and writing for purpose
• Advanced language structures every middle school and high school student needs to know 

Is your staff ready to receive and operationalize the WIDA ELD Framework? We can help staff navigate the framework, plan for disciplinary language demands, and plan for scaffolds that create access to grade-level standards. 

Customized trainings are always an option.

Annual trainings offered locally include:  

• An introduction and overview to the WIDA ELD Framework
• Planning instruction that develops skills within the  Key Language Uses in WIDA
• Monitoring and responding to students' language skills with the WIDA Framework. 
• Co-planning and Co-teaching with WIDA; It takes two (ML Specialists and their general education colleagues)
• Analyzing the performance of Multilingual learners on the WIDA ACCESS. 
• Teaching reading and writing within the WIDA ELD Framework

OCDE Project GLAD® and Preschool GLAD®

In partnership with Orange County Department of Education, ESD 105 operates as a Regional Training Center and provides a broad range of trainings from both the Project GLAD® and Preschool GLAD® models. 

Training Options for Project GLAD®

• Project GLAD® Foundations Research and Theory
• Project GLAD® Foundations Classroom Demonstration
• Project GLAD® Advanced Research and Theory (Training of Trainers)
• Project GLAD® Advanced Classroom Demonstration (Training of Trainers)
• Certification in Project GLAD®
• GLAD Next Generation® Training

Training Options for Preschool GLAD®          the early childhood model for Preschool to Kindergarten teachers

• Preschool GLAD® Foundations Research and Theory
• Preschool GLAD® Foundations Classroom Demonstration
• Preschool GLAD® Advanced Research and Theory (Training of Trainers)
• Preschool GLAD® Advanced Classroom Demonstration (Training of Trainers)
• Certification in Preschool GLAD®
• Preschool GLAD Next Generation® Training

Find complete listings of upcoming Project GLAD® and Preschool GLAD® trainings here.