Professional Learning

I really enjoyed the intentional and thoughtful planning behind every teacher move presented by Tonya Ward Singer. She truly speaks to the value of honoring personal experiences, and how to understand our students, as we expect excellence for all students through the lens of equity and access in teaching and learning.

Sandra Santos-Alvarez

Instructional Coach

PARTNER WITH TONYA TO  BRING IMPACTFUL PROFESSIONAL LEARNING TO YOU

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Advancing Literacy & Language in the Core – Four Workshop Series

Transform your impact advancing engagement, literacy and language in core classrooms with multilingual learners. Deepen equitable student engagement in high-level conversations, close reading, and writing connected to what you teach every day. Registration includes all four workshops in the ALL in the Core series, and seven-month access to aligned self-paced lessons.

OUTCOMES:

  • Learn six essential mindsets and actions to ensure multilingual learners (MLs)—and all students—thrive with your lessons.
  • Choose, lose, and adapt scaffolds strategically to accelerate, not remediate learning.
  • Identify the linguistic demands of your lessons to plan impactful language scaffolds and integrated language development.
  • Deepen your differentiation using formative data and the flip-to resources in EL Excellence Every Day.

Schedule as four full-day workshops or an eight – part series (8 x 120 minutes).

Includes also seven-month access to self-paced video lessons supporting ongoing, job-embedded learning.

 Advancing Literacy & Language in the Core – Foundations Academy 

In this two-workshop series, build the foundational mindsets and practices be impactful with multilingual learners (MLs) in the context of high-level core teaching for all students. Deepen equitable student engagement in high-level conversations, close reading, and writing connected to what you teach every day. Choose, lose, and adapt scaffolds strategically to accelerate, not remediate learning.

Schedule as two full-day workshops or four-part series (4 x 120 minutes).

Includes also four-month access to self-paced video lessons supporting ongoing, job-embedded learning.

Accelerating ML Excellence in Mathematics

This collaborative, virtual professional development series equips math teachers and coaches with an asset-oriented approach to teaching for linguistic equity in mathematics. Join us to learn effective ways to engage multilingual learners actively in intellectually rich mathematical reasoning and help all students—especially those classified as English learners (ELs)—thrive within the linguistic complexities of mathematics. Learn scaffolding strategies to help students leverage their assets and engage in meaning making, productive struggle, and joyful learning in K-12 math lessons.

Schedule as a full-day workshop or three-part series (3 x 90 minutes).

Silos to Synergy:  A Call to Co-Lead for Equitable Schools 

Professional learning that shifts teacher practice should be sustained, collaborative, and connected to teaching—but it can be hard to find the time and the focus to do this. The challenge intensifies when we attempt to lead teaching transformations for equity from a single role or department. In this interactive session, get ready to envision, reflect on, and prioritize opportunities to move from silos to collective leadership and bring equity-centered professional learning from the margins to the core.

Ideal participants: All administrators, coaches and specialists involved in designing, leading, or supporting instructional change initiatives in your district.

Schedule as a collaborative keynote (90 minutes), full-day workshop or two-part series (2 x 120 minutes).
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