The Elementary Dual Language Pedagogy Institute for Elementary Administrators/Leaders is a four-part series designed to support planning, implementing, strengthening, and sustaining dual language programs. It draws from a “hot off the presses” chapter written by Dr.Laurie Olsen from the recently released CDE Book, Improving Multilingual and English Learner Education: from Research to Practice. New research findings, updated case studies, and promising practices will engage participants in key strategies to implement and expand effective, transformative, and sustainable dual language programs and pathways that center and elevate English learners. Administrators and leaders will engage in workshop style sessions that will address: matching a model to context, whole school versus strand, how to recruit and support teachers and effective instruction, how to engage families in bilingual school partnerships, how to build assessment systems that honor biliteracy, and how to be an advocate and champion of dual language. 

Participants will leave with concrete, actionable protocols and activities they can replicate with site teams to build their own effective programs.