Projects

CAL has provided introductory SIOP Model workshops for teachers and administrators. Additionally, CAL has conducted job-embedded professional development with teams of teachers to deepen understanding of planning and delivering lessons in the SIOP Model. Some professional learning activities include lesson planning, SIOPizing lessons, creating a bank of language objectives, and reviewing and expanding upon instructional activities for all eight components. CAL is also providing SIOP professional development for teacher leaders to help the district build capacity in sustaining the SIOP Model initiative.

CAL provided a series of subject-area specific SIOP Model Introductory Workshops to high school teachers and has provided classroom coaching to help teachers reach higher levels of implementation. To measure the professional development’s efficacy CAL conducted a series of observations in 2011 using the SIOP Protocol and provided the district with an evaluation report that included recommendations for future professional development.

CAL provided an eight-day SIOP Model professional development series to Loudoun County Public Schools from 2006-2008 that included teachers from Sugarland Elementary School. After this district training CAL provided a six-day SIOP Lesson Study workshop series to help Sugarland Elementary School deepen teachers’ knowledge base of integrating content and language instruction and help them implement the lesson study process. Follow-up the following year included a two-day Coaching in the SIOP Model and coaching consultations to help teacher leaders develop the capacity to support teacher implementation of the SIOP Model.

For this charter school, CAL provided a four-day introductory SIOP Model workshop for instructors of work force development classes (computer support specialists, nursing aids, and culinary arts) and other classes where instructors must integrate language and content instruction for their English learners. In addition to teacher workshops, CAL also conducted SIOP observations to measure the efficacy of the professional development and help the administrative team determine professional development next steps. In the 2012-2013 school year CAL provided a two-day Review and Renew workshop with an emphasis on guided lesson planning in the SIOP Model for instructors of adults. Learn more about this professional development plan and its outcomes.

CAL conducted four-day Introductory Two-way SIOP workshops for elementary teachers during which teachers learned about and practiced the eight components of the Two-Way SIOP Model in order to effectively integrate language and content instruction for their particular grade levels. CAL has also facilitated Two-Way SIOP workshops for teacher leaders with the purpose of reviewing essential features of the Two-Way SIOP Model and to begin building school-level capacity to introduce new teachers to the Model and support implementation. In addition... to the workshops, CAL has conducted Two-way SIOP Guided Lesson Design and coaching.

In 2008 CAL SIOP staff conducted a four-day SIOP workshop series to introduce district ESL teachers to the SIOP Model and a one-day Coaching in the SIOP Model workshop to help the participants begin to build district-based capacity in SIOP professional development. During the 2009- 2012 school years CAL provided a series of 4-day SIOP introductory workshops to elementary and secondary general education teachers. CAL also provided a SIOP administrator workshop and facilitated a series of SIOP Professional Learning Communitiessessions to provide high school teachers with more targeted SIOP Model instruction in their content areas.

CAL has provided a series of SIOP workshops to introduce K-8 general education, bilingual, and ESL teachers to the SIOP Model. CAL has also provided job-embedded professional learning activities to deepen and enhance teacher fidelity to the SIOP Model via guided lesson design and coaching sessions. Additionally, CAL is providing Two-Way SIOP professional development to schools transitioning to a dual language program.

CAL has conducted a dual language program needs assessment for the Luis Muniz elementary school and has delivered a Dual Language Program Fundamentals workshop to provide dual language educators with an overview of the fundamentals of dual language programming. Additionally, CAL is providing the school with Two-Way SIOP professional development.

CAL has provided four-day introductory district-sponsored and whole-school SIOP Model workshops to K-12 teachers. Additionally, CAL has helped teachers deepen their capacity in sheltering instruction through job-embedded professional development such as coaching, guided lesson planning, and lesson study. CAL SIOP has also helped the district measure implementation levels via observations with the SIOP protocol. In addition to supporting ESL and general education teachers, CAL has also had the opportunity to provide professional learning in SIOP specifically tailored to the needs of CTE teachers.

CAL has developed an extensive professional development series for this district, including SIOP workshops for Pre-K, elementary and secondary teachers new to the model, Review and Renew workshops tailored to specific grade levels (elementary vs. secondary) and content area workshops (Math and Science, Social Studies, English Language Arts), professional development for curriculum and instructional staff to use the SIOP to support the literacy demands of the Common Core State Standards, workshops on SIOP guided lesson design, and consultations for SIOP coaches and administrators. CAL has also provided a series of workshops aimed at developing site-based capacity in the form of a four-day SIOP Train the Trainers, a half-day Review and Renew workshop for administrators to assist them in measuring sheltered instruction using the SIOP Protocol, and a two-day SIOP for Teacher Leaders to help school-based teacher leaders develop professional development plans.