Webinars
This four-part webinar series takes educators on a journey from research to practice in content-based English Language Development, offering strategies for rigorous, relevant, and accessible instruction alongside the systems and supports needed to drive meaningful, lasting outcomes for multilingual learners.
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Evidence-based practices are only as powerful as the systems that support their implementation
Evidence-based practices are only as powerful as their implementation. In the first of a series of webinars, we explore Comprehensive English Language Development programming for English Learners and what it takes to move content-based English Language Development from research into high-quality classroom practice. We’ll highlight key research-based strategies to make learning rigorous, relevant, and attainable for multilingual learners. In future webinars, participants will also gain insight into the systems and supports needed to ensure coherence and drive meaningful, lasting outcomes
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Evidence-based practices are only as powerful as the systems that support their implementation.
In the second webinar of this series, we shift from classroom practice to the organizational conditions to ensure high-quality content-based English Language Development (ELD) is implemented at scale. Participants will hear from state and district leaders about how they have created systemic coherence to support content-based ELD and sustain implementation over time. We share how evidence-based practices and policies between districts, schools, and state education agencies can align around a shared vision for multilingual learner success through foundational conditions that help drive meaningful and lasting outcomes.
August 19, 2026
As we continue with the third of this four-part series on Comprehensive English Language Development programming for English Learners, we focus on Designated English Language Development as a necessary complement to Content-based English Language Development. We feature accomplished practitioners who implement research into high-quality classroom practice and share key research-based strategies to improve English Learners’ educational experiences and success. The fourth and final webinar concludes this series by illustrating how alignment among classroom, school-level, district, and state-level systems can be designed for English Learner success.
September 17, 2026
Our final webinar in this series showcases how state and district leaders create systemic coherence to support designated ELD in their specific contexts. Our panelists illustrate how the 7 Foundational Practices for English Learner Success were implemented over time. We share how evidence-based practices and policies between districts, schools, and state education agencies are implemented by engaging through structured interactions based on participants’ and panelists’ own experiences, questions, and successes.
