Language Academy 2021-22

📌 Here’s to 2021-2022 📌

We have a second school year of professional development dedicated to meet your instructional needs. Scroll down to the topics for each meeting. Every resource presented will be on this page for you!

Click here to find information from 2020-2021.

Vertical Articulation

Session 1: October 4, 2021 - Meeting 1 - Everyone

• Content: The why, the plan, and the process

• 📓 Slide deck

• 🔗 Google Folder for Articulation

• 🎥 Recording

• Resources

  • French

    • Curriculum Map

    • Utah’s Elementary Proficiency and Grammar

    • Utah’s Secondary Proficiency

    • Glendale’s Kindergarten Year-at-a-Glance

  • Spanish

    • Utah’s Elementary Proficiency

    • Utah’s Secondary Proficiency

    • Glendale’s Kindergarten Year-at-a-Glance

Session 2: December 16, 2021 - Meeting 2 - Kindergarten - second grade

• Content:

  • French

    • Kinder French

    • 1st Grade French

    • 2nd Grade French

  • Spanish

    • Kinder Spanish

    • 1st Grade Spanish

    • 2nd Grade Spanish

Session 3: January 13, 2022 - Meeting 3 - third grade - fifth grade

• Content:

  • French

    • 3rd Grade French

    • 4th Grade French

    • 5th Grade French

  • Spanish

    • 3rd Grade Spanish

    • 4th Grade Spanish

    • 5th Grade Spanish

Session 4: February 24, 2022 - Meeting 4 - sixth grade - eighth grade

• Content

  • Middle school teachers had time to plan across the grade levels and some across languages to work through expectations and to find common areas of focus

Session 5: April 21, 2022 - Meeting 5 - Everyone together

• Content - Everyone has edit rights

  • Slide deck

  • Vertical alignment - Presentational communication - Speaking

  • Accountable sentence stems

Session 6: May 19, 2022 - Meeting 6 - Everyone together

• Content - Everyone has edit rights

  • Slide deck

  • Vertical alignment - Presentational communication - Speaking

  • Vertical alignment - Presentational communication - Writing

  • Accountable sentence stems

ILT Meetings

Session 1: October 7, 2021

• Content: Privilege Walk and Unpacking Identities
  Focus: Cultural Competence

• 📓 Slide deck, Jamboard Histogram

• 🗄 Resources:

  • Privilege Walk

  • Social Justice Standards - Unpacking Identity

Session 2: November 4, 2021

• Content: Implicit Bias & Reaching the Hard to Teach Students
  Focus: Cultural Comparisons

• 📓 Slide deck

• 🗄 Resources:

  • Perception Institute

  • TED Talk - Vernā Myers - How to Overcome our Biases? Walk Boldly Toward Them

  • Edutopia - 5 Keys to Challenging Implicit Bias

Session 3: December 2, 2021

• Content: Unpacking Diversity & Culturally Responsive Teaching
  Focus: Intercultural Competence

• 📓 Slide deck

• 🗄 Resources:

  • Identity Box Activity

  • Understood.org - Culturally responsive teaching

  • Edutopia video: Windows & Mirrors: Learning About Differences & Belonging

Session 4: January 6, 2022

• Content: Understanding Justice & Teaching for Social Justice in WL
  Focus: Access & Equity in WL

• 📓 Slide deck

• 🗄 Resources:

  • Learning for Justice - Social Justice Framework - Justice Standards

  • Bret Turner - Teaching Kindness Isn’t Enough

  • Discussion Protocol - Save the Last Word For Me

  • Words and Actions: Teaching Languages Through the Lens of Social Justice

  • WL Framework, Chapter 2 - Access and Equity - Download Document

Session 5: february 3, 2022

• Content: Unpacking Action & Restorative Conference
  Focus: UDL in World Languages

• 📓 Slide deck

• 🗄 Resources:

  • Learning for Justice - Social Justice Framework - Action Standards

  • ToolKit: The Foundation of Restorative Justice

  • IIRP: Defining Restorative

  • EduProtocols - Training from 2020/2021

    • Sketch & Tell

    • Fast & Curious

    • Thin Slides

    • Cyber Sandwich

Session 6: April 7, 2022

• Content: Unpacking Action, Restorative Circles, and Backwards Planning
  Focus: Implementing High-Quality Instruction

• 📓 Slide deck

Session 7: May 5, 2022

• Content: Evaluating Created Assessments using Guiding Principles for DLE
  Focus: Assessments and Assurances

• 📓 Slide deck

• 🗄 Resources:

  • Guiding Principles for Dual Language Education

  • Utah’s Elementary Plan - French - Spanish

  • Utah’s Secondary Plan - French - Spanish

Session 8: June 2, 2022

• Content: Dive into UDL in the Classroom
  Focus: UDL

• 📓 Slide deck

• 🗄 Resources:

  • Resource and Reflection Document (forced copy)

  • Would You Rather

  • UDL and the Learning Brain

  • The Value of Student Variability

  • Video: The End of Average