📌Amazing Language Academy Teachers 📌
Click here to find information for 2021-2022!
We have an entire school year of professional development scheduled to meet your instructional needs. Scroll down to the topics and direction we will be covering each month. Every resource presented will be on this page for you!
Office hours will be provided after each ILT session to answer your questions regarding the materials we covered.
I will be working with each grade level team to provide a deeper dive into a topic of interest, to plan a lesson, or to outline a unit. Sign up dates will soon be available.
This is a collaborative effort as we learn together. You do NOT have to reinvent the wheel! Submit items in this Google Form. See the resources your coworkers have created here.
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Session 1: October 26, 2020
Content: CA WL Standards & Framework Focus: Lead with culture
Strategies: EduProtocols: Thin Slides and The Fast & The Curious
Tech Tool: Pear Deck
📓 Slide: bit.ly/SDLA1
🍐 Pear Deck: https://app.peardeck.com/student/tvwdjylav
📝 Quizizz - Culture: https://quizizz.com/join?gc=13231912 Feel free to take it as many times as you’d like!
🗄 Resources:
🔗 Quizizz and Tutorial: Getting Started with Quizizz
🖍 Thin Slides: French, Spanish, English (Google Slides, forced copy)
🍐 Pear Deck: Student deck sample of the interactive portions
Credit: Mat Reding, Unsplash
Session 2: November 30, 2020
Content: CA WL Standards Focus: Authentic Materials
Strategies: EduProtocol: 8 p*Arts (Interpersonal Communication embedded)
Tech Tool: Flipgrid
📓 Slide: bit.ly/SDLADay2
🍐 Pear Deck: https://app.peardeck.com/student/twzgrrfvz
▶️ Flipgrid: https://flipgrid.com/0db7e61d
📝 Grade Level Planning Schedule
🗄 Resources:
📒 CA WL Framework: Chapter 5: Implementing High-Quality World Languages Instruction
🔗 Flipgrid remote learning guide
🔗 Flipgrid getting started guide
🔗 Flipgrid grade level specific resources
🔗 Flipgrid student guide
🖍 Lil Parts (English, Spanish, French, Mandarin)
🖍 8 p*Arts in English, in French, in Spanish
🖍 Sentence p*Arts in English, in French
Credit: Annie Spratt, Unsplash
Session 3: January 25, 2021
Content: CA WL Standards Focus: Interpretive Communication
Strategies: EduProtocol: Sketch & Tell and Emoji Paragraph
Tech Tool: Book Creator
📓 Slide: https://bit.ly/SDLADay3
🍐 Pear Deck: https://app.peardeck.com/student/twpnpvtvh
📖 Book Creator: https://bookcreator.com/ Join library: SCQT5
🗄 Resources:
📒CA WL Standards: Interpretive Communication (p. 10)
📒CA WL Framework: Chapter 6: Teaching the Communication Standards
📕Curriculum Map: Created with the support of FACE Foundation
🔗Book Creator Tutorial
🔗Sketch & Tell Templates: Google Slides (File > Make a Copy) Jamboard (3 dots, Make a Copy)
🔗Ian Byrd’s random emoji generator
🔗Brent Warner’s flippity emoji wheel
🔗Heather Sander’s nacho paragraph
🔗Emoji paragraph Templates: Google Slides (File > Make a Copy)
Credit: Eaters Collective, Unsplash
Session 4: February 22, 2021
Content: CA WL Standards Focus: Interpersonal Communication
Strategies: EduProtocol: Cyber Sandwich
Tech Tool: Seesaw/Flipgrid
📓 Slide: http://bit.ly/SDLADay4
🍐 Pear Deck: https://app.peardeck.com/student/ttjhnnegb
▶️ Flipgrid: https://flipgrid.com/4b0fa45a
📹 Seesaw: Activity Link (log out of your teacher account. Log in as “student”, sign in with Google, enter class code: )
🥪 Cyber Sandwich: Forced Copy
🗄 Resources:
📒 CA WL Standards: Interpersonal Communication (p. 11)
📒 CA WL Framework: Chapter 6: Teaching the Communication Standards
📕 Curriculum Map: Created with the support of FACE Foundation
🔗 EduProtocol: Peanut Butter & Jelly Template
🔗 EduProtocol: Cyber Sandwich
Credit: Clay Banks, Unsplash
Session 5: March 22, 2021
Content: CA WL Standards Focus: Presentational Communication
Strategies: EduProtocol: Mini Reports
Tech Tool: Kami
📓 Slide: http://bit.ly/SDLADay5
🍐 Pear Deck: https://app.peardeck.com/student/tvmryvbsb
▶️ Kami: https://kami.app
📝 Mini Report: Forced Copy
🗄 Resources:
📒 CA WL Standards: Presentational Communication (p. 12)
📒 CA WL Framework: Chapter 6: Teaching the Communication Standards
📕 Curriculum Map: Created with the support of FACE Foundation
Credit: Heather Mount on Unsplash
Session 6: April 26, 2021
Content: CA WL Standards Focus: Cultural Connections & Intercultural Influences
Strategies: EduProtocol: Iron Chef
Tech Tool: NA
📓 Slide: http://bit.ly/SDLADay6
🍐 Pear Deck: https://app.peardeck.com/student/tcbvbbwps
📝 Iron Chef: Cultures Standards
🗄 Resources:
📒 CA WL Standards: Cultures Standards (p. 23)
📒 CA WL Framework: Chapter 7: Teaching the Cultures Standards
Whole group PD: May 14 & 21, 2021 @ 3:30
Content: Language Academy Mission Statement
📓 GDoc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1klECqatx_qLOGOYcne7meGqzTnvZz7UW7KG_bO6_kw8/edit?usp=sharing
🗄 Resources:
📒 EdWeek: 7 Essential Components for Successful Dual Language Programs
Credit: United Nations
Session 7: May 24, 2021
Content: CA WL Standards Focus: UN’s Sustainable Development Goals
Strategies: EduProtocol: The Perfect Week
Tech Tool: Google Sites
📓 Slide: http://bit.ly/SDLADay7
🍐 Pear Deck: https://app.peardeck.com/student/tiehnrofu
🗄 Resources:
📒 CA WL Framework: Chapter 5: Implementing High-Quality World Languages Instruction (p. 20)
📒 CA WL Framework: Chapter 8: Teaching the Connections Standards
📒 UN SDGs: hhttps://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/
📒 10 Lessons with SDGs
📒 Teach SDGs
🔗 Kim Voge’s Plan the Perfect Week
🔗 Quick Tutorial: Google Sites (8 minutes)
🔗 Long Tutorial: Google Sites (30 minutes)
Session 8: June 7, 2021
Content: CA WL Standards Focus: Backwards Planning
Strategies: EduProtocol: Number Mania
Tech Tool: Mastering Google Slides
📓 Slide: http://bit.ly/SDLADay8
🍐 Pear Deck: https://app.peardeck.com/student/tsljhhnwq
🗄 Resources:
🔗 Number Mania Practice: Google Form, Google Sheet Responses, Google Slides
🔗 Tutorial: Using Master Slides in Google Slides (6 minutes)
Grade Level Meetings
Kindergarten and First Grade
12/8: Seesaw Skills
12/15: Pear Deck (Slides)
Pear Deck Link (Student-Paced)
October Calendar on Pear Deck (Student-Paced)
Second Grade
12/16: Pear Deck Experience
Pear Deck (Slides)
Pear Deck Sample Slides (forced copy)
Pear Deck Chrome extension
Third Grade
1/8/21
Original GSlides for Pear Deck
Pear Deck Presentation (Student paced)
Thin Slides activity (anyone can edit)
Pear Deck Sample Slides (forced copy)
Fourth Grade
1/7/21
Original GSlides for Pear Deck
Pear Deck Presentation (Student paced)
Thin Slides activity (anyone can edit)
Pear Deck Sample Slides (forced copy)
Fifth Grade
1/21/21:
Original GSlides for Pear Deck
Pear Deck Presentation (Student paced)
Thin Slides activity (anyone can edit)
Pear Deck Sample Slides (forced copy)
Middle School
1/12/21 - Humanities
Original GSlides for Pear Deck
Pear Deck Presentation (Student paced)
Pear Deck Sample Slides (forced copy)
Google Folder of Jamboards (Don’t request access; make a copy)
Jamboard Sketch & Tell (Make a copy to edit)
Jamboard MS Engagement (anyone can edit)2/16/21 - Math & Science
Original GSlides for Pear Deck
Pear Deck Presentation (Student paced)
Pear Deck Sample Slides (forced copy)
MathReps website
Jamboard: Sketch & Tell - Math
Jamboard: Sketch & Tell - Science