MABE offers a variety of in-service Professional Development (PD) options during its Summer Institute, as well as for individual schools/districts upon request.

The professional learning opportunities created by MABE are based on the Guiding Principles for Dual Language Education and the teacher competencies outlined in the National Dual Language Education Teacher Preparation Standards (NDLETPS). Recipients receive a certificate of professional development upon completion.

Through critical thinking and reflective practice, the in-service professional development will prepare new teachers and leaders and deepen the competencies of experienced educators for the successful implementation of DLE programs.  

PD may include: 

• Full-Day (6-hour) or Half-Day (3-hour) PD session(s)
• Customized to your needs and issues 
• Embedded coaching 
• Co-facilitation of Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)
• Collaborative analysis of observed teaching.
• Training facilitated by veteran dual language educators
• Additional instructional resources from MABE

Possible Sessions:

• Academic Conversations in Elementary DLE
• Critical Issues for Leaders of DLE Programs
• Culturally Responsive Teaching
• DLE Oracy Strategies
• DLE & Special Education
• DLE Coaching
• DLE Curriculum Workshop
• Effective Leadership of a DLE Program as a Strand in a School
• Expanding to Secondary DLE
• Metalinguistic Toolkit
• Partner Teaching in DLE
• Promoting Bilingualism
• Sheltered Instruction
• Social Emotional Learning
• Spanish Literacy Foundational Skills
• The Bridge

Banner: Student art from the International Charter School, RI.