MABE offers a variety of in-service Professional Development (PD) options during its Summer Institute, as well as for individual schools/districts upon request. MABE makes every effort to provide cost-effective and high-quality professional learning services that are tailored to communities and personalized to your needs.

The professional learning opportunities created by MABE are based on the Guiding Principles for Dual Language Education (Strand 5: Staff Quality and Professional Development) and the teacher competencies outlined in the  National Dual Language Education Teacher Preparation Standards (NDLETPS, also known as the EMMA Standards). For more information about different different state licenses, please see the Teaching License section under individual states in our advocacy page. 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

A listing of our possible professional development sessions organized by series: 

• • Dual Language Education Essentials 
  • Exploring the Cornerstones of Dual Language Pedagogy
    
  • Spanish Foundational Skills for Emerging Bilinguals: Standards, Skills, & Strategies for Success 

  • Developing a Scope and Sequence for K-2 Portuguese Foundational Skills

  • Framework for Developing an Integrated Curriculum

  • DLE & Special Education: Multi-Tier Systems of Support (MTSS) for Dual Language Learners

  • Partner Teaching in DLE

• Linguistic Basics for the DLE Educator 

• Students as language detectives: Using metalinguistic awareness to build vocabulary in two languages 

• Metalinguistic Toolkit 

• Así Se Dice 
• Dictado
• The Bridge
• Academic Conversations (Oracy Strategies) 
• Visible Thinking Routines (Oracy Strategies) 
• Scaffolding Oracy for Dual Language Learners
• DLE Coaching

• Holistic Bilingualism and Assessment
• Let's Talk About It (Oracy Assessment) 

• Manuscrito - Herramienta de evaluación del desarrollo de la escritura en español 

• Developing Local Assessments to Measure Student's Growth in Portuguese

• • Ensuring Success of a DLE Strand 
• • DLE Classroom Walkthrough Protocol 

  • What Is (and Isn’t) the Science of Reading 

  • Quieting the Noise

  • Critical Issues for Leaders of DLE Programs
• • Expanding to Secondary DLE