Our company offers the following services:
Intensive short or long-term consulting services and/or professional development for schools or districts who need assistance with their second language program. Our areas of expertise are listed below.
- Best practices for Students with Limited Formal Schooling (SIFE)
- Trauma-informed classrooms/Building resilience of English learners
- Building academic literacy skills of ELLs
- Establishing / improving your newcomer program
- Meeting the needs of refugee students
- ELLs and the Common Core
- Cultural diversity in the mainstream classroom
- Sheltered instruction for mainstream teachers
- Increasing family engagement and building community support
- Federal guidelines for ELL programs
- A dual challenge--ELLs with special needs
- Response to Intervention for ELLs
- Curriculum adaptation / modification
- Co-teaching / Partnerships between mainstream and ESL/BE teachers
- Best practices for a low-incidence ELL program
- Planning differentiated instruction for English learners in general education classrooms