professional development Workshops
Don’t our language learners deserve more than compliance-driven PDs? Engage Dr. Ardell for impactful, succinct professional development that fosters the academic and social-emotional growth of multilingual learners.
All workshops are offered in English and Spanish
Are you looking for a collaboration that focuses on thought partnership or best practices?
About the workshops
best practices focused
Bilingual Ed 101 →
reviews the different program models, language allocation options, and student services. This is where you can ask all the policy and compliance questions you’re unsure about as well as make decisions that best serve your local school community.
Linguistic Scaffolds 101 →
is a hands-on series of activities that gives teachers new to bilingual classrooms real solutions they can use with their MLLs TOMORROW. This workshop is consistently one of the highest-rated offerings on the basis of follow-up inquires for more linguistic scaffolds.
Translanguaging 101 →
covers the theoretical and practical approaches to opening up the linguistic landscape in your schools. In this workshop, we clarify myths, explore real-life instances of linguistic pluralism, and invest in bilingual assessment solutions that nudge your MLLs towards empowering outcomes (be they social, academic, or personal).
close reading for mls →
takes text analysis to a whole new level. This cutting-edge workshop embeds the best of educational linguistics strategies to prepare teachers to conduct a “levels 1-2-3” analysis with any text type. Your MLLs will be making inferences and asking critical questions of texts in no time.
thought partner focused
Biliteracy Observation Caminatas →
reviews the different program models, language allocation options, and student services. This is where you can ask all the policy and compliance questions you’re unsure about as well as make decisions that best serve your local school community.
Teaching 4 Linguistic Justice →
e allocation options, and student services. This is where you can ask all the policy and compliance questions you’re unsure about as well as make dec
advocacy in scary political times →
Is a no-holds-bar training based on Lilian’s proprietary framework for teacher advocacy. You will explore the confluence of skills embodied by stalwart advocates then draft an action plan to combat the specific deficit ideologies that keep MLs in a cycle of low expectations. This workshop is recommended for any school or district-level culture and climate team.
any of these workshops can be offered as half-day, full-day, or a distributed professional development series.
“Everything Lillian says can be used TOMORROW to make meaningful change in your bilingual classroom.”
Kathryn, TESOL teacher in international schools
“I think that Lillian is what every teacher, every school, and every district needs and they don’t know that they need it – she’s the missing piece.”
Shirley, 3rd grade Dual Language teacher for CPS
“Lillian truly understands the needs of emerging multilinguals, I really feel like I’ll never look at language the same way, because language matters.”
Diana, Dean of Multilingual Learners, Dual Language Charter School in Brooklyn NY
