March 8, 2010
ISBE DELL e-Broadcast 2010.181—"A Perfect Match" Summer Workshops Registration
Using Data and Standards to Drive Program Design: A Perfect Match
Registration to the summer workshop series entitled A Perfect Match: Using Data and Standards to Drive Program Design is now open. This three part (six day) series is intended to provide sustained professional development to teams of teachers and administrators interested in participating in a process to improve their district’s language education programs for English language learners (ELLs).
Professional staff from the Illinois Resource Center (IRC) and the World Class Instructional Design and Assessment (WIDA) Consortium experts from the University of Wisconsin at Madison will provide engaging and dynamic opportunities for team participants to mine data and analyze data. A structured framework will be applied to the data with the goal of crafting an exemplary program for ELLs while establishing a process for addressing curricular and instructional implications. Team participants will acquire the tools, skills and strategies necessary to promote educational gains through quality programming for ELLs.
A commitment on the part of the district to support school - or district wide team participation in the entire series is critical for implementing these standards-based educational services. Preliminary tasks will be assigned to registered team participants prior to the first session. Continuing professional development units (CPDUs) are available for this workshop series.
- Dates for the first workshop series in July 2010: July 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30, 2010. Registration form, with complete payment, is due by Friday, April 23, 2010.
- To register for the series, visit www.thecenterweb.org/irc and register electronically or download a registration form to mail or fax.
For additional information, contact Barbara Marler at the IRC at 224-366-8536 or at bmarler@cntrmail.org.
