Professional Development

Our Professional Development includes trainings for administrators, teachers and specialists; graduate level coursework, licensure programming in ESL, extended training for licensed ESL and highly qualified teachers of English learners, and peer coaching.  While much of our work is based in Massachusetts, we provide professional development, speaking engagements, and consulting nation-wide.

We use a comprehensive whole learner, whole school, and whole community approach to create a better learning experience for all students and professionals. Specifically, we focus on student evaluation and performance; curriculum development and delivery; family and community engagement; and program development, implementation, and enhancement that is aligned with state and national frameworks and regulations.

Our extensive trainings include:

• Second language principles
• Practices for teaching English learners in the classroom
• Assessing English learners
• Improving literacy practices for English learners
  Note: In Massachusetts, these 4 professional development activities are referred to as Category Trainings. We are approved by the MA Department of Education to provide all four (link)
• Licensure programming in ESL (link)
• Training for administrators on creating, implementing, strengthening and supervising English Language Education Programming
• Identifying and working with ELs with learning differences and disabilities
• Strengthening the learning experience for English learners within a whole school context (offered to licensed ESL and highly qualified teachers and specialists of English learners.

In addition, to address the diverse Communities of Learners, we provide professional development that is specifically geared toward working more effectively with students who struggle to learn. Our intensive trainings or a combination trainings and peer coaching in this area include:

• Maximizing the power of the teaching/learning process through understanding how our memory systems work
• Working with students who struggle from a sociocultural, linguistic, academic, and cognitive perspective
• Understanding and working with diverse Communities of Learners
• Understanding the characteristics of academic language and helping students develop academic language proficiency
• Mediated Learning Experiences

Upcoming local professional development activities at the Collaborative for Educational Services (Click here to download our Spring-Summer Brochure)

Spring-Summer 2012 Trainings
[Note: All programs will be held at the Collaborative for Educational Services, 97 Hawley Street, Northampton, MA.]

Spring 2012 Annual Publishers’ Fair
Date: March 14, 2012 from 9:00am – 3:30pm
Join us for this FREE community service event where you can meet with vendors from high-quality publishers.  Click here for more information!

Identifying and Working with English Language Learners with Learning Differences
Dates: March 20-21, 2012 from 8:30am – 3:30pm
Instructors: Debbie Zacarian and Audrey Morse
ASHA CEUs: 1.0 (pending) / Instructional Level: Introductory / Content Area: Professional
(Click on title for registration form)
For information about ASHA CEUs for this course
please download the ASHA CEU Eligibility Requirements.

Category 1
Dates: April 9, 23, and 30, 2012 from 9:00am – 3:00pm
Instructor: Audrey Morse
Category Registration Form or Online Registration

Category 2
Dates: July 9 – 12, 2012, from 8:30am – 3:30pm
Instructor: Ken Pransky
Category Registration Form or Online Registration

Category 4
Dates: July 17, 18, and 19, 2012 from 8:30am – 2:30pm
Instructor: Audrey Morse
Category Registration Form or Online Registration

For further course information and to provide courses on-site please contact us.