Teach Language Confidently and Effectively

PD Designed for World Language Teachers

Enhance your teaching and boost classroom impact through self-paced online courses, in-person and live virtual workshops, and a wealth of resources designed to support your professional growth.

Inspire active student participation.

Unlock backward-designed lessons.

Maximize target language use.

Deliver impactful feedback.

Reimagine grammar instruction.

Workshops That Drive Innovation in Language Teaching


Available as full-day in-person sessions or 3-hour virtual workshops.

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Workshop 
Authentic Adventure: Unlocking the Language & Motivation of Real-World Resources

Topic: Guiding Learners Through Interpreting Authentic Resources
  • Learn strategies for supporting students in interpreting authentic resources.
  • Participants will design scaffolded activities to implement in their courses.
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Workshop
Dive In: Maximizing Target Language Use in Instruction

Topic: Facilitating Teacher Target Language Use
  • Immersing learners in the target language is key to developing proficiency.
  • Use the target language at least 90% of the time during class.
  • Explore and practice strategies to increase teacher use of the target language.
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Real World Tasks: The Key to Student Output!

Topic: Facilitating Student Target Language Use
  • Explore communicative performance tasks that engage students in real-world language production.
  • Learn how performance levels, authentic resources, and backward design can be utilized to create tasks that get students communicating in all the modes of communication.
Schedule a quick call with a member of our team to discuss this workshop.

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Grammar Gets a Makeover: Modern Methods for Teaching World Languages

Topic: Teaching Grammar as a Concept and Using it in Context
  • Learn how to incorporate authentic materials into your grammar lessons.
  • Explore strategies to guide student understanding of language structures.
  • Balance explicit grammar instruction with communicative teaching methods.
Schedule a quick call with a member of our team to discuss this workshop.

Workshop 
Performance Outcomes: The Building Blocks of Proficiency

Topic: Understanding Proficiency Levels & Performances Descriptors
  • Gain a deep understanding of ACTFL's performance descriptors. 
  • See how they apply in the modern language classroom. 
  • Learn how to teach and assess with performance outcomes in mind. 
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Looking for something more targeted?

We can design a workshop around your district's specific goals and initiatives. Let's connect.

Enjoy a FREE mini course for a limited time!

"Ignite the Spark"

Create a dynamic, engaging classroom where learning comes to life, using innovative strategies that turn language input into real communication. 

Self-Paced Online Courses for Language Teachers

Advance your strategy and instructional skills—at your own pace, on your own time.

Learning Program: Proficiency-Based Teaching of World Languages for New Teachers

Are you a new world language teacher?

Are you an experienced teacher of a different subject area transitioning to teaching a world language?
Are you an alternative certification teacher of a world language who has not received world language teacher training?
Are you an experienced world language teacher who is new to proficiency-based methods of teaching?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, this program was made for you!

Topics included in the program:
Foundations of Proficiency-Based World Language Teaching
Classroom Management
Backward Design
Maximizing Target Language Use
Feedback and Rubrics

►  Progress at Your Own Pace

Access self-paced eLearning modules with built-in community features and optional check-ins—support when you need it, flexibility when you want it.

►  Enjoy Flexible Learning

Our flexible online courses offer both asynchronous learning and optional live sessions—so you can learn anytime, anywhere. 

►  Connect with Educators

Join a vibrant community of world language educators. Share ideas, grow, and collaborate with like-minded peers across the country who speak your teaching language. 

Want to learn more?

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