During this five-day institute specifically designed for the secondary (middle and high school) dual language immersion context, participants will explore the what, how, and why of secondary continuation programs.

Designed for world language, ESL, and immersion teachers who want to promote creativity in their classroom while simultaneously improving their learners’ target language proficiency, this institute will examine the connection between multilingualism and creativity, and explore strategies to increase engagement in the classroom.

This institute has been specifically designed for second language teachers who want to familiarize themselves with the implementation and creation of authentic social media activities in the language classroom.

Participants will apply the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines as an organizing principle to DLI classrooms, syllabi, and lesson planning, with the goal of developing lessons, learning tasks, and classroom-based, formative assessments that are consistent with a proficiency-based approach in a dual language immersion context.

This institute focuses on how to develop students' foreign language literacies through engagement with target language texts such as movies, infographics, poetry, music videos, magazine articles, podcasts, and the like.

This institute is designed for future or new educators, instructional coaches and administrators in K-12 Dual Language Immersion (DLI) programs, including one-way, two-way, indigenous, and developmental bilingual schools. 

Participants in this institute will gain a deeper understanding of how language-culture-identity informs language teaching, and will envision ways to integrate culture and language learning that include authentic materials and inter- and transcultural habits of mind.

Participants will explore four key pragmatic concepts that influence communication choices across languages (power, politeness, imposition, and social distance) and discover how the differences in these choices operationalize across individuals, language varieties, and languages. They will use this understanding to articulate and iterate instructional and assessment materials that can be applied to their own contexts.

Participants will learn how to effectively use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to make lesson planning easier and activity design more engaging.

This summer institute is now full. The wait list is also full.

This institute will provide language educators with tools and resources to transform their curriculum and instruction to emphasize inclusive, justice- and equity-based language teaching.