HOW WE CAN HELP
Professional Learning
Focused on sustaining research- and evidence-based practices for multilingual learners (MLs), Project LUCES offers multifaceted professional learning for districts, school leaders, and teachers.
To make learning immediately relevant, each session is grounded in case studies and the instructional materials that districts and schools have selected. Teachers leave knowing what to teach and how to teach it in tomorrow’s lesson, and school and district leaders leave with clear tools to ensure coherence across grades and classrooms.
To make learning immediately relevant, each session is grounded in case studies and the instructional materials that districts and schools have selected. Teachers leave knowing what to teach and how to teach it in tomorrow’s lesson, and school and district leaders leave with clear tools to ensure coherence across grades and classrooms.
Curriculum Support
Project LUCES uses a research-based approach to amplify and enhance grade-level curriculum for MLs. We provide educators with a framework that takes into consideration curriculum design, with an emphasis on the texts and tasks that students encounter. This framework centers on academic language, highlighting opportunities for teachers to provide explicit instruction, ultimately leading to students’ greater autonomy in comprehending texts. Curriculum support is paired with our professional learning model to build capacity and promote sustainability within and across classrooms and schools in a district.
Strategy Consultation
Project LUCES brings deep knowledge of the educational landscape for multilingual learners (MLs) to our partnerships with schools and districts. We understand the challenges educators face in building the systems, structures, and instructional capacity needed to meet MLs’ academic needs. We work with districts at different stages of this work, whether they are enrolling MLs for the first time or serving a large, established population. We help districts assess their current approaches, identify priorities, strengthen instructional practices, build leadership capacity, and develop systems to support MLs. We engage quickly to develop a plan of action and equip leaders and teachers with the knowledge and confidence to move forward.