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Assessment-based professional development that encourages educators to partner with students and drive instruction that impacts learning.  

Bring teams of educators together to intentionally align their pre- and post-common formative assessments, generate high-quality learning intentions derived from the standards and appropriate success criteria, and plan for learning progressions with formative quick checks that lead to attaining the standard and provide evidence-based assessment.

Grading & Reporting

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Retool Your Whole School for EL Achievement

If we’re to counter the commonly held narrative of predictable failure among our English learners, then every teacher, every coach, every administrator must have an expert’s understanding of the conditions, tools, and strategies that best support English language development together with content mastery.  Put simply: It takes a school . . . plus a professional learning plan steeped in evidence. 

The Carnegie Corporation of New York

The Carnegie Corporation of New York invited Margarita Calderón and Associates to develop a professional development program in Kuai, Hawaii, in collaboration with middle and high school teachers working with ELs and struggling readers. After two years, the lowest-performing schools piloted:

Who Should Participate?

• K-12 teachers of math, science, social studies, ELA, and ELD
• Administrators
• Supervisors
• Coaches

Three-Day Complete ExC-ELL 101 Academy

Viriginia

As of 2015, over 1,000 teachers and administrators from rural schools and more than 1,000 additional educators from Title III schools have been trained in ExC-ELL. That work continues today, including: