Systemwide Professional Development

The New York MLL Professional Learning Suite is a comprehensive, systemwide professional development model designed to help districts and educators navigate evolving academic language and assessment expectations for multilingual learners.

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Support Multilingual Learners Through Evolving Academic Expectations

As academic language and assessment expectations evolve, districts need more than professional development. They need instruction, coaching, and leadership moving in the same direction. This multi-tiered suite is built around that idea: four connected tiers, each targeting a different lever for lasting change.

Statewide Awareness

FREE 60-minute Webinars

Free foundational webinars that clarify academic language expectations, linguistic complexity, and the relationship between task design and student reasoning. Designed for educators across roles and districts, these sessions offer a shared starting point — grounding everyone in what New York's evolving MLL expectations actually mean for classroom practice.

Instructional Practice

Half- or Full-Day Workshops

Interactive workshops that strengthen task design, academic language development, and classroom rigor across disciplines. Teachers leave with concrete strategies they can apply immediately, built around the kinds of tasks and language demands their students are navigating right now.

Coaching Institute

Two Days, In Person

An intensive institute that builds district and school-based coaching capacity. Participants learn structured approaches for guiding teachers through task analysis, academic language demands, feedback conversations, and collaborative calibration of student work. Because implementation only sticks when someone inside the building knows how to sustain it, this institute focuses on developing the coaches and instructional leaders who will carry the work forward long after the training ends.

System Leadership Virtual Series

Virtual, 60 Minutes Each

A three-part leadership series focused on monitoring rigor, aligning expectations across schools, and building coherent structures that sustain academic language growth systemwide. Sessions are designed to help leaders move from awareness to action — connecting what's happening in classrooms to the decisions being made at the system level.

All sessions prioritize practical classroom application, leadership calibration, and sustainable implementation structures.

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Statewide Awareness Sessions
(FREE 60-minute Webinars)

Preparing Learners for New York’s New Expectations

This one-hour session provides educators and leaders with a clear instructional lens for understanding evolving academic language expectations. Participants explore how students use language to explain, argue, inform, and narrate across content areas, and how linguistic complexity increases over time. The session clarifies the relationship between task design, academic reasoning, and student language production, equipping educators with a shared framework for supporting multilingual learners during this transition.

Audience: District leaders, school leaders, ENL educators, and content teachers

Format: Virtual, 60 minutes

Designing Tasks That Require Academic Reasoning

This session focuses on the language demands embedded within classroom tasks. Participants analyze prompts and assignments to identify how wording influences rigor, precision, and extended reasoning. The session provides practical tools for strengthening task design so students are consistently required to produce connected, discipline-specific academic language. Educators leave with strategies for aligning daily instruction to increasing expectations.

Audience: K–12 teachers, instructional coaches

Format: Virtual, 60 minutes

Understanding Language Development Across Domains

This session examines how multilingual learners develop language across listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Participants explore progression from emerging expression to increasing academic independence and discuss how uneven growth across listening, reading, speaking, and writing is both typical and instructional. The focus is on recognizing developmental patterns and aligning classroom expectations accordingly.

Audience: Teachers, ENL educators, school leaders

Format: Virtual, 60 minutes

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Instructional Workshops (Half-Day or Full-Day)

Academic Language in Every Classroom

This interactive workshop supports educators in identifying and planning for academic language demands within content instruction. Participants examine how explanation, argumentation, and extended reasoning appear across subject areas and analyze how linguistic complexity increases from word-level precision to sustained discourse. Through collaborative task analysis, teachers strengthen their ability to design instruction that promotes language growth while maintaining rigor.

Audience: K–12 content teachers and ENL educators

Format: Half-day in person

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Coaching Institute (Two-Day)

Coaching for Academic Language Development

This two-day institute builds coaching capacity for supporting multilingual learners through instructional alignment. Day one focuses on coaching teachers through task analysis and academic language demands, using scenario-based practice to strengthen feedback conversations. Day two centers on coaching school leaders and facilitating collaborative calibration of student work. Participants leave with structured approaches for guiding instructional refinement and sustaining growth across schools.

Audience: District coordinators, instructional coaches, regional leaders

Format: Two full-days in person

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Leadership Series

Session 1 (60 Minute Virtual)

Leading for Academic Language Clarity

Support leaders in understanding how evolving expectations increase the linguistic demands placed on students, and how to calibrate instructional rigor accordingly.

Leaders will:

  • Identify the academic language purposes embedded in classroom tasks.
  • Recognize how linguistic complexity increases across word, sentence, and discourse levels.
  • Develop a shared language for discussing rigor across classrooms.

Session 2 (60 Minute Virtual)

Monitoring Academic Expectations Across Classrooms

Support leaders in identifying whether academic language expectations are consistent, visible, and aligned across classrooms, without requiring deep instructional analysis.

Leaders will:

  • Recognize indicators of increasing academic rigor at the task level.
  • Identify patterns of inconsistency across classrooms or grade levels.
  • Develop simple monitoring structures to ensure alignment.
  • Clarify what leaders should look for during walkthroughs and data reviews.

Session 3 (60 Minute Virtual)

Building Coherence Across Schools

Support district and building leaders in aligning expectations, professional learning, and instructional language to support multilingual learners systemwide.

Leaders will:

  • Identify gaps in alignment across schools.
  • Develop shared terminology about language complexity.
  • Plan for sustainable professional learning structures.

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