New York MLL Professional Learning: Systemwide Support for Every District

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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Coordinated Support.
Proven at Scale.

Districts navigating high-stakes transitions move forward with confidence when professional learning, curriculum, coaching, and leadership pull in the same direction — systematically, and over time. That's the support model Summit K12 has proven across 1,000+ districts nationwide.

The New York MLL Professional Learning Suite brings that model here: four connected tiers, each targeting a different lever, built to drive the kind of support that moves students forward with confidence, clarity, and certainty.

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 all instructional 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)

What Are the Key Shifts?

New York's transition to a new assessment isn't just a change in testing — it brings about a shift in how we think about language development across the school day. This session unpacks what that means in practice: how word precision, sentence complexity, and discourse-level thinking show up across ELA, Math, Science, and Social Studies, and how listening, speaking, reading, and writing become the through-line for rigorous, discipline-specific instruction. Using examples from Connect to Literacy™, participants leave with a clearer picture of what these shifts look like and how to act on them.

Tuesday, March 10, 3:30 pm EDT
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Making Data Actionable

Data is only useful when it changes what happens next. This session focuses on how to move from outdated assessment data to responsive instruction — using AI-powered feedback on student speaking and writing practice to inform teaching in real time, and powerful reporting tools to group students strategically, pinpoint areas of opportunity, and amplify instructional impact. Participants explore practical approaches to data-informed instruction that put meaningful insights in teachers' hands to increase capacity and accelerate proficiency growth.



Tuesday, March 17, 3:30 pm EDT
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Building Lessons for Small Group Instruction

Effective language development isn't a back-and-forth between teachers and students — it's a whole-group effort where everyone is actively in the game. This session shifts the model from a tennis match to a basketball game, exploring how to design small group instruction that keeps all students engaged in language production and practice. Participants dig into ELD readiness activities built for small group settings, with practical examples of how to structure lessons that are targeted, interactive, and grounded in the demands of the new assessment.
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Tuesday, March 24, 3:30 pm EDT
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Instructional Workshops (Half-Day or Full-Day)

Academic Language in Every Classroom

This interactive workshop helps educators make academic language visible within everyday instruction. Together, we’ll explore how students use language to explain, argue, inform, and connect ideas across subject areas, and what that looks like in real classroom tasks.

Participants will examine how language grows from precise word choice to complex sentences and connected discourse, and how those shifts show up in science labs, math explanations, social studies analysis, and ELA writing. Through collaborative task analysis and discussion, teachers will refine their ability to design learning experiences that build language intentionally while preserving rigor and high expectations for all students.

This session centers practical instructional moves that support multilingual learners and strengthen academic reasoning across disciplines.

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

A Two-Day Coaching Institute Designed for instructional coaches, coordinators, and school-based leaders, this institute builds coaching capacity for supporting multilingual learners through instructional alignment. This is active, applied work — participants analyze real tasks, rehearse coaching conversations, and leave with structured approaches grounded in their own school or district context.

Day One: The What and the Why
We'll build a shared understanding of what academic language development looks like across disciplines. Participants examine how language demands show up in classroom tasks — from word precision to sentence complexity to connected discourse — and practice identifying those demands through structured coaching scenarios and feedback conversations with teachers.

Day Two: The How, Alignment, and Next Steps
From understanding to implementation.
Participants work directly with their own curriculum and instructional materials to identify where academic language demands are aligned, where gaps exist, and where intentional planning is needed. The day concludes with each team developing a clear action plan for sustaining this work across classrooms.

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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From Professional Learning to Lasting Results

Professional learning sets the foundation — Connect to Literacy™ reinforces it every day. With real-time growth monitoring and Personalized Learning Pathways, it's the instructional platform that sustains what professional learning starts. Together, they give districts everything they need to guarantee proficiency growth for every student.

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