Helping Educators Work Effectively with English Language Learners
Examples of Recent SIOP Service Projects
CAL is collaborating with schools, states, and districts to design and conduct SIOP professional development programs to meet their particular needs. The following highlights some examples of the SIOP workshops and professional development services provided in 2007.
SIOP Model Overview
CAL provided one or two days SIOP Model* overview sessions to teachers and administrators in these school districts:
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Virginia Beach Department of Education, VA
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Chesterfield County Public Schools, VA
SIOP Model Teacher Workshops
CAL provided three to eight days of SIOP Model professional development workshops to teachers in these school districts:
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Bridgeton Public Schools, NJ
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Chesterfield County Public Schools, VA
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Hunterdon County Office of Education, NJ
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Frederick and Winchester County Schools, VA
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Loudoun County Public Schools, VA
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Manassas Park and Manassas County School Districts, VA
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New Brunswick School System, NJ
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Osseo Area Schools, MN
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Roanoke County School District, VA
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Warrenton Public Schools, VA
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Wheeling Community Consolidated School District, IL
SIOP Model Professional Development Projects
These projects included teacher workshops, coaching workshops, training of trainers workshops, SIOP overviews for administrators, site visits, review and expand workshops, and consultations.
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Alexandria City Public Schools, VA
August 2007 – August 2008
CAL provided eight SIOP Model workshops for teachers and a half day SIOP overview for school and district administrators. CAL will provide a two-day SIOP coaching workshop in August 2008. -
Atlantic City School District, NJ
December 2006 – August 2007
CAL provided a variety of professional development services on the SIOP Model including two workshops and four days of class visits and conferences with teachers and coaches. -
Austin Public Schools, MN
May 2007 – February 2008
CAL provided five SIOP Model workshops for teachers, a SIOP overview session for administrators, and a SIOP training of trainers workshop. In addition, CAL conducted classroom observation and coaching sessions. -
Clark County School District, NV
January, 2007 – February, 2007
CAL provided two and half days of SIOP professional development for administrators and two SIOP review sessions for teachers, one for elementary teachers and one for secondary teachers. -
Chesterfield County Schools, VA
August 2007 – October 2007
CAL provided five SIOP Model workshop for teachers, a half day SIOP overview for administrators, and a two-day SIOP review and expand workshop for teachers who had participated in SIOP workshops in 2006. -
Delaware Union ESC, OH
September – December, 2006
CAL provided four 2-day workshops: SIOP Model and training of the trainers. -
Prince George’s County Public Schools, MD
September 2006 – December 2006
CAL provided three half-day consulting sessions on planning, implementing, and supporting SIOP coaching in the district. -
New York City Board of Education – Public School 153
August 2006 – June 2007
CAL offered four SIOP Model workshops for teachers and conducted six site visits. -
Superintendent Schools, Clark County School District, NV
March, 2007
CAL provided SIOP professional development for 140 teachers, plus 2 days of professional development for 12 SIOP coaches. -
Two-Way SIOP professional development workshops
CAL offers two-way SIOP professional development, which combines elements from the SIOP Model of sheltered instruction with learning and best practices from our years of experience with two-way immersion programs. -
North Carolina Department of Education, NC
August 2007 – September 2007
CAL provided four days of Two-Way SIOP professional development workshops to two-way immersion teachers of the state of North Carolina. -
District of Columbia Public Schools, DC
May 2007 – November 2007
CAL provided four days of two-way SIOP training for District of Columbia dual language teachers and conducted one half-day of follow-up in fall 2007.
Learn more about our professional development
services on the SIOP Model.
*The SIOP Model was developed by researchers at California State University, Long Beach (Jana Echevarria and Mary Ellen Vogt), and the Center for Applied Linguistics (Deborah J. Short) under the auspices of the Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence (CREDE), a national research center funded by the U.S. Department of Education from 1996 through 2003. Learn more.
