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L.A. and I.E. S.T.A.R.S.

Seminars on Theory, Activities, Resources and Strategies

L.A. and I.E. S.T.A.R.S. Fall Programs for Language Educators Beginning in December: Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Hindi, Korean, Spanish, World Language/ELD, Advanced Placement, Coaching

L.A. and I.E. S.T.A.R.S. (1985-2022), regional centers of the Occidental College World Language Project, are pleased to announce to area schools our fall online offerings.
Overarching Focus: Re-Engaging Students, Responding to Students’ Socio-Emotional Needs, Addressing Learning Loss
Featuring California’s 2019 World Languages Standards and 2020 World Languages Framework

FUNDING

Since our programs are authorized by the State and Federal Government as part of California’s effort to ensure that all schools are ESSA compliant, you may wish to use funds from Title I, (Disadvantaged Learners), Title II, Part A (Professional Development), or Title III (English Learners) as well as other sources of State, Federal, Local and Private funds.

Download Support for the Implementation of California’s New 2019 World Languages Standards and 2020 World Languages Framework. Link

REGISTRATION
Registration requires credit card payment, receipt of a fully executed purchase order or administrator authorization (an administrator signature on an Intent-To-Pay Form), see application form:
See application form.

Deadline for Enrollment: Space is limited. Please respond promptly.

Use this link https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/XTL9N2R or contact our office at (323) 259-2949 to make a Credit Card Payment. Upload a fully executed purchase order, or administrator Intent-To-Pay Form. For further information contact us at ocflp@oxy.edu or at (323) 259-2949.
FEES
$550 per individual for programs of 30 hours, $450 per individual for programs of 20 hours
A credit card payment, purchase order or Intent to Pay Form signed by a school administrator must be received prior to the start of the program.
PARTIAL SCHOLARSHIPS
Individuals who are unable to secure funding from their schools or districts may apply for a limited number of partial scholarships. Please contact us at ocflp@oxy.edu in order to request an application.
UNITS
6 (60 hours), 3 (30 hours) or 2 (20 hours) CEUs may be earned from Stanford Continuing Studies with completion of assignments and an application fee of $115.

Eleven Strands to Choose From

  1. PLAN with me: Standards-Based and Framework-Aligned WORLD LANGUAGE UNIT DESIGN - Bethany Thompson
  2. TECHNOLOGY in the WORLD LANGUAGE / DUAL IMMERSION Classroom - Iman Hashem and Dr. Valérie Sun
  3. COACHING Tools and MINDFULNESS Practices for Work and Life - Brandon Zaslow, ODC, PCC, C.Ht
  4. COMPREHENSION-Based Communicative Language Teaching Strategies for World Language Educators - Jason Fritze and Connie Johnson
  5. Teaching SPANISH in DUAL LANGUAGE and BILINGUAL PROGRAMS - Dr. Angela Palmieri
  6. Engage, Inspire, Empower: Roads to Building Global Competence in ARABIC, HINDI, and MANDARIN - Maggie Chen, Iman Hashem, and Bhavya Singh
  7. Teaching SPANISH to SPANISH SPEAKERS, Standards-Based and Framework-Aligned Instruction - Vivanie Barrios, María Leinenewber, and Ana Mendoza
  8. HIGH LEVERAGE TEACHING PRACTICES for Teachers of HEBREW - Ronit Ron-Yerushalmi and Brandon Zaslow
  9. Teaching KOREAN and KOREAN SPEAKERS, Standards-Based and Framework-Aligned Instruction - Dr. Young Shin Daily, Iman Hashem, and Heather Yoo
  10. Teaching AP SPANISH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE, Standards-Based and Framework-Aligned Instruction - Aurora Martínez and Elizabeth Pestian
    Instructional Units for 2022-2023 will differ from those from 2021-2022
  11. Teaching AP SPANISH LITERATURE AND CULTURE, Standards-Based and Framework-Aligned Instruction - Ana Estangüi and Ana Rubiales López
    Selections for 2022-2023 will differ from those from 2021-2022

Download additional information and application form

01- PLAN with me: Standards-Based and Framework-Aligned WORLD LANGUAGE UNIT DESIGN
Bethany Thompson
Program Content:
Over the course of the program, participants will design a three-to-four-week standards-based unit, to be delivered by framework-aligned practices that increase student engagement, learning of academic content, and learner proficiency. Units will feature assessments, daily lessons, assignments for absent students, and even plans for substitutes that support unit goals.

Dates and Times: THIS PROGRAM WILL BE OFFERED ONLINE ON SATURDAYS.
January 7, 21, February 4, 11 ; 9:00 A.M. - 12:00 P.M.
(12 synchronous, 8 asynchronous hours; application fee, $115 for 2 CEUs)
Cost: $450 per participant

02- TECHNOLOGY in the WORLD LANGUAGE / DUAL IMMERSION Classroom
Iman Hashem and Dr. Valérie Sun
Program Content: In this hands-on course, participants will dive deep into student-centered technologies that can be used in the physical classroom and across multiple devices (laptop, Chromebook, or cell phone). Authentic materials, focused on global competence and the three modes of communication will be explored through technology-enhanced world language practices. In each session, teachers will apply their learning when designing a lesson or lessons that use a technological tool or tools to support listening to, reading, speaking, or writing about topics that lead to GLOBAL COMPETENCE.

Dates and Times: THIS PROGRAM WILL BE OFFERED ONLINE ON SATURDAYS.
December 3, January 21, February 25, March 25, April 22; 9:00 A.M. – 12:00 P.M.
(15 synchronous, 5 asynchronous hours; application fee, $115 for 2 CEUs)
Cost: $450 per participant

03- COACHING Tools and MINDFULNESS Practices for Work and Life
Brandon Zaslow, ODC, PCC, C.Ht
Program Content: Participants will learn the International Coaching Federation (ICF) Model for professional coaching: (1) Meeting Ethical Guidelines and Professional Standards, (2) Establishing the Coaching Agreement, (3) Creating Trust and Intimacy, (4) Coaching Presence, (5) Active Listening, (6) Powerful Questioning, (7) Direct Communication, (8) Evoking Awareness, (9) Designing Actions, (10) Planning and Goal Setting, and (11) Managing Progress and Accountability. A Guided, Focused Mindfulness strand (GFM) will bring about relaxation to enhance participant wellbeing, specifically reducing stress and negative thinking, and envisioning and bringing about positive outcomes. A strand focusing on wellness and agency to bring about positive changes in education, in individuals, groups, teams, schools and other organizations will run throughout the program.

Dates and Times: THIS PROGRAM WILL BE OFFERED ONLINE ON SATURDAYS.
January 21, 28, February 4, 11, 18, 25, March 4, 11, 18, 1 – 3:30 P.M.
(22.5 synchronous, 37.5 asynchronous hours; application fee, $115 for 6 CEUs)
Cost: $550 per participant

04- COMPREHENSION-Based Communicative Language Teaching Strategies for World Language Educators Jason Fritze and Connie Johnson
Program Content: “Research and practice indicate that effective language instruction must provide significant amounts of comprehensible, meaningful, and interesting input, ‘talk and text’ in the target language for learners to develop communicative and cultural proficiency,” from Glisan and Dontato, cited in the 2020 World Languages Framework for California Public Schools. This course will present CORE strategies to build classroom communities, using the target language for instruction to support IN PERSON acquisition. Application of synchronous and asynchronous activities for distance and hybrid learning will also be featured.

Dates and Times: THIS PROGRAM WILL BE OFFERED ONLINE ON SATURDAYS.
December 3, January 21, February 25, March 25, April 22 ; 9-11:30 A.M., 12:30-3 P.M.
(25 synchronous, 5 asynchronous hours; application fee, $115 for 3 CEUs)
Cost: $550 per participant


05- Teaching SPANISH in DUAL LANGUAGE and BILINGUAL PROGRAMS
Dr. Angela Palmieri
Program Content: This program provides a virtual space for DLBE immersion teachers to share ideas and learn about research-based pedagogical practices central to dual immersion and bilingual education. The space will honor our Spanish and dismantle oppressive language ideologies about our Spanish proficiency. Led in Spanish, the program will focus on topics such as: translanguaging, identity, social justice, Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Pedagogies, sociocultural competence, and critical consciousness.
Dates and Times: THIS PROGRAM WILL BE OFFERED ONLINE ON SATURDAYS.
January 7, 14, 21, 28, February 4 ; 9:00 A.M. – 12:00 P.M.
(15 synchronous, 5 asynchronous hours; application fee, $115 for 2 CEUs)
Cost: $450 per participant

06- Engage, Inspire, Empower: Roads to Building Global of Competence in ARABIC, HINDI, and MANDARIN
Maggie Chen, Iman Hashem, and Bhavya Singh
Program Content: Participants will learn to re-engage students, respond to their socio-emotional needs, and maximize learning. They will learn to locate authentic materials rich in language, culture, and content to develop Global Competence and support and assess students as they use technology to access and interpret what they hear, read or view on a variety of topics from authentic texts. Additionally, they will learn to facilitate and assess student interpersonal communication, using technology as appropriate, to collaborate, share information, reactions, feelings, and opinions in a variety of real-world settings and for multiple purposes. Finally, participants will learn to support and assess students as they use the most suitable media and technologies to present and publish on a variety of topics and for multiple purposes and audiences in culturally appropriate ways.
Dates and Times: THIS PROGRAM WILL BE OFFERED ONLINE ON SATURDAYS.
December 10, January 28, February 18, March 18 ; 10:00 A.M. – 1:30 P.M.
(14 synchronous, 6 asynchronous hours; application fee, $115 for 2 CEUs))
Cost: $450 per participant

07- Teaching SPANISH to SPANISH SPEAKERS, Standards-Based and Framework-Aligned Instruction
Vivanie Barrios, María Leinenewber, and Ana Mendoza
Program Content: Participants will learn optimal practices for teaching Spanish to Spanish speakers at various levels of proficiency. The first session will emphasize reflection on the cultures of self and others, cultural perspectives on content, and on interculturality. The second and third session will focus on planning with the end-in-mind unit design templates, and framework-aligned lesson designs that respond to learner interests and needs. The last two sessions will highlight differentiation, scaffolded tasks, summative and formative assessments and self-reflection and action plans for professional growth.
Dates and Times: THIS PROGRAM WILL BE OFFERED ONLINE ON SATURDAYS.
December 3, January 21, February 25, March 25, April 22 ; 9-11:30 A.M., 12:30-3 P.M.
(25 synchronous, 5 asynchronous hours; application fee, $115 for 3 CEUs)
Cost: $550 per participant

08- HIGH LEVERAGE TEACHING PRACTICES for Teachers of HEBREW
Ronit Ron-Yerushalmi and Brandon Zaslow
Program Content: Participants will learn to implement high leverage teaching practices including the selection of authentic texts rich in language, culture, and academic content. They will design real-world objectives that are age-and stage-appropriate focusing on cultural products, practices, and perspectives. They will design interpretive, interpersonal and presentation tasks, using structures in service of communication, providing opportunities for cultural and linguistic comparisons and real-world language use beyond the classroom.
Dates and Times: THIS PROGRAM WILL BE OFFERED ONLINE ON SUNDAYS.
January 8, 22, February 5, 26, March 12, 26, April 16, 30, May 7, 21 ; 9:00 A.M. -12:00 P.M.
(30 synchronous, 10 asynchronous hours; application fee, $115 for 4 CEUs)
Cost: $450 per participant

09- Teaching KOREAN and KOREAN SPEAKERS, Standards-Based and Framework-Aligned Instruction
Dr. Young Shin Daily, Iman Hashem, and Heather Yoo
Program Content: Participants will learn to re-engage students, respond to their socio-emotional needs and address learning loss. They will learn to locate authentic materials rich in language, culture and content, and support and assess students as they use technology to access and interpret what they hear, read or view on a variety of topics from authentic texts. Additionally, they will learn to facilitate and assess student interpersonal communication, using technology as appropriate, in order for them to collaborate, share information, reactions, feelings and opinions in a variety of real-world settings and for multiple purposes. Finally, participants will learn to support and assess students as they use the most suitable media and technologies to present and publish on a variety of topics and for multiple purposes and audiences in culturally-appropriate ways.
Dates and Times: THIS PROGRAM WILL BE OFFERED ONLINE ON SATURDAYS.
December 10, January 28, February 18, March 18 ; 9:00 A.M. – 1:00 P.M.
(16 synchronous, 4 asynchronous hours; application fee, $115 for 2 CEUs)
Cost: $450 per participant

10- Teaching AP SPANISH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE, Standards-Based and Framework-Aligned Instruction
Aurora Martínez and Elizabeth Pestian
Instructional Units for 2022-2023 will differ from those from 2021-2022
Program Content: Participants will learn to re-engage students, respond to their socio-emotional needs and address learning loss. Teachers will learn to optimally deliver a standards-based and framework-aligned program of Advanced Placement Spanish Language and Culture. The program will feature the content and format of the examination and the AP Framework; present instructional units that address Personal and Public Identities, Science and Technology, Global Challenges, Families and Communities, Beauty and Aesthetics, and Contemporary Life; focus on integrative language use including listening, reading, speaking and writing; and functional language use, developing accuracy through a wide variety of communicative contexts.
Dates and Times: THIS PROGRAM WILL BE OFFERED ONLINE ON SATURDAYS.
December 3, January 21, February 25, March 25, April 22, 9 A.M. – 1 P.M.
(20 synchronous, 10 asynchronous hours; application fee, $115 for 3 CEUs) )
Cost: $550 per participant

11- Teaching AP SPANISH LITERATURE AND CULTURE, Standards-Based and Framework-Aligned Instruction - Ana Estangüi and Ana Rubiales López

Selections for 2022-2023 will differ from those from 2021-2022
Program Content: Participants will learn to re-engage students, respond to their socio-emotional needs and address learning loss. Teachers will learn to optimally deliver a standards-based and framework-aligned program of Advanced Placement Spanish Literature and Culture. The program will feature the content and format of the examination and the AP Framework; explore major historical periods and literary movements in Spain and Spanish America; strategies for the analysis of poetry, prose and drama; study of representative authors and works; and examination of parallel manifestations in art and music.
Dates and Times: THIS PROGRAM WILL BE OFFERED ONLINE ON SATURDAYS.
December 3, January 21, February 25, March 25, April 22, 9 – 11:30 A.M. ; 12:30 – 3:00 P.M.
(25 synchronous, 5 asynchronous hours; application fee, $115 for 3 CEUs)
Cost: $550 per participant

 

REGISTRATION
Registration requires credit card payment, receipt of a fully executed purchase order or administrator authorization (an administrator signature on an Intent-To-Pay Form).
See application form.

Deadline for Enrollment: Space is limited. Please respond promptly.

Use this link https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/XTL9N2R or contact our office at (323) 259-2949 to make a Credit Card Payment. Upload a fully executed purchase order, or administrator Intent-To-Pay Form. For further information contact us at ocflp@oxy.eduor at (323) 259-2949.
FEES
$550 per individual for programs of 30 hours, $450 per individual for programs of 20 hours
A credit card payment, purchase order or Intent to Pay Form signed by a school administrator must be received prior to the start of the program.
PARTIAL SCHOLARSHIPS
Individuals who are unable to secure funding from their schools or districts may apply for a limited number of partial scholarships. Please contact us at ocflp@oxy.edu in order to request an application.
UNITS
6 (60 hours), 3 (30 hours) or 2 (20 hours) CEUs may be earned from Stanford Continuing Studies with completion of assignments and an application fee of $115.

 

 

For further information contact us at ocflp@oxy.edu, at (323) 259-2949, or at (323) 544-7009, fax.