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K-6 Spanish Dual Language Institute

OVERVIEW

In this four-day institute, participants will deepen or develop the expertise needed to design high-quality and equitable learning opportunities for K–6 Multilingual Learners/Emerging Bilinguals by implementing high-challenge, high-support instruction that supports the simultaneous development of content and language — in both Spanish and English. The institute will be led in Spanish, thus offering Dual Language and bilingual educators the opportunity to engage in professional learning experiences in Spanish. 

NOTE: participants will need to feel comfortable to engage in professional and academic conversations, readings, and writing in Spanish for 80% of the institute.

PURPOSE AND GOALS

Dual Language programs hold a powerful promise: that all students — speakers of both program languages — develop bilingualism, biliteracy, and cross-cultural competence alongside rigorous disciplinary understanding. Realizing this promise requires specialized educator expertise. This institute is designed to build that expertise so teachers can design and implement instruction that engages and supports the development of all students' full linguistic repertoire.

Through engagement in this professional learning opportunity, participants will:

• Understand the tenets of a sociocultural approach to pedagogy that promote equitable, quality learning opportunities for all students across both program languages 

• Deepen understanding of pedagogical scaffolding to support rigorous learning across both program languages, including strategies that build cross-linguistic connections and advance biliteracy

• Understand and apply QTEL’s Principles of Quality Teaching 

• Design and/or amplify lessons using QTEL's Three-Moment Lesson Architecture to build disciplinary knowledge alongside conceptual, analytic, and language practices — drawing on students' home languages and bilingual competencies as assets

• Design and implement tasks that support the development of oracy through quality interactions around relevant, powerful ideas. 

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Bilingual teachers in K-6 Dual Language and bilingual program settings who wish to develop or deepen the expertise needed to offer rigorous, quality learning opportunities to their Multilingual Learners/Emerging Bilingual students.

This institute is well suited for educators who:

• Teach in Spanish Dual Language or Spanish bilingual elementary classrooms

• Are ready to weave language, literacy, and content instruction across both program languages (Spanish and English)

• Want to build a shared approach to biliteracy development alongside colleagues

 

INSTITUTE SCHEDULE 

 

 

INTENDED AUDIENCE

AUDIENCE: K-6 Spanish Dual Language Immersion Teachers, Instructional Coaches and TOSAs

 

Sessions

Thursday, October 22, 2026

Friday, October 23, 2026

Monday, November 9, 2026

Monday, November 30, 2026