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How 10 California Districts Are Tackling the Common Core

San Diego's Chula Vista Elementary School District (CVESD) earns accolades for strong student performance, ongoing improvement, and innovative practices. The secret to the district’s success? As one CVESD site leader says, "You can’t educate [students'] minds until you’ve reached their hearts." Learn how relationships are at the core of Chula Vista's improvement efforts.

Reading Apprenticeship professional learning incorporates an evidence-based instructional framework that helps students develop the literacy competencies, subject-area knowledge, and the learner dispositions they need for school, college, careers, and life.

Register for upcoming opportunities for middle and high school teachers and administrators: 

Reading Apprenticeship Introduction Online
Course #1: September 15–October 27, 2019
Course #2: October 27–December 15, 2019

Reading Apprenticeship: Cognitive Dimension Online  
Session #1: September 8–October 20, 2019
Session #2: October 27–December 15, 2019

Reading Apprenticeship: Knowledge-Building Dimension Online 
Session #1: September 8–October 20, 2019
Session #2: October 27–December 15, 2019

Leading for Literacy Online
September 8–December 15, 2019

WestEd staff recently authored three resources designed to help improve policy, decision making, and instructional practice among state and local leaders, administrators, and educators. Download your copies.

Dive deeper into addressing how to teach content areas and English language development in tandem. These upcoming institutes focus on English learners — one providing strategies for teaching mathematics, and the others offering techniques for teaching students with disabilities. Register today.

English Learners in Mathematics 
August 6–8, Westminster, CA

English Learners with Disabilities
August 6–8, Brooklyn, NY

English Learners with Disabilities
August 14–15, Boston, MA