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Services
Classroom Demonstration & Labs
Turn demonstrations into a dynamic lab with teams of teachers “trying on” strategies across the room in small groups with a teacher partner, and in the moment coaching.
Sample Schedule
Community Building & Foundations
Observation in the Classroom & Debrief
“Try it on” & Coaching
Closing Reflections & Action Plan
Great for teachers to practice Designated ELD groups, workshop conferring or strategy groups, interactive read aloud, talk moves or other interactive strategies to meet with needs of language learners.
Large Group Workshops
Explore, dialogue, and brainstorm next steps with your entire team or staff. Create a shared experience to launch, solidify or level up your best practices.
Sessions will be interactive with opportunities for (grade level) teams to reflect, dialogue, and come up with next steps.
All sessions will use the 3 Signature Socio-emotional Learning (SEL) Practices for Adult Learning.
Welcoming Ritual
Engaging Practices
Optimistic Closure
Time frame can be customized to fit your team’s schedule & needs, from 2 hour sessions, whole day, or multiple days.
Lesson Study
Observe a lesson, unpack the thinking behind planning a lesson. Using the ELD Standards, plan a lesson together, then teach it to a group of students. Reflect & debrief.
Great for teams in all stages of their ELD journey, from beginning to those ready to be challenged.
Time frame can be customized to fit your team’s schedule & needs, from 2 hour sessions to half day or more.
Popular Workshop Topics
Unpack the ELD Standards & Bring it to Life!.
Using colors & parts, unpack the CA English Language Development Standards in a fun and interactive way to see how it can be visible across all content areas to increase interactions & rigor.
Level Up Academic Language with Powerful Talk Moves
Increase the quantity & rigor of student talk with emotional safety, structures & routines, and scaffolds that will propel students as thinkers, readers, and writers!
Reader’s & Writer’s Workshop With ELD Focus
Level up your workshop and balanced literacy practices with an intentional scaffolds for language learners that align with CA English Language Development Standards and increase academic language through Integrated-ELD.
Classroom Talk through the Lens of Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT)
Based on Zaretta Hammond’s book Culturally Responsive Teaching & the Brain (2015), dive into the foundations of CPT & how it can practically come to life in the classroom by cultivating emotional safety, clear expectations to facilitate active listening and speaking skills aligned to the CA English Language Development Standards.
Interactive Read Aloud, Dive into Text Talk!
Level up your read aloud to align with the CA English Language Development standards and be more purposeful and dynamic with deep thinking, academic language & text- based talk using metacognition.
Envision it, Live it! ELD
What is Designated ELD (D-ELD) & Integrated ELD (I-ELD)? How does it look and sound like according to the ELD Framework? Dig into foundations, and brainstorm practical ways it can elevate teaching and learning in your classrooms.
Our Services are…
Customized
Just like the students we serve, every teacher, school and district is unique.
We are committed to support your unique needs, to refine and refresh your professional learning goals with connection, dialogue, and SEL in mind.
Aiming for Equity
We keep the big picture in mind.
Our strategies and materials presented will always strive for voice and choice, to ensure we are striving to engage & inspire adults to meet the needs of ALL our students, including language learners and students from poverty.
Hence, Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and Socio-Emotional Learning (SEL) will be an integral part of our design for professional learning.
Rooted in Coaching
Learning is a journey.
Based on the Cognitive Coaching techniques and principles, our goal is to create self-directed goal setting and learning.
All interactions with administrators and teachers will be based on intentional questioning, active listening, and learner centered conversations that aim for reflection & action.
Built on Feedback
We value and carefully analyze participants feedback.
We will ensure we collect and share meaningful feedback for administrators to determine next steps in their learning journey.
Your Goals, Your Needs
Your Community
All services can be customized for your staff, with clear goals & outcomes
“Soo Jin has provided engaging demo lessons in classrooms all across grade levels at our school and modeled researched-based best practices and strategies. She has been instrumental in building our staff’s knowledge and capacity in supporting our English Language Learners.”
— Seri Hwang, Principal —
“Soo Jin Choi’s trainings are always dynamic, engaging, thought provoking. I have always walked away with new innovative ways with tools in my hand to enhance my teaching.”
— Lorena Dickson, Teacher —
“ She created a safe space for both teachers and students to shine and take ownership of their own personal growth and learning.”
— Arla Little, Program Specialist/Teacher —
Contact us.
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