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Creating Powerful Classrooms for Dual Language Learners

Early learning is where the foundation for bilingualism, literacy, and lifelong learning begins. SEAL’s Early Learning Series equips preschool and transitional kindergarten educators with evidence-based practices that nurture dual language learners (DLLs) and engage families as partners in learning.

Through targeted, in-person professional development, educators gain practical strategies to create language-rich, inclusive, and joyful classrooms that honor culture, build communication, and set every child on a path to academic success.

Grounded in California’s Preschool Learning Foundations, English Learner Roadmap, and ELA/ELD Framework, SEAL’s Early Learning Series helps educators connect research to practice—strengthening instruction and family engagement from the earliest years.

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Program Highlights

Focus on Language, Content, & Literacy Development Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Instruction Partnering with Families Implementation Support Community of Practice

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Inside the Learning Experience

Each session combines hands-on practice, collaborative reflection, and classroom application—helping educators move from research to reality.

Day One: Meeting the Needs of Dual Language Learners

  • Understanding research on DLLs
  • Comprehensive approaches to learning
  • Affirming language, culture, and identity
  • Building family-school partnerships
  • Integrating thematic curriculum and oral language instruction

Day Two: Supporting Complex Oral Language Development

  • Understanding research on DLLs
  • Comprehensive approaches to learning
  • Affirming language, culture, and identity
  • Building family-school partnerships
  • Integrating thematic curriculum and oral language instruction

Day Three: Developing Language and Cognition

  • Linking language to cognitive development and critical thinking
  • Using graphic organizers to scaffold thinking and expression

Day Four: Deepening Children’s Relationship to Text

  • Building early literacy and writing skills
  • Strengthening metalinguistic awareness to support bilingual development

 Schools Choose SEAL’s Early Learning Series

  • Grounded in Research: Draws from decades of evidence on effective early learning for dual language learners.
  • Classroom-Tested Strategies: Every session offers tools that can be applied immediately.
  • Family-Centered Approach: Builds strong partnerships that sustain language growth beyond the classroom.
  • Alignment with State Frameworks: Supports implementation of the California Preschool Learning Foundations and English Learner Roadmap.
  • Sustainable Impact: Builds educator confidence, collaboration, and capacity to support DLLs year after year.

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Partner with SEAL to Strengthen Early Learning

Join educators and leaders across California who are transforming early learning classrooms through SEAL’s research-based professional development designed for dual language learners and their families.

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Bring SEAL’s Proven Approach to Your Classrooms

Partner with SEAL to transform teaching and learning for multilingual and English Learners through research-based professional development. Offered in person or virtually, our trainings help educators strengthen instruction, build capacity and deliver results. Explore the four offerings below to find the right SEAL partnership for your school or district.

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Full Model

A multi-year partnership that drives districtwide transformation by aligning curriculum, instruction, and leadership across grade levels and school sites.

Professional Development Series

Topic-specific trainings that meet your school or district where you are. Designed for teams to address current needs through hands-on practice, shared learning, and collaboration that lead to real classroom impact.

Accelerator Training

Short-format, high-impact trainings designed for immediate action. Each session equips individuals or teams with practical tools and research-based strategies they can apply right away to strengthen practice and accelerate results.

Free Professional Development Pathways

State-funded, no-cost learning pathways that strengthen educator pipelines and classroom practice. These high-impact solutions help schools and districts build capacity, meet goals, and advance success for multilingual learners—without stretching budgets.