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Read partner success storiesProvidence Public Schools partnered with engage2learn on a support and growth plan for teachers of multilingual learners, with one-to-one coaching on the practices teachers bring into their classrooms.
We didn’t have the capacity with our in-house coaches to meet the need before. Now we’re using engage2learn to support us and our teachers through one-on-one [support] centered on the practices that teachers are now implementing in the classroom.
Providence Public Schools serves a larger-than-average population of English learners. District leaders wanted equitable learning experiences for those students, and saw that it had to begin with equitable support for the teachers serving them. The district’s own coaches did not have the capacity to meet the need.
engage2learn and the district built a support and growth plan that brought district-wide priorities, goals, teacher training and instructional methods for multilingual learners into one plan.
Coaches then worked one-to-one with teachers, centered on the practices teachers were putting into their classrooms, and on the experience each teacher already brought.
From the start of the 2021-2022 school year, the district and engage2learn designed a Multilingual Learners Best Practices Rubric: 12 competencies, among them differentiation and scaffolding and language proficiency and vocabulary development, each in four levels of proficiency. Teachers set their own goals against it, met their coach one-to-one, and documented the evidence in GroweLab, where on-demand courses such as using the WIDA writing rubric to inform instruction sit beside the coaching.
District leaders describe teachers guiding students toward bilingualism and biliteracy, and student work in both languages. A district chief credits the partnership with moving the work forward; a dual language teacher describes a coach who honored her experience.
By September 2022, Providence teachers had earned more than 1,500 badges and microcredentials in instructional best practices for multilingual learners since coaching began in November 2021. The district’s view of coaching changed with it: what some teachers first read as a sign they were in trouble became support every teacher gets.
An independent study by LXD Research later measured the effect on students, and found it met the standard for ESSA Level 2 moderate evidence (see the Providence WIDA ACCESS study).
“As a district we had to change our mindset and understand that every single teacher benefits from coaching.”
“We saw teachers really guiding their students around building their bilingualism, biliteracy. We saw beautiful student work in both languages. We saw students speaking in Spanish and in English.”
“The partnership we have formed with e2L has been essential in moving the work forward in the district.”
“One thing I loved is that my coach recognized and honored my experience.”
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