Areas of Expertise 

Co-Teaching, also referred to as an Integrated Model, is when a team of two teachers (usually one content and one specialist) share the responsibilities for planning, instruction, assessment and reflection within the same classroom. 

Integrated models can serve multilingual students and/or students with disabilities, allowing all students to receive access to core content and meet rigorous standards. 

Our professional development not only focuses on the why and what of co-teaching, but also how to develop a strong, communicative team that builds on the strengths of each educator in order to meet student goals. 

Sheltered Instruction is an approach that helps multilingual learners reach grade-level standards and develop language skills simultaneously. 

As educators with many years of experience in bilingual programs, we strive to help all teachers make content comprehensible through a variety of engaging strategies. 

We demonstrate how to provide students with ample opportunities to practice and apply their content knowledge and language skills. 

Collaborative planning is a process where teachers teams are guided through intentional unit design that will meet the needs of all students.  

This begins by building team capacity through developing communication structures, establishing roles and creating team norms. 

We then guide teams to integrate strategies from frameworks such as sheltered instruction, Backwards Design, and Universal Design for Learning. 

All of this work is grounded in the cycle of inquiry: Plan, Implement, Assess, Reflect.