Bridging Reading Gaps for English Learners

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3 P or A+ Credits | 45 Hours

$159.00
$159.00
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  • ELL
  • Equity - PSESD 121
  • Language Acquisition
  • New
Course Description:

What does it take to turn English Learners into confident, successful readers? This course delivers practical, research-backed strategies to accelerate reading development while honoring your students’ unique linguistic and cultural strengths.
You’ll explore how language acquisition drives literacy and discover how to bridge listening, speaking, reading, and writing to build a complete learning foundation. We’ll dive deep into designing instruction that strengthens vocabulary, background knowledge, and comprehension. You will also master using screening and diagnostic data to precisely target your students' needs.
Grounded in equity, this course emphasizes culturally responsive practices—from selecting diverse texts to building powerful family partnerships. You’ll walk away with a toolkit of adaptable frameworks and instructional tools designed to help ELs tackle complex texts and thrive academically.

Objectives:

By the end of this course, learners will:

  • Analyze ML profiles to better understand the diverse demographics, linguistic backgrounds, and identification systems that impact equity and access for multilingual learners.
  • Bridge language & literacy by applying theories of second language acquisition to understand how the four domains—reading, writing, listening, and speaking—interact during literacy development.
  • Design responsive foundational instruction by creating phonics, vocabulary, and grammar lessons that honor students’ home languages while building grade-level decoding and comprehension skills.
  • Develop strategies to build and leverage students’ background knowledge and schema to help them make meaning from complex texts.
  • Master equitable assessment by evaluating screening and diagnostic data to identify student strengths and design responsive instructional plans that remove learning barriers.
  • Select culturally sustaining texts and critically evaluate and choose instructional materials that affirm diverse racial, cultural, and linguistic identities.
  • Foster inclusive environments by reflecting on personal and institutional biases to create a classroom culture that centers student assets rather than deficits.
  • Partner with families by creating actionable engagement plans that position families as essential partners in their child’s literacy development.
  • Synthesize frameworks by integrating assessment, instruction, and identity into a cohesive framework that promotes equitable literacy outcomes in any teaching context.

Enrollment:

How to Register and Enroll

To complete enrollment you must register and pay for each course on both the CE Credits Online website and the ASPDP site.

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  • Follow the enrollment and payment prompts. If you have a gift card or discount code, you will enter it at the end of the enrollment process.
  • Upon purchase, you will receive an email receipt and be able to login to your eClassroom
  • Important: Course participants must be sure to register with ASPDP for each CE Credits Online course on the NYC DOE ASPDP website. Our courses are in the ASPDP course catalog using the Education Partner drop-down menu by selecting CE Credits Online. At that time, you will pay a registration fee to NYC DOE ASPDP. The fee is $125 for a 3-credit course or $45 for a 1-credit course.
  • You may begin your course on the first day of the semester or upon enrollment (if the semester is already in progress).
  • Please Read the ASPDP FAQs for more information. Courses must be completed by the end of each semester to receive credit. You can contact us at support@cecreditsonline.org with any questions.

Credits

“P” Credit, A+ Credit and CTLE hour Requirements

Courses are available for “P” credits and A+ Credits for NYC Salary Differentials and/or CTLE hours.

Credits Earned: 1 or 3 “P” Credits or A+ Credits and/or 15 or 45 CTLE Hours.

You can take up to 12 Credits per provider each semester.

You must earn your 30 credits above your master’s degree to qualify for a salary differential. Your NYCDOE date of hire determines how many of these credits can be fulfilled by A+ credit, and/or other credits (i.e., P credit, graduate courses taken through a college or university, CLEP tests, and a 2nd Master’s degree):

  • Fully appointed teacher hired on or after September 1, 2019 must obtain a minimum of 18 A+ credits in order to earn their salary differential unless they have already attained an additional Doctorate, or an additional Master’s in an approved related area as determined by the Joint Accreditation Committee (JAC).
  • Fully appointed teacher hired on or after September 1, 2017 but before September 1, 2019 must obtain a minimum of 6 A+ credits towards their differential unless they already earned their salary differential before September 1, 2019.
  • Fully appointed teachers hired before September 1, 2017 are not required to use A+ credits to obtain their salary differential. If they choose to submit A+ credits towards their salary differential, they must obtain a minimum of 6 A+ credits.

ll ASPDP courses can count toward A+ or P credit. You must register with ASPDP by the registration deadline to earn credit toward your +30. You will not be eligible for credit toward your salary differential if you do not register with ASPDP by the deadline.