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The Illinois State Board of Education, in partnership with WIDA, sponsors the professional development sessions featured on this webpage. Registration is limited to three individuals per school district. All sessions are provided at no cost, funded by public resources, and are therefore open exclusively to current public educators. For inquiries about these workshops, please contact multilingual@isbe.net. Educators will earn professional development hours upon completing any workshop listed here. Webinars and self-paced e-workshops will issue a certificate of completion to participants at the conclusion of each course. Participants must download the certificate and email a copy to multilingual@isbe.net. An ISBE-approved evidence of completion form will then be sent via email to educators, enabling them to log the professional development hours in their ELIS account.​

In-Person Workshops

Live Webinars

Self-Paced E-Workshops

​​To register and access the self-paced e-workshops, please create a WIDA Secure Portal.

For any questions, please e-mail the Multilingual/Language Development Department at multilingual@isbe.net​

  • Developing Language for Learning in Mathematics
  • Engaging Multilingual Learners in Science: Making Sense of Phenomena
  • Exploring the WIDA PreK-3 Essential Actions
  • Let’s Play! Multilingual Children’s Joyful Learning in PreK-3 (NEW!)
  • Making Language Visible in the Classroom
  • Newcomers: Promoting Success through Strengthening Practice
  • Reading Comprehension Across Content Areas with Multilingual Learners (NEW!)
  • Reframing Education for Long-term English Learners
  • Teaching Multilingual Learners Social Studies through Multiple Perspectives (Updated)
  • The WIDA ELD Standards Framework: A Collaborative Approach
  • WIDA Español: Evaluaciones del desarrollo del lenguaje a nivel de salón -Classroom assessment for language development (NEW for Spring!)

WIDA Early Years

​ISBE and The Center: Early Childhood Professional Learning are excited to announce that the early care and education community now has access to the WIDA Early Years online learning modules. These modules focus on supporting young multilingual children, ages 2.5 to 5.5 years.

Each self-paced, interactive module provides opportunities for reflection and offers suggestions for applying content to local practice. The following five modules are available:

  • Dual Language Learners and their Families
  • WIDA Early English Language Development Standards Framework
  • Dual Language Learners with Disabilities
  • Scaffolding Language Learning
  • Promising Practices

We encourage program leaders, administrators, trainers, and coaches to view the modules and consider ways the modules can serve as a resource for staff. The modules can be used in staff development sessions and/or shared with individual educators or teams of educators, such as those engaged in professional learning communities.

Early Years

Upcoming Webinars

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Upcoming Workshops

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​​Are you an educator looking for ideas on how to request for permission to participate in a
WIDA professional development (PD) session? 
Please use this templatePDF Document from WIDA for an idea on how to request for participation in these PDs.​

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