Sarah Bernadette Ottow and the Confianza team have been providing essential language and literacy practices with an equity-based mindsets to educators across 33 states and 22 countries since 2015. 

Through our online professional development offerings, educators everywhere can develop expertise on practical, actionable strategies and proven practices that we know will move learners, including MLL/ELL students, toward meaningful growth and lasting success.

Video Tutorials for Educators: Learn from Sarah Ottow’s expertise with 10-15 minute video mini-lessons in courses and a 45+ minute video, focusing on practical strategies for supporting linguistically diverse learners and fostering culturally responsive teaching.

Flexible Year-Round Access: Reflect, revisit and adjust your teaching strategies anytime; courses after one-year access or until the course is completed, while workshops provide lifetime access to foster continuous growth for educators and leaders.

Impactful Reading Materials: Deepen your understanding and application with insights and exercises that have proven successful for Confianza clients in schools all over the world. Expert-written articles are included in all courses and workshops.

Practical Classroom Strategies: Pick up actionable strategies that you can implement right away to create inclusive and empowering learning environments where multilingual learners (MLLs)/English-language learners (ELLs) can thrive.

Field-Tested Tools: Exclusive tools and protocols that thousands of educators have successfully used to support all students, including language learners, are included in both courses and workshops for direct classroom use.

1: Building Home-School Connections

Gain expertise on powerful classroom strategies for fostering a strength-based classroom culture and building strong home-school connections by tapping into the rich “funds of knowledge” of each student’s families and caregivers.

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2: Differentiation & Academic Language Instruction

Learn how to integrate academic language practices into lesson planning and assessment, apply language-specific strategies across all domains, and examine long-held belief systems through hands-on fieldwork and tailored action plans.

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3: Analyzing Student Data & Assessments

Become skilled at designing equitable assessments, implementing collaborative analysis of student work, and planning differentiated instruction, with practical application through fieldwork and a personalized Action Cycle.

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4: Teacher Leadership & Collaboration Strategies

Foster teacher leadership, ensure proactive collaboration between specialists and general education teachers, and implement collaborative protocols, with hands-on application through fieldwork and personalized action plans.

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5: Evaluation & Leadership for Equity

Fine-tune your leadership practice and develop a solid plan for implementing language-focused evaluations that integrate policy, programming, and family engagement while honoring each student’s unique learning journey.

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