• EL professional developers conduct workshops and institutes to teach reading comprehension strategies and to model good literacy instructional practices. During these workshops and institutes, EL consultants demonstrate think-alouds, the workshop format, how to facilitate group work, collaboration, and reflection, and how to conduct ongoing assessment. Other workshops focus on how to connect the teaching of writing and reading and how to assess literacy development. Teachers learn about teaching literacy by experiencing the same instructional practices and formats they can then use in their own classrooms.
• EL staff conduct two-day regional meetings that focus on embedding literacy in particular content areas (e.g., math and science) and on literacy practices geared to particular age groups.
• EL staff model and coach literacy practices such as Socratic Seminars, and reader's and writer's workshops in classrooms during the school year.
• EL teachers visit other EL sites in order to observe exemplary literacy instruction.
• Teachers and EL professional developers collaborate during common planning time to connect literacy practices with expedition projects by carefully scaffolding reader's and writer's workshops. These workshops teach expedition content and the skills needed for literacy-rich expedition projects.
