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Empowering Every Voice Using Language Focused Strategies

Class Details

  • Class Type: Online
  • Date: 5/18/2026 - 6/14/2026
  • Adams State Credit: 1
  • Nonmember Price: $145
  • CEA Member Price: $45

  • Registration for the optional graduate credits ($55 per credit) is a separate transaction through Adams State. Registration information will be available after you enroll and once the course is listed on the graduate credit portal.

  • Currently Enrolled: 0 of 30
  • Class Type: Online
  • Date: 2/23/2026 - 3/22/2026
  • Adams State Credit: 1
  • Nonmember Price: $145
  • CEA Member Price: $45

  • Registration for the optional graduate credits ($55 per credit) is a separate transaction through Adams State. Registration information will be available after you enroll and once the course is listed on the graduate credit portal.

  • Currently Enrolled: 7 of 30

About the Course

This course explores 7 Steps to a Language-Rich, Interactive Classroom by John Seidlitz and Bill Perryman, a practical guide for increasing student engagement and academic language development. Participants will examine each of the seven steps and learn how to create environments where all students have structured opportunities to listen, speak, read, and write daily.

Educators will reflect on their current instructional practices, collaborate with peers, and design lessons and routines that make content comprehensible and interactive.

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Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Identify and explain the 7 Steps of a Language-Rich, Interactive Classroom.
  • Implement strategies that promote student talk, engagement, and academic vocabulary use.
  • Create classroom environments that value participation and equitable access to language.
  • Design lessons that integrate all four language domains: listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
  • Use reflection and feedback to sustain language-rich instruction.
  • Model academic language through teacher talk and questioning.
  • Develop a professional plan for sharing strategies schoolwide.
  • Grade(s): Kindergarten 1st Grade 2nd Grade 3rd Grade 4th Grade 5th Grade 6th Grade 7th Grade 8th Grade 9th Grade 10th Grade 11th Grade 12th Grade Elementary K-5 Secondary 6-12
  • Subject(s): English Language Learning Professional Development
  • Teacher Quality Standard(s): QS 2.A QS 2.B QS 2.C QS 3.B QS 3.D QS 3.F

Facilitator

Amy Bohen

Amy Bohen is a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education teacher who works with students in kindergarten through fifth grade and supports them in their English language acquisition skills.  After spending a decade as a classroom teacher and another ten years as a CLDE teacher, Amy knows that the first step in educating children is a compassionate and mindful attitude combined with a toolbox of strategies and ‘with-it-ness’.  Understanding  students’ backgrounds and connecting with them and to their personal experiences enables children to take risks, expand ideas, and build confidence as lifelong learners.

Amy has worked with at-risk youth for most of her educational career.  She began teaching in Baltimore City Schools before moving to Melbourne, Australia.  While overseas she learned the value of understanding differences and about building relationships based on mutual respect.  She currently works in Westminster, Colorado where she works with children who are fortunate to have at least two languages.

Amy has been trained in several early literacy interventions as well as language acquisition strategies and methods that engage and support academic success.   She believes that good teaching strategies are beneficial for all students, regardless of background.

Amy holds a BA in History from Fordham University, an MS in Elementary Education from Canisius College, and an MA in Elementary Education with an emphasis on Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education and Special Education from The University of Colorado Boulder.  She has been an educator since 1998.

Reviews

Lee Murphy
This was a great book, and taught by a great facilitator. The study is an immediate return on investment; I have several new tools to use in my classrooms that I think will be extremely effective!

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