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Professional Development Courses

The Immigrant Learning Center has two Professional Development Courses for Massachusetts-based educators now open for registration for the 2025-26 school year:

Immigrant Student Success: Strategies And Tools For K-12 Educators

Immigration Throughout U.S. History

Immigrant Student Success: Strategies And Tools for K-12 Educators

Gain strategies for empowering immigrant students, creating more welcoming classrooms and centering the immigrant voice across the curriculum.

Course objectives

Learn about current immigration facts, issues and policies
Develop an asset-based perspective of immigrant and EL/ML students that celebrates their funds of knowledge
Gain strategies for fostering belonging, identity and agency in immigrant and EL/ML students

Assessment

Portfolio assignments
Final project

Three people on a Zoom call having a conversation about caste, race and identity.

Massachusetts Professional Development Points (PDPs)

The Immigrant Learning Center is a registered Professional Development Provider (PDP) by the State of Massachusetts. This course is eligible for the following content areas: English Language Learners and Safe & Supportive Learning Environments.

To receive 15 PDPs, you must:

Participate meaningfully in at least 12 hours of training. Training consists of both webinars and on-demand trainings. Participants may choose the webinars and trainings that best fit their needs and schedule.
Complete the portfolio and final project with a grade of meets expectations or above.

Eligible Trainings

Upcoming Webinars

The following webinars are eligible for the Immigrant Student Success PDP course. Please register for the webinars that best fit your needs and schedule.

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Immigrant Student Success Virtual Conference

July 8, 2025
Up to four hours

Dozens of books on a library shelf that's labeled for sixth grade. They all have Immigrant Learning Center labels on the spines.

Windows, Mirrors, and Migration: Tackling the Literacy Crisis and Building Empathy Through Literature

October, TBD
1 hour

Future dates and topics to come.

On Demand Training

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Stronger Together: Engaging Immigrant Families for Student Success

1.5 Hours

On Demand Training & Resources

Three kids smiling at the camera. They're leaning on a wire fence and wearing backpacks.

Immigrant Students Today: Current Trends and Strategies for Building Belonging in K – 12 Classrooms

1.5 Hours

On Demand Training & Resources

A woman sitting cross-legged on hardwood floor. There are four people sitting on chairs against a brick wall behind her.

Promoting Immigrant Student Mental Health and Wellbeing

1.5 Hours

On Demand Training & Resources

Two kids sports teams shaking hands after a match, with two adults supervising. One team is in blue jerseys and the other is in orange.

United by Sport: Cultivating Health and Belonging from the Little to the Big Leagues

1.5 Hours

On Demand Training & Resources

A woman smiling with a young boy with a disability, who is also smiling. They're in a classroom.

Dually Identified: How to Support Immigrant Students with Disabilities

1.5 Hours

On Demand Training & Resources

A woman leaning over two kids who are looking at a workbook on a desk.

Teaching Multilingual Learners: Creativity, Collaboration and Communities of Practice

1.5 Hours

On Demand Training & Resources

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Elevating Immigrant Stories: From Storytime to U.S. History

1.5 Hours

On Demand Training & Resources

More trainings to come.

Immigration Throughout U.S. History

Learn how to enrich the history and social studies topics you are already teaching by incorporating immigration stories and narratives. Help your students do the critical work of making connections between history and the present day and inspire them to consider their place in United States’ history as it unfolds. This course is designed for middle and high school U.S. history educators.

Course objectives

Identify ways to incorporate the issue of immigration and immigrant stories into commonly taught U.S. history topics
Draw connections between immigration history and current events

Assessment

Portfolio assignments
Final project

A slide from a presentation. The title says "Immigration, Religion, Multi-Ethnic Identity."

Massachusetts Professional Development Points (PDPs)

The Immigrant Learning Center is a registered Professional Development Provider (PDP) by the State of Massachusetts. This course is eligible for the History/Social Science content area.

To receive 10 PDPs, you must:

Participate meaningfully in at least seven hours of training. Training consists of both webinars and on-demand trainings. Participants may choose the webinars and trainings that best meet their needs and schedule.
Complete the portfolio and final project with a grade of meets expectations or above.

Eligible Trainings

Upcoming Webinars

The following webinars are eligible for the Immigration throughout U.S. History PDP course. Please register for the webinars that best fit your needs and schedule.