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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

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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
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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. 
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Eligible Trainings

Future dates and topics to come.

On Demand Training

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

Level: Middle, High School
Time: 1 hour

On Demand Training & Resources
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Stronger Together: Engaging Immigrant Families for Student Success

Level: Elementary, Middle, High School
Time: 1.5 Hours

On Demand Training & Resources
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Immigrant Students Today: Current Trends and Strategies for Building Belonging in K – 12 Classrooms

Level: Elementary, Middle, High School
Time: 1.5 Hours

On Demand Training & Resources
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Promoting Immigrant Student Mental Health and Wellbeing

Level: Elementary, Middle, High School
Time:1.5 Hours

On Demand Training & Resources
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United by Sport: Cultivating Health and Belonging from the Little to the Big Leagues

Level: Elementary, Middle, High School
Time: 1.5 Hours

On Demand Training & Resources
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Dually Identified: How to Support Immigrant Students with Disabilities

Level: Elementary, Middle, High School
Time: 1.5 Hours

On Demand Training & Resources
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Teaching Multilingual Learners: Creativity, Collaboration and Communities of Practice

Level: Elementary, Middle, High School
Time: 1.5 Hours

On Demand Training & Resources
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Elevating Immigrant Stories: From Storytime to U.S. History

Level: Elementary, Middle, High School
Time: 1.5 Hours

On Demand Training & Resources

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
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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

On Demand Training

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Immigrant Student Success Virtual Conference

Level: Middle and High School
Time: Up to one hour

On Demand Training & Resources
Poster for "An Evening in Solidarity with Dolores Huerta" by Jos Sances. It features an illustration of Dolores holding up a green sign that says "Si, se puede."
Land, Legacy and the 1960s Labor Movement: Teaching Immigration in U.S. History

Level: Middle and High School
Time: 1 hour

On Demand Training & Resources
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Building Access to Document-Based Questions for Multilingual Learners

Level: Middle and High School
Time: 1 Hour

On Demand Training & Resources
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Teaching Chinese Immigration in the 19th Century

Level: Middle and High School
Time: 1 Hour

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Teaching South Asian American History through a Collaborative Ethnic Studies Lens

Level: Middle and High School
Time: 1 Hour

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Understanding Anti-Asian and Anti-Immigrant Discrimination in the U.S.

Level: Elementary, Middle and High School
Time: 1 Hour

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Immigration and 1920s KKK: Teaching with Primary Source Documents

Level: Middle and High School
Time: 1 Hour

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Teaching the Refugee Experience: Welcome to the New World

Level: Middle and High School
Time: 1.5 Hours

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Contact Ariana Moir at amoir@ilctr.org to learn more.