Scaling the BELLA Professional Learning Program

The current version of the BELLA is a teacher professional learning program that provides Kindergarten to grade 1 classroom teachers of EL students with a framework for collaboration, strategies for language and literacy instruction, and approaches for incorporating families' community cultural wealth into the learning experience. The program includes 12 content modules and implementation activities. The school-based team collaborates weekly using a semi-structured framework and receives monthly virtual implementation coaching support. This project will ready the BELLA for use at scale through: the creation of a new LMS platform to organize information and integrate universal design principles to improve the user experience through engaging and visually appealing asynchronous packaged modules; updated training modules for school district facilitators and implementation coaches to deliver, implement, and sustain the BELLA program; and a real-time driven feedback dashboard that automatically scores micro-credentials and generates personalized implementation planning materials.