Project GLAD®

ACPS is home to one of five nationally recognized OCDE Project GLAD® Regional Training Centers (RTC). As an official RTC we offer high-quality, rigorous, research-based professional learning focused on incorporating OCDE Project GLAD® and Preschool GLAD® into Tier I instructional practices. 

OCDE Project GLAD® (Guided Language Acquisition Design) is a model of professional development that provides depth and understanding behind best practices for language learning and development with practical applications in the classroom.
Project GLAD® uses innovative design practices to ensure that lessons are intentionally created to meet the needs of all students, especially our language learners/emergent bilingual students. These standards-based lessons allow for teaching and learning to come alive, for healthy, supportive environments to be cultivated, and to sustain both rigor and fun in the classroom-all while building language through content. 

The following Guiding Principles inform our work:

• All students have valuable assets that foster life-long success

• Diversity and respect is cultivated and celebrated

• Research and data drive our practice

• Development of academic language proficiency is integral to equity in the classroom

We proudly use OCDE Project GLAD® as an approach to reaching and teaching all of our academic language learners, Pre-K through 12th grade, in ACPS. We have worked to build a team of diverse and skilled OCDE Project GLAD® Trainers who are ready to support educators by building their toolboxes with GLAD®  strategies both within ACPS and surrounding communities.

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