Project TEAMS-2 is a $2.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Language Acquisition. Its goal is to prepare educators to effectively deliver literacy instruction to multilingual learners.
There are two separate components to Project TEAMS-2:
1. To deliver professional development to teams of in-service educators working in high-need elementary public schools in Virginia.
2. To reach ¹ÏÉñÍø’s graduate pre-service special education teachers.
Four Key Purposes
- Develop and implement a high-quality in-service professional development program to prepare elementary school teams of three to five educators in Virginia’s high-need school divisions to improve the assessment and literacy instruction for English Learners (ELs) with and without disabilities.
- Develop and implement a high-quality professional development program through three graduate-level (i.e., 9 credit hours) in-service courses focusing on moderate evidence-based literacy instruction and family engagement to improve student and family literacy skills.
- Redesign and implement a high-quality pre-service graduate special education program to include specific content on the assessment, identification, and evidence-based literacy instruction of ELs with disabilities or at risk for having a disability.
Ìý - Promote a collaborative approach among parents, teachers, administrators, and other related service personnel involved in the education of ELs with and without disabilities by creating opportunities for in-service participants to collaborate and engage parents to promote their students’ literacy skills (e.g., plan family/community events to provide evidence-based literacy activities).
Program Contacts
Project TEAMS-2 is the result of the collaboration of the three ¹ÏÉñÍø faculty members above. You may contact them if you need any additional information.
External Evaluator:ÌýTara Donahue, PhD |Ìýtara.donahue@icf.com