35 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE
For over 35 years, the OCDE Project GLAD® National Training Center has provided exemplary training for educators both nationally and internationally, resulting in students’ access to quality instruction and high-levels of success.
TEACHING COMES ALIVE
We train teachers on how to make content come alive through sketching, pictures, chants, and media with corresponding language. Deep cognition is developed through well-designed lessons building upon brain, biliteracy, second language acquisition, and reading & writing research.
HEALTHY ENVIRONMENTS
OCDE Project GLAD® classrooms promote environments that respect and honor each child’s voice, personal life experience, beliefs, language and culture. We cultivate the social emotional learning (SEL) competencies of self-management, self-awareness, responsible decision-making, relationship skills and social awareness.
CUSTOMIZED SUPPORT
We work with schools, districts and educational agencies to identify needs and create customized supports for implementation. A top priority is building sustainability to ensure all students get what they need.
Marissa, K-6 PrincipalWith GLAD®, you see that difference in teachers. Teachers are a lot more focused on the vocabulary and the visuals that go with it. Bringing GLAD® to them has really opened their eyes to a different way of teaching and it’s engaging our students too. There’s a lot more use of language as opposed to just copying the notes and regurgitating the questions.
- Carla, 1st Grade Teacher
The strategies are amazing and the demos are so very helpful in being able to implement them into the classroom. The trainers are SO knowledgeable!
- Joanne, 8th Grade Teacher
I feel like the strategies are relevant and easily adaptable to different classrooms, teaching styles, and learner needs. The model is highly meaningful, positive, and I believe substantially supports language and content learning.
- Ann, 5th Grade Teacher
Love the strategies to help kids stay accountable; language acquisition for ELs + ALL
- Jessica, 4th Grade Teacher
It’s the best teaching I have ever done. I loved teaching with OCDE Project GLAD® strategies and my students loved the learning.
- Nicole Chavez
If students don’t have access to the content that’s being delivered, which is usually in English, gains towards college and career opportunities become increasingly more challenging.. So I would say that this is applicable to all teachers in the most rural or the most densely urban cities. This is your integrated approach to teaching language.
Recognized as a model reform program by California Department of Education (CDE)
Identified as a training model for multiple Achieving Schools and Distinguished School award winners
Recommended as a K-12 project by the California State Superintendent of Schools for teachers of English learners
Highlighted as a “Best Practices” program for Title III professional development by CDE
The OCDE Project GLAD® model was also awarded as a model of “Academic Excellence” by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Language Affairs (OBEMLA) in 1998
In November 2017, the OCDE Project GLAD® model was the recipient of the CSBA Golden Bell Award.
The National Training Center (NTC)
The Orange County Department of Education (OCDE) is the official National Training Center (NTC) for the Project GLAD® (Guided Language Acquisition Design) model. As a government non-profit organization, the NTC creates positive social impact through high-quality, rigorous, research-based professional learning. It is the holder of the OCDE Project GLAD® trademarks and copyright.
The goal of the NTC is to support Local Educational Agencies (LEAs) in building sustainable implementation structures to meet the needs of English learners/emergent bilinguals through the development of trainers.
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