Professional Development Opportunities
We're Kicking Off the ML/Title III 2025–26 Professional Development Series
From Planning to Practice: Collaborative Cycles for Effective Content Instruction for ML Students
Connected Teaching: Content, Collaboration, and Continuous Growth
Ready to take your teaching to the next level? Join the ML/Title III team and colleagues from across the state for this dynamic professional learning experience on October 8th from 3:30 - 5:00 pm.
This session is all about active, work-embedded collaboration—from shared planning and peer feedback to co-teaching strategies that make an impact. Together, we’ll strengthen instructional practices, support multilingual learners, and build a professional community that thrives on continuous growth and innovation.
Don’t miss this chance to connect, learn, and grow alongside passionate educators. Register today!
Expanding Reading Instruction With Multilingual Learners
Calling all educators! Whether you teach reading directly or simply want to strengthen literacy support in your classroom, this virtual workshop series is for anyone eager to unlock the power of reading for multilingual learners.
Join us for an energizing two-part webinar series, Expanding Reading Instruction With Multilingual Learners, designed to expand and reimagine reading instruction for multilingual learners. Through interactive sessions and ready-to-use online resources, you’ll explore practical strategies that build on what you’re already doing—and take it further. Together, we’ll discover how to make reading instruction more inclusive, engaging, and impactful so that multilingual learners thrive.
You’ll leave with fresh ideas, renewed energy, and concrete tools you can put into action immediately.
By the end of this workshop series, participants will be able to:
✨ Name the qualities that make reading instruction expansive and empowering for multilingual learners
✨ Understand how reading development uniquely unfolds for multilingual learners
✨ Identify at least one powerful way to shift instruction to make it more inclusive and engaging
November 6 & 13, 2025 3:30–5:00 PM
Virtual – join from anywhere! Complete this interest form to reserve your spot in this professional learning opportunity! The ML/Title III team will contact you via email confirming your reservation or informing you that you are on a waitlist. Please check your calendar to be sure you can attend both sessions before completing the form.
Don’t miss the chance to spark new ideas, grow your expertise, and connect with fellow educators passionate about supporting multilingual learners.
NCDPI and WIDA Announce New Series of Free Professional Learning Opportunities
Try Reading Comprehension Across Content Areas With MLs
Looking for fresh strategies to support your multilingual learners? Don’t miss this free eLearning opportunity designed just for North Carolina educators!
Reading Comprehension Across Content Areas With MLs equips teachers with practical tools to help students make meaning from complex texts across all subject areas. Participants will explore how to:
- Leverage students’ home and everyday literacy practices as powerful entry points into disciplinary learning.
- Explicitly teach organization and language patterns that unlock understanding of content-rich texts.
- Actively engage multilingual learners in building connections and deepening comprehension.
This flexible eLearning experience provides strategies you can apply immediately in your classroom to boost student achievement while making literacy instruction more inclusive, relevant, and engaging.
All NC teachers of multilingual learners are invited to participate—at no cost!
Explore even more e-learning opportunities! Sessions are available in social studies, science, and beyond. Check out the full menu of offerings!
Have a WIDA Account? You can access the workshops by logging into your existing WIDA account.
Do you need access? Contact your school or district's testing coordinators if you need an account to access the WIDA e-learning site. Ask them for access to self-paced professional learning!
Check with your PSU to confirm these e-learning opportunities qualify for CEU credit in your district or charter.
Questions? Email ESLTitleIII@dpi.nc.gov
 Implementing Standards Based Instruction
Regional Professional Development
This professional development offering is grounded in the implementation of standards-based instruction, focusing on equipping educators with strategies, tools, and foundational knowledge for designing and delivering learning experiences that align with the North Carolina Standard Course of Study. This approach develops teacher expertise in three key areas: the foundations of standards-based instruction, differentiation within a standards-based framework, and alignment and consistency.
STEAMing Across Borders: Empowering Youth from the Republic of Moldova in Science
Looking for a way to increase global education for your students? Join this partnership to engage students with others from around the world.
Project Goals/Objectives: The project aims to promote youth leadership in STEM/STEAM by connecting high school students aged 14–16 from Moldova and schools around the world in collaborative, hands-on, interdisciplinary projects that focus on real-world problem-solving.
See this flyer for more information and details about the project.
Share Your Voice!
 Draft 3 of the Proposed 2025 ELA SCOS Standard-by-Standard Survey Closes October 1, 2025
State Board of Education policy specifies that the NC Department of Public Instruction will formally collect feedback on the draft revised standards from educators, administrators, parents, students, institutions of higher education, business/industry representatives, and other education agencies.
The purpose of the Draft 3 Standard-by-Standard Survey (K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12) is to obtain input from educators and stakeholders familiar with the English Language Arts (ELA) Standard Course of Study in order to inform further revision decisions. As such, the ELA team requests your thoughtful input and comments on the draft revised academic standards for ELA to inform the revision process.
To support completion of the standard-by-standard survey, view this previous listserv regarding the ELA Standards Timeline. This listserv explains key reasons for the delay in the revision timeline for the Proposed 2025 ELA Standard Course of Study. Also, this Survey Companion Document provides context for revisions made to Drafts 1-3 of the Proposed 2025 ELA SCOS. PDF versions of the Draft 3 surveys are available to view, if needed. NCDPI thanks you for your time and input. Your feedback is extremely valuable to the ELA standards revision process.
K-2 SURVEY
3-5 SURVEY
6-8 SURVEY
9-12 SURVEY
Notes from Federal Programs
Blanket Extension on the Consolidated Application in CCIP
An initial submission extension is being granted to all PSUs due to the withholding and late release of federal funds, as well as some adjustments that needed to be made in CCIP. These issues may prevent you from meeting the initial submission deadline of August 31, 2025. The initial submission deadline has been extended to September 30, 2025.
If you are still able to submit your application and budgets by the original deadline of August 31, 2025, please do so. Our goal is to ensure the prompt release of funds to you, so you can continue to serve your students in the new year. If you have any questions, please contact your Program Administrator.
New Assurance Checkbox on the Consolidated Application on the Sections Page in CCIP
There is no longer a place to upload the Assurance document on the Consolidated Related Documents Page; moving forward, the PSU will only have to check the box on the Sections Page. This will cover all the consolidated grants that previously required a physically signed upload. This means that for PRC 104, the Superintendent will no longer need to sign the Assurance Form.
Connect with the NCDPI Multilingual Learner/Title III Team!
ESLTitleIII@dpi.nc.gov
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