Four Teachers representing each Middle School and Language will attend a three-day long Proficiency Academy to work on curriculum at Westfield State University. Guided by the MA World Languages Framework, participants will design a unit of their choice that leads language learners to meeting or exceeding proficiency targets.
Participants will analyze examples of proficiency-based units after which they will use the backward design principles to design their own unit of instruction. Attention will be paid to addressing social and emotional wellbeing, social justice, centering student diversity and differentiating for equity within the units.