The Pathways Program, powered by WCEPS, offers unique products and services for educators of multilingual learners including research-based professional learning, coaching, resources and assessments.
We are a non-profit committed to supporting K-12 educators in their mission to empower multilingual learners and create an educational landscape where all students, regardless of their linguistic background, can thrive and reach their full potential.
We tailor our research-based products and services to meet your unique needs
Challenge
Your education program strives to provide an inclusive learning environment for multilingual learners.
Pathway
We customize a plan utilizing the various programs and services provided through WCEPS to support and improve practices.
Continuous Learning
Your team is now equipped with new skills and strategies to advance classroom learning. Through our ongoing partnership, we’ll continue to advance learning together.
CARE Coaching partners with educators, providing tailored professional development through workshops, program evaluations, and personalized coaching sessions to enhance teaching practices and support multilingual learner success.
The AIW Institute offers professional development and capacity building using the Framework for Authentic Intellectual Work, developed by Drs. Fred Newmann, M. Bruce King, and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
The Comprehensive Assessment of Leadership for Learning (CALL) provides unique tools and customized services to support professional growth, leadership development, and school improvement planning. It focuses on leadership for learning.
The Discussion Project, designed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, provides specialized professional learning courses to help facilitate more engaging, inclusive, and intellectually rigorous discussion classrooms.
In collaboration with Dr. Norman Webb, the developer of Depth of Knowledge (DOK), WebbAlign promotes effective and accurate use of this innovative language system for attainment of desired learning outcomes.
WIDA develops and provides proven tools and support to help multilingual learners, and their educators, succeed. WCEPS is the sole source provider of materials sold on the WIDA Store website and WIDA-licensed workshops.
Reach out to one of our experts to guide you on a pathway to success!
RESOURCES
Visit our Learning Library to find videos, articles, testimonials, and resources to enhance your learning.
Dr. Ryan Rumpf, WCEPS CARE Coach, discusses the PPP Framework in October’s Tips and Dips webinar. In this recap, he discusses the framework and how People, Psychological processes and Place all influence the learning process.
Dr. Ryan Rumpf, WCEPS CARE Coach, discusses the phases of language development in October’s Tips and Dips webinar. He explores the different phases of language development, which include the silent period, immediate post-silent period and the end of level of 1. Understanding these phases helps manage expectations for educators and students throughout the the learning process.
Care coaching, offered through the Wisconsin Center for Education products and Services, is designed to ensure that school and district-based educators are empowered to provide equitable educational opportunities for multilingual…
Teaching and supporting English Learners (ELs) demands a specific knowledge base and a system for accurately identifying students who need additional services, such as Special Education or Gifted and Talented.
Sandra Medrano-Arroyo, from Ellevation Education, partnered with WCEPS on the September 2024 Tips and Dips webinar, ‘Uniting cultures through language’. Sandra discusses how culture and language are so closely related…
Implicit bias, a negative attitude of which one is not consciously aware, against a specific social group, shows up in every profession – including education. For English learners, who have experienced a long history of explicit bias in the education system, this is a very real threat to their educational opportunities and achievement.
Sandra Medrano-Arroyo from Ellevation Education shares best practices on how to leverage and culture assets to create a better experience for multilingual learners.
The WCEPS team highlights a series of best practices to help integrate families into the learning process. These key focus areas include inclusion, cultural awareness and growth-focused and strengths-based communication.
