Teaching with CRT/CI - self-study Resources
Seeking to empower and deepen understanding of language and culture through a fun, diverse, and collaborative environment.

Join us on the cutting edge of language education.

 
 
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Teaching with Culturally Responsive Comprehensible Input

join the 2025-2026 cohort - registration open through October 3

Powerful, effective professional development for language teachers for just $499!

Work alongside us through the school year with live Q&As, step-by-step guidance, and a supportive community.

Be part of a credit-bearing course for language teachers that gives you:

  • Crystallized learning modules and curated resources

  • Concrete classroom actions to implement right away

  • Tools to identify and mitigate bias & stereotype pitfalls

  • Strategies to create belonging and cultural responsiveness

  • Ongoing support to deepen your practice

It’s more than training—it’s a transformation in how you connect, teach, and inspire.

Your students (and your future self) will thank you.

Cohort Meeting Dates (online via Zoom) -

Sundays from 3-4 pm ET / 12-1 pm PT / 9-10 pm CET

  • OCTOBER 19

  • DECEMBER 14

  • FEBRUARY 8

  • APRIL 12

  • JUNE 7

The sessions will be recorded and emailed to you within 24 hours.

Join us for a credit-bearing online course for language teachers that specifically supports the implementation of culturally responsive Communicatively Embedded Comprehensible Input. We provide crystallized learning modules, curated resources, and concrete actions you can take in your classroom. You deepen your understanding of Communicatively Embedded Comprehensible Input (CI) and Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT) as we guide you through how to provide CI, witness growth, and trust the process. On your path to success you will learn to identify and mitigate bias and stereotype pitfalls, learn how to create the conditions for belonging, and be given the tools to engage in a more culturally responsive approach to your teaching. Then we stay with you to help you deepen your culturally responsive CI practice.

Up to 4 graduate-level credits available from University of the Pacific!

Elevate is all about helping teachers, and the understanding that once you’ve learned something it helps to have support and community to put that knowledge into practice. No matter where you are on your path to becoming a culturally responsive Comprehensible Input teacher, every time you go through the material, you learn it through a different lens and see things you didn’t see before. Becoming a confident and successful Communicatively Embedded CI teacher takes a while. Our goal is to support you in that success by lowering your stress, giving you your time back, and providing curated information, easily implemented actions, and classroom resources.

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“These teaching with CI workshop sessions have confirmed the different pedagogies that I use in my ASL classroom. This workshop has deepened my understanding of CI and the brain research associated with it.” - Phyllis Ballenger, Washington, DC

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“In ten years of teaching and various professional development workshops, this [Teaching with Culturally Responsive Comprehensible Input] has been the most illuminating and engaging of all for me. I look forward to greeting my students this fall with renewed enthusiasm and optimism for acquiring French! Merci Anna and Rachelle!” - Sarah Moran, Reston, VA