The central mission of the BWLP is to provide professional learning programs that meet the needs of language educators in its service region (Alameda, Contra Costa, Napa, and Solano counties). The site offers a tiered program to strengthen participants’ academic content knowledge and content-specific pedagogical skills, including using technology, to promote student learning and achievement. Additionally, the site offers a program to build leadership skills that will allow teachers to become leaders at their schools as well as program leaders with BWLP. The programs provide multiple paths of entry designed to accommodate the varied backgrounds and experiences of teachers of World Languages, English Language Learners, and Heritage Language Learners. The site offers both one-day and year-round programs.
This California Subject Matter Project (CSMP) for supporting the teaching of languages in K-12 schools in the East Bay was established in November 1993 and is currently hosted by the Berkeley Language Center (BLC) at the University of California, Berkeley. BLC Executive Director Kimberly Vinall serves as the Principal Investigator for the Project.
The Berkeley World Language Project also offers consulting, coaching, and professional learning programs for individual schools and for districts.
FY2025-26 BWLP Programming
Professional Development for Instructors
FIVE-SESSION WORKSHOP:
5 Days at BWLP
PLEASE REGISTER EARLY FOR 5 DAYS WORKSHOP!
Choose a Strand for this Fall:
- Building Lessons for Real World Competence
OR
- Creating Authentic Themed Units for Today's Learners
Dates: Sept 27, Oct 25, Dec 6, Jan 31, Mar 7, 2026
Time: 8:30am - 3:30pm
Cost: Early bird speacial! $350, $400 after Sept 6
(Standford Continuing Studies units available!)
We welcome all pre-service, WL, HL, MLL teachers and interns.
ONE-DAY WORKSHOP:
Purposeful Strategies for Culture-Rich Language Learning
This single-day workshop will teach you how to:
- Use innovative strategies and activities to engage students and foster collaboration.
- Foster an inclusive, culturally rich curriculum
- Apply scaffolding techniques and authentic resources to enhance literacy and learning.
MARCH 7, 2026
Time: 8:30am - 3:30pm
Cost: $100 session
PLEASE REGISTER EARLY FOR ONE DAY WORKSHOP!
This session will touch on World Language, Heritage, Dual Language, & Multilingual Learners. (Mainly Spanish examples, but can be applicable to other languages)
Professional Development for Districts
Professional Development for World Language and Multilingual Learner Teachers
The Berkeley World Language Project (BWLP) provides districts with interactive, high-impact professional development tailored to the needs of your educators and aligned with the 2019 California World Languages Standards and Framework.
What We Offer:
- Best practices to foster SEL development and sense of belonging in the classroom Strategies to stay in the target language with ease
- Ready-to-use activities teachers can implement the very next day
- Tools to advance students' reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills
- Connection to Ethnic Studies and representation in world languages
We can also customize sessions based on your districts' needs and goals.
Our experienced teacher leaders are available to deliver in-person PD sessions. We encourage you to include language teachers and neighboring sites to collaborate and exchange ideas.
What a glimpse of the impact of our sessions? Click here to read comments from a recent district workshop.
Please reach out to discuss your preferred date and session goals - we'll take care of the rest. We look forward to collaborating with you!
Thank you,
Nancy Salsig, Co-Director
n-salsig@berkeley.edu
(925) 864-6390
Contact Information
Christina Estrada
BWLP Co-Site Director
c-estrada@berkeley.edu
Nancy Salsig
BWLP Co-Site Director
n-salsig@berkeley.edu
Orlando Garcia
BWLP Office Manager
510-642-9183
o_garcia@Berkeley.edu
BWLP Registration
Important Links for Language Instruction
- California World Language Framework
- California World Language Framework Resources
- Reviewing WL Instructional Materials
- ERIC Research Database
- Getting Smart
- Learning for Justice
- Edutopia
- WL 21st Century Skills Map
- Center for Applied Linguistics
- National Foreign Language Resource Center
- Language Learning & Technology Journal
- Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL)
- California Association for Bilingual Education
- ACTFL
- Educating for Global Competence
- UN Sustainable Development Goals
- Socio-Emotional Learning
- California State Seal of Biliteracy
- California World Languages Standards
- California Language Teachers' Association
- American Association of Teachers of French
- American Association of Teachers of Japanese
- American Association of Teachers of Spanish & Portuguese
- CWLP California World Language Project
- California Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages
- SWCOLT Southwest Conference on Language Teaching
- California English Language Development Standards
- Join the California World Languages listserv
- California WL Summer Seminar
- The TELL Project
- Journal of Literature in L2 Teaching
- National Board for the Professional Teaching Standards
- STARTALK