Elevating Strengths: Supporting Multilingual Learners Facing Adversity

Supporting multilingual learners who have experienced trauma, violence, or chronic stress requires more than awareness—it requires practical strategies that recognize and build on students’ strengths.

Elevating Strengths: Supporting Multilingual Learners Facing Adversity is a comprehensive 10-hour, self-paced online course designed for educators, school leaders, specialists, and other professionals committed to helping multilingual learners thrive. Grounded in a strengths-based framework, the course translates current research into practical, classroom-ready strategies that can be implemented immediately to strengthen learning, engagement, belonging, and resilience.

Throughout the course

Participants will learn how to:

Recognize and build on students’ individual and cultural strengths.
Create learning environments that foster belonging, safety, and high expectations.
Apply evidence-based practices that support multilingual learners affected by adversity.
Translate research into meaningful actions that improve educational outcomes.

Unlike many self-paced online courses, participants receive personalized feedback from Dr. Debbie Zacarian on course assignments. This individualized guidance provides opportunities to deepen understanding, reflect on your own practice, and apply course concepts directly to your educational setting.

Whether you are a classroom teacher, instructional coach, specialist, school leader, or higher education faculty member, this course offers practical tools and actionable strategies you can begin using immediately.

By the end of the course:

Participants will leave with greater knowledge and confidence, and a concrete plan for creating learning environments in which multilingual learners facing adversity are recognized for their strengths and supported in reaching their fullest potential.

Participants Will Receive:

10 hours of self-paced professional learning
Personalized feedback from Dr. Debbie Zacarian
Practical classroom-ready resources and strategies
Certificate of completion
Immediate access upon enrollment

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Debbie Zacarian

Dr. Debbie Zacarian is an internationally recognized leader in strengths-based education, specializing in inclusive systems, leadership, and policy that improve outcomes for multilingual learners and students experiencing adversity. With more than 30 years of experience as a district administrator, university professor, and leader of an educational service agency, she integrates research, policy, and practice to improve outcomes. Her background in clinical psychology and educational policy informs an approach grounded in how students and educators experience systems. As founder of Zacarian & Associates, she partners with schools, universities, and organizations worldwide to design and implement high-impact professional learning, strategic initiatives, and policy frameworks. Through keynotes, workshops, and consulting, she helps educators and leaders apply research to improve teaching, learning, and student outcomes. A best-selling author and widely respected thought leader, Dr. Zacarian equips educators and leaders with practical tools to build inclusive learning environments where all students can thrive, contribute, and succeed.

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