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, the course provides tools and strategies you can apply directly in your own educational setting.
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.
What Educators Are Saying
“Elevating Strengths: Supporting Multilingual Learners Facing Adversity is a thoughtful and timely course that challenges educators to move beyond deficit-based perceptions and recognize the strengths, resilience, language, culture, and experiences multilingual learners bring to our schools. I especially appreciated how the course connects research to practical application while encouraging educators to examine their own assumptions and practices. The course reinforces that being asset-based must extend beyond our language into our instructional decisions, relationships, and systems. I highly recommend this course to educators and leaders seeking practical, strengths-based approaches that promote belonging, rigorous learning, and meaningful opportunities for multilingual learners to thrive.”
—Altagracia “Grace” Delgado, Multilingual Leader
Texas Association for Bilingual Education (TABE), Bilingual/ESL Representative
English Learners Success Forum (ELSF), Director of Texas Initiatives
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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Group Enrollment
Interested in group enrollment? Contact learning@zacarianconsulting.com to discuss options for your school, district, or educational organization.
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