2026-27 Collaborative ELL/MLL Leadership Empowerment Cohort Inquiry Form

The Collaborative’s ELL/MLL Leadership Empowerment Cohort provides the professional development and added supports necessary to ensure school leadership is prepared to not only address the unique needs of their language learners, but also affect school-wide change.

Participation is exclusive to school, instructional, and ELL/MLL leads who have the ability to turnkey best practices and implement new programming for the 2026-2027 supports. This program is Title III-eligible.

Why Partner With Us?

In 2011, the New York City Charter School Center merged a consortium of borough-based special education cooperatives into a citywide membership program. The Collaborative for Inclusive Education now serves 190 NYC public charter schools, providing access to professional development, expert technical assistance, and advocacy in support of schools’ efforts to meet the needs of students with disabilities and multilingual learners.

With over 90 years of combined experience as former school and special populations leads, the Collaborative team has spent over a decade developing, adapting, and implementing special populations systems and programs within charter schools. Our work with schools and leading experts enables us to understand trends and challenges, gather and share best practices, and provide professional development and resources that not only promote compliance but also ensure inclusion, equity, and access for all.

What do you get?

Is your school located in New Jersey or Connecticut?

The ELL/MLL Leadership Hybrid Empowerment Cohort Package costs $7,950 and includes:


10 Seats to Specialized Professional Development Workshops	Cohort members will be able to select from over 20 Title III-eligible workshops during the school year (average of 2 per month) on topics ranging from unit planning with a language lens to intentional language development across the STEM and the humanities.
2 Companion Passes to Professional Development Workshops	While this package is designed to support the development of a school's designated ELL/MLL lead, we know that collaboration with other stakeholders is key. This is why each semester, there is a "companion pass" that participants can use to bring a colleague to an event to support thought partnership and dissemination at the school site.
Exclusive Access to a Suite of Online Courses	Cohort members will have access to over two dozen asynchronous ELL/MLL PD opportunities to supplement learnings on best practices for second language instruction and compliance with federal language learner laws and regulations.
Beginning-of-Year School Visit	Our cohort facilitator will visit your school in the Fall semester to see ELL/MLL students and staff in action and provide thought partnership on ELL/MLL-specific goals and help develop an action plan that leverages our partnership to track and achieve goals.
Fall & Spring Virtual Check-Ins	On a semesterly basis, our team of experts will meet 1:1 with participants to help address problems of practice, areas for growth, managing complex change, and other topics related to ELL/MLL education to ensure cohort members can implement and scale best practices.
Bi-Monthly Leadership Development Sessions	Our team of experts will facilitate group discussion on key topics such as understanding and planning for federally compliant identification and programming, accelerating language acquisition, the role of technology in ELL/MLL instruction, culturally and linguistically responsive teaching, and more!

Space is limited!

This cohort will be active between September 2026 - June 2027. Only 10 schools outside of NYC will be invited to participate in this Title III-eligible initiative.

So if you're ready to partner with us, please proceed & complete this form!

The ELL/MLL Leadership Virtual Empowerment Cohort Package costs $6,950 and includes:


10 Seats to Specialized Professional Development Workshops	Cohort members will be able to select from over 20 Title III-eligible workshops during the school year (average of 2 per month) on topics ranging from unit planning with a language lens to intentional language development across the STEM and the humanities.
2 Companion Passes to Professional Development Workshops	While this package is designed to support the development of a school's designated ELL/MLL lead, we know that collaboration with other stakeholders is key. This is why each semester, there is a "companion pass" that participants can use to bring a colleague to an event to support thought partnership and dissemination at the school site.
Exclusive Access to a Suite of Online Courses	Cohort members will have access to over two dozen asynchronous ELL/MLL PD opportunities to supplement learnings on best practices for second language instruction and compliance with federal language learner laws and regulations.
Fall & Spring Virtual Check-Ins	On a semesterly basis, our team of experts will meet 1:1 with participants to help address problems of practice, areas for growth, managing complex change, and other topics related to ELL/MLL education to ensure cohort members can implement and scale best practices.
Bi-Monthly Leadership Development Sessions	Our team of experts will facilitate group discussion on key topics such as understanding and planning for federally compliant identification and programming, accelerating language acquisition, the role of technology in ELL/MLL instruction, culturally and linguistically responsive teaching, and more!

This cohort will be active between September 2026 - June 2027. So if you're ready to partner with us, please proceed & complete this form!

Your School/Organization:

School/Organization Name:

School/Organization Website:

What ELL/MLL challenge are you hoping to address by participating in this initiative?

Where is the designated participant hoping to grow in their leadership by participating in this initiative?

Your Information:

First Name:

Last Name:

School/Work Email:

Work Number:

Job Title: (Please be as specific as possible: ie Director of Student Supports K-5")

Are you the ELL/MLL lead for your school?

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Are you the school lead/head of school?

YesNo

ELL/MLL Lead

First Name:

Last Name:

School/Work Email:

Work Number:

Job Title: (Please be as specific as possible: ie Director of Student Supports K-5")

School Lead/Head of School Information:

First Name:

Last Name:

School/Work Email:

Work Number:

Job Title: (Please be as specific as possible: ie Director of Student Supports K-5")