CLAVES™
Contextualized Learning for Access, Validation,
Equity and Success – CLAVES™
CLAVES™ is a framework that provides educational stakeholders with the professional learning needed to create an environment of differentiated, inclusive, and validating instruction in schools that serve culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students, with specific emphasis on English Learners (ELs).
Within the CLAVES™ framework, professional learning is organized and supported by leaders who embrace professional learning that is:
- focused on improving and building teacher skills for classroom practice,
- mediated through a learning community,
- led by a skilled and knowledgeable leader,
- focused on the everyday work and practices of classroom teachers, and
- data-informed and evidence-based.

The key beliefs that serve as a foundation of CLAVES™ are that English Learners:
- Deserve equitable access to content and language development.
- Have linguistic and cultural assets that are validated and built upon in all aspects of their school community.
The specific objectives for participants are:
- To understand and be able to effectively plan for implementation, consistency, and sustainability of the 8 Pathways of Contextualized Learning within the entire school.
- To analyze your current situation and to identify action strategies, building upon the instructional and leadership capacity on your campus.
The CLAVES™ modules are organized so that participants have the opportunity for new learning, practice, and reflection.
We have organized this framework around 8-days:
Day 1: Leadership Team
Day 2: Leadership Team
Day 3: Building Instructional Capacity
Day 4: Building Instructional Capacity
Day 5: VISITAS™
Day 6: Building Instructional Capacity
Day 7: VISITAS™
Day 8: Building Instructional Capacity
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For more information, contact evelyn@dlenm.org