Revolutionize ELD:

Save Time, Ditch Stress, and Achieve Powerful Results

Becoming a Functional Language Planning Expert will take you to reach new heights in flexibility, efficiency, and effectiveness in your ELD planning.

The Functional Language Planning Expert Intensive is a dynamic 12-week cohort program designed for educators ready to elevate their expertise and impact on learning.

Expand your support team by engaging with like-minded educators, exchanging ideas, strategies, feedback, and experiences so you can feel empowered, inspired, and equipped to tackle challenges and celebrate successes together.

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Deepen individual expertise and understanding of SFL principles and their application so you can create lessons with confidence, streamline your planning process, and see transformative growth in your students' language development.

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Apply SFL research and principles to streamline your planning to create meaningful, high-impact instructional plans that meet the diverse needs of your students and your school’s program models so you can achieve better outcomes, foster deeper student engagement, and elevate the overall effectiveness of your ELD program.

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Are you feeling lost and unsure of your role with changes in content area curriculum and program expectations?

Are you spending hours planning for different grades and proficiency levels and still trying to find time to plan with content teachers?

Are you unsure if your current instructional program is really meeting student needs?

It's not your fault and you are definitely not alone!

Many teachers struggle to make complex content accessible for English learners, especially beginners. Adapting to new program models requires more than flexibility—it demands confidence and expertise to deliver high-quality English language development, address language demands, and support colleagues across diverse learning environments.

That’s why we created the Functional Language Planning Expert Intensive Program.

Kelly and her team at English Learner Portal have been a Godsend! Over the past couple of years, our district has enrolled many teachers in Pathway courses and Praxis Coaching workshops--all of which have resulted in many gen ed teachers and administrators obtaining ESOL certification. English Learner Portal is bookmarked on my computer as a favorite.

-Wendy Tarr

Supervisor of World Languages & Multilingual Learners
St. Mary’s County Public Schools
Maryland

What's Inside the Functional Language Planning Expert Intensive?

The Functional Language Planning Expert Intensive is not a passive program. It's a coaching program and collaborative experience that includes live Zoom workshops, asynchronous training materials, individual coaching sessions, small group collaboration, and all the resources and expertise you will need to be confident in your planning, teaching, and role as a team player.

Here's The Flow of the Program:

In the first three weeks, you’ll completely transform your confidence:

Find your voice as an advocate! Learn how to confidently explain your school’s responsibilities and how a flexible SFL approach meets both legal requirements and student needs.
Discover a simple, powerful planning model to guide you.
Bring it all together! Analyze real curriculum to see how you can integrate language development into every lesson—no matter the classroom.

After that is an exciting 4-week journey that will completely reshape how you teach English learners:

Explore real models and dive into a streamlined planning process that makes lesson creation quick and easy.
Discover the power of oral language as the foundation for literacy. Learn customizable strategies to boost oral language skills and complete your first personal coaching session with Kelly—getting feedback tailored just for you.
Confidently outline six-lesson literacy-building lesson sequences and hit the ground running.

In this thrilling final stretch, you’ll make huge strides in your teaching:

Discover a fast, effective method for planning co-teaching and colleague support, plus dive into your second personal coaching session with Kelly.
Expand your toolbox with hand-picked resources and strategies tailored to your unique program and students’ needs.
Reflect, celebrate your progress, and map out your next steps in a final coaching session with Kelly.

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EL Portal is an exceptional service for districts needing professional development to guide teachers towards working with multilingual learners. Kelly was flexible and responsive to our needs. EL Portal is connected to the top names in our field in terms of theory and practice in working with MLs. When we began working with them, we knew we would be getting the very best guidance and training.

-Jonathan White

Multilingual Learners Program
Richland School District One

What's Included

$750

per person/4 payment plan available

30 hrs of expert-guided, collaborative, and individual learning & coaching: $550 Value
3 individual coaching sessions per participant. Including goal setting, classroom video analysis, and feedback: $375 Value
Quarterly cohort participant virtual collaboration sessions for an additional year: $1000 Value
Functional language planning template models for high-utility academic language: $175 Value

Bonus Content

At No Additional Cost

2 Whole to Part Language & Literacy Planning Protocol Lesson Sequences - 12 Model Lesson Plans: $75 Value
Lifetime Access to English Learner Portal's "Teacher Archive" including nearly 100 hours of past content and webinars: $1500 Value
Active Learning Strategies - 10 hours of asynchronous professional learning content: $95 Value
Project-Based Learning - 10 hours of asynchronous professional learning content: $95 Value

My Personal Guarantee to You...

My guarantee to you is that these key elements, when implemented, will make a difference in your life. I know when you take action, you’ll get results.

These are the same principles I have followed daily for the last 15 years that have enabled me to make a difference with my own students and numerous colleagues across the country.

CLICK THE BUTTON BELOW TO ENROLL NOW. REVOLUTIONIZE YOUR ELD PROGRAM.

SAVE TIME. SAVE STRESS. ACHIEVE RESULTS.

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Meet the Creator

Hey there! I’m Kelly Reider, the founder of English Learner Portal. With 30 years in public education (I know, it sounds like a long time, but it flew by and never a dull moment!), I’ve worn quite a few hats—consultant, district ESL program coordinator, school admin, instructional specialist, ESL, and classroom teacher. So, I've pretty much seen what you are experiencing.

I’ve also had the chance to lead workshops around the globe and was once a WIDA Certified Facilitator (yep, I love this stuff, a total language nerd). I hold a TESOL ELT Leadership Management Certificate and I’m also a National Board Certified Early Childhood Generalist. My heart and soul? Helping others scaffold instruction, develop language and literacy skills, and design curriculum that actually works - watching sstudents and teachers shine. I geek out over system-level program planning and evaluation, too (but don’t worry, I make it reasonable and fun!).

I have a Master’s in Instructional Systems Development, and I’m certified in Elementary Ed, Spanish, ESOL, and School Admin. Basically, if it’s about learning and language, I’m your person!