Blended vocabulary, language structure and reading programme for EAL and multilingual learners

As the Group Head of Multilingualism at ISP, I have had the great pleasure of working collaboratively with Across Cultures for the last seven months and have been incredibly impressed with the team’s expertise, agility and dedication to our organisation’s training of school-based Multilingualism Leads. They have provided enormous support in determining and structuring Professional Learning for ISP, often going above and beyond the scope of their work to offer advice and assistance. The team has consistently engaged with all our stakeholders in a professional, timely, warm and pragmatic way, quickly establishing rapport, getting to grips with different contexts and actively investing time in listening to our educators. Caroline, Iva and Mary are outstanding facilitators and balance academic knowledge of the field with practical examples and case studies effortlessly, to ensure targeted and relevant content.

In our internally conducted, robust impact surveys, the average score from the 130+ educators in almost 60 countries who have engaged with the EAL & Multilingual Framework Process has been 8.5 out of 10, which is a huge achievement and testimony to the wonderful work that Across Cultures continues to do. In addition, many of our schools have benefited significantly from the plethora of resources, webinars and follow-up action planning meetings that have been offered and organised by the team. At ISP, one of our key tenets is that we learn and ‘get better together’ and Across Cultures has certainly helped us to achieve this goal in our multilingualism provision. We would wholeheartedly recommend Across Cultures’ training services to other international school groups and wish them ongoing success. Many, many, many thanks, Across Cultures: you are an inspiring group of specialists and educators!