MATSOL Courses

Dynamic and engaging online learning with the best EL educators in Massachusetts!

MATSOL instructors are all highly qualified and experienced instructors who have been educators of multilingual learners in Massachusetts public schools. 

MATSOL online courses provide an engaging and interactive learning experience with activities that promote meaningful interaction between participants and the instructor, including breakout rooms for small group work, polls, chats, discussion boards, and other opportunities for sharing and collaboration. 

MATSOL is an ESE approved provider offering 15 PDP and SEI Endorsement courses for educators, administrators, and support staff working with English learners. MATSOL offers graduate credit for selected courses through Fitchburg State University. 

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Course Descriptions

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15 PDP Courses 

ESL
Teachers
EL/ML 
Leaders
School & District
Leaders
Core Content
Teachers
Specialists
Other
School Staff

SEI Endorsement Courses

SEI Teacher
Endorsement
SEI Administrator
Endorsement
 

PD for School Districts

Please contact Chrissy Campos Howard, Director of Professional Learning, at [email protected], if you are interested in bringing a MATSOL course to your school district to support educators and administrators working with multilingual Learners.

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Enhancing Grade-Level English Language Arts and Social Studies Instruction for All Through a Multilingual Lens

Train-the-Trainer Workshop (PILOT) 

Summer 2025 ToT: August 13-14, 2025 in Fitchburg, MA. Register by July 14

The DESE Office of Language Acquisition has engaged MATSOL to develop a two day in-person train-the-trainer workshop for content teachers and ESL teachers to plan collaboratively to implement the WIDA 2020 Standards Framework  into ELA and Social Studies lessons based on the MA content frameworks. This will expand a similar project by the DESE STEM team focusing on math and science.  

Participants will explore both the WIDA Framework and the relevant MA content frameworks and have time to collaboratively develop lesson plans incorporating both. Attention will be focused on critical areas such as language objectives. 
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