AI-powered training and coaching for teachers
supporting children from infancy to age six
who are learning in English alongside their home language.
Championing Teachers.
Empowering Multilingual
Learners.
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Mission
We prepare early childhood teachers to effectively teach children from birth to age six who are learning English alongside their home language, supporting oral language, early literacy, math, science, critical thinking, and long-term academic success.
Vision
Every multilingual learner receives the teaching support needed to develop strong skills in English and their home language, read proficiently by fourth grade, and thrive in school and beyond.
Core Belief
Teacher training works when it is anchored in real teaching. Consistent coaching, based on teachers’ own in-the-moment interactions, gives them specific feedback, clear guidance, concrete next steps, and the agency to transform daily practice for multilingual learners.
Our Promise
Why Our Work Matters
The Foundation for Reading Begins Before Kindergarten
Here's a version that makes the real-time, any-language reality explicit:
All children build reading foundations before kindergarten. Multilingual learners build them while also developing English alongside their home language, so they need targeted instruction across concepts, early literacy, math, science, and critical thinking, paired with ongoing oral language support that builds the foundations for reading, talking, and making meaning
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Teachers need specialized training to make strategic, age-appropriate decisions in the moment — whether or not they speak the child's home language — so that English, the home language, and learning all develop together.
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Mastering Effective Teaching for Multilingual Children
Multilingual Promise offers a comprehensive professional development certificate program, Mastering Effective Teaching for Multilingual Children, for teachers of children from birth to age six in schools, centers, family child care, family-friend-and-neighbor care, and district-based settings.
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The program combines online training, AI-powered simulations, and job-embedded AI coaching to prepare teachers across both instructional language models: English with home language support, and dual-immersion.

Build Knowledge. Practice. Show Mastery.
A connected system that moves teachers from new learning
to confident teaching in their own classrooms.
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ONLINE TRAINING MODULES
Self-paced modules grounded in evidence-based classroom practice. Topics include multilingual brain development, reading science, English acquisition, instructional language models, classroom talk, and socio-emotional supports for learning.
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AI SIMULATION Practice
Teachers role-play real-life interactions through AI simulations, rehearsing teaching with children and communication with families, coaches, and administrators.
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AI-Guided Classroom Audio Coaching
Teachers use STELAR Coach to capture in-the-moment teaching, receive AI-guided feedback tied to evidence-based instructional indicators, and track their growth over time.

