This course series equips practicing and pre-service educators to support linguistically diverse students through culturally responsive, relevant, and sustaining practice. Participants begin with a foundational Introduction, choose one of three pathways focused on a specific student population, and finish with a concluding assessment.

The Introduction explores academic language use, contrasts it with General American English (GAE), and builds understanding of linguistic diversity through practical recommendations, interactive tools, and reflection, preparing participants for the pathways that follow.

Participants then choose a pathway matched to the students they work with:

• Emergent Bilingual Speakers Pathway introduces emergent bilingual students and strategies for their academic language development, including translingual inquiry.
• African American English (AAE) Speakers Pathway covers grammatical traits of AAE and strategies for supporting AAE speakers' academic language development.
• Indigenous Language Speakers Pathway surveys Alaska's linguistic landscape and introduces California's Native American student population.

Each pathway affirms students' cultural and linguistic resources and shares a common structure: population background, culturally responsive practice recommendations, student examples, assessment considerations, and reflection activities linking content to participants' own practice. The series closes with a brief Conclusion course assessing knowledge gained across the series.