In Staff Development, There is No Substitute for Experience

Our goal is to provide your district with the highest quality teacher training available. Let us help you find just the right trainer for your next inservice.

Anne Swigard, the principal trainer for Educational Training Specialists, has been training teachers in the field of Language Acquisition since 1998, at the site, district, state and national levels, and is currently faculty for Staff Development Resources, a national educational training organization. 

She has trained thousands of teachers in best practices related to the field of second language acquisition, and has created original Trainings of Trainers that staff developers can use in their districts.  She has worked with students K-Adult, in Bilingual, Immersion, Dual Language, Structured English Immersion, and English as a Second Language environments. 

She is a qualified trainer of SIOP™, SDAIE, 6 Traits, and Thinking Maps™.  Her original trainings are a synthesis of best practices in every aspect of education, including brain research, integrated curriculum, and research related to second language acquisition.  She has lived in four countries, taught in Korea and Japan, and is bilingual in Spanish and English.

The SEI trainers associated with Educational Training Specialists have each trained hundreds of teachers in Best Practices for English Language Learners, and were very well-received by their workshop participants. They are current practitioners in the field, and exceed the requirements set by the Arizona Department of Education to train on this topic.

Subject area (Literacy, Math, Social Studies, Technology, etc.) trainers are considered experts in their fields. All are excellent at training, are professional, and highly respected. Some are bilingual in Spanish/English.


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