Avant MORE Aprender

Empowering Educators to Elevate Multilingual Learners

Improved language outcomes begin when educators understand proficiency-based instruction and know how to leverage data to drive growth. Teacher recruitment and retention thrive when schools invest in up-to-date strategies and meaningful professional learning. Programs succeed when learners see—and feel—their language progress.

At Avant MORE Learning, we understand that what comes after the assessment is just as important as the test itself. 

We partner with World Language, Dual Language Immersion, Bilingual Education, Heritage Language, and Higher Education programs at every stage—from initial design to ongoing growth and impact monitoring. Our expert team helps you build proficiency-focused programs that engage educators, empower students, and deliver lasting results.

Educators Rooted in Evidence-Based Strategies

Avant MORE Learning is the leading language proficiency professional learning and training provider. All of our courses and coaching are designed and delivered by accomplished language educators who have used these practices with success. Meet our team.

What We Offer

Customized Sessions and Coaching

Customized support from national experts in multilingual education. Our team collaborates with you to deliver high-impact, hands-on professional learning—virtually or in person.

On-Demand Courses

Flexible, self-paced learning designed for busy educators. Our courses focus on actionable strategies grounded in real-world classroom experience and the latest research in language acquisition and assessment.

Wrap-Around Program Support

From curriculum mapping to strategy implementation, we provide targeted guidance that centers educators and aligns with your goals. We can help you throughout the learn, assess, certify cycle and maximize your proficiency outcomes.

Análisis de datos

Dashboards, analysis, storytelling– why you need our help with it, and what we can offer here.

Keynote & Conference Sessions

The Avant MORE Learning team is available for keynote addresses and conference sessions worldwide. Our expert presenters bring deep knowledge of data-driven instruction, delivering inspiring, research-based talks that move the field forward and empower educators.

We offer language proficiency professional learning and training packages designed to flex to your needs, schedules, and desired team members.

An Avant MORE Learning team member will consult with you before you purchase. This helps ensure you get the professional learning that is right for your team. 

Which solution is right for you? Our professionals will partner with you to provide the best possible solution. Contact us today.

MORE Inmersión efectiva en dos idiomas (MEDLI)

Especialistas en inmersión en dos lenguas

Language is the heart of dual language immersion. That is what makes these programs so special: a student’s language proficiency is the foundation for all other core subjects.

Learners thrive in an environment where they are challenged linguistically in everyday contexts and develop holistic knowledge of real-world language use. Parents enroll their students for the purpose of achieving proficiency in two or more languages.

Entonces, ¿por qué se suele pasar por alto el dominio de idiomas? Con MEDLI, no es así.

MORE Effective Dual Language Immersion (MEDLI) is comprised of a specialist team within Avant MORE Learning. It is a global initiative with a mission to fulfill the promise of DLI– to create a world where every child is multilingual.

¿Qué hace que un programa DLI sea duradero y de alta calidad? Rendición de cuentas. ¿Cómo se consigue la responsabilidad? Evaluación basada en la competencia.

Gregg Roberts, Fundador y Director de Estudios en Dos Idiomas del Estado de Utah, Jubilado

Testimonios

Talleres personalizados

Taller in situ de un día completo

Precio: 3.400 $ Incluye un taller de 8 horas de 1 día

Taller virtual de un día completo

Precio: 1725 $ Hasta 8 horas

Need help making your data actionable? We’ve got you. Whether you’re in DLI, bilingual, world language, or higher ed, our team builds learning that fits your needs.

Let’s start with a free consult and make sure it’s the perfect match.

Unlock the Power of Data-Informed Teaching

Avant MORE Learning is part of Avant Learn, our suite of tools and experiences designed to accelerate language growth. As part of Avant’s comprehensive Language Proficiency Platform™, MORE Learning delivers customized professional development that transforms assessment data into actionable insights.

Teachers often face a familiar challenge: understanding student proficiency data but not knowing how to use it to drive instruction. Even more, many educator teams lack a shared language around proficiency. Without that foundation, setting goals, tracking progress, and staying accountable becomes difficult.

That’s where MORE Learning steps in.

We build professional learning experiences around your goals—rooted in data, grounded in real classrooms, and customized to your team’s context. Whether you’re just beginning to integrate proficiency targets or ready to deepen your approach across a district, we tailor every session to your needs.

Examples of What We Offer—But Never the Limit

Every program is unique. That’s why these session types are just the beginning:

• Translating Data into Instruction: Practical strategies for using assessment insights to plan next week’s lessons.
• Building Shared Proficiency Language: Help your team communicate clearly about performance levels and goals.
• Curriculum and Assessment Development: Design tasks that raise the bar for proficiency—like Integrated Performance Assessments.
• Supporting Dual Language and Multilingual Learners: From immersion strategies to literacy development.
• Instructional Coaching and Mentorship: Coaching cycles for educators and leaders focused on growth.
• New Teacher and International Staff Support: Acclimation training and pathways to certification.
• Leadership Development: Equip chairs, coaches, and administrators to lead proficiency-driven programs.
• Long-Term Professional Learning Models: Custom packages for year-long, hybrid, or virtual implementations.

Every learning opportunity is tailored. Every outcome is connected to student success.

With Avant MORE Learning, your goals guide our work. Let’s turn data into growth—together.

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Educadores y formadores en lenguas del mundo

Avant MORE Learning was established as a division of Avant in 2019. We work with a variety of programs centered around proficiency and achieving higher learning outcomes.

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Brandee Mau, Ed.D.
^{VP of Professional Learning}

La Dra. Brandee Mau se incorporó a Avant tras ocho años como directora de inmersión lingüística dual en alemán y ruso en Utah y 16 años como profesora de alemán en un instituto de Wyoming y facilitadora del plan de estudios del distrito. Durante este tiempo, desarrolló planes de estudio y formó a profesores de idiomas de todos los cursos, contribuyó a múltiples revisiones de los estándares estatales, formó parte de juntas y comités de asociaciones lingüísticas estatales y nacionales, y trabajó para alinear las expectativas de competencia y de los cursos. Además, como parte del comité del College Board, creó y desarrolló el nuevo examen AP de lengua y cultura alemanas. También fue finalista del premio al Profesor del Año del Departamento de Educación de Wyoming y finalista del premio al Profesor Nacional del Año de ACTFL. 

At Avant, she works with language learning leaders to support and grow language programs of all types. Her research interests focus on effective language learning, assessments, and fostering potential in our profession and our language students. After hours, Brandee loves spending time with family and friends, reading, planning and enjoying new adventures, and working in her flower beds.

Nuestra misión es construir comunidades de aprendizaje compartido a través de la práctica orientada a la competencia. 

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Amanda Minnillo, Ed.D.
^{Senior Professional Learning Specialist}

Dr. Amanda Minnillo is a former high school French teacher, Amanda most recently served as the World Language and Dual Language Immersion Teacher Support Specialist for Lexington County School District One in South Carolina. In this performance-based district, Amanda supported teachers through curriculum writing, individual coaching cycles, and whole-group professional learning. She has served as the Awards Director for the Southern Conference on Language Teaching, an advocate for the Leadership Initiative for Language Learning,  and is on the executive board for the South Carolina Foreign Language Teachers’ Association for which she was president and editor of the Crescent blog. Considering herself a language fun-doer, Amanda presents at local, state, regional, and national conferences with a heart for topics involving inclusion, cultivating and powering up proficiency in the modes of communication and engagement through fun communicative activities presented in a learn-by-doing fashion.  She believes that empowered teachers empower students and that every child deserves a school where they feel welcome and appreciated. She believes that language learning and instruction provide the foundations for such schools. At Avant, Amanda works with professionals in the field to support language learning programs and instructional practices through Avant More Learning. In her free time, Amanda enjoys gardening, hiking, traveling to experience new cultures, and always aspires to learn something new.

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Liza Trejo, Ph.D.
^{Professional Learning Specialist}

La Dra. Liza Trejo ha sido profesora adjunta para la certificación ESOL y profesora de ESOL en la escuela media. También ha sido Especialista DLI y Coordinadora de Idiomas del Mundo e Inmersión antes de volver a las aulas. Su licenciatura es en español, tiene un MAT en la enseñanza de lenguas extranjeras y un doctorado en Lenguaje y Alfabetización. Está especializada en profesorado, lengua y alfabetización y desarrollo curricular. Ha dirigido distritos de todo el país en el uso de datos para mejorar la instrucción, incorporar estrategias de alfabetización en sus cursos de idiomas y crear planes de estudio. Está certificada en Español K-12, ESOL, Educación Primaria y Prácticas de Alfabetización.

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Marnina Falk
^{Professional Learning Specialist}

Marnina taught Spanish for nine years in Detroit Public Schools at Foreign Language Immersion and Culture Studies, collaborating on the development of Spanish I and II curricula and leading district-wide training. Previously, she taught English in Costa Rica, developing programs for all ages and cultivating a love for Latin dance and travel. As a Fulbright-Hays and Fund for Teachers fellow, she explored Afro-Latin culture in Brazil and Cuba, creating intercultural Spanish resources. Marnina later worked as an Instructional Strategist at Wayside Publishing, supporting teachers nationwide. She has presented at conferences such as MittenCI, MIWLA, and CSCTFL, and earned an ATD Instructional Design Certificate. Passionate about instructional design, she enjoys developing inspirational learning experiences and sharing strategies to make language teaching manageable, impactful, and joyful.

Dawn Samples
^{Directora de Aprendizaje Profesional}

Dawn se unió a Avant en 2019 después de 15 años como Coordinadora de Idiomas del Mundo e Inmersión para el Distrito Escolar Uno de Lexington en Lexington, Carolina del Sur, donde creó un programa completamente basado en el rendimiento e impulsado por la competencia. En 2017, fue reconocida como Supervisora del Año por la Asociación Nacional de Supervisores de Distrito. En Avant, Dawn trabaja con profesionales en el campo apoyando programas de aprendizaje de idiomas, prácticas de instrucción y evaluaciones como Directora de MORE Professional Learning. Su objetivo es ofrecer a los educadores oportunidades de aprendizaje profesional de alta calidad que aumenten la competencia de los estudiantes de idiomas. Fuera del trabajo, Dawn disfruta pasando tiempo con su familia escuchando música, hablando francés, corriendo, haciendo senderismo, explorando nuevas aventuras y aprendiendo sobre otras personas, sus experiencias y culturas.

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Kathy Durán
^{Avant MORE Especialista en aprendizaje
MEDLI Miembro del equipo}

Kathy es una experimentada administradora escolar de alto nivel y ha dedicado su carrera a mejorar los programas educativos centrándose en la equidad y la accesibilidad. Su experiencia en el desarrollo de sistemas, el cierre de brechas de equidad y la implementación de programas de calidad de Inmersión en Dos Idiomas (DLI) subraya su compromiso con la creación de entornos de aprendizaje inclusivos. La visión de Kathy se extiende a la integración de la tecnología y la innovación en la educación. Ha desempeñado un papel decisivo en el desarrollo de programas accesibles de educación STEM, preparando a los estudiantes para un mundo que cambia rápidamente.