Avant MORE 学习

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.

数据分析

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 有效的双语沉浸式教育 (MEDLI)

双语沉浸式教育专家

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.

那么，为什么语言能力常常被忽视呢？有了MEDLI ，就不会了。

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.

是什么造就了高质量和持久的 DLI 计划？问责制。如何实现问责制？能力评估。

Gregg Roberts，犹他州双语研究创始人兼主任，已退休

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定制研讨会

全天现场研讨会

价格：3,400 美元包括为期 1 天 8 小时的讲习班

虚拟全天研讨会

价格：1725 美元最多 8 小时

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.

认识我们的团队

世界语言教育工作者和培训师

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}

Brandee Mau 博士加入Avant 之前，曾在犹他州担任过 8 年的德语和俄语双语沉浸式教学主任，并在怀俄明州担任过 16 年的高中德语教师和地区课程促进者。在此期间，她开发了课程并指导各年级的语言教师，为多个州的标准修订做出了贡献，曾在州和国家语言协会的董事会和委员会任职，并致力于统一能力和课程要求。此外，作为大学委员会的成员，她还创建并开发了新的 AP 德语语言与文化考试。她还曾入围怀俄明州教育部年度教师决赛和 ACTFL 全国年度教师决赛。 

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.

我们的使命是通过以能力为导向的实践，建立共同的学习社区。 

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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}

Liza Trejo 博士曾担任 ESOL 认证兼职教授和中学 ESOL 教师。在重返课堂之前，她还担任过 DLI 专家和世界语言与沉浸式教学协调员。她拥有西班牙语学士学位、外语教学硕士学位和语言与识字博士学位。她的专长是教师教学、语言和读写能力以及课程开发。她曾带领全国各地的学区利用数据改进教学，在语言课程中融入读写策略，并创建课程。她拥有 K-12 西班牙语、ESOL、小学教育和扫盲实践方面的证书。

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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
^{专业学习主任}

Dawn 于 2019 年加入Avant ，此前她在南卡罗来纳州列克星敦第一学区担任了 15 年的世界语言和沉浸式教学协调员，在那里她创建了一个完全基于绩效和能力驱动的项目。2017 年，她被评为全国学区督导员协会的年度督导员。在Avant ，Dawn 与该领域的专业人士合作，为语言学习计划、教学实践和评估提供支持。 MORE 专业学习总监。她的目标是为教育工作者提供高质量的专业学习机会，以提高语言学习者的能力。工作之余，Dawn 喜欢与家人在一起听音乐、说法语、跑步、远足、探索新的冒险活动以及了解其他人、他们的经历和文化。

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Kathy Durán
^{Avant MORE 学习专家
MEDLI 团队成员}

凯西是一位经验丰富的高级学校行政管理人员，她的职业生涯致力于加强教育计划，重点关注公平性和无障碍环境。她在系统开发、缩小公平差距以及实施优质双语沉浸式（DLI）课程方面的经验，彰显了她对创建全纳学习环境的承诺。凯西的视野延伸到将技术和创新融入教育。她在开发无障碍 STEM 教育计划方面发挥了重要作用，为学生适应瞬息万变的世界做好了准备。