We are a team of expert educators & trainers
Project GLAD was developed by Marcia Brechtel and Linnea Haley
Our data speaks for itself
+70%
Lexile growth from SPED secondary students in a special day class
+81%
English language arts students pass rates on high school standardized test with Be GLAD Strategies
+73%
Math pass rate growth for ESL and bilingual students with Be GLAD strategies.
+20%
Reading pass rate growth on ESL and bilingual students with Be Glad strategies
Our goal to help the nation ‘Be GLAD’
GLAD (Guided Language Acquisition Design) is a professional development model in the area of academic language acquisition and literacy. Brechtel and Haley designed the strategies and model to specifically target and promote language skills, academic achievement, and cross-cultural skills with groundbreaking efficiency. At the conclusion of the Project GLAD® study in the 1990s, the U.S.
Department of Education placed a mission of national dissemination upon us
As the only organization endorsed by both Marcia Brechtel and Linnea Haley, it then became our goal to help the nation ‘Be GLAD’. We have continued to research and field-test our practice over the past two decades with increasing success. Our organization has exclusively continued to earn the highest measures of student performance.
We find we are remarkably successful every place we go
Our research-based, field-tested model has helped our clients earn recognition for their excellence—from gold ribbon awards to model school status, to name a few.
Project of Academic Excellence
U.S. Department of Education, OBEMLA
Exemplary program
California Department of Education
Title I Achieving Schools Awards
National Title I Association
National Dissemination Model
Of Effective Training for Teachers in multilingual settings
Advancements
featured on the Amazon Prime Video show Advancements
Model Reform Program
California School Reform Design