CIDR Professional Learning Frameworks

Openness: valuing multiple ways of knowing
Interconnectedness: building belonging
Agency: supporting student voice &amp; choice
Curiosity: learning through inquiry
Creativity: generating new ideas and possibilities

CIDR integrates two frameworks—Reading for In-Depth Learning and Orientations for a Positive Classroom Climate for Diversity—to support the academic success and well-being of students from immigrant and refugee backgrounds. In collaboration with the developers of these frameworks, we are developing research instruments to assess how the core principles of each framework are enacted and experienced by both educators and students.

Reading for In-Depth Learning

Reading for in-depth learning engages students in four dimensions of reading:

Textual: analyzing how texts work
Personal: connecting to identity & experience
Critical: questioning perspectives & power
Creative and Transformative: responding and taking action

Reading for In-Depth Learning Framework Author

Dr. Sunny Man Chu Lau is a Professor in the School of Education at Bishop’s University, Québec and an adjunct professor at Simon Fraser University, is the Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Integrated Plurilingual Teaching and Learning.

She specializes in critical literacies, second language and plurilingual education, teaching English as a second language, participative-based research methodologies, and related teacher education.

Dr. Lau's research focuses on bridging the gap between language acquisition and literacy development, with a particular emphasis on creating classroom environments that promote high-quality, effective instructional practices.