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Online Learning Designed for Educators
Explore a dynamic catalog of online training sessions designed to elevate your school’s academic and enrichment programs anytime, anywhere. These virtual experiences provide educators with up-to-date content, proven strategies, and practical tools ready for immediate classroom application.
Whether your focus is literacy, biliteracy, writing, math, or academic language, our online offerings deliver instructional excellence with the flexibility to learn at your own pace and from any location.
Empower your team with impactful, research-based professional development that meets today’s classroom challenges—on your terms.
Unpacking the Standards:
Turning Standards into Focused, High-Impact Instruction
We specialize in helping educators unpack academic standards—whether you're working with the TEKS in Texas or the Common Core Standards in other states.
What makes our approach unique is the way we help teachers examine each standard from two critical angles:
Content Demands – What knowledge, concepts, and skills must students master?
Linguistic Demands – What language must students use to demonstrate that understanding?
This powerful dual-lens approach—focused on both content and language—makes every lesson academically rigorous and language-rich, creating meaningful learning experiences where every student can thrive.
Empowering educators to teach with clarity, depth, and purpose—across content and language
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How to deconstruct standards to uncover what students must know, do, and say.
A simple framework to identify both content objectives and language objectives.
How to plan lessons that are aligned, scaffolded, and purposeful.
Tools to support lesson planning, PLC collaboration, and instructional coaching.
Real examples across content areas: math, science, social studies, literacy, and more.
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K–12 teachers in any content area or program.
Instructional coaches and curriculum specialists.
District and school leaders seeking coherent, equity-driven instruction.
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Whether you're in a Texas classroom working with TEKS or in another state using Common Core, this approach gives you the tools to make academic standards work for your students—with clarity and intention.
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On-site PD sessions tailored to your district.
Virtual learning options with built-in flexibility.
Follow-up coaching to support implementation.
Ready to Unpack the Standards with Purpose?
Let’s build instruction that’s clear, impactful, and equitable.
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Are You Ready to Build a Learning Environment
Where Every Student Thrives?
Creating equitable, high-impact learning environments starts with intentional planning and expert support. Through strategic partnerships, we help schools implement instruction that is aligned to standards, grounded in research, and responsive to the needs of diverse learners.
With experience supporting over 100 school districts across the country, we’ve seen firsthand how personalized coaching, language-integrated practices, and targeted planning lead to measurable student gains.
Whether you're strengthening Tier 1 instruction, developing academic language, or building a culture of collaboration, we work with your team to create classrooms where every student has the tools to succeed—and the opportunity to excel.
CLLIF:
Integrating Language
and Learning with Purpose
The CLLIF model (Content, Language, Literacy Integration Framework) is a transformative approach that helps educators design instruction that meets the unique needs of multilingual learners. This research-based framework ensures that students gain equitable access to rigorous academic content while developing the language and literacy skills needed for long-term success.
By integrating content, language, and literacy in a purposeful and aligned way, CLLIF supports instructional planning that accelerates learning, improves engagement, and leads to measurable outcomes. Whether you're implementing dual language, ESL, or general education programs, CLLIF offers a practical path to deeper comprehension and higher academic performance.
Be part of the growing number of districts nationwide seeing results through CLLIF.
About us
We are a leading consulting firm dedicated to supporting student achievement through a content-based learning approach that integrates language development with rigorous instruction in literacy and the content areas—empowering educators to embed academic language and conceptual understanding across the curriculum.
With over 30 years of experience working alongside educators across the United States and Latin America, we’re passionate about helping schools bring standards to life through meaningful, high-quality teaching.
Our mission
We partner with educators to reimagine what’s possible in every classroom. By building strategic, high-impact academic programs, we help schools move from good intentions to transformative results.
Our mission is rooted in equity, excellence, and action: we equip teachers and leaders with the tools, vision, and support they need to meet high standards—while honoring the diverse strengths of every learner. Because when schools grow with purpose, students don’t just keep up—they lead.
Engage
We partner with educators to create powerful, student-centered instruction that gives every learner a pathway to succeed—no matter their starting point.
Connect
We bridge standards, content, and academic language through intentional planning that transforms classrooms into high-impact learning environments.
Empower
We equip teachers and leaders with personalized coaching, real-world tools, and lasting support—so they can teach with confidence and lead with purpose.
Supporting Student Success—One School at a Time
SMEC partners with schools and districts across the United States.
Over the years, SMEC has partnered with hundreds of school districts and individual schools across Texas and the U.S., delivering high-impact support that shifts classroom practice and accelerates student achievement.
Ready to join us and transform the future of school learning?
What we offer
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Strategic Program Planning
We work side by side with school and district leaders to design, launch, and sustain effective instructional programs. From initial needs assessments to implementation and year-round evaluations, we guide every step with a focus on results, equity, and excellence.
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Professional Development That Sticks
Our hands-on, K–12 training empowers educators to unlock academic language and rigorous content through personalized strategies. We go beyond theory—offering practical tools for content integration, oracy, literacy, sheltered instruction, newcomer support, and state assessments.
Real training. Real classroom impact.
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Lesson Modeling & Planning That Inspires
We don’t just talk about great instruction—we model it. Our team delivers real-time classroom lessons and collaborative planning that energize teachers and boost student outcomes across the curriculum.
Seeing great teaching in action changes everything.
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Co-Teaching That Moves the Needle
We partner directly with teachers to apply new strategies in real classrooms. Through co-teaching and shared planning, we help bridge professional development with authentic student success.
Collaborate. Implement. Elevate.
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Instructional Coaching That Makes a Difference
Our coaching is personal, practical, and data-driven. We provide targeted feedback and side-by-side support to help educators grow in confidence, skill, and impact—day by day, lesson by lesson.
Every teacher deserves a coach. Every student deserves the result.
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Curriculum Design That Aligns and Delivers
We create and refine interdisciplinary curricula grounded in your district’s frameworks and tailored to your students' needs. With a sharp focus on standards, language, and content integration, we help schools build learning experiences that truly deliver.
Curriculum that connects learning to lasting achievement.
Real Solutions. Real Growth.
Our proven, personalized approach helps schools unlock the full potential of multilingual learners—boosting achievement, engagement, and equity in every classroom.
Partner with us and turn challenge into progress.
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“Sandra Mercuri’s educational consultants strategically supported our dual language teachers with specific research and instructional practices. They enriched our teachers’ knowledge and professional growth by modeling and planning with our PK-3rd-grade teachers on how to best support students who were learning the English language during daily instruction.”
Bernadette Islas
Biliteracy District Lead Coach - Aldine ISD
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“Sandra Mercuri Educational Consultants have significantly enriched Fort Bend ISD’s approach to equipping teachers with vital Dual Language strategies and improving pedagogical practices. The collaborative effort with her team has positively transformed Dual Language education, benefiting both teachers and students through enhanced strategies and the cultivation of biliteracy skills. Moreover, her team has provided valuable feedback that has helped enhance programming and the district curriculum.”
José Barrera
Bilingual Program Coordinator - Fort Bend Independent School District
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“Sandra Mercuri’s Educational Consultants model has provided intentional and targeted strategies, supports, and instructional delivery tools to ensure a successful two-way dual language implementation. Rosehill Elementary is in Year 5 of our program and is profoundly impacted by the research-based practices that the Mercuri team delivers in an on-site and hands-on model. Our teachers’ capacity, knowledge, and skills continue to increase year after year and our students’ success is evident in their language and biliteracy skills.”
Gabriela Avellaneda
Rosehill Elementary Principal - Tomball Independent School District
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