How do you harness digital tools to jumpstart your own professional development? Try creating a digital portfolio using a platform like Catalyst, a free, online, social portfolio for language educators! A tool like Catalyst can help you to reflect, identify your strengths, and continue to grow as an educator.

Catalyst is a collaborative project* developed by CASLS and Professionals in Education Advancing Research and Language Learning (PEARLL), and it is a great tool for fostering ongoing learning and developing one’s professional capacities.

With helpful information and a community of like-minded, engaged language educators, Catalyst provides a context for learning about best practices, a place to track your progress, and a platform to connect with other educators around the world – all rooted in the Teacher Effectiveness for Language Learning (TELL) framework.

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*Additional funds provided by the National Foreign Language Center have contributed to the improvement of Catalyst for STARTALK programs.