Supporting educators who serve multilingual and multicultural learners

Lift As We Climb Consulting is federally certified as a Veteran Owned Small Business and certified by the State of New Jersey as a Minority Women Business Enterprise (MWBE), a Veteran Owned Business (VOB), and a Small Business Enterprise (SBE).

  • Managing administrative responsibilities makes it challenging to be an instructional leader and it’s difficult to provide teachers with the coaching they need

  • Wanting to be highly effective in meeting the diverse needs of both students and your team of educators with Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) and Culturally Responsive competencies that are embedded in learning and not just an add-on

  • Growing population of students who are multilingual learners (MLs) and need guidance with program development and/or professional development

Does this sound like your district?

Refine

You know your district best and you are doing incredible work. Often, what is needed is to customize and refine processes that already exist, not to recreate the wheel.

Train

Build your administrative and teaching team’s capacity to effectively support multilingual and multicultural learners.

Support

Provide ongoing support to your team and continue the feedback cycle in PLCs, individualized coaching, in-class visits, co-planning, co-teaching, and data analysis.

We may be a good fit if…

  • You believe in the tremendous impact that educators have on our students when we operate from an asset-based perspective - we focus on the strengths that diverse students bring to the classroom.

  • You want professional development that is facilitated through a culturally responsive and socially and emotionally competent lens.

  • You are intentional about creating or refining your systems and programs to support multilingual and multicultural learners. 

We got this!

What Folks Are Saying

  • “Kiina is one of the most passionate, driven, and competent educators I have ever had the pleasure to work with. Her professional development around bilingual education seeks to provide educators with not only the philosophy behind the pedagogy, but also with practical and easily implementable learning strategies to move our ELLs forward. Highly, highly recommend!”

    Vincent Marchese, Assistant Principal, Morristown High School

  • “I have been teaching for many years. As such I've seen many consultants come and go through the doors of our school building. While many offer some good ideas, very few have actually impacted my teaching in meaningful ways. This is the case with Ms. Kiina Dordoni, owner of Lift as We Climb Consulting. We participated in three sessions with her – each focusing on multilingual/multicultural learners. After each session, there was at least one meaningful and impactful lesson I learned through her. In fact, after our second session, I immediately implemented a writing strategy she showed us, and this strategy has transformed the writing of my students. After our third session, she taught us how to incorporate WIDA Language Standards into our lessons. More specifically how to be keenly aware and deliberate in our language instruction. What she teaches is not just for multilingual learners but, in fact, could be used for all students.”

    -Lorena G., 2nd Grade Teacher

  • “I had the privilege of participating in a year-long professional development experience led by Kiina Dordoni, and it was truly transformative. Her deep understanding and expertise in Multicultural Education, Education for Social Justice, and Culturally Responsive Teaching, coupled with her commitment to equity and inclusivity, made the sessions invaluable to me and my staff…

    One thing in particular that stood out to me about Kiina is her ability to develop and build capacity in others. I am extremely thankful for how Kiina gave me the tools to support my staff in the area of equity and inclusion.

    Before my time with Kiina I was not comfortable speaking on this topic, let alone teaching others. With Kiina’s knowledge and leadership, she empowered me. I am grateful for the impactful experience and would highly recommend her professional development services to any school district or organization seeking equitable and exceptional program support.”

    Deanne Guastello, Principal of Lafayette Learning Center, Morris School District

  • “By attending this Sheltered English Instruction (SEI) PD, I not only learned the theory and practice associated with SEI but also learned more about instructional best practices.

    This workshop provided a blended learning/ station rotation format that allowed for small group instruction with higher level discussions surrounding the content. It was engaging, dynamic and responsive which helped me to effectively turnkey this PD to others.”

    Kara Douma, PK-12 Supervisor of English Language Arts, Morris School District