MCPS professional learning and coaching credited with early reading gains for multilingual students

Montgomery County Public Schools officials told the strategic planning committee on May 13, 2025, that a year of job‑embedded professional learning and building‑level coaching aimed at emerging multilingual learners (EML) and students receiving special education services has produced reported changes in classroom instruction and preliminary student gains.

The update, led by Marjorie Lope Moatsatsos, director of districtwide professional learning, described a four‑phase initiative this school year that combined teacher workshops with leader coaching cycles. District staff said 74 percent of surveyed teachers reported that feedback they received changed how they deliver instruction, and that 83 percent of 104 school data reports showed increases on the measures schools used to track progress.

District leaders told the board the work combined sustained…