CALSA’s Summer Institute is where innovators, educators, and leaders come together to shape the future of public education. Grounded in the theme Somos el Puente entre Generaciones, this year’s conference elevates the voices, practices, and partnerships that strengthen schools and communities across California.
Most classrooms have an invisible problem: students who complete every assignment, participate on cue, and still leave without ever being asked to think. Activity fills the room. Thinking does not. CLARO was built to close that gap.CLARO is a learning platform that makes student thinking visible — in real time, at every grade level, without disrupting a single lesson. At its center is Chispa, a thinking coach, who uses four Socratic coaching moves — Probe, Mirror, Challenge, and Name — to pull reasoning out of students rather than answers out of textbooks.The platform's DialogIQ™ engine scores cognitive depth as it happens. Teachers see not just what a student said, but how deeply they thought — and how that depth has grown across every session.CLARO grows with students across four modes: ThinkBridge (K–12) for structured Socratic dialogue; Language Sparks (K–2) for the oral language and comprehension strand phonics can't reach; Inquiry Mode (Gr 3–8) where students choose their own topic and Aqui the owl leads the dialogue; and Interview Mode (Gr 4–8), where the student becomes the questioner — coaching a peer the way Chispa coached them. Debate Mode (7-12).A critical differentiator: CLARO is designed for multilingual and translingual learners from the ground up. The platform operates in English and Spanish (to start), honors code-switching, and never penalizes a student for thinking in their home language. DialogIQ™ measures cognitive depth — not cultural fluency or English proficiency. For the 5.3 million English learners in U.S. schools, this is the difference between being seen as a thinker and being misread as a gap. Issues a real DialogIQ Training Certification when students reach the fade point.claroedu.com | [email protected]
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