Blurb:

Providing professional development (PD) opportunities for less commonly taught language (LCTL) instructors is crucial to ensuring that these often under-resourced instructors and programs are prepared for the demands of the current technology-filled workplace. By offering technology-enabled interinstitutional PD programs, we connect LCTL instructors across institutions and facilitate the creation of a much wider community of practice. In addition, if multiple institutions work together to create PD programs, resources and expertise can be pooled to execute these programs. This chapter foregrounds how LCTL programs have already been leveraging technology through course sharing efforts and explains how LCTLs are central to institutional diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) plans. Next, the transformative potential of technology-enabled interinstitutional PD is illustrated, using the example of two advanced online language teaching courses: Purposeful Technology Integration (creating an innovative teacher mindset) and Teaching the Whole Class (designing differentiated and inclusive instruction).