Starting in fall 2009 English language learner 〔ELL〕 instructional coaches began to provide workshops to ELL teachers in Wendell (pseudonym) in the United States. Workshop II (pseudonym) was a twelve-hour course to support ELL teachers in developing a better understanding of what academic language is and how to teach it. This paper uses Wallace’s (1991) integrative model to analyze the Workshop II. Data in this study included observational fieldnotes, interviews, and documents. Wallace’s