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The true value of an interim English language proficiency assessment is the real-time measure of student progress. With several options available, choosing an interim assessment can be challenging. Educators, school leaders, and district leaders can make an informed decision by using researched-based interim assessment adoption criteria.

Carmen Sieleni grew up in a multilingual home in a small town in Minnesota. Her father immigrated to the United States from El Salvador. Carmen’s upbringing influenced her career path. Today, she’s an MLL teacher at an elementary school in the Roseville Area School District in Minnesota and she works with the district coordinator to build systems and support at all the elementary schools in the district. Read her conversation with Tim Boals and Merideth Trahan.

The Marco DALE Digital Explorer is a searchable database of the standards framework that categorizes the Marco DALE Language Expectations by Standard Statement and grade-level cluster, and by Key Language Use and mode of communication. It presents the framework’s Proficiency Level Descriptors (PLDs) by grade-level cluster and mode of communication.

El Marco DALE Digital Explorer es una base de datos que permite la navegación del marco con facilidad, presentando las expectativas del lenguaje por declaración de estándar y grupo de grado, y por uso clave y modo de comunicación. También presenta los descriptores del nivel de desempaño lingüístico por grupo de grado y modo de comunicación.

The Accessible Pathways Project has been awarded $3.998 million over four years through the Competitive Grants for State Assessments competition. This project aims to better understand and support multilingual learners with low incidence disabilities, in this case, students who are blind/have low vision and those who are deaf/hard of hearing.

The 2024 WIDA Annual Conference is just a few weeks away. The conference, which runs from October 15-18, features an award-winning headliner and over 100 sessions and workshops by teachers, for teachers. There’s also a curated virtual-track available with a virtual keynote for the first time ever.

Angie Barrera Gonzalez spent some of her summer working with WIDA as an intern. Angie is a multilingual high school student in Madison, WI. Learn more about her!

WIDA is excited to welcome new and returning WIDA Fellows for 2024-2025. The program, launched in 2019, brings expert educators and WIDA staff together in a collaborative effort to enhance the development of WIDA products and services. 

2023-24 WIDA Alternate ACCESS score reports start getting delivered to states in September. Read this article to get help finding updated score report resources. Plus, we give you things to consider as you review reports, and an update on standard setting.

Your students have taken ACCESS for ELLs, you’ve received their scores, and you understand how scores are calculated and how to interpret the results. So, how do you take those scores and help your students? Read this article to find out.