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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.

This back-to-school guide tells you everything you need to know to assess, teach and grow with WIDA this school year.

Learn about what’s new in 2024-25 with WIDA Screener, ACCESS for ELLs and WIDA MODEL. Plus, we tell you what you can do to make sure testing counts and how to stay in the know about all things WIDA.

Meet Susie LaCroix! Susie has been working with multilingual learners in rural Wyoming for nearly 30 years. Read this edition to learn more about the challenges and opportunities that come with working in a rural district and Susie’s advice for navigating it all.

WIDA researcher Lynn Shafer Willner has been awarded the 2024 NJTESOL/NJBE President's Award. This accolade is given annually to an individual whose work has significantly advanced the needs of multilingual learners (MLs) in New Jersey.