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Distance Learning Tips for Multilingual Learners with Disabilities Who Use Augmentative and Alternative Communication

May 29, 2020

Speech language expert Anne Page provides educators, families and therapists with distance learning tips and resources for multilingual learners with disabilities.

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WIDA News Extra May 2020

May 27, 2020

Thank You Teachers: A Message from Tim Boals, WIDA Founder and Director

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January 2016 Featured Educator: Erica Jimenez

Erica Jimenez is an Elementary Transitional Bilingual Education Resource Teacher at John Muir Literacy Academy in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. She is described by one of her colleagues as being a "bridge builder" amongst staff, students, and their families.

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July 2019 Featured Educator: Sandra García de la Noceda

This month's featured educator, Sandra García de la Noceda, is the Dual Language Coordinator for Cholee Lake Elementary in the Palm Beach School District in Florida. She trains and is responsible for finding materials that are rigorous and interesting.

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February 2018 Featured Educator: Kay Mitchell

Kay Mitchell supports multilingual learners around the world. Having taught in various school contexts, she shares many of the lessons she has learned in helping students learn content and language, often while in a new culture.

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Help Inform Bilingual Language Practices

If you are a bilingual educator serving emergent bilinguals in a language program Pre-K through Grade 12, your voice is needed! Please help the Center for Applied Linguistics and University of Wisconsin–Madison learn about how you and your students use language by completing this survey.

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WIDA News Extra April 2020

Family Connections through Home Languages: A Message from Tim Boals, WIDA Founder and Director

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January 2019 Featured Educator: Alma Maldonado

This month’s featured educator, Alma Maldonado, works with K-5 multilingual learners in Dinwiddie, Virginia. She was a multilingual student herself and her experiences motivate her to help the students and families in her community.

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February 2020 Featured Educator: Anna Levy

Anna Levy is an EL teacher with Metro Nashville Public Schools in Nashville, Tennessee. Anna teaches eighth grade.

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August 2013 Featured Educator: Christel Broady

Dr. Christel Broady is a teacher trainer in the graduate program at Georgetown College in Georgetown, Kentucky. She became the school's ESL program director in 2004.

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