News

WIDA announces that the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families joins the WIDA Early Years network. Find out more about the network and its members in the full article.

Karen Weigle is an ELL teacher and bilingual coordinator at Turquoise Trail Charter School in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Karen teaches students in grades K-5 and is in her ninth year of teaching.

The June 2020 edition of WIDA News includes an article about WIDA's Annual Board Meeting, an interview with June's Featured Educator, information about the launch of the Advancing ALTELLA website, new resources for families to help multilingual learners with disabilities, and more.

Madison Leech is an ELD Specialist and content teacher at John Barclay Elementary School in Warrington, Pennsylvania. This is Madison’s fifth year at Barclay.

As parents and guardians work with and set plans for their multilingual students with disabilities at home, WIDA helps them bear in mind their student’s rights to educational services.

As families and teachers work with students with disabilities at home, social stories are a learning strategy that can help.

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

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

Heather Brooke Robertson has worked with ELLs ranging from 4K-8th grade in both California and Wisconsin. She has also started the company Books Del Sur which imports rich, bilingual texts from Latin America. This fall, Heather will begin co-teaching at Lincoln Elementary School in Madison, Wisc.

Lori Menning is the English Learner, Bilingual-Bicultural and World Language Consultant for Cooperative Educational Service Agency (CESA) 6 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. She is a strong advocate for language learners at the local, state, and national level.