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The WIDA Fellows program, launched in 2019, brings expert educators and WIDA staff together in a collaborative effort to enhance the development of WIDA products and services. Some of the fellows spoke during a session at the 2023 WIDA Annual Conference.

We’re offering a new, free virtual learning opportunity: WIDA Webinars. Four webinars are scheduled for 2024. Read about them and register.

We asked educators at the 2023 WIDA Annual Conference what their number one piece of advice was for other educators. Here’s what they said!

WIDA researchers and international school educators collaborated to link WIDA MODEL Online scale scores to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). The CEFR is an international standard for describing language proficiency and is used by schools and organizations around the world. Now that MODEL Online and the CEFR have been linked, educators can understand their students’ MODEL Online scale scores in terms of the CEFR levels, which are meaningful worldwide.

Cristian Ivan Torres Hilario spent some of his summer working with WIDA as an intern. Cristian is a multilingual high school student in Madison, Wisconsin.

In this edition of Conversations with Tim, Tim speaks with Rosalie Lincoln and Cathy Moses about their work in the Lower Kuskokwim School District in Alaska to preserve and revitalize the Yugtun language.

Meet Lorena and Ping-Lin, the 2023 WIDA summer research interns! Lorena and Ping-Lin are Ph.D. students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. They spent the summer working with the WIDA assessment team and contributed to multiple research projects.

Scroll down to read interviews between Lorena, Ping-Lin and Hannah Haynes, a WIDA staffer. 

Are you new to ACCESS for ELLs? Have you administered an ACCESS test before but can’t remember where to find things like training, test prep and test materials? Look no further than this brief reference to all things ACCESS!

In this edition of Conversations with Tim, Tim speaks with Piedad Kaye and Michelle Kotwica. Piedad and Michelle work together in the Mannheim 83 School District in Illinois. They share some of the keys to their success in building a bilingual program in their district.

Listening option: Listen to the audio here or click “Read more” to continue reading.

Catch up on or reminisce about the biggest moments from the 2023 WIDA Annual Conference in Milwaukee, WI.