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A Story of Collaboration and Transitions for Multilingual Children
This Focus Bulletin centers on P.H. Miller School/Plano Early Learning to show how educators, families and community members collaborate to promote equitable transitions for multilingual children in grades PreK-3. It provides reflections and advice from educators.
Resource Details View Download NowABCs of Family Engagement
This guide presents six key considerations for strengthening family engagement practices and building relationships with families.
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This comprehensive document explains the types of scores reported by ACCESS for ELLs for students in kindergarten through grade 12.
Resource Details View Download NowACCESS for ELLs Parent Letters (multiple languages)
This letter, available in many languages, contains general information about ACCESS for ELLs and is meant to accompany ACCESS for ELLs score reports as an explanation for parents and guardians. It is provided in an editable format to allow districts and schools to include additional information regarding test administration dates and state policy.
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ACCESS for ELLs: Understanding Your Child's Scores (multiple languages)
Send this flyer home with students along with the ACCESS for ELLs Individual Student Report. This flyer explains each piece of score information included in the report. Use this guide, available in several languages, to help parents understand what scores mean and how they are used.
Resource DetailsAdopting a Language-Focused Approach to Transitions Across PreK-3 Settings
This concept tool provides an overview of equitable, language-focused approaches to multilingual children’s transitions across programs, districts, schools and grade levels (PreK-K, K-1, 1-2 and 2-3).
See the Teaching in PreK-3 page for context.
Resource Details View Download NowAmerican Indian English Language Learners
This WIDA Focus Bulletin explores the integral connection between language and culture for American Indian English Language Learners.
Published May 2014
Authors: Rosalie Grant, Paula White, Julia Cortada, Sookweon Min
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Are We Ready? Districts and Programs Collaboration Guide and Notebook
The Are We Ready? Districts and Programs Collaboration Guide is for PreK-3 district and program leaders to use for reflection and planning connected to leading equitable transitions for multilingual children and their families. Use the Are We Ready? Districts and Programs Notetaker to write down your own ideas and transition plans.
See the Teaching in PreK-3 page for context.
Resource Details View Download NowAre We Ready? Educators Collaboration Guide and Notetaker
The Are We Ready? Educators Collaboration Guide is for PreK-3 educators to use for reflection and planning connected to promoting and providing equitable transitions for multilingual children and their families. Use the Are We Ready? Educators Notetaker to write down your own ideas and transition plans.
See the Teaching in PreK-3 page for context.
Resource Details View Download NowAre We Ready? Recommended Readings and References
This list has recommended readings and references for PreK-3 educators and leaders to use to explore equitable language-focused transitions for multilingual children and their families.
See the Teaching in PreK-3 page for context.
Resource Details View Download NowAre We Ready? Schools and Programs Collaboration Guide and Notetaker
The Are We Ready? Schools and Programs Collaboration Guide is for PreK-3 school and program leaders to use for reflection and planning connected to leading equitable transitions for multilingual children and their families. Use the Are We Ready? Schools and Programs Notetaker to write down your own ideas and transition plans.
See the Teaching in PreK-3 page for context.
Resource Details View Download NowCollaboration: Working Together to Serve Multilingual Learners
This WIDA Focus Bulletin emphasizes the many benefits of collaboration. The collaborative approach is presented as a cyclical process with shared responsibility by educators assessing, reflecting upon, planning for and teaching multilingual learners.
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This Focus Bulletin offers strategies for advancing equity in bilingual settings during the mundo actual of COVID-19. The bulletin emphasizes the importance of valuing multilingual learners’ linguistic and cultural diversity, using translanguaging, and leveraging technological resources.
Published August 2020
Authors: Sam Aguirre, Erika Rosales
Educational Justice Through Policy
In this Focus Bulletin, WIDA revisits landmark legislation and policies that shaped language education in the U.S. It presents unintended consequences on programming and instruction of bi/multilingual students; showcases how field practitioners address language policy and its consequences; and includes tools for reflection, collaboration, professional learning and community engagement.
Published November 2022
Author: Mariana Castro
Embedding the Can Do Cycle Throughout the School Year
This Focus Bulletin reframes the WIDA Can Do Philosophy as a can do cycle of actions that can be embedded into teaching and learning experiences throughout the entire school year. In it, we offer resource banks of questions that can be used to elicit student assets and reflect on ways to build on student assets at the beginning of each unit, during each unit, and at the end of each unit.
Published April 2022
Authors: Maya Martinez-Hart, Christina Nelson
Engaging with Families of Young Multilingual Children
This WIDA Snapshot is grounded in WIDA’s ABCs of Family Engagement and can be used to initiate reflection and conversation on local efforts to engage with families of multilingual children.
Resource DetailsEnglish Language Arts
The purpose of this WIDA Focus Bulletin is to provide guidance to teachers of English language arts (ELA) who are implementing the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and working to respond to the specific needs of ELLs. In their treatment of academic language (or the language of school), the CCSS represent a departure from existing content standards.
Published November 2013
Authors: Daniella Molle, Mariana Castro, Julia Cortada, Leslie Grimm
Expanding Reading Instruction with Multilingual Learners
Across the country, educators are working to improve students' reading, but many of the programs and approaches in use were not designed to take into account the unique needs and assets of multilingual learners. This Focus Bulletin shares classroom-ready resources, as well as examples and video from classrooms where educators are working to expand reading instruction to make it more inclusive and more effective for multilingual students.
Resource Details View Download NowExplaining ELL Status (multiple languages)
Use this flyer in intake centers or at parent-teacher conferences as you explain the process of screening students and identifying them as ELLs. This flyer, available in several languages, explains how ELLs are identified and what that status means for students. Use it to help parents understand the purpose of screening and language testing.
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This flyer provides educators with information on how home languages play an important role in maintaining communication and relationships with family.
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