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Video: Teachers as Ethnographers
In this video, Diep Nguyen invites teachers to become ethnographers. Engage with this brief video to inform and strengthen your practice.
Resource DetailsReleased August 2025
Video: Introduction to Awareness
Engage with this brief introductory video to reflect and deepen your knowledge about awareness- one of the six ABC’s of Family and Community Engagement. For more context around this resource, please visit the Awareness in Action Snapshot.
Resource DetailsReleased August 2025
Avenues for Advocacy: Individual, Local, State and National
Explore this tool, which introduces three avenues for advocacy — individual, local, and state/national — with example actions in each. For more context around this resource, please visit the Advocacy in Action Snapshot.
Resource Details View Download NowReleased August 2025
Video: Abogando for Your Child
In this brief video, the mother of a multilingual learner discusses how she collaborated with her child’s teacher and other school staff to advocate for her child.
Resource DetailsReleased August 2025
Video: Families and Educators Advocating at School
In this video, Maggie Karr, a family advocate, shares how she collaborates with families and her colleagues to promote a culture that welcomes and supports family advocacy.
Resource DetailsReleased August 2025
Video: A Sample Teacher-Parent Conversation
This video models a supportive conversation between a teacher and a Spanish-speaking parent to show how educators and families can advocate for inclusive practices that center family perspectives. The video features people speaking in Spanish.
Resource DetailsReleased August 2025
Video: Introduction to Advocacy
Engage with this brief introductory video to reflect and deepen your knowledge about advocacy- one of the six ABC’s of Family and Community Engagement.
Resource DetailsReleased August 2025
Vignette: Building Trust Through Conversation and Action
This vignette demonstrates how a multilingual learner school-community liaison builds trusting relationships with multilingual learners and their families and communities. For more context around this resource, please visit the Building Trust in Action Snapshot.
Resource Details View Download NowReleased August 2025
Monthly Coffee Chats: Building Trust With Multilingual Families
This resource offers guidance for starting and sustaining monthly coffee chats with families of multilingual learners. Use the information to get started with coffee chats in your context or to reflect on similar activities that you already do. For more context around this resource, please visit the Building Trust in Action Snapshot.
Resource Details View Download NowReleased August 2025
Video: Building Trust With Coffee Chats
In this video, WIDA Fellow Pushpanjali Sengupta shares how she has built trust through dialogue and action in ways that center multilingual families’ voices.
Resource DetailsReleased August 2025
Video: Building Trust in the Car Line
In this video, WIDA Fellow Madison Leech shares how her school has formed and sustained trusting relationships with families in the car line during pick-up and drop-off.
Resource DetailsReleased August 2025
Video: Introduction to Building Trust
Engage with this brief introductory video to reflect and deepen your knowledge about building trust – one of the six ABCs of Family and Community Engagement.
Resource DetailsReleased August 2025
Video: Voices of Families Part I
In this video, multilingual families and their children share about building trust through care, mutual respect and cultural and linguistic humility.
Resource DetailsReleased August 2025
Video: Voices of Families Part II
In this video, multilingual families share about building trust with educators through believing in each other’s skills and knowledge, and showing integrity and follow-through.
Resource DetailsReleased August 2025
Video: Voices of Educators
In this video, educators share how they build trust with multilingual families and communities, including questions they suggest for ongoing conversations.
Resource DetailsReleased August 2025
Conversation Card Template (multiple languages)
This customizable template has fillable conversation cards for you to add questions to. Use the template to support you as you build trusting relationships with multilingual learners and their families and communities.
Resource DetailsReleased August 2025
Student Questions (multiple languages)
This resource suggests questions you can use for your ongoing conversations with multilingual learners to help build trust and collaborative relationships.
Resource DetailsReleased August 2025
What is WIDA Screener? (multiple languages)
Use this handout in intake centers or at parent-teacher conferences to help explain what WIDA Screener is and the process of screening students and identifying them as English learners. This family handout, available in multiple languages, includes a section for families to take notes and ask questions about English language services.
Note: This handout replaces the Explaining ELL Status and What Is Language Testing? flyers, which were retired July 1, 2025.
Resource DetailsReleased June 2025
What Is WIDA Alternate Screener? (multiple languages)
Use this handout in intake centers or at parent-teacher conferences to help explain what WIDA Alternate Screener is and the process of screening students with the most significant cognitive disabilities and identifying them as English learners. This family handout, available in multiple languages, includes a section for families to take notes and ask questions about English language services.
Resource DetailsReleased June 2025
Tell Us About Your Child Survey
The Tell Us About Your Child Survey is a questionnaire that educators can give to families or caregivers of multilingual learners with the most significant cognitive disabilities to better understand a student's language and communication needs. In the survey, families or caregivers will answer questions about a student’s method of communication and language, their ability to understand communication and their preferred communication supports.
Resource DetailsReleased May 2025