Resources/Recursos

Learn practical strategies to help multilingual learners with disabilities become more independent. This video shows how one teacher uses technology, explicit modeling, and visual aids to make lessons accessible, foster deeper learning, and connect to students' lives.

Released October 2025

Who belongs on a student support team? This handout simplifies the roles of each required member, including parents. Read it to understand each person’s vital role in creating a successful Individual Education Program for a multilingual learner with disabilities.

For more context around this handout, please visit the Supporting Multilingual Learners with Disabilities page.

Released October 2025

This tool provides practical, ready-to-use strategies from the WIDA and UDL frameworks to help you create accessible and engaging lessons for multilingual learners with disabilities.

For more context around this tool, please visit the Supporting Multilingual Learners with Disabilities page.

Released October 2025

Building strong family-school partnerships is key to student success. This handout shows how one teacher collaborates with a student’s mother, gathering insights about her child’s strengths and needs to build a supportive and inclusive classroom.

For more context around this resource, please visit the Supporting Multilingual Learners with Disabilities page.

Released October 2025

This handout provides ideas for applying the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework in your classroom. It offers strategies to help all students, including multilingual learners with disabilities, participate in meaningful and challenging learning.

For more context around this resource, please visit the Supporting Multilingual Learners with Disabilities page.

Released October 2025

Use this handout to explore student intersections of language, disability, home, community, and academics. Engage with the guiding questions collaboratively with colleagues and caregivers to inform instructional planning.

For more context around this resource, please visit the Supporting Multilingual Learners with Disabilities page.

Released October 2025

Review this rubric before administering WIDA ACCESS for Kindergarten to understand the expectations for each speaking task.

Released September 2025

Use this rubric to assign a score to writing responses on WIDA ACCESS for Kindergarten.

Released September 2025

An educator shares her experiences engaging families in the school community. This video provides practical advice on how to collaborate with families, start small, and reflect on the process to build a welcoming and effective school environment. See the full handout with additional ideas from Pushpanjali in the Standards in Action: Amplifying Family Voice handout.

Released September 2025

A 6th grade English Language Arts (ELA) educator shares how she supports multilingual students during Socratic seminars by focusing on both content and language.

For additional context, including additional resources and videos, please visit the Standards in Action page.

Released September 2025

Discover how one educator helps multilingual students boost writing scores using Google Sites, WIDA assessment prompts, and rubrics to build skills and confidence.

For additional context, including additional resources and videos, please visit the Standards in Action page.

Released September 2025

This anchor chart highlights helpful words and math terms that students can use when explaining how to solve an equation in English. It includes sequence words, cardinal numbers, and math terms.

For additional context, including additional resources and videos, please visit the Standards in Action page.

Released September 2025

This video shows how educators create welcoming environments where all students feel included and supported. It focuses on using students’ strengths and experiences to connect language and content.

Released September 2025

This handout shows how educators use the WIDA Proficiency Level Descriptors (PLDs) to scaffold lessons. It explains how they help students learn both the subject and the language.

For additional context, including additional resources and videos, please visit the Standards in Action page.

Released September 2025

This handout highlights the importance of partnering with families. Learn how one educator brings families, students, and school leaders together through monthly meetings.

For additional context, including additional resources and videos, please visit the Standards in Action page.

Released September 2025

Administrators can use this ALTELLA protocol (fillable PDF) to learn more about the instructional strategies teachers are using with the multilingual learners with disabilities in their classrooms.

Released September 2025

Administrators can use this ALTELLA protocol (fillable PDF) to learn more about the instructional strategies teachers are using with the multilingual learners with disabilities in their classrooms.

Released September 2025

Use this ALTELLA Research Brief to distinguish between language and communication. The brief covers how multilingual learners with significant cognitive disabilities use both language and communication.

Released September 2025

This ALTELLA Research Brief explains the Language and Disability Needs Framework. The brief focuses on considerations of students’ language-related and disability-related needs and their implications for instruction and assessment.

Released September 2025

Use this ALTELLA Research Brief as a step-by-step guide on how to best serve multilingual learners with significant cognitive disabilities more effectively.

Released September 2025