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How to Advocate for Your Child and Yourself in School
This tool, provided in 17 languages, is designed to support families of multilingual learners as they navigate and engage with their child’s school. Consider how you might share this resource with the families you serve to empower them in advocating for their children.
Resource DetailsReleased August 2025
Families as Advocates: Advocating for my Multilingual Learner (multiple languages)
This resource offers topic areas and sample questions that families can ask educators to strengthen their collaborative advocacy efforts and engage in two-way, meaningful conversations.
Resource DetailsReleased August 2025
Educators as Advocates: Advocating for and with Multilingual Families (multiple languages)
This resource offers topic areas and sample questions that educators can ask families to strengthen their collaborative advocacy efforts and engage in two-way, meaningful conversations.
Resource DetailsReleased August 2025
Community Member Questions (multiple languages)
This resource suggests questions you can use for your ongoing conversations with community members to help build trust and collaborative relationships.
Resource DetailsReleased August 2025
Family Questions (multiple languages)
This resource suggests questions you can use for your ongoing conversations with multilingual families to help build trust and collaborative relationships.
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 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
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
WIDA Alternate ACCESS: Understanding Your Child's Scores (multiple languages)
Send this flyer home with students along with the Alternate ACCESS Individual Student Report for Families. This flyer explains each piece of score information included in the report for families. Use this guide, available in multiple languages, to help parents/guardians understand what scores mean and how they are used.
Resource DetailsReleased August 2024
What Is WIDA Alternate ACCESS? (multiple languages)
This handout, available in multiple languages, is a resource that educators can send home with students to give families an introduction to WIDA Alternate ACCESS. The handout explains what WIDA Alternate ACCESS is and why students take this kind of assessment.
Resource DetailsReleased October 2023
Learning Language Every Day: Activities for Families (Ukrainian)
Activities to start conversations with children about their family, what they like to play, how they feel, what sounds they hear in their home or community, and the weather.
Resource Details View Download NowReleased July 2022
Family Connections Through Home Languages (Ukrainian)
This Ukrainian-language flyer provides educators with information on how home languages play an important role in maintaining communication and relationships with family.
Resource Details View Download NowReleased July 2022
ACCESS 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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Released December 2020
What Is WIDA ACCESS? (multiple languages)
Send this handout, available in multiple languages, home with students as an introduction to ACCESS when testing is scheduled or as a reminder before scores are shared. This flyer explains what ACCESS is and why students take this kind of assessment. Use this resource to help parents understand annual language proficiency testing.
Note: For family handouts that explain English learner status and language testing, refer to the What Is WIDA Screener? and What Is WIDA Alternate Screener? handouts.
Resource DetailsReleased July 2020
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 DetailsReleased July 2020