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The Federal Legislation and Regulations Flyer for Multilingual Students With Disabilities
Discover federal legislation and regulations that ensure every student, regardless of language or disability, gets a fair education. This flyer simplifies federal regulations, helping to understand schools’ responsibilities and advocate for students’ rights.
Resource Details View Download NowReleased October 2025
WIDA eWorkshops Flyer
WIDA offers Professional Learning that you can complete when you want, where you want, and at your own pace. Ready to get started? This resource will show you what offerings are available and how you can access them.
Resource Details View Download NowReleased September 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
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
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
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
Definitions: Family and Community Engagement
This handout serves as a glossary of terms, including a definition of family and community engagement.
For more context around this resource, please visit the Engaging Families and Communities page.
Resource Details View Download NowReleased August 2025
Sample School Community Assets and Interests Survey
PreK-3 educators can use this tool when planning to connect with families about their communities, family assets and interests.
Resource Details View Download NowReleased July 2024
Shifting Mindsets Reflection Tool
PreK-3 educators can use this tool to reflect on their mindsets and how those mindsets can positively impact transition practices with multilingual children and their families.
Resource Details View Download NowReleased June 2024
Understanding WIDA MODEL Online Scale Scores in Terms of CEFR Levels
WIDA research findings show that WIDA MODEL Online scale scores can be interpreted in terms of Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) levels. Use the tables in this document to look up students' MODEL scale scores and see the corresponding CEFR levels for each domain.
Resource Details View Download NowReleased December 2023
ELD Essentials
This flyer shows how WIDA English language development resources fit together. This resource is intended to serve as an entry point for teachers, administrators, state staff, etc. who are new to WIDA’s ELD system of support.
Resource Details View Download NowReleased November 2023
WIDA All Year Long
Learn how WIDA is more than a test! Mr. Vega is a 6th grade EAL (English as an Additional Language) teacher at an international school who works with colleagues and families to support multilingual learners. Follow Mr. Vega all year long, as he focuses on what his students can do, using WIDA resources to collaborate and plan effective learning activities throughout the school year.
Resource Details View Download NowReleased September 2023
WIDA MODEL Flyer
Are you looking for an interim ELP assessment to predict student performance on ACCESS for ELLs? This flyer provides information on why you should try WIDA MODEL.
Resource Details View Download NowReleased August 2022
Using ACCESS for ELLs to Promote Beneficial Outcomes for English Learners Flyer
This flyer provides a breakdown of the role school/district-level educators, state-level administrators and WIDA play in using or developing ACCESS Online and Paper test scores, interpreting scores and making decisions based on scores to best serve English learners. Plus, there’s a checklist outlining the positive and intended outcomes of using ACCESS Online and Paper scores, so you’ll always know what it takes to ensure your students have the supports they need.
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
Family Connections Through Home Languages (Dari)
This 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 September 2021
Family Connections Through Home Languages (Pashto)
This 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 September 2021
Family Connections Through Home Languages (Korean)
This Korean-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 September 2021
What can collaboration look like with the WIDA ELD Standards Framework?
Collaboration is one of the four Big Ideas of the WIDA ELD Standards Framework. This two-page "comic" strip shows the story of how a science teacher and an ESL teacher work together on their multilingual learners' language development and ways of meaningfully engaging with the content of a science unit. This step-by-step example can be used in tandem with Section 4 of the WIDA ELD Standards Framework, 2020 Edition, that has a more detailed look at the collaborative planning process.
Resource Details View Download NowReleased July 2021
Family Connections Through Home Languages (Arabic)
This Arabic-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 May 2020