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Examining Biographies
This video walks through how to closely analyze biographies — helping students uncover key life events, make sense of structure, and understand how personal and historical context shape a person's story. It offers clear strategies for interpreting and discussing biographical texts in a thoughtful, meaningful way.
Resource DetailsReleased November 2025
Engaging Students in Text-Based Discussions
This short video gives clear, practical strategies for guiding students through rich and meaningful discussions around texts. It highlights how to build a safe discussion environment, ask powerful questions, and help students support their ideas with evidence — all to deepen their critical thinking and engagement.
Resource DetailsReleased November 2025
The ALTELLA Project Features Cha Kai and Miguel's Work for WIDA
Learn more about Cha Kai and Miguel, two former Wisconsin Center for Education Research staff members, as they showcase some of the work that they complete at WIDA. Bonus: there are several current and former WIDA staff cameos!
Resource DetailsReleased October 2025
The ALTELLA Project Introduces WCER's Cha Kai and Miguel
Get to know Cha Kai and Miguel, two former Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) staff members, as they demonstrate some of the work they do at WCER.
Resource DetailsReleased October 2025
Supporting Multilingual Learners With Disabilities: Instructional Planning Team
Discover how two teachers co-plan a lesson for multilingual learners with disabilities. This video shows how they adapt a museum scavenger hunt into a writing assignment and anticipate student need by planning strategies, such as using graphic organizers, sentence starters, and prompting students to make personal connections.
Resource DetailsReleased October 2025
Supporting Multilingual Learners With Disabilities: Instructional Planning Part 1
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.
Resource DetailsReleased October 2025
Supporting Multilingual Learners With Disabilities: Instructional Planning Part 2
Learn how one educator makes lessons more inclusive. This video explains how she used graphic organizers, technology, and visual aids to help a multilingual student with disabilities write and present a personal narrative, gaining confidence and independence.
Resource DetailsReleased October 2025
Supporting Multilingual Learners With Disabilities: Collaboration
Collaborating across disciplines is key to meeting the needs of multilingual learners with disabilities. This video explains why it’s important for teachers and specialists to work together to ensure multilingual students with disabilities receive the right support to have their unique needs met.
Resource DetailsReleased October 2025
Supporting Multilingual Learners With Disabilities: Student Assets
This video encourages a shift to more empathetic and responsive teaching and offers advice for educators on building an inclusive environment by honoring students’ identities and personal experiences.
Resource DetailsReleased October 2025
Amplifying Family Voice: Pushpanjali's Advice
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.
Resource DetailsReleased September 2025
Shared Responsibility for Language Development
This video series shows how two high school educators work together to plan a unit for newcomers. They share ideas and plan activities that address both content and language.
Resource DetailsReleased September 2025
Student-Centered Learning Environment: Increasing Access to Learning
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.
Resource DetailsReleased September 2025
Content-Centered Language Development: Uncovering the Language for Math
This video highlights how a high school English Language Development (ELD) teacher models an example of teaching math within the context of a newcomer class that includes multilingual learners in grades 9-12.
Resource DetailsReleased September 2025
Context-Driven Language Practice: Emphasizing Meaning Over Form
This video explores how a high school English Language Development (ELD) teacher encourages newcomers to express their ideas and understanding.
Resource DetailsReleased September 2025
Informing Scaffolding Instruction Across Proficiency Levels
In this video, learn how a kindergarten multilingual learner teacher uses the WIDA Proficiency Level Descriptors (PLDs) to guide her scaffolding practices.
Resource DetailsReleased September 2025
Centering Voices
Engage with this video to learn about what meaningful engagement looks like directly from multilingual learners, families, community members and educators.
Resource DetailsReleased August 2025
Video: Shifting Mindsets to Grow Awareness
Explore this video that features three WIDA Fellows discussing how they have developed a deeper understanding around authentic family and community engagement, leading to shifts in their beliefs and practices.
Resource DetailsReleased August 2025
Video: Community Support and Advocacy for Multilingual Families
WIDA Fellow Madison Leech discusses how her school partners with families, community members and community organizations to network and map community assets and resources in support of multilingual families.
Resource DetailsReleased August 2025
Video: Spanish Story Hour
Engage with this video to learn how educators and families in one district collaborated to offer a resource for families that previously was not available — a Spanish story hour at the local library.
Resource DetailsReleased August 2025
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