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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.

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Released 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.

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Released 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.

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Released 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.

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Released 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.

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Released 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.

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Released 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.

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Released 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.

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Released 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.

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Released 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.

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Released 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.

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Released 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.

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Released 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.

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Released 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.

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Released 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.

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Released 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.

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Released 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.

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Released 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.

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Released 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.

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Released 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.

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Released August 2025