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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.
Resource DetailsReleased 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.
Resource DetailsReleased 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.
Resource DetailsReleased 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.
Resource DetailsReleased August 2025
Video: Introduction to Advocacy
Engage with this brief introductory video to reflect and deepen your knowledge about advocacy- one of the six ABC’s of Family and Community Engagement.
Resource DetailsReleased August 2025
Video: Building Trust With Coffee Chats
In this video, WIDA Fellow Pushpanjali Sengupta shares how she has built trust through dialogue and action in ways that center multilingual families’ voices.
Resource DetailsReleased August 2025
Video: Building Trust in the Car Line
In this video, WIDA Fellow Madison Leech shares how her school has formed and sustained trusting relationships with families in the car line during pick-up and drop-off.
Resource DetailsReleased August 2025
Video: Introduction to Building Trust
Engage with this brief introductory video to reflect and deepen your knowledge about building trust – one of the six ABCs of Family and Community Engagement.
Resource DetailsReleased August 2025
Video: Voices of Families Part I
In this video, multilingual families and their children share about building trust through care, mutual respect and cultural and linguistic humility.
Resource DetailsReleased August 2025
Video: Voices of Families Part II
In this video, multilingual families share about building trust with educators through believing in each other’s skills and knowledge, and showing integrity and follow-through.
Resource DetailsReleased August 2025
Video: Voices of Educators
In this video, educators share how they build trust with multilingual families and communities, including questions they suggest for ongoing conversations.
Resource DetailsReleased August 2025
The Value of Interim English Language Proficiency Assessment Data
In this recorded webinar, Mark Chapman, senior assessment innovation manager at WIDA, discusses the value of interim English language proficiency data and how WIDA's interim assessment, WIDA MODEL, can be used to support instruction for multilingual learners.
Resource DetailsReleased October 2024
Using ACCESS for ELLs to Promote Beneficial Outcomes for English Learners Video
This video provides a breakdown of the role school/district-level educators, state-level administrators and WIDA play in using or developing ACCESS test scores, interpreting scores and making decisions based on scores to best serve English learners. Share this video with colleagues so that everyone who supports English learners understands what it takes to get positive and intended outcomes for their students.
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Released October 2024
Introducing WIDA Screener for Kindergarten
This WIDA Screener for Kindergarten eSummit session recording provides an in depth look at the test.
Resource DetailsReleased October 2024
A Case Study in Literacy Engagement with MLs
This video features Carmen, an elementary teacher in Minnesota. Even though she is required to teach from a prescribed curriculum, she still engages students in building personal connections to the text by connecting to students’ home literacy experiences and their emotions. Watch Carmen work with her small group of 2nd graders prior to reading a text on the lunar landing.
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Released October 2024
WIDA MODEL and the CEFR
WIDA conducted a research study that linked WIDA MODEL Online scale scores to the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR). This video discusses the research study, the findings, and the Understanding WIDA MODEL Online Scale Scores in Terms of CEFR Levels tool.
Resource DetailsReleased January 2024
Putting It All Together: Next Steps for Using the 2020 Edition
In this webinar, the WIDA standards development team discusses and models the tools, provided in the 2020 Edition, for initiating critical conversations with school leaders and colleagues.
Resource DetailsReleased March 2021
Curricular Considerations: Introduction to Collaborating Around the 2020 Edition
The WIDA ELD Standards Framework, 2020 Edition brings new practical ways for all educators working with multilingual learners to conceptualize the development of content and language together through asset-based, equitable, and rigorous approaches in curricular design. This session will encourage participants to think about what collaboration looks like in these contexts.
Resource DetailsReleased February 2021
Introduction to the Updated Key Language Uses
One of the components of the WIDA ELD Standards Framework is the Key Language Uses (KLUs). The KLUs summarize the most prominent language uses across disciplines, helping educators organize and prioritize curriculum and instruction. Learn about the updated KLUs – Inform, Narrate, Explain and Argue.
Resource DetailsReleased February 2021
Introduction to the 2020 Edition
Members of the WIDA standards development team share a high-level overview of what’s new and exciting in the WIDA English Language Development Standards Framework, 2020 Edition. Intended for SEA representatives, district leaders, and EL and content teachers.
Resource DetailsReleased January 2021