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This WIDA Focus Bulletin explores the integral connection between language and culture for American Indian English Language Learners.
Published May 2014
Authors: Rosalie Grant, Paula White, Julia Cortada, Sookweon Min
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This study investigated a coaching process in which state educational representatives (SEAs) and WIDA staff engaged during 2012. The purpose was to enhance the quality of the professional development offered by states to their educators.
Published May 2013
Authors: Daniella Molle, Christie Reveles
This research brief reports preliminary results from a study of teachers’ successful experiences engaging ELLs in collaborative learning with peers.
Published May 2014
Resource Details View Resource Download NowThe purpose of this WIDA Focus Bulletin is to provide guidance to teachers of English language arts (ELA) who are implementing the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and working to respond to the specific needs of ELLs. In their treatment of academic language (or the language of school), the CCSS represent a departure from existing content standards.
Published November 2013
Authors: Daniella Molle, Mariana Castro, Julia Cortada, Leslie Grimm
This report describes key components of high quality professional development for educators of English language learners.
Published May 2014
Author: Daniella Molle
This WIDA Focus Bulletin offers advise, facts, and resources for school teams when identifying English Language Learners with specific learning disabilities.
Published May 2017
Authors: Lynn Shafer Willner, Mira Monroe, Cynthia Lundgren, Julia Cortada
This WIDA Focus Bulletin introduces readers to the four pillars of Language-Focused Family Engagement and provides tools to help educators examine their local family engagement practices.
Published September 2018
Author: Delis Cuéllar, Alissa Blair, Lorena Mancilla
This WIDA Focus Bulletin outlines ways in which educators can provide English Language Learners with disabilities access to complex language via classroom activities and engagement opportunities.
Published March 2017
Authors: Lynn Shafer Willner, Cynthia Lundgren, Mira Monroe, Julia Cortada
This WIDA Focus Bulletin provides examples of specific macro-scaffolding and micro-scaffolding practices in action in a math classroom and includes guidance for developing these scaffolding practices over time.
Published June 2018
Authors: Jen Daniels, Ruslana Westerlund
This WIDA Focus Bulletin explores ways to strengthen reasoning and language in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education.
Published January 2017
Author: Rita MacDonald
