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Can Do Descriptors Student Name Charts, Grades 2-3
This chart allows educators to track students by their level of English language proficiency.
Resource Details View Download NowCan Do Descriptors Student Name Charts, Grades 4-5
This chart allows educators to track students by their level of English language proficiency.
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This chart allows educators to track students by their level of English language proficiency.
Resource Details View Download NowCan Do Descriptors Student Name Charts, Grades 9-12
This chart allows educators to track students by their level of English language proficiency.
Resource Details View Download NowCan Do Descriptors Student Name Charts, Kindergarten
This chart allows educators to track students by their level of English language proficiency.
Resource Details View Download NowCan Do Descriptors, Original Edition, Student Name Charts, Grades K-12
This chart allows educators to track students by their level of English language proficiency.
Resource Details View Download NowCan Do Philosophy
This document articulates the WIDA Can Do Philosophy, which expresses the foundational belief that every learner brings valuable contributions to everything they do.
Resource Details View Download NowCan Do Philosophy (Video)
This video provides an overview of the WIDA Can Do Philosophy – the foundational belief that every learner brings valuable contributions to everything they do.
Resource DetailsChoosing an Interim Assessment: Guidelines for Stakeholders
This document describes WIDA's viewpoint of the criteria for an assessment to be used as a valid interim English language proficiency assessment in support of the annual administration of ACCESS for ELLs.
Resource Details View Download NowCollaborating with States on Professional Development Planning
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
Collaboration: Working Together to Serve Multilingual Learners
This WIDA Focus Bulletin emphasizes the many benefits of collaboration. The collaborative approach is presented as a cyclical process with shared responsibility by educators assessing, reflecting upon, planning for and teaching multilingual learners.
Resource Details View Download NowCollaborative Learning for English Language Learners
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 Download NowConcept Tool: A Language-Focused Approach to Planning Equitable Learning Opportunities
A language-focused approach to planning applies an equity and language lens to the design of active and engaging learning opportunities for young children. Explore this tool to learn more about the what, how and why of a language-focused approach to planning equitable learning opportunities for multilingual children.
Resource Details View Download NowConexiones familiares a través de lenguajes en el hogar
Este volante le provee a educadores la información sobre cómo lenguas del hogar desempeñan un rol importante en el mantenimiento de comunicación y relaciones con la familia.
Detalles del recurso Ver Descargar ahoraCurricular 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 DetailsDesarrollando el español: Guiding bilingual instructional planning with Marco DALE
This webinar dives into the components of the Marco de los estándares del desarrollo auténtico del lenguaje español de WIDA (Marco DALE) and explores how they can support educator's planning processes.
Resource DetailsDesign Principles for Engaging Multilingual Learners in Three-Dimensional Science
WIDA and the National Science Teaching Association formed Making Science Multilingual to support equitable and inclusive forms of science instruction through which all students, but especially multilingual learners, can learn science and language simultaneously. To guide this work, the Making Science Multilingual team devised eight design principles to define the integration of contemporary three-dimensional science and language-in-use pedagogies. These principles will guide educator resource development at both organizations and facilitate critical examination of how well educator resources support inclusion of multilingual learners in rigorous science learning.
Resource DetailsDetection of Multiple Group Differential Item Functioning for Students with Disabilities of the Alternate ACCESS Field Tests in 2023
This report describe how WIDA applied Differential Item Functioning analysis among multiple disability groups of our Alternate ACCESS Field Test items in 2023.
Resource Details View Download NowDevelopment of a New WIDA Writing Scoring Rubric for Grades 1-12
This report details the development of a new scoring rubric grounded in the WIDA English Language Development Standards Framework, 2020 Edition. This new rubric will be used for scoring responses to the writing tasks on WIDA ACCESS Online and WIDA ACCESS Paper in 2025-26, and the future revised WIDA Screener Online and WIDA Screener Paper.
Resource Details View Download NowDistrict Level Analysis of ELL Growth
This research project explored the patterns of district-level ELL “growth” for the 2007-2011 time period and identified the existence of “high-flying” and “low-cruising” districts within ACCESS for ELLs in terms of ELL growth.
Published May 2013
Author: Narek Sahakyan
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