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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 NowCommunity Literacy Mapping
A home and community literacy mapping activity supports students to see the literacy in their daily lives and enables the teacher to learn about their students’ literacy assets. Use this resource to plan a literacy mapping activity with your students.
Resource Details View Download NowComprendiendo los descriptores del nivel de desempeño del Marco DALE
Los descriptores del desempeño lingüístico del Marco DALE proporcionan un lineamiento de cómo los y las estudiantes pueden desarrollar su desempeño lingüístico al procesar y producir el lenguaje de acuerdo con los modos de comunicación (interpretativo, expresivo e interactivo).
Resource DetailsConcept 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 ahoraCreating a Reader Portrait
A reader portrait is a chance to reflect on what you understand about a student’s reading and what you could learn more about. Use this activity to connect what you already know, questions you have, English language development (ELD) data in all domains, and what you know about the student’s home language(s).
Resource Details View Download NowCurricular 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: Authentic Spanish language development with Marco DALE
This webinar showcases the components of Marco de los estándares del desarrollo auténtico del lenguaje español de WIDA (Marco DALE).
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 NowDeveloping Oral Language Comprehension
Many literacy programs were not designed to effectively use multilingual students’ knowledge, skills, and strengths. This Snapshot is the second in a five-part series that provides insights from relevant research and suggests ways to engage the significant strengths that multilingual learners bring to their literacy development.
Resource DetailsDeveloping Reading Comprehension and Academic Literacies
Many literacy programs were not designed to effectively use multilingual students’ knowledge, skills, and strengths. This Snapshot is the fourth in a five-part series that provides insights from relevant research and suggests ways to engage the significant strengths that multilingual learners bring to their literacy development.
Resource DetailsDevelopment 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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District Readiness to Implement Standards-Based Reform for English Language Learners a Decade After No Child Left Behind Act
This 16-state survey of school districts with fewer than 500 English language learners revealed that few district-level English language learner staff had formal preparation in educating English language learner or using English language proficiency standards. A wide school-level disparity existed between English as a second language or bilingual teachers and general education teachers in terms of their engagement with proficiency standards and assessment data.
Resource DetailsEducación en el mundo actual
Este boletín de enfoque ofrece estrategias para avanzar la equidad en los programas bilingües en el mundo actual de COVID-19. Se da énfasis a la importancia de la diversidad lingüística y cultural, el translenguaje y recursos tecnológicos para la equidad.
Detalles del recurso Ver Descargar ahoraEducación en el mundo actual
This Focus Bulletin offers strategies for advancing equity in bilingual settings during the mundo actual of COVID-19. The bulletin emphasizes the importance of valuing multilingual learners’ linguistic and cultural diversity, using translanguaging, and leveraging technological resources.
Published August 2020
Authors: Sam Aguirre, Erika Rosales
Educational Justice Through Policy
In this Focus Bulletin, WIDA revisits landmark legislation and policies that shaped language education in the U.S. It presents unintended consequences on programming and instruction of bi/multilingual students; showcases how field practitioners address language policy and its consequences; and includes tools for reflection, collaboration, professional learning and community engagement.
Published November 2022
Author: Mariana Castro