Resources/Recursos

This resource offers guidance for starting and sustaining monthly coffee chats with families of multilingual learners. Use the information to get started with coffee chats in your context or to reflect on similar activities that you already do. For more context around this resource, please visit the Building Trust in Action Snapshot.

Released August 2025

In this video, WIDA Fellow Pushpanjali Sengupta shares how she has built trust through dialogue and action in ways that center multilingual families’ voices.

Released August 2025

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.

Released August 2025

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.

Released August 2025

In this video, multilingual families and their children share about building trust through care, mutual respect and cultural and linguistic humility.

Released August 2025

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.

Released August 2025

In this video, educators share how they build trust with multilingual families and communities, including questions they suggest for ongoing conversations.

Released August 2025

This customizable template has fillable conversation cards for you to add questions to. Use the template to support you as you build trusting relationships with multilingual learners and their families and communities.

Released August 2025

This resource suggests questions you can use for your ongoing conversations with multilingual learners to help build trust and collaborative relationships.

Released August 2025

This handout serves as a glossary of terms, including a definition of family and community engagement.

For more context around this resource, please visit the Engaging Families and Communities page.

Released August 2025

This WIDA Snapshot offers an introduction to awareness, one of the six ABCs of Family and Community Engagement. The ABCs of Family and Community Engagement are six key considerations for educators who support multilingual learners and their families and communities. 

Released August 2025

This WIDA Snapshot offers an introduction to advocacy, one of the six ABCs of Family and Community Engagement. The ABCs of Family and Community Engagement are six key considerations for educators who support multilingual learners and their families and communities.

Released August 2025

This WIDA Snapshot offers an introduction to building trust, one of the six ABCs of Family and Community Engagement. The ABCs of Family and Community Engagement are six key considerations for educators who support multilingual learners and their families and communities. 

Released August 2025

This guide includes an infographic that provides a visual representation of all six ABCs of Family and Community Engagement as well as look-fors to identify evidence of the ABCs in your context and ideas for future action.

For more context around this resource, please visit the Engaging Families and Communities page.

Released August 2025

This guide offers a brief synthesis of literature and reflection questions for each of the six ABCs of Family and Community Engagement.

For more context around this resource, please visit the Engaging Families and Communities page.

Released August 2025

This WIDA Snapshot provides guidance on how to use the WIDA Language Charts to collaborate and plan instruction.

Released August 2025

Este resumen de investigación explora casos de estudio específicos en relación a la pracademia y como se ve en la práctica. Los casos presentados ilustran que la investigación en el aula es factible y tiene un gran impacto. Los educadores tienen mucho que aportar significativamente a la investigación académica a través de su trabajo. Sin embargo, estos ejemplos también conciencian sobre el hecho de que si bien se trata de educadores y esfuerzos ejemplares es necesario implementar cambios sistémicos para abordar los desafíos que podrá enfrentar el universo de educadores de aula y que no todos los ejemplos tendrán el mismo éxito que los que hemos leído sin los recursos y apoyo necesarios.

Released July 2025

This research brief explores specific case studies on what pracademics looks in practice. The cases presented illustrate that research within the classroom is both feasible and impactful. Educators have a lot to meaningfully contribute to scholarship through their work. However, these examples also raise awareness on the fact that while these are exemplary educators and efforts, there are systemic changes that need to occur to address the challenges that the general educator population could face and that not all examples can be successful if the needed supports are not in place.

Released July 2025

This checklist can be used for tracking the accommodations a student receives on WIDA Alternate Screener.

Released July 2025

ACCESS for ELLs Paper technical reports provide evidence for validity and reliability of ACCESS for ELLs Paper and support intended uses, interpretations, and decision made with the test. This is the redacted report for the 2023-2024 administration of ACCESS for ELLs Paper without item information.

NOTE: Both the View and Download Now links will prompt a download of a zip file that contains three files: Part 1: Executive Summary, Purpose, Design, and Implementation; Part 2: Technical Results; Part 3: References.

Released June 2025