Resources/Recursos

The Tell Us About Your Child Survey is a questionnaire that educators can give to families or caregivers of multilingual learners with the most significant cognitive disabilities to better understand a student's language and communication needs. In the survey, families or caregivers will answer questions about a student’s method of communication and language, their ability to understand communication and their preferred communication supports.

Released May 2025

The Curriculum Amplification Guide and Template supports educators as they work to align their academic curricula to the WIDA English Language Development (ELD) Standards Framework, 2020 Edition. It guides educators through three analysis criteria to examine the strength of alignment and guiding questions to support amplifying the alignment across all units of an academic curriculum.

This template is an extension of the WIDA Focus Bulletin Taking a Genre-Based Approach to Curricular Development Using the Curriculum Amplification Guide. To learn more, we encourage you to read the Focus Bulletin.

Released May 2025

Implementing the WIDA ELD Standards Framework takes time and looks different across different contexts. While some educators are working with different grade-level content curricula, English language specialists may be working with language curricula focusing on a range of proficiency levels. When instructing multilingual learners, it is especially important that curricula strike a balance between content and language. Although it is tempting to start at the lesson level to begin implementation since it feels more manageable to start small, starting at the curricular level is more effective at building a yearlong, cohesive learning experience that builds on current knowledge and experiences and more intentionally towards new understandings and skills. This Focus Bulletin supports educators to take a genre-based approach to making decisions throughout all units of curricula that can both begin and deepen the alignment of the current academic curricula being used to the WIDA ELD Standards Framework.

Released May 2025

This article offers considerations for various interest holders who serve multilingual learners with disabilities and advocates for the co-creation of digital resources by students, educators, and developers to ensure they meet real-world accessibility challenges. Advancements in artificial intelligence are considered as well.

Released May 2025

Multilingual newcomers are the fastest growing demographic across U.S. school systems, arriving in K-12 classrooms at increased rates in more and different locations than ever before. These students enter our buildings offering unique cultural and linguistic assets while also possessing distinct academic, social-emotional and linguistic needs. We met to discuss how we can build and strengthen systems that promote multilingual newcomers’ success in classrooms across the consortium! During this webinar, we talk about the latest trends relating to our nation's multilingual newcomers, engage in research-backed approaches centering their learning, and participate in goal setting for future programming with multilingual newcomers and their families in mind.

Released April 2025

The aim of this interpretive guide is to help educators and families better understand the scores reported for WIDA Screener Online, WIDA Screener Paper, WIDA Screener for Kindergarten and WIDA Alternate Screener.

Released April 2025

Rubrics are analytic scales that describe various aspects of spoken and written language to help educators recognize what speaking and writing sound and look like at various levels of English language proficiency. Use the WIDA MODEL Speaking Rubric to understand the scores students earn on the assessment, analyze student performance in the classroom, and plan ways to scaffold language learning. WIDA MODEL test administrators use the WIDA MODEL Speaking Rubric to score the Speaking domain test for WIDA MODEL Online and WIDA MODEL Paper.

Released April 2025

Use this scoring scale to score speaking responses for WIDA Screener tests and the WIDA ACCESS Braille Speaking test only.

Note: To score WIDA ACCESS tests, refer to the WIDA Speaking Scoring Rubric Grades 1–12.

Released April 2025

Use this rubric to score speaking responses for WIDA ACCESS tests only.

Note: To score WIDA Screener and the WIDA ACCESS Braille Speaking test, refer to the WIDA Speaking Scoring Scale: Grades 1-12.

Released April 2025

This accessibility manual was developed to guide the selection and administration of Test Administration Considerations, Universal Tools, and Accommodations for individual English Language Learners (ELLs) in order to produce valid assessment results.

Released April 2025

Use this rubric to score writing responses for WIDA ACCESS tests only.

Note: To score WIDA Screener, refer to the WIDA Writing Scoring Scale: Grades 1-12.

Released April 2025

Use this rubric to score writing responses on WIDA Screener for Kindergarten and WIDA MODEL for Kindergarten only.

Released April 2025

Use this rubric to score speaking responses on WIDA Screener for Kindergarten and WIDA MODEL for Kindergarten only.

Released April 2025

Todo lo que hace WIDA está respaldado por la filosofía de valorización. Nuestra labor comienza con la articulación de ejemplos de los recursos de los estudiantes bilingües y continúa con la forma en que diseñamos nuestros productos y llevamos adelante nuestra investigación.

Released March 2025

This comprehensive document explains the types of scores reported by ACCESS for ELLs for students in kindergarten through grade 12.

Released February 2025

By addressing the intersection of practice and academia, teachers are encouraged to be more involved in implementing evidence-based approaches and becoming more familiar with research informing their classroom practice directly. Engaging in pracademics highlights the work of teacher experiences and promotes the inclusion of practitioners' voices in the field.

Released February 2025

This research brief explores the intersection of pracademics, multilingualism, translanguaging and transculturalism. It highlights how pracademics’ unique dual expertise prepares them to face pressing, real-world challenges in the diverse education settings they encounter while addressing nuances of overlapping linguistic and cultural identities. Additionally, it presents diverse voices from the field, highlighting their thoughts on the topic and the impact that pracademics has on their contexts, professional lives and experiences.

Released February 2025

Este resumen de investigación aborda la intersección entre la pracademia, el multilingüismo, el translingüismo y el transculturalismo. Destaca cómo la experiencia dual única de los pracadémicos les prepara para enfrentar los desafíos reales de diversos contextos educativos y examinar los matices de las identidades lingüísticas y culturales superpuestas. Además, presenta diversas voces del campo, destacando sus pensamientos sobre el tema y el impacto que la pracademia tiene en sus contextos, vidas profesionales y experiencias.

Released February 2025

Al abordar la intersección de la práctica y la academia, se alienta a los docentes a involucrarse más en la implementación de enfoques basados en evidencia y a familiarizarse más con la investigación que informa directamente sus prácticas en el salón de clase. Participar en la pracademia permite a los docentes resaltar sus experiencias de enseñanza y promueve la inclusión de su voz como pracademico dentro del contexto educativo.

Released February 2025

Rubrics are analytic scales that describe various aspects of spoken and written language to help educators recognize what speaking and writing sound and look like at various levels of English language proficiency. Use the WIDA MODEL Writing Rubric to understand the scores students earn on the assessment, analyze student performance in the classroom, and plan ways to scaffold language learning. WIDA MODEL test administrators use the WIDA MODEL Writing Rubric to assign a Writing Final score for WIDA MODEL Paper and WIDA MODEL Online.

Released February 2025