Tag: multilingual
House Committee Supports Seal of Biliteracy
The House Committee on Appropriations has affirmed its support for implementing and providing funding for Seal of Biliteracy programs across the U.S. in its...
U.S. Guide to Exemplary Language Programs Wins $500K Grant
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $500,000 grant to support the efforts of the America’s Languages Working Group in building the Guide...
Celebrating Multilingual Learner Identity through Personal Narrative Instruction
The social isolation and countless hours of silent, independent assignments young linguistically diverse scholars have endured during the past year of online learning have...
From Silence to Conversation: Breaking Down the Wall One Essential Shift...
Dan: What is one of the most common barriers to facilitating the shift from silence to oracy for multilingual learners, and how can we...
Recognizing Multilingual Speech Patterns
More than 20% of children in the U.S. are bilingual, a number that continues to rise year over year (Kids Count Data Center, 2018)....
Education Begins with Language
At the Council of Europe’s initiative, the European Day of Languages has been celebrated every year since 2001 on September 26 with the European...
The Multilingual Paradigm in California
The idea of asset-based and responsive education coined in the ELA/ELD road map is a key element in well-designed and effectively implemented dual-immersion programs....
COVID Translation Initiative Takes Off
Translators without Borders (TWB) has joined the Translation Initiative for COVID-19 (TICO-19). TICO-19 is focused on using language technology to make COVID-19 information available...
A Life and Love of Languages
People have asked me why I recently joined the U.S. Department of Education as assistant deputy secretary in the Office of English Language Acquisition...
Principles for Teaching Multilingual Learners Online
Since many schools are moving to online instruction, WIDA reached out to educators in its International School Consortium to identify some of the unique...
