WIDA Standards for Professors

WIDA promotes equity for multilingual learners and in doing so, is taking a fresh look at the original five ELD standards. The 2020 Edition illuminates a vision where all students can develop language and learn content across educational settings. Our learning in Years One through Three provided both baseline and expanded learning about the WIDA ELD Standards and Instructional Framework, 2020 Edition.

Session1: One Hour Highlights

• Link to Participant Agenda (will require you to make a forced copy)

Session 2: Three Hour Deep Dive

• Link to Participant Agenda (will require you to make a forced copy)

Note: in Year One we held office hours to support implementation of new learning

Session 1: Deep Dive into the WIDA ELD Standards (repeat from Year 1)

• Link to Participant Agenda (will require you to make a forced copy)
• WIDA Guiding Principles
• WIDA ELD Standards Framework: Digital Copy
• WIDA’s webpage: ELD Standards Framework Resources

Session 2: Models for Co-planning, Co-teaching, Co-assessing

• Link to Participant Agenda (will require you to make a forced copy)
• Template for Collaborative Planning Process

Session 3: Coaching questions for EL teacher / gen ed teacher collaboration

• Link to Participant Agenda (will require you to make a forced copy)
• Collaborative Planning Structured Conversations

Session 4: Aligning Language Expectations to the Summative Assessment

• Link to Participant Agenda (will require you to make a forced copy)
• Cooperative Construction (article)
• WIDA FAQ Language Expectations

Session 5: Taking Language Levels into Consideration: Proficiency Level Descriptors

• Link to Participant Agenda (will require you to make a forced copy)
• WIDA FAQ PLDs
• WIDA 2020 PLDs K-12

Session 6: Engaging Parents and Other Providers of Care in WIDA

• Link to Participant Agenda (will require you to make a forced copy)
• ABCs of Family Engagement
• Language Focused Family Engagement

Session 1: Deep Dive into the WIDA ELD Standards (repeat from Year 1)

• Link to Participant Agenda (will require you to make a forced copy)
• WIDA Guiding Principles
• WIDA ELD Standards Framework: Digital Copy
• WIDA’s webpage: ELD Standards Framework Resources

Session 2: Navigating Differences: Strategies for Dual Identification in English Learners

• Link to Participant Agenda (will require you to make a forced copy)
• Guidance Document
• Protocol

Session 3: Leveraging the Language of Mathematics

• Link to Participant Agenda (will require you to make a forced copy)
• Language Supports, Grades 3 - Algebra II

Session 4: WIDA for Pre-k Multilingual Learners

• Link to Participant Agenda (will require you to make a forced copy)
• WIDA Early Language Development Standards
• WIDA Can Do Descriptors Early Years
• Michigan Connection to WIDA Early Years

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Suzanne Toohey

Supervisor, Instruction & Pedagogy

Consultant, ELD

Oakland Schools

Suzanne.Toohey@oakland.k12.mi.us