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English Learner Education

Public Comment Period Open for new WIDA Instructional Framework for the English Language Development Standards

Announcing Instructional Framework for the WIDA ELD Standards

All educators, administrators, and those who support the education of multilingual learners are invited to share their feedback via a survey. We ask you to share this information widely within your own professional community. Here are some suggested actions for you to consider:

Review the discipline and grade-level draft that is most closely tied to your experience (e.g., Grade 1 Social Studies). You only need to review one and it's better to review one closely than glance at many of them.
Complete the input survey

WIDA (and students who will benefit from this work) thanks you in advance for providing your own feedback via the public input survey, and for your support in getting the word out to all stakeholders.

Last Updated: March 22, 2018

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