![]() ![]() This one-stop-shop is the product of a collaborative effort between local and national practitioners, researchers, and advocates committed to improving educational opportunities for MLs in early grades where a higher percentage of children are identified as ELs compared to upper grades.Ī user’s journey on the platform begins with a starter guide, equipped with key definitions, and most importantly, the four foundational principles underpinning the toolkit: In a timely move, Early Edge California and American Institutes for Research (AIR) released the Multilingual Learning Toolkit last month, an online hub of research-and evidence-based instructional resources and strategies on how to best-support multilingual learners (MLs), a broad term used to encompass both dual language learners (DLLs) and ELs, in grades PreK–3. However, as education moved online during the pandemic, it quickly became obvious that most “mainstream” teachers were not prepared to support linguistically diverse students, an issue that predates COVID-19 but nevertheless was exacerbated by it. ![]() Higher than average absentee rates understandably led to many of these students falling behind academically, which means educators will have a lot of ground to cover. Of particular concern are the roughly 5 million English learners (ELs) who have been among those affected the most-both at home and in the classroom. ![]() The start of the 2021-22 school year brought with it many questions about how schools and educators planned to close the opportunity gaps that seemed to have multiplied during remote schooling. ![]()
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