Essential Principles, Practices, and Structures for Multilingual Learners
Transforming Schools for Multilingual Learners: A Comprehensive Guide for Educators, Second Edition provides educators and educational leaders with a research-based framework for designing effective, equitable systems and learning environments for multilingual learners.
A great deal has changed since the first edition was published. The second edition reflects developments in research, policy, leadership, and practice while maintaining a central focus on creating schools where multilingual learners experience safety, belonging, value, competence, and high expectations.
This second edition supports educators in designing and enacting policies, practices, and structures so that multilingual learners feel a sense of safety, belonging, value, and competence.
Topics explored in the book include:
- a discussion of the changes to federal and state policies and their impact on multilingual learners and their families,
- strategies to move from a deficit- to an asset-based approach that values multilingualism,
- tools for selecting an appropriate language assistance program model
- nine principles to design and deliver high-quality lessons in multiple languages and across disciplines,
- practices to identify and support multilingual learners with learning differences and disabilities, and
- steps for building long-lasting family-school partnerships.
Reflecting evolving trends in leadership, this new edition supports superintendents, principals, curriculum supervisors, coaches, mentors, teachers, and other stakeholders in their collaborative efforts to create and sustain successful language-assistance programs.
