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GATE Equity Webinar: Language Learners 101: Supporting Best Practices

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What’s your system for ensuring language acquisition? Join OSPI’s Director of Migrant & Bilingual Education, Veronica Gallardo as she examines essential systems elements needed to support Language Learners. We’ll be joined by ESD 105 to talk about what districts can do to support the schools they are working with. You’ll get statewide data and resources to help you get started!

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Veronica M. Gallardo

Funds of Knowledge

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The funds of knowledge concept was originally applied by Vélez-Ibáñez and Greenberg (1992) to describe the historical accumulation of abilities, bodies of knowledge, assets, and cultural ways of interacting that were evident in U.S.-Mexican households in Tucson, Arizona.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Eric Johnson

Best Practices for Using Technology with Multilingual Families Toolkit

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This toolkit is designed to help Local Educational Agencies (LEAs) create and maintain effective strategies with multilingual families. We explore and model best practices for the use of technology in teaching, as well as for assessing and communicating with diverse adults. The following guide is applicable for face-to-face, blended, and online instruction, and can also serve as a toolkit.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction

Best Practices for Using Technology with Multilingual Families Toolkit (Spanish)

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Este conjunto de herramientas está diseñado para ayudar a las Agencias Educativas Locales (LEA, por sus siglas en inglés) a crear y mantener estrategias efectivas con las familias multilingües. Exploramos y modelamos las mejores prácticas para el uso de la tecnología en la enseñanza, así como para evaluar y comunicarnos con adultos diversos. La siguiente guía es aplicable para la instrucción presencial, combinada y en línea, y también puede servir como un conjunto de herramientas para tal efecto.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction