Instructional Quality in Collaborative Teaching: What Factors Support or Impede It?  Date & Time: April 24, 2025 | 1:45–3:15 p.m MT Location: The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 711 Presenter(s): Sarah Howard Description: Co-teaching is a prominent instructional model used to provide integrated language and content learning for EL-designated multilingual learners (Kibler ... Read more

Teachers' Development of Critical Consciousness Around Multilingual Families Date & Time: April 25, 2025 | 9:50–11:20 0.m MT Location: The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 711 Presenter(s): Sarah Howard Description: Fundamental to teachers’ culturally relevant instructional practices is their knowledge of students and families (Gay, 2010; Ladson-Billings, 2014), but teachers typically receive ... Read more

Developing a Classroom Assessment System in Science: Centering Educators’ and Multilingual Students’ Voices Date & Time: April 25, 2025 | 1:30 – 3:00 p.m MT Location: The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 403 Presenter(s): Keira Ballantyne, Brittany York, Amy Burden, Ivanna Anderson Description: The Multilingual Multimodal Science Inventory (M2-Si) is a classroom ... Read more

Design Principles for Opportunity and Thriving: Centering Multilingual Learners in Formative Assessment Date & Time: April 26, 2025 | 11:40 a.m. – 1:25 p.m MT Location: The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 403 Presenter(s): Amy Burden, Ivanna Anderson, Keira Ballantyne, Brittany York Description: We present the process for selecting design principles that ... Read more

Guiding Principles for Dual Language Education: Biliteracy through Authenticity Date & Time: July 1, 2025 | 10:40 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. PST Location: Lotus A Presenter(s): Analleli Hernandez Description: How can the Guiding Principles of Dual Language Education inform classroom instruction? Biliteracy for today and the future depends on our ability to embrace the authentic ... Read more

The New WIDA ACCESS Writing Scoring Rubric for Grades 1-12 Date & Time: October 28, 2025 | 1:15 p.m. PT Presenter(s): Tanya Bitterman Description: Do you want a better understanding of how the WIDA ACCESS Writing test is scored? Come to this workshop to hear about the new WIDA Writing Scoring Rubric for grades 1-12, ... Read more

“A Peek Behind the New Kindergarten ACCESS" Event: WIDA Conference 2025 Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2025    Location: Room B Time: 2:45 p.m. Session Format: Workshop Presenters: Regina DiBella (CAL) Christy Shepherd (CAL) Beth DeVito (WIDA) Marcy Olson (WIDA) Description: Curious about the new WIDA ACCESS for Kindergarten (K ACCESS) test? Join this session to preview ... Read more