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Raise the Bar: Lead the World Resource Spotlight
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We want to hear from you! If you are a school community, local government, or state that is working within the early childhood arena or supporting multilingual learners and their families, please share your story and collaborate with us here. Ideally, please provide a web link for easy sharing, but all submissions are welcomed. Let us know how your work is leading the world to a better tomorrow!
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Looking for innovative strategies that leverage Federal funding to support young multilingual learners? This informative brief for educators and school leaders denotes how states are using Federal funding to build capacity, create infrastructure, provide direct services, and pilot work that is new for them — all as part of strategic efforts to provide a high-quality education to multilingual learners. The brief provides practical tips for effective instruction; recruiting, training, and retaining a multilingual workforce; and family and community engagement.
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For educators serving young multilingual learners, reading books in a child’s home language can advance key language and literacy skills. This quick guide supports early childhood educators in selecting, evaluating, and using books in the home languages of young multilingual learners. The guide explores the benefits of sharing books in children’s home languages and includes supplemental resources to help educators use the Internet to find culturally relevant books in different languages.
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California is on its way to a universal preschool model by 2025-26, which includes a district-based preschool program — Transitional Kindergarten. This brief provides estimates of how many Transitional Kindergarten teachers California will need; describes the potential supply pools that could meet this demand; outlines pathways into the profession; and offers recommendations to help stabilize, support, and expand the entire early childhood workforce.
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If your team has been looking for best practices for literacy instruction for young dual language learners, this resource is for you! This resource shares research on literacy development and effective literacy instruction for young, developing bilingual children who are learning English as a new language in early childhood classrooms. The paper concludes with a series of recommendations for childhood practitioners, educational leaders, curriculum developers, and policy makers to frame efforts around developmentally appropriate, culturally responsive literacy instruction for dual language learners.
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Being bilingual is a superpower! Knowing more than one language has both short- and long-term benefits, which can start in early childhood. This infographic for early childhood educators shares research on the advantages of young children being bilingual and biliterate and includes supplemental resources on language development and early learning.
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Schools and school districts across the country are implementing innovative initiatives to foster whole-child development in safe, supportive learning environments, starting in early childhood. This resource highlights how a California unified school district provides child-centered environments and high-quality educational programs and resources that value and respect the languages, cultures, and needs of all students, families, staff, and communities. Click through the various subtopics to learn more about how Fresno Unified School District is raising the bar on early learning!
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This spotlight features just a few of the many resources in the Best Practices Clearinghouse on supporting early learning and multilingual learners. To learn more, access the Resource Library with an equity focus on English learners, or use the search function with keywords such as “Language” and “Multilingual.” Additionally, the new English Learner Family Toolkit builds upon the U.S. Department of Education’s ongoing efforts to advance engagement and connection with multilingual families.
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