Essential Practices: Environment
To create radically effective and equitable learning experiences for Multilingual students, educators incorporate Essential Practices into their instruction and school culture. These practices accelerate language development and support cultural ways of knowing and being for Multilingual students.
Language and Culture as Valuable Resources
Language and Culture as Valuable Resources are practices in which students' cultural and linguistic selves are incorporated into instructional and environmental design of schools and classrooms.
Translanguaging
Translanguaging is the practice of decentering English monolingualism as the norm in school and evolving towards the experience of school as a multilingual place. The practice of translanguaging incorporates multilingualism into the culture of school and facilitates a climate in which all languages are welcomed, honored and regarded as valuable.
Collaboration, Co-teaching and Collectivism
Collaboration, Co-teaching and Collectivism is the practice of collectively creating effective instruction and radical membership for all scholars. Teams of teachers work together to meet both the language and content learning needs of multilingual students through differentiated roles.