Practical Tools for Supporting MultiLingual Learners (MLLs) with Inconsistent/Interrupted Formal Education (SIFE)

Multilingual/English Learners (MLLs/ELs) are often categorized together as one group in the PK- 12 setting despite their diverse linguistic, cultural, and academic backgrounds. Students with inconsistent/interrupted formal education (SIFE), who are a small subset of MLLs/ELs, are newcomers to the United States who have had limited, interrupted, minimal or no formal education in their countries of origins due to circumstances such as war, natural disaster, poverty, political unrest, or lack of resources. 

This website provides Rhode Island educators with actionable steps on practice and procedures to meet the social, emotional, linguistic, and academic needs of SIFE.