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Multilingual Justice in Schools

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Multilingual Justice in Schools

Despite the growing number of multilingual learners in schools, there is bias surrounding the students and families, and false assumptions that language differences mean a difference in academic ability.

In this important book, bestselling author Andrea Honigsfeld applies five essential abilities of equity literacy to multilingual justice, showing how to effectively work with multilingual learners while recognizing their strengths and identifying and addressing inequities and injustices they experience. The book provides educators with a concise, research-backed, and evidence-based analysis of multilingual justice and offers practical and actionable recommendations to sustain equity for multilingual learners. It is a call to action to dismantle language-based inequities and injustices in our classrooms, schools, and larger educational communities.

Key features include poetry and art, authentic voices from the field; notable current research findings; ready-to-use tools and protocols; and time to pause and reflect. With this helpful resource, teachers, leaders, and teacher educators alike will feel equipped to bring about multilingual justice so their students can truly thrive.

Wait, Don’t Just Translate

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Wait, Don't Just Translate

Empower emergent multilingual learners to thrive with multidimensional strategies that go beyond simple translation

When emergent multilingual learners enter a new classroom, educators often grapple with a complex question: to translate or not to translate? Wait, Don’t Just Translate offers a nuanced approach, moving beyond simple translation as a go-to strategy. Addressing the urgent need to foster true belonging, this book provides K-12 educators with a comprehensive, empathetic … approach to honoring students’ rich linguistic and cultural heritages without overreliance on translation.

Key features include:

  • Authentic vignettes that let you walk in the shoes of emergent multilingual learners and better understand their unique experiences.
  • Sample teacher-created materials and ready-to-use instructional tools that effectively move beyond translation.
  • Self-assessment tools and reflection probes to continuously affirm and challenge your asset-based practices.

By embracing these inclusive practices, you’ll discover how to create affirming spaces where newcomer and emergent multilingual learners feel safe, valued, and empowered to thrive academically, linguistically, and socially.

A Leader′s Guide to Collaboration and Co-Teaching for Multilingual Learners – Second Edition

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Build collaborative leadership practices that transform outcomes for multilingual learners

The landscape of education is shifting, and multilingual learners now make up a growing portion of classrooms nationwide. Yet too many of these bright, capable students struggle to reach their potential because the adults around them aren′t working together effectively. This updated guide shows exactly how to create the collaborative culture multilingual learners need to thrive.

Drawing from extensive research and real-world success stories, bestselling authors Andrea Honigsfeld and Maria Dove present a comprehensive roadmap for transforming your school′s approach to supporting multilingual learners. This practical resource meets you where you are and guides you toward where you need to be. The authors understand that creating lasting change requires more than good intentions―it demands strategic leadership, shared vision, and sustained collaboration among all members of the learning community.

This essential guide provides:

  • A clear framework for collaborative leadership that moves beyond individual teacher efforts to create school-wide systems of support
  • Research-based program models that integrate language development with academic content across all subject areas
  • Practical tools and templates for coordinating services, developing shared curricula, and implementing effective assessment practices
  • Professional learning strategies that build capacity among all staff members to work effectively with multilingual learners
  • Real voices from the field featuring authentic examples and reflections from successful educational leaders

The time for isolated approaches to multilingual learner education has passed. This guide empowers educational leaders to create collaborative, inclusive environments where multilingual learners don′t just survive―they flourish alongside their peers while developing language and literacy skills.

Nine Dimensions of Scaffolding for Multilingual Learners

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Create a rigorous learning environment with strategic and inclusive scaffolding practices

Today′s classrooms are more linguistically diverse than ever, but many educators still feel underprepared to support multilingual learners in accessing grade-level academic content. Without intentional scaffolding, these students miss opportunities to thrive alongside their peers. Through nine scaffolded approaches―instructional, linguistic, multimodal, multisensory, graphic, digital, interactive/collaborative, social-emotional, and environmental―this resource offers content area teachers research-based, practical strategies to meet the linguistic, social-emotional, and academic needs of multilingual learners.

Key features of this book include

  • Detailed vignettes and authentic examples from classrooms to illustrate scaffolding in action
  • Research-based strategies for integrating scaffolds into lessons across content areas
  • Self-assessment tools and reflection questions for personal and professional growth
  • Practical templates to help educators tailor their scaffolding techniques to individual student needs

Scaffolding instruction is not just another teaching approach to learning―it is a critical non-negotiable for multilingual learners, providing a lifeline to language mastery, academic achievement, and a profound sense of belonging. Dove, Honigsfeld, and McDermott Goldman offer the guidance and inspiration educators need to cultivate equitable, engaging learning opportunities that truly help multilingual students to soar.

Collaborative Assessment for Multilingual Learners and Teachers

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Enhance your assessment practices and deepen collaboration

Join bestselling authors Margo Gottlieb and Andrea Honigsfeld on an engaging journey to showcase collaborative assessment within assets-driven instructional practices. Integrating instructional and assessment cycles, explore how multilingual learners can interact with each other and their teachers to form lasting partnerships. Using evidence-based, research-informed strategies, Gottlieb and Honigsfeld invite educators to form partnerships to fortify linguistically and culturally sustainable assessment within their classroom routines.

Throughout the learning journey, Collaborative Assessment for Multilingual Learners and Teachers offers:

  • Practical tips and adaptable templates to reinforce assessment during instruction
  • Vignettes that bring practical application of key concepts to life
  • Protocols and tools for teachers and multilingual learners to engage in reflective conversations about their learning
  • Recurring colorful icons that capture the travel theme and much more…

Collaborative assessment approaches AS, FOR, and OF learning encourages relationship building to foster multilingual learners’ academic, linguistic, cultural, and social-emotional development. This practical guide supports educators in enacting collaborative assessment and welcomes multilingual learners to be partners in the process.

Collaboration for Multilingual Learners With Exceptionalities

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Discover models, strategies, and real-life stories to strengthen your collaborative practices.

Cooperation, coordination of services, and impactful collaboration are critical to the success of multilingual learners with exceptional needs. Written by experts in the fields of language and literacy development, equity, and special education, this practical guide emphasizes the power of partnership and inclusive pedagogy to transform educational practices for culturally and linguistically diverse students. Through six comprehensive chapters, the book offers strategies for effective co-planning, co-assessment, and co-teaching, while emphasizing the importance of cultural diversity and equitable classroom-based approaches for students with exceptionalities.

Each chapter includes opening sketch notes offering a visual representation of key ideas, anchor and reflection questions, and additional resources for extended professional learning.
Other unique features include:

  • Real-life scenarios of successful collaborative practices and innovations developed by educators of dually identified multilingual learners
  • Leadership-specific recommendations to support the success of initiatives for multilingual learners with exceptional needs
  • Essential tools and protocols to implement equitable classroom-based approaches for creating inclusive, collaborative learning environments

Both a practical guide and an urgent call-to-action, this book supports educators, districts, and communities to embrace collaboration, combine their professional expertise, and use shared voices to advocate for multilingual learners with exceptionalities.

Growing Language and Literacy: Strategies for Secondary Multilingual Learners

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As secondary teachers, we want to help our multilingual students flourish academically and socially. Andrea Honigsfeld has tailored her bestselling Growing Language and Literacy K-8 to help us do just that. This new edition provides Grade 6-12 teachers with research-informed recommendations and concrete examples of what works with adolescent multilingual learners.

Andrea unpacks the five levels of language acquisition and introduces practical strategies that can be applied across grade levels and content areas to support adolescent multilingual learners. 

With an emphasis on culturally and linguistically sustaining pedagogy, peer interaction, and scaffolding, Andrea offers evidence-based practices organized into four recurring strands at each level of language acquisition: 

*Social-emotional support strategies
*Experiential learning strategies

*Strategies for supporting students across multiple modes of communication with a focus on oracy and literacy

* Technology integration strategies


Filled with secondary student vignettes, teacher and student work samples, and authentic classroom examples, Growing Language and Literacy for Grades 6-12 will become every teacher’s guide to moving their multilingual learners from one stage of language acquisition to the next.

Breaking Down the Monolingual Wall: Essential Shifts for Multilingual Learners′ Success

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Your guide to culturally and linguistically sustaining practices in your dual language classroom and school.

It’s time to set the record straight: Multilingualism is a tremendous asset that must be nurtured and valued and the most effective pathway to multilingualism is dual language education. Despite significant evidence attesting to the cognitive, social/emotional, and economic benefits of multilingualism, the majority of our classrooms and schools are monolingual.

Encouragingly, recent shifts in state policies have increased the demand for dual language programming in our schools. This increased momentum brings new challenges, including the need for more bilingually authorized teachers, high-quality instructional resources, and accurate assessment and accountability in the target languages of instruction. With contributions from ten experts in multilingual education, Breaking Down the Monolingual Wall outlines the systemic and pedagogical approaches necessary for successful multilingual and dual language programs. The book supports educators to: 

  • Shift the paradigm from one that is subtractive and deficit-based to one that is additive and assets-based
  • Embed culturally and linguistically sustaining practices in their instruction
  • Understand how to promote multilingualism in the context of teaching academic content
  • Develop assessments as, for, and of learning in multiple languages.
  • Lead high-quality dual language schools and programs
  • Recruit and retain highly qualified bilingual educators

Offering a comprehensive overview of bilingual policies and historical context all educators should understand, Breaking Down the Monolingual Wall is an invaluable guide to creating dual language learning environments that build on the precious assets of our multilingual students and families.

Collaboration and Co-Teaching for Dual Language Learners

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Teaching dual-language learners? You’re not alone!

Leveraging the power of teacher collaboration is the key to leading all your students to multilingual identity development and language, literacy, and academic success. This practical book adapts a widely used, evidence-based collaboration and co-teaching framework specifically for educators in dual-language contexts. Features include:

  • Special consideration to social justice and promoting critical consciousness
  • Viable options for schools, districts, and state education agencies to effectively support and expand dual-language education
  • Seven proven co-teaching models, newly applied to elementary and secondary dual-language environments
  • Templates and tools for collaborative curriculum alignment and implementation of dual-language instruction

Portraits of Collaboration: Educators Working Together to Support Multilingual Learners

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Portraits of Collaboration: Educators Working Together to Support Multilingual Learners explores the topics of teacher collaboration and coteaching within ESL, ELD, and bilingual classrooms. The overarching theme that runs through this edited volume is the importance of educators working together for the sake of their multilingual learners. Such collaborations may take many different shapes and forms and each chapter showcases a unique dimension of teacher collaboration. Each contributing author offers highly practical strategies and authentic, successful examples of how to engage in collaborative practices successfully. The chapters draw the readers in through some recurring features such as a narrative introduction, a blueprint for successful implementation, high-impact strategies and student success stories. The collaborative practices come alive through photographs, vignettes, teacher-created tools, student artifacts, and video clips and other resources in this richly illustrated volume.