Cultural Competency
Supporting LGBTQ+ Students
The California Department of Education’s Educator Excellence and Equity Division (EEED) is pleased to announce that new web pages supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, and queer (LGBTQ+) youth, their…
Supporting Multilingual Students in the Early Grades
Multilingualism is an asset to be nurtured in our classrooms, and the following five strategies can help teachers strategically and intentionally celebrate and extend multilingual children’s existing linguistic expertise as…
Supporting Young Children and Families Impacted by Immigration Policies: Recorded Webinar
Harsh immigration policies undermine the safety, health, and overall development of young children in immigrant families, the vast majority of whom are U.S. citizens. New and proposed immigration policies—including increased…
Teaching Dual Language Learners: What Early Childhood Educators Need to Know
As the number of dual language learners (DLLs) in early childhood settings continues to rise, educators need to know how to teach, engage, and assess children from different cultural and…
Federation for Children with Special Needs
The Federation is a center for parents and parent organizations to work together on behalf of children with special needs and their families. We can help! Organized in 1975 as…
Useable Knowledge
Usable Knowledge is an online resource from the Harvard Graduate School of Education that aims to make education research and best practices accessible to educators, policymakers, members of the media,…
Vermont Young DLL Tool Kit
The purpose of this toolkit is to provide early childhood colleagues with evidence-based practices, tools, and strategies to support young Dual Language Learners (DLLs) and their families. Despite a slight…
Welcoming-Bilingual-Learners-with-Disabilities-into-Dual-Language-Programs
This white paper reviews evidence concerning the capacity of young learners with disabilities to acquire more than one language during the preschool and school years and the characteristics of dual…