What Districts Are Navigating

Teachers are working with increasingly diverse classrooms. Multilingual learner populations are growing across the nation and here in Massachusetts, while teacher preparation programs haven't kept pace. Districts have invested in high-quality instructional materials, but general education teachers—not just ESL specialists—now serve as primary instructors for MLs, often without adequate training. Career-changers entering through non-traditional pathways need support in both general pedagogy and ML-responsive strategies.

The question becomes: How do districts build teacher capacity to make grade-level content truly accessible to multilingual learners—without watering it down—while building on what they've already invested in?

That's the work we do.