This guide covers important guiding principles and overarching tips as well as specific conversation starters teachers can use.

The guide addresses a critical gap in traditional school models: the tendency to misidentify language acquisition as a learning disability and over-refer MLs for special education services. It advocates for a culturally and linguistically-aligned lens to ensure that multilingual learners receive support that respects their primary language and cultural background.

This helpful tool illustrates how educators can crosswalk UDL 3.0 guidelines to research-backed practices for supporting multilingual learners. it’s not an exhaustive look but is a great jumping off point which teachers can customize for their students and content area.

Use this series of short 1-2 minute videos to introduce family members to English Learner Education. Available in English, Chinese, Haitian Creole, Portuguese, Spanish, and Vietnamese.

Use this video collection to learn about ways educators in schools across Massachusetts are transforming professional learning using a variety of collaborative and lesson internalization methods.

Use these materials and training modules to orient staff and family members on the role ELPACs play and how to start and manage them

This online module provides tools, practices, and resources to help schools serve students with limited or interrupted formal education (SLIFE).

Use these tools and templates to support ELE program development and identification, screening, and English learner progress monitoring

Use this interactive blueprint to explore four pillars blocks of effective support for English learner success

Use these modules to orient and train new paraeducators and provide a deeper dive into specific areas of practice.

Use these tools to support deeper learning grounded in grade-level, real-world, relevant, and interactive learning. Tools in the classroom support observations, lesson and unit unpacking, and student work review.

Find workshop materials from DESE’s 2025 Instructional Leadership Institute. Session topics included instructional vision and planning, designing for school belonging, scheduling, student support structures, multilingual learners, budgeting, and more.

This report paper highlights promising practices and trends in personalized learning and competency-based education for English learners and includes case studies from these schools: