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NEWS

5-1-08
The UW-Oshkosh D2L system including our online ACCESS for ELLs® training course will be shut down for necessary upgrades from Thursday, May 22 at 3:00pm until Tuesday, May 27 at 7:00am. Please plan your training accordingly. Thank you for your cooperation.

4-30-08
Announcement: the 2008 version of the ACCESS for ELLs® Interpretive Guide for Score Reports is now available on the ACCESS for ELLs® page.

4-9-08
Please visit the ACCESS for ELLs® section of our website to download a new brochure highlighting the features of our new Kindergarten assessments, scheduled for release in 2008-09.

4-1-08
We are pleased to announce that we will offer two summer professional development academies on educating ELLs. Please visit the WIDA Summer Academies main page to learn more!

3-19-08
The WIDA English Language Proficiency Standards and Resource Guide, 2007 Edition are now available online and in print. The price for the print edition is currently $15 with a $5 discount for teachers and administrators who work for schools in our Consortium member states. To place an order (payable by purchase order, check or credit card), please visit our online store.

3-18-08
WIDA welcomes our 17th state, South Dakota! Please see the article in Education Week to learn more.

Welcome to the World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment (WIDA) Consortium site.

WIDA is a consortium of states dedicated to the design and implementation of high standards and equitable educational opportunities for English language learners.

To this end, the WIDA Consortium has developed English language proficiency standards and an English language proficiency test aligned with those standards (ACCESS for ELLs®). In addition, WIDA has developed Spanish language arts standards and is planning a system of parallel academic assessments for beginning English language learners (ONPAR™). Research and professional development activities importantly complement the WIDA standards and assessment products.

Originally established through a federal grant, the WIDA Consortium consists of seventeen partner states: Alabama, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, Virginia, and Wisconsin.

These seventeen states account for approximately 480,000 English language learners in kindergarten through grade 12 in approximately 3,500 school districts.

 

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