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Research
Explore our published insights designed to help advance the field’s understanding of what works for English Learners, Dual Language Learners, and Multilingual Learners.
Making Cross Language Connections
A resource for students working with multilingual children that discusses cross-language connections.
Oral Language Analysis for Designated ELD
The Oral Language Analysis strategy provides teachers an opportunity to record student learning and language production, and then analyze their language to determine a series of lessons or steppingstones to be adddressed during Designated ELD.
Promoting a Sense of Identity
Supports teachers by providing ways they can work with families to promote children's proud sense of identity, connection to home culture and heritage, plus respect for diversity.
9 Ways to Support Your Child’s Bilingualism
Provides nine ways to support a child's bilingualism even when you don't speak a second language.
Latest Presentations
What are the benefits of building oral language, vocabulary, and background knowledge in a student’s home language? (The Reading League Summit)
Patricia Pate’s session discussion focused on the research base, benefits, and implications of developing oral language skills in more than one language and linking new learning to knowledge acquired in a student’s home language. Joining panelists from Teacher PRO and Middle Tennessee State University and moderated by Dr. Magaly Lavadenz from Loyola Marymount University, Pate illustrated the sophisticated language of three- and four-year-olds and focused on the benefits of building oral language, vocabulary and background knowledge in a student’s home language.
Release Event: Economic Impact of Multilingual Learning
SEAL with Early Edge California joined Bay Area Council Economic Institute and Sobrato Philanthropies as a panelist to discuss their recent report: The Economic Benefits of Multilingual Learning. The report findings reveal that supporting multilingual learning among California’s youngest children can improve educational outcomes, boost household incomes, and give California companies the edge needed to compete on the world stage.
Play, Relationships + Academics: Teaching the Ways Kindergartners Learn Best (Campaign for Grade-Level Reading)
SEAL’s Anya Hurwitz took part in the second of a six-part webinar series by The Campaign for Grade-Level Reading and New America’s Early & Elementary Education Policy Program that promotes impactful teaching and learning in kindergarten. Anya with leaders from Stand for Children, Temple University, and Tools of the Mind explored research findings on teaching and learning in kindergarten and explored strategies and approaches for teaching in the way young children learn best.
Strengthening Kindergarten to Improve Children’s PreK-3rd Grade Experiences (Campaign for Grade-Level Reading)
In this GLR Learning Tuesdays moderator Laura Bornfreund of New America asks panelists what a well-aligned, joyful, and developmentally informed PreK through third continuum means for dual language learners, children with disabilities, and children from families with low incomes.
Strengthening Family Partnerships to Promote Bilingual Pride at Home and in the Classroom(CABE 2024)
This workshop offers effective practices and strategies to build family partnerships that foster strong community engagement and empower families to take an active role in students’ learning.
Strengthening Family Partnerships to Promote Bilingual Pride at Home and in the Classroom (La Cosecha 2023 Annual Conference)
This workshop offers effective practices and strategies to build family partnership at your sites through an assets-based approach, offering ready-to-go workshops to foster community engagement and empower families to take an active role in students’ learning.