Author: Lynn Shafer Willner

7 December 2021


MinneTESOL Journal, (2021), Vol. 37(Issue 2)

What’s the same and what’s been updated in the WIDA English Language Development Standards Framework, 2020 edition?

 The WIDA English Language Development (ELD) Standards Framework, 2020 Edition, offers a more clearly organized framework to represent content-driven language learning. Grade-level cluster resources include Language Expectations to create unit-level language goals for all multilingual learners as well as Proficiency Level Descriptors…
0 By Lynn Shafer Willner, Fernanda Marinho Kray and Margo Gottlieb 
28 May 2021


MinneTESOL Journal, (2021), Vol. 37(Issue 1)

Putting discourse first

 Discourse is all about communication. Putting discourse first is a form of scaffolding that can yield more thoughtful discussions about the language choices speakers and writers make and how language awareness can help students advance their communicative purpose most effectively.
0 By Cynthia Lundgren and Lynn Shafer Willner 
lynn.willner@wisc.edu

Lynn Shafer Willner, Ph.D., works to improve equity and accessibility for multilingual learners through the design of digital tools, accessibility and accommodations research and guidelines, and standards for multilingual learners. While working at WestEd, she served as Lead Author of the 2014 ELPA21 ELP Standards (CCSSO 2014a; 2014b). Since her arrival at WIDA in mid-2014, Lynn co-authored the WIDA Accessibility and Accommodations Framework and an accompanying supplement used with ACCESS for ELLs. As part of her work on the WIDA ELD Standards Development Team, she created the alignment architecture for the 2020 Edition.