World Languages Standards
| The World Languages Standards for CA Public Schools, K-12 are intended to provide guidance to teachers, administrators, students, parents and the community at large in implementing World Languages programs to ensure successful entry at any point in the curriculum from K-12.
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World Languages Framework
| The World Languages Framework provides guidance to educators, parents, and publishers, to support implementing CA content standards. The curriculumframework was adopted by the SBE in January 2019 and is currently accessible as a pre-publication version.
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Guiding Principles of Dual Language (3rd Edition)
| The 3rd edition of the Guiding Principles for Dual Language Education was designed for educatorswho are interested in effective dual language education. The resource is an effective tool for planning, self-reflection, and continual improvement.
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CA Global 2030
| The initiative is a call to action that asks that stakeholders expand access to world language classes, programs, and experiences, provide more training to bilingual teachers, and improve the quality and availability of advanced language classes so that by 2030 half of all K–12 students in CA will have participated in programs leading to proficiency in two or more languages, either through a class, a program, or an experience.
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Seal of Biliteracy
| The State Seal of Biliteracyis a statement ofaccomplishment for gaining competency intwo or more languages, and may be viewed asan asset when applying for employment and/orcollege admission.
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Common Core en Español: State Standards Initiative Translation Project
| The following stateguidance documents were translated and linguistically augmented to serve as a guide for equitable assessment and curriculum development, resulting in high levels of biliteracy. These documents were produced by San Diego County Office of Education, in collaboration with the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and the CDE.
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Evaluator's Toolkit for Dual Language Programs
| The purpose of this Toolkit is to assist staff in dual language programs that serve English language learners (ELLs) to understand how to meet assessment and accountability guidelines. Produced by Kathryn Lindholm-Leary, Ph.D., and Gary Hargett, Ph.D.and the California Department of Education.
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CDE Multilingual FAQs
| Multilingual Education frequently asked questions on instructional approaches and other issues related to dual language education. CDE Resource.
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Best Practices for Dual Language Elementary Students
| The following archived webinars introduce dual language educators to teaching and learning approaches and processes that support elementary students' abilities to access and engage in disciplinary literacy.The webinars were sponsored by the Region 15 Comprehensive Center at WestEd, in collaboration with the California Teachers Association (CTA) and CDE.
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CommonLit en Español
| Thisresource provides quality texts to support Spanish literacy development for dual or world languagesprograms. There are over 100 3rd through 8thgrade Spanish lessons on the site, with plans to add hundreds more in the coming months.
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UNESCO World Digital Library: Open Access Resources in Multiple Languages
| As one of the United Nations system libraries, the UNESCO Library collection contains practically all publications issued by UNESCO, as well as a selection of scholarly titles devoted to the areas covered by UNESCO's fields of expertise, such aseducation, culture, social and human sciences, communication and information.
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Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
| Large-scale digital library project, hosted and maintained by the University of Alicante (Spain). It comprises the largest open-access repository of digitisedSpanish-language historical texts and literature from the Ibero-American world.
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Resources for World Languages Educators
| Links to resources to support language teachers with the shift to remote teaching and learning. Such topics include building relationships and virtual communities, embedding authentic texts in world languages, and engaging all languagelearners in online instruction.
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China Learning Initiative: Teaching Resources Hub
| Resourcesfor remotely teaching Chinese during the COVID-19 global pandemic. Resources include such topics as assessment, curricula and curriculum frameworks, lessons, and books and articles about early language and immersion education.
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