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Language can create barriers to engagement, belonging, and access.  By providing sheltered instructional strategies, language tools, bringing in students language and co-creating meaning we can increase understanding and achievement.

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Language can help us better understand one another when our words are exact and/or people have a common definition of our words.  It can cause confusion if we use don't have a common definition.

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Language can help us better understand one another when our words are exact and/or people have a common definition of our words.  It can cause confusion if we use don't have a common definition.

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Students' vocabulary at time impacts their level of engagement with the content

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In my middle school math classroom, both receptive and expressive language was needed. Understanding spoken and written language - including math vocabulary, story problems, and conceptual explanations - needed support. Producing viable arguments using both words and symbols was involved. As a TOSA, I learned so much about language that I wish I’d known for supporting students with academic language.

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Language can impact student success in classroom when student does not have prior knowledge or schema around the topic or content. It is important to build vocabulary in a meaningful way that students can connect to.

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The connection between language and culture must be honored.  Dismissing or discounting language dismisses and discounts students.

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language provides access to social success and academic success.... we must ensure it is an access point not a barrier

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The classroom is all about communication. Much of that communication is writing, reading, and speaking which are often based in one language. That can create barriers. Using digital tools is one way we can bridge the connection between school and students home language. Within our classrooms, we can utilize  language structures (vocab, sentence frames, discussions) to support students developing their academic language.

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Language is a huge part of your identify and should be honored in whatever way or shape it is expressed. Success in relation to formal English or standard expectations should be modeled, practiced and its variety should be celebrated too.  

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Language is a huge part of your identify and should be honored in whatever way or shape it is expressed. Success in relation to formal English or standard expectations should be modeled, practiced and its variety should be celebrated too.  

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Language is the means in which a student can express who they are, what they know and what they wonder and find out who other students are and how they think. It allows therm to receive meaning and express meaning.

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Language/academic vocabulary needs to be taught within context & repeatedly for students to experience success. When textbooks & assignments use the vocab & students do not know or understand the words, then they do not have success or do not respond. It may be they do understand a concept but do not know the words.

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Language is a barrier for many students. I prefer to think in terms of communication which is multidimensional.

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Language is a barrier for many students. I prefer to think in terms of communication which is multidimensional.

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Language is an inevitable gateway to learning under our current model- especially so during virtual learning- that can both increase barriers and learning opportunities depending on how we co-design our instructional approach with the right stakeholders.