Practical. Actionable. Theoretically informed.

We met at the University of Pennsylvania, where we serve as faculty members in the Graduate School of Education. In our 20+ years of work with K-12 schools, universities, and community-based educational programs, we have been struck by how many questions educators have about working with multilingual learners:

“How do I create a classroom climate that is sensitive to students who are users of English as an additional language?”

“What instructional strategies should I use to support multilingual learners in my classroom?”

“I only speak English. How can I teach math (or any academic subject) to students who are new both to English and the academic concepts in my lessons?”

“I’m a professor. How do I help students to write in more professional, discipline-specific ways?”

We started MultilingualWorks to make the latest research on language teaching and literacy development accessible and answerable to educators’ concerns. The goal of MultilingualWorks is not to prescribe formulas, but to listen carefully to the voices and lived experiences of educators in order to craft practical, actionable, and theoretically informed plans. We partner with schools, districts, universities, and community programs to build stronger and more inclusive multilingual learning communities.