Designed for multilingual learners
Language support here is not a translation button bolted on afterward — it is structured into every lesson, aligned to the TESOL 6 Principles for Exemplary Teaching of English Learners and the WIDA English Language Development framework.
TESOL 6 Principles — feature crosswalk
| TESOL Principle | How the platform implements it |
|---|---|
| 1. Know your learners | Teachers assign each student a WIDA level (1–6), a home language, and individual accommodations from the district's own IEP/language menus — the platform then personalizes every lesson to that profile. |
| 2. Create conditions for language learning | Calm, low-anxiety design: no timed tasks, no public labels, self-paced save/resume, praise and check-in nudges, and a "break" tool students can use without asking. |
| 3. Design high-quality lessons for language development | Every lesson pairs a content objective with a language objective; vocabulary comes first — each term with a student-friendly definition, a visual, and a Spanish cognate where one exists. |
| 4. Adapt lesson delivery as needed | Read-aloud with adjustable rate, chunked presentation, reduced-workload adaptation, directions harvested into numbered steps with audio, and text sizing — applied automatically from the student's profile. |
| 5. Monitor and assess student language development | Struggle and misconception signals reach the teacher's radar in real time; written responses are captured in-lesson so language production is visible, not just multiple-choice results. |
| 6. Engage and collaborate within a community of practice | Turn-and-talk routines in every lesson, tiered discussion stems for partner work, and bilingual family letters and homework that bring families into the mathematics. |
WIDA alignment
- Levels drive supports. Assigning WIDA level 1–6 pre-selects a research-aligned bundle: home-language translation, visual vocabulary, sentence frames, read-aloud, and a scaffolded notepad — heavier at Entering/Emerging, lighter toward Bridging/Reaching.
- Tiered math discourse. The sentence-frames tool offers "Math Talk Moves" in three bands — Getting Started (WIDA 1–2), Building Ideas (3–4), Extending Thinking (5–6) — in English and Spanish, alongside lesson-specific frames, so every student has an entry point into mathematical argument.
- Grade-level content, always. Scaffolds change the access route, never the mathematics. Enrichment tiers are equally available to multilingual learners.
Language assets on every core lesson
- 100%of 64 core lessons carry bilingual vocabulary with visuals, sentence frames, and word banks
- 3tiers of universal math-talk stems, English and Spanish, on every lesson
- 4home languages in the supports layer: English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Arabic
- 2languages for family letters and homework notes on every unit (English/Spanish)
Students are never publicly labeled by language status anywhere on the platform — support tiers are named by what they offer (support / enrichment), and per-student assignments are visible only to the teacher.