Advancing Equity for MLs Through the WIDA ELD Standards | October 27, 2025 | 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM
Explore how the WIDA English Language Development (ELD) Standards serve as a powerful tool for equity by embedding language development within content learning. Examine how the Key Uses of Language and Language Expectations guide instruction that ensures MLs are not just participating but thriving in rigorous, grade-level learning. Through real-world examples and research-based strategies, educators will gain a renewed vision for leveraging language as a tool for equity and empowerment.
Ruslana Westerlund serves over 74 Wisconsin schools as an educational consultant at the Cooperative Educational Service Agency in southeastern Wisconsin. She was one of the co-authors of the WIDA ELD Standards where she contributed a theory of language, namely Systemic Functional Linguistics, which informed the design of all the standards components.
Ruslana has also been a faculty member at Bethel University since 2002. She helped establish the TESOL Licensure program in the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) where she taught a variety of courses from Introduction to Linguistics to TESOL Methods. She is the author of several publications for teacher use and two books.
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