Learners understand current research on language acquisition for K-12 students, the strengths and needs of different groups of multilingual learners, and how to establish two way communication with multilingual families.

Learners understand the importance of using an asset based approach with multilingual students, how to identify student funds of knowledge in online/hybrid contexts, how to draw on student funds of knowledge in online/hybrid lessons, and how to encourage and develop home language in online/hybrid lessons.

Learners understand why providing multiple means of engagement, representation, and expression supports multilingual students, how to provide student voice and choice in online/hybrid lessons, how to provide multiple means of representation (visual, written, oral) in online/hybrid lessons, and how to provide multiple means of expression (visual, written, oral) in online/hybrid lessons.

Learners acknowledge the importance of reducing affective filters for creating inclusive digital communities, how to provide low stakes community building opportunities in online/hybrid lessons, how to provide linguistic supports (sentence starters, word banks, explicit vocabulary instruction) in online/hybrid lessons, and how to implement routines and consistent organization strategies in online/hybrid lessons.

Learners understand the importance of oral language development for multilingual learners, how to use equity sticks to ensure opportunities to produce language in online/hybrid lessons, how to use leveled questions to plan and measure oral language development in online/hybrid lessons, and how to use cooperative learning structures to increase oral language development in online/hybrid lessons.