ESL Curriculum 2023 -2024 | Westford Public Schools

Flashlight360 - The language development platform that helps students find their voice. It is a speaking and writing progress monitoring tool with scoring and feedback that gives multilingual students an asset-based platform to showcase their full language capabilities — and provides the right-now, actionable data in five areas of speaking and three areas of writing. Research shows that constructive teacher feedback during the learning process accelerates language development. Flashlight360 is the tool that empowers teachers to transform their students’ speaking and writing capabilities into actionable data and illuminates the path to proficiency for multilingual students with transformative feedback to fuel growth.

English 3D - Build Academic Language for Success in School and Beyond - English 3D® is an explicit and interactive English Language Development curriculum designed by Dr. Kate Kinsella. The only ELD program that has earned the WIDA Prime 2020 Seal of Alignment, English 3D enables multilingual learners in grades 4–12 to rapidly acquire the language skills necessary for academic success.

Rising Voices - What Is Rising Voices? Each Rising Voices Library (K-5) provides students with high-interest, culturally relevant texts that give context to today’s world while celebrating the stories of the historically underrepresented. These books, paired with innovative teaching materials aligned to the CASEL framework, build a classroom community that broadens the perspectives of students from all backgrounds and enables deep discussions about inclusivity, social justice, and empathy for others.