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Accelerate Success for English Learners: Students Work Beyond the Edge of Their Current Abilities With Formative Assessment
This brief emphasizes how quality instruction for English Learners helps them work just beyond the edge of their current knowledge and abilities. It explains how formative assessment practices support teachers to understand where students are in their learning to appropriately scaffold tasks. This enables students to engage meaningfully with learning experiences based on rigorous, grade-level content from wherever they are in their language learning.