Courageous Leadership for Multilingual Learners

This book provides a new, transformative framework that helps leaders design coherent, equity-minded systems to promote the success of multilingual students.Multilingual learners (MLs) are a protected class of students entitled to certain educational services designed to ensure equitable access to the same educational opportunities as other students. Yet MLs are often siloed from core school programs. To address this pressing issue, Courageous Leadership for Multilingual Learners offers an original, research-backed framework for leaders to ensure that MLs are considered from the start across all levels of the educational system.By reading this book, readers will learn how to:Center the cultural and linguistic backgrounds of MLsDesign equity-minded systemsCultivate communities where MLs and their families can thriveStrengthen educational opportunities for all students  By showing what becomes possible when responsibility for ML education is shared, Hopkins will teach you how to create policies that uplift the strengths of all students. Read more