Multilingual Learner Class
Scholarly
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Fostering a community of empowered learners!
Positive Culture
Students thrive in environments where they feel valued and understood. By setting high expectations and fostering an encouraging atmosphere, we ensure that multilingual learners are motivated to reach their full potential.
Academic Work
Regardless of their linguistic background, multilingual students are capable of achieving high standards. By challenging students with meaningful and rigorous work, we provide opportunities for them to grow.
Feedback and Goals
Timely and personalized feedback is crucial for multilingual students. Our feedback is designed to be clear and actionable, allowing multilingual learners to make continuous progress and reach their full potential.
Standards-Based Learning
By focusing on standards every day, we prepare multilingual learners not only to meet academic expectations but also to thrive in college and future careers. Our daily commitment to skill-building empowers multilingual students to succeed at school and in life.
- Adaptive and Differentiated Practice: We ensure that multilingual learners receive daily adaptive and differentiated reading, writing, and listening practice tailored to their unique language development needs.
- Blended Learning with Explicit Instruction: By explicitly teaching grade-level standards through a blended approach that combines online lessons and direct instruction, we make challenging content accessible for multilingual learners.
- Smart Scaffolding: Consistent support is offered through smart scaffolds that respond to each multilingual learner's needs, building their confidence and ensuring they can tackle increasingly complex tasks with success.
- Fluency Development for Exams: We focus on developing reading and writing fluency to prepare multilingual learners for success on state and local exams, ensuring they have the skills needed to demonstrate their knowledge.
- Mastering Transferable Skills: Our program helps multilingual learners master academic skills that can be strategically applied across all content areas, empowering them to succeed in every subject.
- Personalized Feedback: Continuous, personalized feedback is provided for reading, listening, and writing, helping multilingual learners understand their progress and areas for improvement.
- Student Involvement and Goal Setting: We involve multilingual learners in the learning process by setting attainable growth goals, fostering a sense of ownership and motivation.
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Reading Practice and Assessment
We close opportunity gaps for multilingual learners by increasing their reading practice every week. As students engage with our adaptive online program, they gain confidence in their reading abilities. Working closely with their Scholarly Coach (classroom teacher), they sharpen their skills through guided reading sessions. Multilingual learners discover a love for fictional stories while also learning to approach informational and argumentative texts with an analytical eye. This balanced approach helps them develop critical reading skills, ensuring they can navigate different types of texts with confidence and understanding.
- Adaptive Reading Practice: Our program delivers adaptive and differentiated reading practice that meets multilingual learners where they are, motivating them to grow at their own pace.
- Embedded Assessments: Enhance instruction with embedded assessments that provide real-time insights into how multilingual learners are progressing, allowing for immediate support where needed.
- Real-Time Reading Data: Up-to-the-minute reading data helps monitor multilingual learners' mastery of standards and skills, ensuring they are on track.
- Targeted Learning with Skill Connect Curriculum: Our Skill Connect Curriculum connects performance data to lessons, allowing Scholarly Coaches to easily target individual learning needs and ensure multilingual learners receive the support they require.
- Dynamic Dashboards for Scholarly Coaches: Scholarly Coaches have access to dynamic dashboards, making it easy to conference with multilingual learners about their progress and data, fostering a personalized learning experience.
- Engaging and Gamified Learning: We inspire multilingual learners to do their best with our engaging pedagogy and gamified approach to learning, making the process fun and interactive.
- Parent Portal for Communication: Keep multilingual students and their families informed and engaged with our parent portal, fostering a collaborative approach to learning.
A Writing Universe
Our Scholarly writing platform builds confidence in young multilingual writers throughout the writing process by offering auto-grading, rubric scores, and instant, personalized feedback. This innovative approach allows Scholarly Coaches to focus on coaching their multilingual writers, helping them develop their skills and express their ideas effectively, rather than spending time on grading. We take care of the grading, so teachers can dedicate more time designing and teaching powerful language lessons.
- Increased Writing Practice: We increase weekly writing practice for multilingual learners, helping to close opportunity gaps around writing standards and the writing process.
- Instant, Personalized Feedback: Provide instant, personalized writing feedback every week, helping multilingual learners understand their strengths and areas for improvement.
- Authentic Writing Data: Gain access to writing standards data based on authentic student writing, offering valuable insights into the progress of multilingual learners.
- Transferable Writing Process: Enhance learning with a transferable writing process that multilingual learners can apply across content areas, building skills that are useful in every subject.
- Collaborative Peer Review: Engage multilingual learners in Collaborative Peer Review, teaching them to read as writers and support each other's growth, fostering a collaborative learning environment.
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Build Community
For multilingual learners, a sense of belonging and community is especially important. Throughout the week, Young Scholars engage in various activities like journaling, character lessons, community time, and Family Friday, all designed to ensure that every learner, regardless of their linguistic background, feels included and valued. These activities help multilingual learners connect with their peers, build confidence, and thrive in a supportive and inclusive classroom community.
- Build a Community: Multilingual learners gather as a family to learn how to communicate effectively within a community of Scholars, fostering a sense of belonging and mutual respect.
- Connect Through Team Building: Multilingual learners connect with their peers through team-building activities, college days, and Family Fridays, which strengthen their sense of community and enhance their overall learning experience.
- Build Critical Thinking Skills: Multilingual learners engage in weekly journaling that allows them to focus on self-reflection and explore their voice through writing, helping them build confidence in their language skills.
- WIN Time for Personal Goals: During "WIN" time, multilingual learners have the opportunity to do what they need to meet their goals for the week. Whether it’s studying for a test, organizing their backpacks, moving a project forward, or finishing homework, this time is dedicated to helping them succeed.
- Explore Good Character: By exploring the character traits of successful people, multilingual learners can identify and sharpen these skills within themselves, contributing to their personal and academic growth.
Instructional Design
Each week, your young multilingual Scholars benefit from thoughtful instructional design that integrates reading, speaking, and writing skills into engaging learning routines. In the Scholarly Class, this approach develops the whole child by building both essential academic skills and character. The seamless incorporation of language skills supports multilingual learners in building confidence and achieving their full potential. Our instructional design ensures that every student, regardless of their language background, receives a well-rounded education that fosters growth and self-assurance.
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Scholarly delivers college readiness!
Close Reading
Increase opportunities for students to master close reading skills so that they can become more strategic readers; analyzing both what texts say and what authors do.
Text-dependent Writing
Explicitly teach and rehearse the various components of introducing and integrating sources to ensure students master this essential writing skill.
Academic Conversations
Engage students in authentic conversations about texts and teach them how to defend their ideas by referencing textual details when speaking and writing.
Grit and Perseverance
Research on Grit suggests students who experience success more often are those who are gritty and can persevere. That's why grit is central to our character education.
Collaboration
The ability to effective collaborate is essential. In the Scholarly Class, students use communication to learn from each other, grow as a community, and help each other.
Creativity
Scholarly students constantly analyze evaluate, and apply new knowledge. They are challenged with complex tasks that require ingenuity, creativity, and self-reflection.