This toolkit provides ready-to-use messages, email copy, and social posts to help partners promote EdTrust-West’s new Black Student Success Data Tool. Please feel free to adapt and customize for your audience.

What It Is:

EdTrust-West's report, Changing the Equation: Bold Ideas to Transform Math Learning for Multilingual Learners, offers key findings and rich data about the depth of the math disparities affecting multilingual learners, a walk-through of how the English Learner Roadmap and the Math Framework fit together, a special section on the LAUSD, and recommendations for both state and local leaders.

Its companion piece, The Multilingual Mosaic: Fast Facts about California’s Linguistically Gifted Learners, uses at-a-glance visuals to illustrate who multilingual learners are, the tremendous assets they possess, and the disparities they face. It ends with four recommendations for how to ensure they have all that they need to reach their full academic potential in all subjects.

Why It Matters:

Nearly 40% of all TK-12 students in California are multilingual learners, and 16% are English learners.

Multilingual learners are gifted; their linguistic abilities can yield great academic and economic success and bring a wealth of diversity to the classroom.

Yet California supports only 1 in 10 English learners to achieve grade-level math proficiency.

Key Findings:

California lags the nation and peer states in math outcomes for English learners.

Decades‑long math equity gaps persist, and outcomes for English learners have stagnated.

As multilingual learners advance through school, fewer and fewer get the support they need to reach grade-level math standards.

Long‑term English learners are almost completely shut out of opportunities to achieve math proficiency.

Both state and local leaders have the power to change this. With the prepared teachers, access to rigorous coursework, high-quality instructional materials, and accountability, multilingual learners can get the support they need to thrive in math.

Full URL: https://edtrustwest.org/resource/changing-the-equation-math-multilingual-learners

Shortened URL: https://edtrustwest.info/changingtheequation

Newsletter Blurb:

EdTrust-West's report, Changing the Equation: Bold Ideas to Transform Math Learning for Multilingual Learners, reveals how California’s math systems are failing multilingual learners and outlines urgent steps state and local leaders must take. A companion infographic, The Multilingual Mosaic: Fast Facts about California's Linguistically Gifted Learners, highlights key data on multilingual learners in California and the opportunity for bold action. Explore them both to better understand who California's multilingual learners are, and how we can reach math equity for them.

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