Our Mission

  • provide English Learners with a culturally and linguistically relevant education
  • ​raise student achievement across content areas
  • prepare students to fully participate in the 21st century economic, political, cultural, and intellectual life of our global society
  • ensure the academic success of English Learners
  • ​engage educators in quality professional development
  • empower educators to serve the educational needs of linguistically diverse students
  • advocate for the development and maintenance of clearly defined biliteracy pathways
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2019-2020 ELD Requirements for
Elementary & ​Secondary Schools
  • placement guidelines
  • ELD roster instructions
  • resources
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SFUSD's Highly Effective Practices
for Teaching Designated & Integrated English Language Development (D-ELD & I-ELD)
 Important Resources
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Watch SFUSD/ Teaching Channel videos: Five Essential Practices for Teaching English Learners. 

Videos featuring San Francisco International High School teachers and students building foundational literacy skills and building college readiness skills.
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"Language is learned, not because we want to talk or read or write about language, but because we want to talk and read and write about the world"
                              - Courtney Cadzen, Professor Emerita, Harvard Graduate School of Education