This eWorkshop is designed to support K-12 classroom educators working with multilingual learners who have recently arrived in the United States and are new to U.S. schools.  Participants will engage through reading, viewing, and reflecting on how to engage with newcomer multilingual learners and their families, building collegial relationships to support integration of multilingual learners into the school community, and instructional strategies to support the dual requirements of language development and content learning.

Access course:

Washington State educators and administrators access the WIDA Self- Paced eWorkshops via the WIDA Secure Portal.

 If you do not have a WIDA Secure Portal account, follow the steps below:

1. Use your district email address and email WIDA Client Services Center at help@wida.us and ask for access to the WIDA Secure Portal.
2. WIDA will send you an access link within 24 hours. Set up your login username and password.
3. Access the WIDA Secure Portal.
4. Click on the “WIDA eLearning Center” tile and that will take you to the eLearning “Dashboard.”
5. Scroll to the Self-Paced eWorkshop tile and click on the course link OR use the left-hand navigation bar and click on “Courses.”
6. Select the course and begin.
7. Finish the course and download the WIDA course completion certificate for your records.

Get clock hours:

1. OSPI will receive verification from WIDA that you have completed the course.
2. Login to your pdEnroller account, go to your Events, click on this event, then go to the Clock Hour Checklist and take the survey.
3. Clock hours will be automatically uploaded to your OSPI eCertification account within two weeks of completing the survey. You will receive an email from pdEnroller when the clock hours have been posted to your OSPI eCertification file.