Elementary ESOL Services at Belvedere are individualized to meet students' English language development needs. A multi-tiered system of support includes targeted academic and social emotional scaffolds within a culturally and linguistically responsive environment. ESOL teachers work directly with Multilingual Learners (MLs) to advance English language development by building academic language and content understandings in tandem. MLs develop English language proficiency through engaging in all language domains (reading, writing, listening and speaking) tasks and academic conversations across the curriculum. ELD instruction is aligned to the WIDA ELD Standards and supports language development in listening, speaking, reading and writing.

Elementary MLs are placed in age-appropriate grade level classes where teachers use strategies and scaffolds to support MLs in accessing the grade level curriculum. MLs actively engage in meaningful learning tasks with their English-speaking peers across disciplines (language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies) throughout the instructional day. ESOL teachers collaborate with and support teachers and teams to activate our ML's prior knowledge, whether that be through translanguaging or other scaffolds, to build academic language in English. ESOL teachers collaborate with school staff so that explicit opportunities for English language development and language learning is supported throughout the day in multiple contexts.