This comprehensive guided learning toolkit is designed to help educators understand the full picture of assessment for English learners (ELs) — from daily classroom check-ins to year-round proficiency tracking. Whether you're building a stronger formative assessment routine or exploring how real-time data can inform instruction district-wide, this resource offers practical strategies and real educator perspectives to help you meet every EL where they are.

Our toolkit includes:

Mapping the right assessments to student growth: Explore a breakdown of six common assessment types — from diagnostic to benchmark — and see how each one plays a distinct role in supporting multilingual learner growth.

Understanding Formative Assessment: Get a clear definition of formative assessment, see it in action with everyday classroom examples, and learn why frequent, low-stakes checks are essential for tracking EL progress across all four language domains.

Collaborative Assessment in practice: Watch Dr. Margo Gottlieb and Dr. Andrea Honigsfeld explore how collaboration extends beyond relationship-building into classroom assessment itself, helping students build voice, choice, and agency in their own learning.

Introducing Ellevation Benchmark: Discover how Ellevation Benchmark rounds out our unified ELD solution™ with short, flexible assessments that deliver real-time proficiency insights — right within the platform educators already trust.

A district's story: Data into action: Hear directly from an EL administrator who brought Ellevation Benchmark to 13 buildings, and learn how her team turned timely data into stronger teacher confidence, better student support meetings, and real instructional change.

Each section can be explored independently, so you can focus on what aligns with your current priorities. Dive into the toolkit today and discover how the right assessments, used the right way, can help transform outcomes for your ELs!