Making connections with students' families is important, as I believe a home-school partnership is essential to helping a student learn and grow. This partnership can look a bit different with English learner families as communication can be a barrier. Luckily with advances in technology and the ability to use translation apps, communication is possible. 

As I am building my website, an area that I kept circling back to is that English language learners are not like any other new students that join our classroom. They could be coming from other countries and maybe even war-torn countries. In this case they could be very scared and unsure of their new surroundings. Also, we need to realize that our English language learner’s culture and beliefs could be very different from our own country's culture and to take that into consideration. There are 6 factors that an educator should consider when they have an English language learner in their classroom (Levine et al., 2012).

What does Universal Design for Learning (UDL) look like in my classroom and how does it help my ELL learners?