This article explores the development of a guidance document titled the “Framework for Equitable Instruction” (Framework), which aims to support multilingual students’ content-area learning and language development. The Framework was developed by WIDA, a national consortium of states, as part of its system of language standards, assessments, and professional learning. The article discusses the Framework using a protocol originally created for the alignment of content-area and language standards. The protocol highlights the rigorous theoretical foundations of the Framework, the research-based rationale behind its conceptualization of language trajectories, and the tight linkages between the Framework, content-area standards, and classroom instruction. The systematic exploration of the Framework’s features in this article can inform the future design of language standards and related documents and serve as a foundation for the constructive critique of existing ones.

本文探讨了名为“公平教学框架”（Framework）的指导文件的制定，该文件旨在支持多语言学生的内容领域学习和语言发展。该框架由国家联盟 WIDA 开发，作为其语言标准、评估和专业学习系统的一部分。这篇文章使用最初为对齐内容区域和语言标准而创建的协议讨论了框架。该协议强调了框架严格的理论基础、语言轨迹概念化背后的基于研究的基本原理，以及框架、内容领域标准和课堂教学之间的紧密联系。