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"What if we assess multilingual learners by focusing on their strengths, assets, thoughts, and actions? What if we empower students and teachers and embrace the technological advances that bring a multimodal multilingual classroom to life? What if we rethink our assessment policies at the classroom, district, and state levels? Margo Gottlieb’s brilliantly written third edition provides us with the tools that we need to answer these questions and build successful assessment practices for multilingual learners."

"Without fail, Margo has produced another field-expanding resource. This third edition is a deep dive into designing equitable, assets-affirming assessments. She guides us in constructing bridges between the assessment expectations and what MLs can do with support from skilled, passionate educators."

"In this ground breaking 3rd edition, Dr. Gottlieb presents research, frameworks, tools and classroom scenarios to support stakeholders in building comprehensive, strengths-based assessment systems that center multilingual learners. The author calls us to focus on learners as agents in their educational experiences, so that school and classroom practices become culturally and linguistically sustaining where multilingual learners can show what they know in multiple languages and modalities across contexts and over time.

Margo has outdone herself again! The third edition takes into consideration all the recent issues, dilemmas, and long-held misconceptions that educators experience as they attempt equitable assessment. She offers a myriad of insightful accounts and recommendations for curriculum design and assessment for multilingual learners. Her focus is on new ways of assessing multiple languages, students speaking a mix of languages, data approaches, evaluating and reporting data, and taking action on assessment results. 

"Always centering students with an asset based mindset, and constantly inquiring about new avenues to simplify the complex work teachers must do in an ever changing world, Margo Gottlieb’s name is itself synonymous with the history of the field o f language acquisition in the United States.

"The need for effective language assessment tools and practices has never been more critical. Margo Gottlieb’s Assessing multilingual learners: Bridges to empowerment (3rd edition) shifts from the equity-focused guidance of the prior edition to emphasis on action, designed to empower educators in their instructional decisions.

"This book advances equity in assessment to the next level: a level in which teachers and their multilingual students are in the driver's seat of teaching and learning. In Assessing multilingual learners: Bridges to empowerment (3rd ed.), the student's identity is an intrinsic component of assessment practices and instruction.

"Once again, in “Assessing Multilingual Learners: Bridges to Empowerment,” Margo Gottlieb offers educators a comprehensive guide for transforming their assessment practices for multilingual learners. This third edition is a testament to Margo’s ongoing commitment to nurturing multilingual learners’ linguistic and cultural identities through linguistically and culturally sustaining assessment practices.

"Words like "empowerment" and "equity"... even "assessment" carry with them the beliefs and attitudes of those who use them. It takes a thought header, like Margo Gottlieb, to help us understand and find the meanings of these terms. She does this by anchoring us in the current theories and practices that make assessment more.... equitable. That is the goal of this third edition. Join Margo in her decades-long work to build a framework that systematically enacts assessment as, by, and for learning.

"Gottlieb’s handbook on assessment for multilingual learners is a rich and accessible practical guide for all educators, be they in the classroom, in administrative roles, or in research spaces. 

"For decades educators, researchers, and policy makers have considered Dr. Margo Gottlieb as THE trailblazer who creates pathways to shape and reshape the ways in which we can authentically assess Multilingual Learners. Her passion-driven work continues to pave the way for us to capture and showcase the incredible richness of our students’ learning, far beyond the confines of monolingual, standardized testing. 

"In the third edition of her book, Gottlieb asks educators to abandon the “pobrecito (poor thing) syndrome” to assessment, and instead to shift our thinking to empower multilingual learners, their families, and teachers. This notion builds on equity to become twin goals for instruction or assessment. Gottlieb reminds us that assessment as, for, and of learning can help us move from equity to empowerment in assessment practices. In this 3rd edition, this unfolds through the lens of multilingualism and multiculturalism."

"Consistent with her previous publications, Gottlieb presents an artful educator-focused book on assessing bi/multilingual learners. In a masterful combination of policy, research, and practice, Assessing Multilingual Learners: Bridges to Empowerment, Third Edition prepares educators at the classroom, school, district, and state level to engage with assessment of bi/multilingual learners in ways that are responsible to the diversity of languages, cultures, identities, and life-experiences of students.

"Because I am a believer of process and not product, Assessing Multilingual Learners: Bridges to Empowerment speaks to me. Language learning is all about the journey. Gottlieb weaves current research on the importance of context, social-emotional learning, translanguaging, as well as teacher and student self-efficacy into these eight chapters. She gives examples of how multilingual learners of English (MLE) can thrive in the ever-evolving ecosystem of assessment.