Participants will learn the relationship between student sense of belonging, peer relationships, and academic success in regards to multilingual learners. Research will be presented in a teacher friendly way to show trends through different inclusive practices for all learners. The presentation will highlight my own action research focused on the importance of oral language within small groups to improve student sense of belonging, peer relationships and academic success. There were 8 students involved with this study. Half of the students are students with IEPs relating to social emotional learning. Three of the eight students are multilingual students all speaking different languages with oral proficiency in English.
