The Multilingual Instructional Coaches (MIC) must have the following essential competencies and dispositions: Growth and problem solving mindset; Demonstrated history of closing opportunity and achievement gaps in English learner/Multilingual classrooms and schools; Demonstrated cultural proficiency and ability to lead others in conversations on intersectional identities of Multilingual learners with race, language, ethnicity and culture; Deep knowledge of ESL, second language acquisition, native language curriculum, instruction, interventions and assessments; Demonstrated ability to lead and support instructional change in schools through coaching and leading adult learners; and. In order to shift our work toward this vision, the office will center a multicultural framework with a social justice lens to address systemic racism and systems of power in all forms that perpetuate inequities for multilingual learners, their families and communities from anti-blackness, colorism, xenophobia, linguicism/glottophobia, islamophobia, implicit and explicit bias, bigotry of low-expectations, nativist microaggressions, colonizer language dominance, indigenous and spoken vs.