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Two frameworks.
One system.

Apto's frameworks are designed to work together. The MAC Framework identifies where multilingual learners are. FLOW equips every teacher to respond. Assessment and teaching, finally aligned.

Assessment

MAC Framework

Multilingual Academic Competency

The MAC Framework gives schools a consistent, curriculum-grounded way to assess multilingual learners. Unlike global proficiency scales, MAC is designed around the academic language demands students actually face — in science, maths, humanities, and beyond.

Proficiency descriptors aligned to academic subjects and grade bands
Grounded in CEFR and WIDA research, adapted for international school contexts
Gives coordinators and teachers a shared language for discussing student progress
Supports placement, progress monitoring, and reporting

Teaching

FLOW Framework

Find · Lead · Organize · Weave

FLOW is a lesson planning framework that gives every subject teacher — not just language specialists — a structured approach to supporting multilingual learners. It works across subjects, grade levels, and teaching styles.

Find

Identify the language demands of the lesson and where learners are

Lead

Plan explicit language support into instruction

Organize

Structure tasks and materials to scaffold academic language

Weave

Integrate language learning into subject content seamlessly

Designed for subject teachers, not language specialists
Works across all subjects and grade levels
Comes with ready-to-use planning tools, scaffold templates, and vocabulary resources
Multilingual vocabulary support in multiple languages

More coming

The system is growing.

Additional tools and platforms are currently in development. Get in touch to learn more or to be notified when new resources become available.

Two frameworks.One system.

The system is growing.

Two frameworks.
One system.