Dr. Margo Gottlieb, Founder and Lead Developer for WIDA, will address some of the assessment dilemmas educators face in their role as advocates for multilingual learners and their families. It poses the duality of situations that is ever present in classrooms and offers a rationale for making sound assessment-related decisions. The overall purpose in comparing competing views is to envision how classroom assessment can become more teacher-guided (Earl, 2003) and student-driven (Berger et.al, 2014) with particular attention to multilingual learners’ languages and cultures. In contemplating responses to these challenges, pre-service and in-service teachers have opportunities to weigh strategies and select those that most correspond with their belief systems.