This essay explores a variety of ways California's English Learner (EL) Roadmap can be used as a tool to make significant and transformative changes to provide meaningful learning opportunities for students classified as English Learners. The EL Roadmap contains 4 principles: (1) Asset-oriented and needs-responsive schools; (2) Intellectual Quality of Instruction and Meaningful Access; (3) System Conditions that Support Effectiveness; and (4) Alignment and Articulation Within and Across Systems. We explore each of the Roadmap's four principles and provide suggestions for ways to capitalize on the policy to improve educational opportunities for English Learners, including a focus on English and other languages, using research-based principles to guide local planning and continuous improvement for EL instruction and assessment, aligning resources and systems to accelerate ELs' learning, and valuing and building upon the linguistic and cultural assets students bring to school.