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Padlet is a collaborative tool where students and teachers can post text, images, links, videos, audio, and documents. Students can communicate ideas in multiple ways, making it a great tool for multilingual students. English Language Learners who are at a developing proficiency level can access visual formats such as brainstorm boards, vocabulary walls, discussion boards, exit tickets, and collaborative research.

Students can also post pictures and responses on projects such as a topic on community about their neighborhood with content objectives: Students will identify important places in their community. Language objectives: Using sentence frames, students will describe their community. According to WIDA Can Do, this aligned because multilingual learners can communicate using visuals, labels, phrases, and short sentences.

Family engagement is supported; they can add photos, type in their home language, or upload recordings about themselves and their community. This validates home-school connections by incorporating students' cultural backgrounds

Strengths: collaboration, multimodal expression, differentiation

Limitations: restricted free Version (only 3 free padlets) and not very secure

I chose Padlets as one tech tool because it reflects the philosophy of making learning interactive, culturally connected, and supporting visuals. It allows different levels of interaction: beginners can post labeled images; intermediate students can write; advanced students can build on peer responses.

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Canva is a free visual platform that allows K-12 teachers and students to design and create posters, slides, newsletters, infographics, graphic organizers, and presentations. Educational templates and collaborative classroom features are included on this platform.

Strategies that support TESOL education, such as scaffolding, visual vocabulary instruction, and multimodal learning, are supported in Canva. In Science and ELA, students can create infographics explaining cause and effect. Content Objectives: Students will define how pollution affects the Ocean; Language Objectives: Students will use cause-and-effect language such as because, as a result, or therefore.

Family engagement is supported through bilingual newsletters, translated workshop flyers, cultural posters, and visual guides for caregivers. For example, a student created a bilingual flyer, "How to Help Me Read at Home"

Strengths: creativity, visuals, templates, ownership

Limitations: unequal access to devices, need for digital literacy, and distractions from design features.

I chose Canva as a tech tool because it is visually engaging for ELLs and allows opportunities to create beyond written forms. Beginners and intermediate learners can use images and labels, and advanced learners can create full explanation paragraphs.

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Newsela is a helpful online platform for ELLs that provides standards-aligned nonfiction texts, articles, quizzes, and instructional resources. Teachers can select texts based on students' interests, background knowledge, and experiences, and support for ELLs is provided through scaffolds and differentiation.

In instructional periods, Newsela supports vocabulary development, reading comprehension, and assessment. Students can read age-appropriate articles and answer questions related to, for example, the topic: Communities. Content Objectives: Students will identify the main idea of an informational text. The language objectives: Students will use evidence sentence frames such as "The text says___"

Family can contribute home-language perspectives or cultural connections. They also have opportunities to interact in shared articles, and teachers can invite students to interview family members on related topics.

Strengths: differentiation in reading topics, assessment options, and meaningful topics

Limitations: subscription and careful selection of culturally respectful texts.

This platform is selected because it gives access to ELLs with rigorous content without being excluded by language levels. Beginners can use visuals and develop summaries, and advanced students can compare articles and write responses.

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It's time to improve literacy skills during social studies instruction and ensure that readers of all abilities have what they need to access grade-level social studies concepts.

Join us on Thursday, December 7 for a look at scaffolded materials that provide extra literacy support while building key social studies concepts and skills.

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Newsela | Content and assessment platform

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Content Aligned To National & State Standard, Flexible To Support Relevant Curriculum. Find the Perfect Piece Of Content For Lessons. Go beyond the book.

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Microsoft supports translated services through live translated conversations, captions, speech translation, and text translation. This feature helps teachers connect with and communicate with multilingual students and families during conferences, class discussions, and one-on-one meetings.

Instructionally, listening comprehension and classroom participation are enhanced through translated captions. In a content area, for example, social studies: The content Objectives: Students will identify why people moved to new communities. Language Objectives: Students will share orally one reason using sentence frames such as People moved because___.

Strengths: live translations, accessibility, oral communication support.

Limitations: unmatched translation, overreliance instead of buliding English proficiency, and privacy concerns.

This tool is selected because it can lower communication barriers while allowing teachers to teach English intentionally. Beginners can use translation for comprehension, and advanced learners can compare and refine academic vocabulary.

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Create a more inclusive classroom for both students and parents with live translation and captions

ABOUT

What is Translator for Education?

The Translator for Education site provides free resources, tools, and how-to guides for live captioning and translation in the classroom. Schools are increasingly diverse. Teachers manage many types of learners, including students who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) who require assistive technology, and language learners (and their parents) who may not speak or understand the language of the classroom well. Microsoft Translator helps bridge these communication gaps, supporting accessible classroom learning with live captioning, cross-language understanding, and even multilingual casual conversations to help with student integration.

FOR PARENTS

Parent Resources

Learn about the Translator app's conversation feature and how you can have live, translated parent-teacher conferences in your chosen language.
PARENT RESOURCES PAGE

FOR STUDENTS

Student Resources

Use the Translator app in school, on campus, for study groups, and other situations where captions and translations are needed. Share the app with friends to start a live conversation and break communication barriers.
STUDENT RESOURCES PAGE

SEE IT IN ACTION

Case Studies

Read how Translator can help students pass their final exams, break language barriers during parent-teacher conferences, and create inclusive environments for deaf and hard-of-hearing students.
CASE STUDIES PAGE

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Microsoft Translator for Education - Microsoft Translator

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Microsoft Translator for Education tools creates a more inclusive classroom for both students and parents with live translation and captions.

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This platform supports multilingual families by enabling them to stay engaged in home-school communication. It is designed so that teachers can send messages in English and families receive them in their preferred language through apps or text. This is very useful for multilingual families because they have the option of two-way translation in many languages, making them comfortable communicating in English.

Instructionally, families are supported with comprehension of assignments, language goals, and classroom expectations. For example, teachers can send homework using bilingual context to explain targeted words and suggested home activities.

The Content Objectives: Students will identify vocabulary that explains character traits. The Language Objective: Students will use adjectives describing character traits.

Talking points can be used for bilingual support in many communications such as newsletters, parent reminders, conference invitations, family workshops, and surveys. This helps to reduce language barriers and enhance family engagement as partners in learning.

Strengths: Messages can be received through text, which doesn't require complex technology.

Limitations: Access to mobile devices or computers with internet service; possible translation errors; and clear messages written by teachers.

I chose this platform because family partnership is essential in TESOL, especially in bilingual communications. For beginners, I would use visual short messages and translated attachments.

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TalkingPoints - Improving student outcomes through meaningful school-family partnerships.

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TalkingPoints - Improving student outcomes through meaningful school-family partnerships.

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Nearpod is an interactive lesson platform with quizzes, polls, videos, drawing tools, slides, and collaborative boards. English Language Learners are supported with resources that include interactive activities and scaffolded lessons with differentiation.

TESOL strategies are supported with differentiated pacing, multimodal input, checks for understanding, and scaffolds. For example, students can match words to images, draw examples, and poll responses. The Content Objectives: students identify character traits in stories. The Language Objectives: Students use adjectives to explain text evidence and characters.

Outreach is supported with lesson summaries, family review links, or workshop presentations. For example, a teacher creates a parent workshop on "Ways to support reading at home" with translated resources and visuals.

Strengths: Immediate feedback, multiple participation options, and engagement.

Limitations: Internet service needed, costs, distractions due to multiple activities, which take away from language output.

I selected Nearpod because it helps teachers by monitoring real-time understanding of ELLs. Beginners respond with drawings or polls, and advanced students write detailed explanations.

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Nearpod's English Language Learners K-12 Program

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Nearpod's English Language Learners (EL) K-12 Program offers scaffolded resources to differentiate instruction for English language learners.

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Seesaw is a digital portfolio and family communication platform. Seesaw allows students to post photos, draw, upload videos, record voice, and write responses. Families can view students' work and receive messages. This platform includes translation features in many languages, making it effective for family communication.

Instructionally, student reflection and formative assessments are supported. For example, in a reading lesson, students can record themselves reading a passage and explain the main idea. The Content Objective: Students will use supporting details to explain the main idea. The Language Objectives: Oral explanation of their thinking example "The main idea is _________ because ________."

In community outreach, families can see learning progress instead of just receiving students' grades. Teachers can provide weekly updates, home practice videos, or bilingual reminders. Students can share their digital portfolio with caregivers.

Strengths: Documented growth, oral language practice, family visibility.

Limitations: Technology access, teaching students meaningful reflections, and privacy concerns.

I selected this platform because it connects families in an ongoing way about classroom learning. Beginners can record oral responses; advanced students can write reflections.

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Seesaw | Elementary Learning Experience Platform

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Elementary Learning Experience Platform | Seesaw

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Seesaw is a Learning Experience Platform with 25M+ users, enhancing elementary education, engagement, and school culture while improving academic success.

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Using Book Creator, students can create digital books using text, images, audio, drawings, videos, and links. With the support of multimodal engagement, students can demonstrate their understanding.

In a TESOL classroom, students can create bilingual books on topics such as "All About My Community." The Content Objectives: Students share and describe important places and people in their community. The Language Objectives: Students write or record descriptive sentences using adjectives and prepositions.

Family outreach is supported through thier accessibility to contribute photos, oral cultural histories, recipes, and home-language recordings. Books that are made by students can be published and shared on family nights.

Strengths: multimodal communication, creativity, and culturally responsive.

Limitations: device/technology access, time to create, teacher modelling.

I selected Book Creators mostly because it gives multilingual learners an identity and engagement with a real audience through book creation. Beginners can use visuals and audio; advanced learners can write longer paragraphs reflecting on languages of their choice.

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Book Creator - Love Learning - Book Creator app

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Teachers love it. Students love it. Book Creator is the simplest, most inclusive way to create content in the classroom.

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This platform functions as a digital resource hub, student portfolio, and information page for the community. Teachers and students can collect, organize, and share links, videos, images, files, and other resources all in one place.

In the instructions, teachers and students are supported with reading, writing, research, digital literacy, and project-based learning. For example, on a topic about "Cultural Identity," students can collect articles, videos, images, and vocabulary resources about their culture.

The Content Objectives: Students gather information from multiple resources.

The Language Objectives: Students provide a summary of one resource using academic grade-appropriate vocabulary or sentence frames.

Families are supported through a multilingual resource hub. Teachers can curate many resources such as translated school forms, community resources, library links, assignment videos, and materials to support caregivers.

Strengths: organized platform, sharing, nd student's research.

Limitations: internet service, tech-savviness, and evaluation of resources

I selected this platform because it supports both curriculum development and community outreach. Beginners can collect visuals and simple links; advanced students can write annotated summaries.

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Wakelet | The All In One Content Platform

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Wakelet allows you to bookmark, organize, collaborate and present on content all in one platform. Harness your content to build remarkable things.

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Title: "How Families Can Be Supported with Vocabulary at Home"

English:

This week, we focus on identifying characters' feelings and traits.

Question to ask your child:

How did the character feel?

What details from the text show that?

Students answer using the sentence frame: "The character felt _____ because _____."

Spanish:

Esta semana nos centraremos en identificar los sentimientos y rasgos de los personajes.

Preguntas para hacerle a tu hijo/a:

¿Cómo se sentía el personaje?

¿Qué detalles del texto lo demuestran?

Los alumnos responden usando la siguiente estructura: "El personaje se sentía _____ porque _____".

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These 9 online platforms support TESOL learning and approach enhancing accessibility, equity, language development, family partnership, and culturally responsive teaching. Tools such as Padlet, Canva for Education, Newsela, Microsoft Translate, Talking Points, Seesaw, Book Creator, and Wakelet allow multilingual learners to express their knowledge through visuals, speech, writing, and collaboration. Talking Points and Microsoft Translator reduce language barriers in communication between schools and families. Newsela, Nearpod, and Wakelet assist teachers in designing curriculum that is scaffolded, rigorous, and connected to students' lives.

The intention is to incorporate meaningful technology and provide opportunities for multilingual learners to listen, speak, write, read, collaborate, and connect their cultural identities to the school environment. These tools should expand, not replace, teaching and help create inclusive learning spaces where students and families are active participants in education.