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There are many AI tools for translation and accessibility, such as adapting text. A few:

Chat GPT

Magic School

School AI

Diffit for Teachers

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Create and translate videos.

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AI Video Generator | #1 on G2’s 2025 Top 100 List | HeyGen

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HeyGen, rated 4.8/5 on G2, is the #1 AI video generator of 2025. Create professional AI-powered avatar videos, translate content, and bring ideas to life.

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This 20-second video (no sound or spoken language--all visual) shows you how to translate documents using Google Docs.

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This video shows you how to to use Microsoft Translator in Microsoft Word.

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To autotranslate captions:

Click on CC for captions in English

Click on settings

Click on subtitles

Click on autotranslation

Choose language from list

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Communicate with families in their home languages.

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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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Multilingual educators from ISDs and districts statewide created this resource for classroom and core content teachers. Whether you are a novice or veteran teacher, whether you have taught one multilingual learner or 100, this resource has something for you. Please also note that this is an ever-changing document.  As new resources are created or discovered, they will be added.

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SIOP & Related Resources Getting Started: Survival Tools Welcoming Environment Translation Tools Resources by Domain WIDA Resources Accommodations Newcomers Professional Learning Classroom Teacher Digital Notebook Published 6/2023

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7 Steps to a Language-Rich, Interactive Classroom

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7 Steps to a Language-Rich, Interactive Classroom

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7 Steps to a Language-Rich, Interactive Classroom, 2nd Edition, provides a seven step process that creates a language-rich, interactive classroom environment, one in which all students can thrive and succeed.

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Boosting Achievement: Reaching Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education (2nd Edition)

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Boosting Achievement: Reaching Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education (2nd Edition)

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Boosting Achievement: Reaching Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education (2nd Ed.) - Bookstore

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Boosting Achievement: Reaching Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Educationis a guide to help educators and school districts navigate the challenges and learning opportunities unique to SIFE (Students with Interrupted Formal Education). Circumstances such as upheaval due to war and political turmoil in their native countries may have contributed to minimal education experiences, thus prompting current educators to adopt an innovative approach in meeting students’ cognitive, affective, and linguistic needs.In the pages of this teacher-friendly framework, educators will explore interactive and engaging learning strategies which maximize English language development as students learn academic content. A distinctive thread woven through the pages is the growth mindset belief that with effort and targeted strategies, students are able to accelerate their learning despite challenges they may have faced. Boosting Achievement encourages a practical approach to instruction that incorporates authentic learning experiences while leveraging students’ unique backgrounds and perspectives to enrich our classrooms and learning environments.In this much anticipated 2nd edition, we bring you the following:Additional classroom activities plus an activity index for easy reference Carol Salva’s doctoral research on persistence of SLIFEA program leader’s guide based on current research findingsUpdated research on second language acquisition as well as effective literacy practices for multilingual learnersAn expanded section on “Rapid Literacy for Older Emergent Bilinguals”A suggested scope, sequence, and flow of the newcomer class

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Long-Term Success for Experienced Multilinguals

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Long-Term Success for Experienced Multilinguals

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Long-Term Success for Experienced Multilinguals

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This practical, easy-to-implement, cross-curricular instructional framework includes strategies, implementation prompts, templates, and essential acti…

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Making Content Comprehensible for Multilingual Learners: The SIOP Model, 6th Edition

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Making Content Comprehensible for Multilingual Learners: The SIOP Model, 6th Edition

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Making Content Comprehensible for Multilingual Learners: The SIOP Model

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Author: Michelle Yzquierdo
Newcomer ELLs (English language learners) face a complex and daunting set of challenges. How can educators appropriately provide support to this population? Based on research of the social, emotional, and academic needs of secondary immigrant students, this book is comprised of strategies and techniques for content-area teachers of newcomer ELLs. Additionally, campus and district leaders will gain practical advice about a systemic approach to meeting the needs of this ever-increasing population. Pathways to Greatness for ELL Newcomers: A Comprehensive Guide for Schools and Teachers will highlight several components relevant to newcomer instruction including: cultural proficiency, second language acquisition strategies, scheduling/credits, and effective content-area instruction. It includes over 30 activities for content-area and ESL teachers of newcomers.

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Pathways to Greatness for ELL Newcomers - Seidlitz Education

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PATHWAYS to GREATNESS for ELL NEWCOMERS: A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE FOR SCHOOLS & TEACHERS Newcomer ELLs (English language learners) face a complex and daunting set of challenges. How can educators appropriately provide...

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Choose from seven co-teaching models, each with clear explanations of advantages, challenges, and each teacher’s role, plus techniques, tools, a…

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Translanguaging: Strategies for Home Languages in the Classroom

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Translanguaging: Strategies for Home Languages in the Classroom

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Translanguaging: Strategies for Home Languages in the Classroom

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Power of Partnership: Multilingual and Special Education webinar

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Power of Partnership: Multilingual and Special Education webinar

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Webinar from Wayne RESA Summer Blitz, August 2025.

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Power of Partnership: Multilingual & Special Education

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3 Newcomer and SLIFE (students with limited or interrupted formal education) webinars:

--Help! I Have a Newcomer

--Newcomers: Instruction at Tier One

--Newcomers: Social-emotional Learning and Trauma-informed Instruction

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This playlist contains video presentations and webinars focusing on supporting newcomers and students with limited or interrupted formal education (SLIFE).

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QSSSA Instructions for Structured Conversations

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QSSSA Instructions for Structured Conversations

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Also available as a google slide deck.

Please be sure to credit Molly Lange Shackelford and Valentina Gonzalez.

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WIDA Guiding Principles of Language Development

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WIDA Guiding Principles of Language Development

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Webinars and micro PDs on topics ranging from how to help newcomers to federal and state initiatives to AI.

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Share your videos with friends, family, and the world

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From Seven Steps to a Language-Rich, Interactive Classroom. Also available as a google doc.

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Sentence stems for all students and for newcomers

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Sentence stems for all students and for newcomers

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Sentence Stems_ For All Students and for Newcomers

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Sentence starters for "Say Something - during reading strategy" (for discussing texts)

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Sample sentence frames: Inequalities in Algebra 1

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Sample sentence frames: Inequalities in Algebra 1

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From WIDA Mathematical Meaning Making: Collaborating for Equity.

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The question sheets students in an Algebra 1 class have available in English and their native Portuguese in order to clarify what type of help they may need. (from WIDA Mathematical Meaning Making: Collaborating for Equity)

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Linguistic Accommodations by WIDA English language proficiency (ELP) level

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Linguistic Accommodations by WIDA English language proficiency (ELP) level

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Keep the cognitive level high, and provide scaffolds for levels of English language development in the domains of listening, speaking, reading, and writing.

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TIPS and 7 Steps to a Language-Rich, Interactive Classroom.

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Language objective framework created by Dearborn Public Schools.

Remember, if you have a sentence stem, you have a language objective.

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Content objective framework created by Dearborn Public Schools.

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Content objective verbs with visuals.

Also available as a google slide deck.

Please make sure to credit Senela Sprecic of Kentwood Public Schools.

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Strategic sentence starters adapted from the researchers and authors of the SIOP Model, 6th edition (2024).

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Thinking Verbs from Long-Term Success for Experienced Multilinguals

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Thinking Verbs from Long-Term Success for Experienced Multilinguals

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Thinking Verbs from Long-Term Success for Experienced Multilinguals by Tan Huynh and Beth Skelton (2023).

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The Visual Non-Glossary has sentence stems, prompts, and visuals for a variety of subjects and grade levels. A subscription is needed to access all resources; however, there are a number of free resources under each subject area (click on the subjects tab at the top of the page).

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14
grade levels

1,137
vocabulary words

"

This resource is a game changer for me.

-Science Teacher

1,876
structured visuals

5,628
conversation prompts

What is The Visual Non-Glossary?

What Do Students Think about
The Visual Non-Glossary?

is a resource designed to make deep learning about academic concepts available to all students. This depth is achieved, in an equitable way, from rich discussions about academic content using academic vocabulary. But students can only engage in academic discussions as much as they have mastered the academic language they need to use. The Visual Non-Glossary helps students master academic language in two ways:

1. Through the use of visuals, students are able to comprehend the meaning of vocabulary words in their own language and through their own schemata.

2. Through the use of structured sentence stems and references to other words, students are able to correctly practice using the words in context.

The sentence stems and questions in this resource are deliberately designed to promote students' use of academic vocabulary. When students are given the opportunity to discuss the questions with partners or within groups, they grow their confidence and competence in pronunciation and proper usage of each word. Requiring students to use certain words in their verbal and/or written responses is effective at helping to build students' vocabulary. Using carefully labeled visuals and asking questions which naturally encourage students to use those labels, however, is an even more effective. It's like giving children broccoli versus folding broccoli into mac 'n cheese. Either way, they're getting their vitamins, but the second way makes them much more likely to do it - and to smile while doing it!
Take the example to the right. A group of four students might share the following responses:

A vestigial structure originates from bones.

A vestigial structure originates from functional body parts like legs.

A vestigial structure originates from structures that were functional millions of years ago but lost function over time.

A vestigial structure originates from functional legs a long time ago that went away because the animal stopped using it as it was evolving but is still there as a vestigial bone.

In each example, students are using the academic vocabulary word ( vestigial structure) in context and with other vocabulary words ( functional, for example). Additionally, students are able to hear ideas from each other and build on each other's ideas. In a bustling learning environment, the simple question "Where does a vestigial structure originate from?" turns into a rich discussion about what vestigial structures are, how they are formed, and how they remind the students of instances from their own lives.
While this resource has a list of common vocabulary words aligned to the TEKS and NGSS standards, it is in every other respect not a glossary. This resource, unlike glossaries, is not designed to provide definitions of words. The word "definition" derives in part from the Latin word finis, meaning a boundary or limit. The definitions found in glossaries are fixed, absolute statements which, by their nature, set a boundary or limit to student success. Either the student reaches the boundary (understands or accepts the definition) or falls short of the boundary (fails to understand or accept the definition).

The rigidness of glossaries is problematic because they

1. fail to accommodate students whose background knowledge restricts them from understanding all the terms in the way the glossary writers do, and

2. offer no opportunity for students to think any more deeply about the scientific concept than the boundary of the definition determines.

Instead of providing definitions, this resource asks questions, and provides the support (through sentence stems and visuals) that students need to infer meaning and make connections about science content. A one-year license for each educator costs $100. A Science license allows educators to access all science visuals, questions, and slide decks from 2nd grade through high school. A Social Studies license allows educators to access all social studies visuals, questions, and slide decks (World Cultures, Texas History, and US History 1450-present). A Math license allows educators to access all Algebra I visuals, questions, and slide decks. Please complete this order form for payment and user information, or phone in the information to Michelle Belanger at 210-315-7119. Upon payment, access codes and instructions will be emailed to you.

For bulk purchases, please include the names, email addresses, and grade levels/subjects of each educator on the order form.

Complementary Professional Development Included with Bulk Purchases:

15-24 licenses: free 60-minute online training

25-49 licenses: free 90-minute online training

50-74 licenses: free 3-hour online training, or two free 90-minute online trainings

75-99 licenses: free 4.5-hour online training, or three free 90-minute online trainings

100-299 licenses: free 6-hour online training, or four free 90-minute online trainings

300+ licenses: up to 12 hours of online (live) training + asynchronous professional development content

District-Wide Site Licenses for TVNG Science District-wide site licenses are avaible for the Science website. A site license is priced at $1.50 per student based on most recent enrollment numbers. Site lincenses provide access to all faculty and staff of a district to the Science website through a single sign-on. Purchase of a site license includes up to 12 hours of online (live) training + asynchronous professional development content.

0-10,000 students: up to $15,000

10,000-20,000 students: $15,000 to $30,000

20,000-33,333 students: $30,000 to $50,000

33,334+ students: $50,000 (flat rate)

Dr. Stephen Fleenor is a scientist-turned-educator who is inspired by the principles of sheltered instruction and growth mindset, particularly in their applications to academic language. He created The Visual Non-Glossary with a mind for what works in modern classrooms.

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14 grade levels 1,137 vocabulary words " This resource is a game changer for me. -Science Teacher 1,876 structured visuals 5,628 conversation prompts What is The Visual Non-Glossary? What Do Students Think aboutThe Visual Non-Glossary? is a resource designed to make deep learning about academic concepts available to all students.

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Our main WRESA Multilingual page, with links to our many resource padlets, and much more.

Scroll down to our calendar for upcoming professional learning opportunities from both WRESA and MDE, complete with registration links.

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Wayne County is home to one third of all Multilingual Learners in Michigan. Wayne RESA strives to increase high quality equitable opportunities for Multilingual Learners and their families across Wayne County.

Wayne RESA's direct service model was phased out effective June, 2023. The Multilingual Department continues to plan for future opportunities. Through the Transitional Model, all 33 districts and 97 PSAs will have access to WRESA support as they strengthen services to multilingual learners.

For districts developing a Language Assistance Program (LAP) or looking to refine an established ML program, the WRESA Multilingual Department provides differentiated support through a tiered model of professional development, consultation, and coaching.

Consultants are available to provide information, resources, networking opportunities and support needed to take the education of multilingual learners in Wayne County to the next level. Please contact us if you would like more information on the services we provide.

Based on our recent work and feedback from focus groups last spring, the WRESA Multilingual Department is excited to provide differentiated support to all Wayne County districts via a tiered system of professional learning, consultation, and coaching. View our brochure by clicking the image and contact us to learn how we can design support for your district to ensure the success of your multilingual learners.

Here you will find information about our upcoming events.

Click on any event below to learn more.

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Multilingual educators from ISDs and districts statewide created this resource for classroom and core content teachers. Whether you are a novice or veteran teacher, whether you have taught one multilingual learner or 100, this resource has something for you. Please also note that this is an ever-changing document.  As new resources are created or discovered, they will be added.

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SIOP & Related Resources Getting Started: Survival Tools Welcoming Environment Translation Tools Resources by Domain WIDA Resources Accommodations Newcomers Professional Learning Classroom Teacher Digital Notebook Published 6/2023

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Roving Paragraphs Strategy (also partnering for structured conversations)

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Roving Paragraphs Strategy (also partnering for structured conversations)

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Can be used in conjunction with the Picture Word Inductive Model (PWIM).

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Can be used in conjunction with the Picture Word Inductive Model (PWIM).

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From Seven Steps to a Language-Rich, Interactive Classroom. Also available as a google doc.

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Classroom Inventory for fostering mathematical conversations from WIDA Mathematical Meaning Making: Collaborating for Equity. Also available as a google doc.