NYC Culturally Responsive Framework - 

Bilingual Glossaries

Teacher Core Beliefs - what we believe informs how we behave. These mindsets support educational justice for our students.

Shifting to Asset-Based Mindsets Related to ELLs Students

Exploring the Many Assets Our ELLs bring

Getting to know Our ELLs

Linguistic demands of Next Generation Learning Standards

NYCPS OML Guide to Scaffolding Instruction for ELLs

Expeditionary Learning Education Guide to Supporting ELLs

Imagine IM Access for ELLs

HMH How to Support ELLs

12 Go To Strategies

Virtual Advising for ELLs in Grade 9-12

Getting started rubrics, lessons for the first few days

NYCPS ELL Policy and Reference Guide

NYSED ENL co-teach

Pre-made Word Banks - Always take the time to analyze any material or resource that you are intending to provide to students. Is it: Appropriate? Relevant/aligned? American English?

ESOL Help

Enchanted Learning

ESL Ways

English WSheets

Teachers Pay Teachers

Twinkl

Where to source your visuals from:

• Google

• TPT

• Flat Icon

• Math

  • Math is Fun

  • A Maths Dictionary

• Illustrated word banks

  • ESOL Help

  • Enchanted Learning

  • ESL Ways

  • English WSheets

You can also explore these AI image genrators - please use discretion and follow privacy guidelines. Never include student specific information that may identify them.

Tool What it Does

Canva AI (Text to Image) Create images, posters, and presentations with AI

Bing Image Creator Generate detailed AI images using DALL·E

Adobe Firefly Generate stylized, classroom-safe AI art

Craiyon Simple cartoon-style AI-generated images

NightCafe Create artistic images with prompts and styles

ChatGPT (with DALL·E) Generate diagrams and custom images via prompts

Lucidchart Create charts, diagrams, and visual organizers

Sentence starters: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d4HurKY9kncB1AUUQyjaaNJwbaprayQPKU-I4ap_0NM/edit?usp=sharing

Summary of strategies to modify text: 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1N_xV-mYiD4xblks_yEbx_UR2b_cBhPfd_Zcz74m7J5Y/edit?usp=sharing

Examples of how to use the strategies:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WeHmw0OnXGJ0piCS-R9UGFl6APEa0TzUmGrumRql5Wc/edit?usp=sharing

Cloze Passage generator:  https://www.spf.io/free-cloze-fill-in-the-blank-generator/ 

Gunning fog index estimates the years of formal education a person needs to understand the text on the first reading.  The fog index is commonly used to confirm that text can be read easily by the intended audience. Texts for a wide audience generally need a fog index less than 12. Texts requiring near-universal understanding generally need an index less than 8.                                        http://gunning-fog-index.com/

Scaffolding guidance from the Office of Multilingual Learners:                                        https://www.weteachnyc.org/resources/resource/scaffolding-instruction-for-multilingual-learners-and-english-language-learners-k-12/

When to use home language support:                                  https://docs.google.com/document/d/15dSCE-vIGDPOn-9NHAbWUhlBHe-Pp9ZreNPRbWeEEu4/edit?usp=sharing

AI Tool - Copilot by Microsoft (for DOE staff):                                                                         https://m365.cloud.microsoft/chat/fromcode=cmc&redirectid=088496A127D94FAF82C0648A86222697&auth=2&internalredirect=CCM

Meet Moises

Moises Assets

Video on how to use the strategies:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/12CDFdOEZXiZYWC-kXvpMIcUpsygrb53Y/view?usp=drive_link

Understanding Comprehensible Input