Professional Development Materials

Helping teachers help English Learners (and other students)

The resources here are from some PD that I’ve done for K–12 public educators in the USA. Each session page has the slides I used and links to the resources and examples from the session, plus a few extras. Newest first.

Sessions

Re-leveling with AI: Making Texts Work for English Learners A bit about re-leveling texts, why it is often better to enhance readings rather than re-level, and how LLMs can help you do both. Ohio TESOL · 2025-11-21 Reaching Every Family: Multilingual Google Forms Made Easy Why Google Forms is a good choice for forms, and a few ways to create multilingual forms so that we can communicate effectively with more of our families. Ohio TESOL · 2025-11-20 Supporting English Learners and Engaging Families with Google (Translate) Tools Using Google tools, especially Translate, for supporting English Learners and engaging multilingual families. Updated 2024-11-13 with more links. ITIP Google Conference · 2024-10-29 Working with Newcomer English Learners Training for high school content teachers on working with newcomers, with lots of links to resources and examples. Google Meet · 2023-10-04 Technology to Support English Learners and Multilingual Families Translation and communication technology for school staff, with lots of links to resources and examples. G-Tech Summit · 2023-08-08 Practical Tech Tips for ESOL Teachers An online PD (because of covid). The most useful material is probably the PDF of keyboard shortcuts; the page has the other materials in various formats. ESCCO · 2021-05-04

Quick link: the PDF of keyboard shortcuts from the 2021 session.

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Last updated: 2026-10-22

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