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#AdultESOL finished. Have one weekend off before classes start up again at the very end of May.

#k12 school year is almost finished, but I am doing an intensive, 2-week #ReadingInstruction / #dyslexia PD at the start of summer break.

My final #CyberSecurity course starts tomorrow --- #EthicalHacking! Very excited, but also very exhausted. Love it, but looking forward to being done with CYSC courses. Unfortunately, I won't be teaching it at #HighSchool next year.

#education #ESL #ESOL

#AdultESOL finished. Have one weekend off before classes start up again at the very end of May.

#k12 school year is almost finished, but I am doing an intensive, 2-week #ReadingInstruction / #dyslexia PD at the start of summer break.

My final #CyberSecurity course starts tomorrow --- #EthicalHacking! Very excited, but also very exhausted. Love it, but looking forward to being done with CYSC courses. Unfortunately, I won't be teaching it at #HighSchool next year.

#education #ESL #ESOL

#AdultESOL finished. Have one weekend off before classes start up again at the very end of May.

#k12 school year is almost finished, but I am doing an intensive, 2-week #ReadingInstruction / #dyslexia PD at the start of summer break.

My final #CyberSecurity course starts tomorrow --- #EthicalHacking! Very excited, but also very exhausted. Love it, but looking forward to being done with CYSC courses. Unfortunately, I won't be teaching it at #HighSchool next year.

#education #ESL #ESOL

#AdultESOL finished. Have one weekend off before classes start up again at the very end of May.

#k12 school year is almost finished, but I am doing an intensive, 2-week #ReadingInstruction / #dyslexia PD at the start of summer break.

My final #CyberSecurity course starts tomorrow --- #EthicalHacking! Very excited, but also very exhausted. Love it, but looking forward to being done with CYSC courses. Unfortunately, I won't be teaching it at #HighSchool next year.

#education #ESL #ESOL

#AdultESOL finished. Have one weekend off before classes start up again at the very end of May.

#k12 school year is almost finished, but I am doing an intensive, 2-week #ReadingInstruction / #dyslexia PD at the start of summer break.

My final #CyberSecurity course starts tomorrow --- #EthicalHacking! Very excited, but also very exhausted. Love it, but looking forward to being done with CYSC courses. Unfortunately, I won't be teaching it at #HighSchool next year.

#education #ESL #ESOL

I spent about a month working with Claude Code to create a high-low book for #AdultEnglishLearners. It is about the fictional Rivera García family and should work with high school #EnglishLearners also because the family in the story includes 3 children, including one in high school.

The book is written at about a 3rd or 4th grade level.

I would very much appreciate any feedback.

#ESL #k12education #k12 #education #ESOL #teaching #reading #writing

https://www.chrisspackman.com/writings/high-low-series/01-la-cocina.html

I spent about a month working with Claude Code to create a high-low book for #AdultEnglishLearners. It is about the fictional Rivera García family and should work with high school #EnglishLearners also because the family in the story includes 3 children, including one in high school.

The book is written at about a 3rd or 4th grade level.

I would very much appreciate any feedback.

#ESL #k12education #k12 #education #ESOL #teaching #reading #writing

https://www.chrisspackman.com/writings/high-low-series/01-la-cocina.html

I spent about a month working with Claude Code to create a high-low book for #AdultEnglishLearners. It is about the fictional Rivera García family and should work with high school #EnglishLearners also because the family in the story includes 3 children, including one in high school.

The book is written at about a 3rd or 4th grade level.

I would very much appreciate any feedback.

#ESL #k12education #k12 #education #ESOL #teaching #reading #writing

https://www.chrisspackman.com/writings/high-low-series/01-la-cocina.html

I spent about a month working with Claude Code to create a high-low book for #AdultEnglishLearners. It is about the fictional Rivera García family and should work with high school #EnglishLearners also because the family in the story includes 3 children, including one in high school.

The book is written at about a 3rd or 4th grade level.

I would very much appreciate any feedback.

#ESL #k12education #k12 #education #ESOL #teaching #reading #writing

https://www.chrisspackman.com/writings/high-low-series/01-la-cocina.html

I spent about a month working with Claude Code to create a high-low book for #AdultEnglishLearners. It is about the fictional Rivera García family and should work with high school #EnglishLearners also because the family in the story includes 3 children, including one in high school.

The book is written at about a 3rd or 4th grade level.

I would very much appreciate any feedback.

#ESL #k12education #k12 #education #ESOL #teaching #reading #writing

https://www.chrisspackman.com/writings/high-low-series/01-la-cocina.html

I created a #HighLow (high interest, low reading level) book for adult #EnglishLearners. I plotted, directed, edited, and did some of the writing. #LLMs helped me plan, did some checking, and, yes, did a lot of the "writing".

I'm an #ESOL / #ESL #teacher. I want to provide #EducationalMaterials for my students. I want to get affordable #books into my students' hands.

Includes #AI content, so #PublicDomain / CC0.

(Book coming soon; have to get it internet ready.)

#education #reading

I created a #HighLow (high interest, low reading level) book for adult #EnglishLearners. I plotted, directed, edited, and did some of the writing. #LLMs helped me plan, did some checking, and, yes, did a lot of the "writing".

I'm an #ESOL / #ESL #teacher. I want to provide #EducationalMaterials for my students. I want to get affordable #books into my students' hands.

Includes #AI content, so #PublicDomain / CC0.

(Book coming soon; have to get it internet ready.)

#education #reading

I created a #HighLow (high interest, low reading level) book for adult #EnglishLearners. I plotted, directed, edited, and did some of the writing. #LLMs helped me plan, did some checking, and, yes, did a lot of the "writing".

I'm an #ESOL / #ESL #teacher. I want to provide #EducationalMaterials for my students. I want to get affordable #books into my students' hands.

Includes #AI content, so #PublicDomain / CC0.

(Book coming soon; have to get it internet ready.)

#education #reading

I created a #HighLow (high interest, low reading level) book for adult #EnglishLearners. I plotted, directed, edited, and did some of the writing. #LLMs helped me plan, did some checking, and, yes, did a lot of the "writing".

I'm an #ESOL / #ESL #teacher. I want to provide #EducationalMaterials for my students. I want to get affordable #books into my students' hands.

Includes #AI content, so #PublicDomain / CC0.

(Book coming soon; have to get it internet ready.)

#education #reading

I created a #HighLow (high interest, low reading level) book for adult #EnglishLearners. I plotted, directed, edited, and did some of the writing. #LLMs helped me plan, did some checking, and, yes, did a lot of the "writing".

I'm an #ESOL / #ESL #teacher. I want to provide #EducationalMaterials for my students. I want to get affordable #books into my students' hands.

Includes #AI content, so #PublicDomain / CC0.

(Book coming soon; have to get it internet ready.)

#education #reading

BUT, keep in mind that simplifying a text for English Learners is NOT a best practice. It is much better to enhance or otherwise mark up the original reading to make it accessible to #EnglishLearners.

That said, simplifying has its uses --- like for quickly developing background knowledge or as an introduction before reading the original version.

#education #TESOL #k12 #ESL #ESOL

I created (with Claude code's help) a page to compare two texts --- to allow teachers to see exactly how a modified reading is different from the original. Many LLMs do not do a great job of modifying texts in the ways that teachers ask for. The "Reading Modification Analyzer" compares two texts and shows helpful data on how they differ.

The analyzer is at: https://spackman-chris.neocities.org/text-compare/text-compare

As always, feedback and suggestions are most welcome.

#ESL #ESOL #TESOL #reading #education #k12

Washington English Center (WEC) offers daily English classes to adult immigrants, AM and PM, online and in person, for under $3 an hour.
https://www.washingtonenglish.org/students/
#education #ESL #ESOL #immigrants #learning #English #WashingtonDC #DC

Off from #AdultESOL this weekend --- between terms --- but my class is full! Can't wait to start working with this new group of wonderful students.

Proctored SAT testing yesterday. Always not fun, but at least the computer version guides the students with timing and I don't have to watch the clock as closely.

Working on some cool #cryptography pages for my #NeoCities site. Also need to update my main personal pages with my #FluxDocApps --- I have 13 ready to go.

#Linux #ESL #ESOL

Off from #AdultESOL this weekend --- between terms --- but my class is full! Can't wait to start working with this new group of wonderful students.

Proctored SAT testing yesterday. Always not fun, but at least the computer version guides the students with timing and I don't have to watch the clock as closely.

Working on some cool #cryptography pages for my #NeoCities site. Also need to update my main personal pages with my #FluxDocApps --- I have 13 ready to go.

#Linux #ESL #ESOL

Off from #AdultESOL this weekend --- between terms --- but my class is full! Can't wait to start working with this new group of wonderful students.

Proctored SAT testing yesterday. Always not fun, but at least the computer version guides the students with timing and I don't have to watch the clock as closely.

Working on some cool #cryptography pages for my #NeoCities site. Also need to update my main personal pages with my #FluxDocApps --- I have 13 ready to go.

#Linux #ESL #ESOL

Off from #AdultESOL this weekend --- between terms --- but my class is full! Can't wait to start working with this new group of wonderful students.

Proctored SAT testing yesterday. Always not fun, but at least the computer version guides the students with timing and I don't have to watch the clock as closely.

Working on some cool #cryptography pages for my #NeoCities site. Also need to update my main personal pages with my #FluxDocApps --- I have 13 ready to go.

#Linux #ESL #ESOL

Off from #AdultESOL this weekend --- between terms --- but my class is full! Can't wait to start working with this new group of wonderful students.

Proctored SAT testing yesterday. Always not fun, but at least the computer version guides the students with timing and I don't have to watch the clock as closely.

Working on some cool #cryptography pages for my #NeoCities site. Also need to update my main personal pages with my #FluxDocApps --- I have 13 ready to go.

#Linux #ESL #ESOL

More #MSWindows keyboard oddness:

Org set up and pushed out keyboarded layouts in several languages. #ESOL classes, so many people with many languages, so great! Students can easily switch to French, Arabic, Chinese, etc. input. Wonderful.

But, it took 20 minutes to find out how to add my dvorak back to the list - in "Advanced Keyboard Settings".

Next day, #dvorak is gone from the list. But, still applied in advanced settings.

BUT, suddenly the lock screen IS dvorak!

#WTF Microsoft??

School is cancelled tomorrow, but not sure the status of the outside PD that I'm scheduled to go to. It is for teachers, so if the city has the day off, they might cancel, but they may not. Oh, well, at least I don't have to be at school at 7:30.

Unfortunately, I was supposed to lead some #ESOL PD for my elementary and middle school tomorrow afternoon. That will be rescheduled, so not horrible, but was looking forward to it.

#ESL #k12 #education #ProfessionalDevelopment

Second #k12 snow day this month, third if you count yesterday for my weekend #AdultESOL job. Only three days of classes with students this week, then #WinterBreak.

We have a long list of things to get done during the break; we'll get a head start on them today.

Need to prep for classes (#ESOL and #CyberSecurity); update some writings; and make some videos for #teacher #EducationalResources.

Second #k12 snow day this month, third if you count yesterday for my weekend #AdultESOL job. Only three days of classes with students this week, then #WinterBreak.

We have a long list of things to get done during the break; we'll get a head start on them today.

Need to prep for classes (#ESOL and #CyberSecurity); update some writings; and make some videos for #teacher #EducationalResources.

Second #k12 snow day this month, third if you count yesterday for my weekend #AdultESOL job. Only three days of classes with students this week, then #WinterBreak.

We have a long list of things to get done during the break; we'll get a head start on them today.

Need to prep for classes (#ESOL and #CyberSecurity); update some writings; and make some videos for #teacher #EducationalResources.

Second #k12 snow day this month, third if you count yesterday for my weekend #AdultESOL job. Only three days of classes with students this week, then #WinterBreak.

We have a long list of things to get done during the break; we'll get a head start on them today.

Need to prep for classes (#ESOL and #CyberSecurity); update some writings; and make some videos for #teacher #EducationalResources.

Second #k12 snow day this month, third if you count yesterday for my weekend #AdultESOL job. Only three days of classes with students this week, then #WinterBreak.

We have a long list of things to get done during the break; we'll get a head start on them today.

Need to prep for classes (#ESOL and #CyberSecurity); update some writings; and make some videos for #teacher #EducationalResources.

I think my #OhioTesolConference presentation went well today. About 60 or 70 attendees.

Some had trouble with the spreadsheet and script, but they can now at least create multilingual #Google Forms by hand. I also demo'ed 3 languages together in questions and using sections & jump logic for several languages in one Form.

No time to talk about collating data spread b/t several columns or files.

Tomorrow: re-leveling and enhancing readings.

#education #k12education #k12 #ESOL #TESOL #ESL

I think my #OhioTesolConference presentation went well today. About 60 or 70 attendees.

Some had trouble with the spreadsheet and script, but they can now at least create multilingual #Google Forms by hand. I also demo'ed 3 languages together in questions and using sections & jump logic for several languages in one Form.

No time to talk about collating data spread b/t several columns or files.

Tomorrow: re-leveling and enhancing readings.

#education #k12education #k12 #ESOL #TESOL #ESL

I think my #OhioTesolConference presentation went well today. About 60 or 70 attendees.

Some had trouble with the spreadsheet and script, but they can now at least create multilingual #Google Forms by hand. I also demo'ed 3 languages together in questions and using sections & jump logic for several languages in one Form.

No time to talk about collating data spread b/t several columns or files.

Tomorrow: re-leveling and enhancing readings.

#education #k12education #k12 #ESOL #TESOL #ESL

I think my #OhioTesolConference presentation went well today. About 60 or 70 attendees.

Some had trouble with the spreadsheet and script, but they can now at least create multilingual #Google Forms by hand. I also demo'ed 3 languages together in questions and using sections & jump logic for several languages in one Form.

No time to talk about collating data spread b/t several columns or files.

Tomorrow: re-leveling and enhancing readings.

#education #k12education #k12 #ESOL #TESOL #ESL

I think my #OhioTesolConference presentation went well today. About 60 or 70 attendees.

Some had trouble with the spreadsheet and script, but they can now at least create multilingual #Google Forms by hand. I also demo'ed 3 languages together in questions and using sections & jump logic for several languages in one Form.

No time to talk about collating data spread b/t several columns or files.

Tomorrow: re-leveling and enhancing readings.

#education #k12education #k12 #ESOL #TESOL #ESL

Putting the finishing touches on my #OhioTesolConference presentations for tomorrow and Friday. Tomorrow is family engagement with #MultiLingual #GoogleForms during the B time slot.

Friday is re-leveling texts with #AI / #LLMs, but it went more to #VibeCoding to enhance texts. Sort of the reverse of re-leveling.

Re-leveling is lowering the complexity of the text.

Enhancing is adding supports so students can access the original text.

#TESOL #ESOL #ESL #Ohio #k12 #k12Education #EdTech

Putting the finishing touches on my #OhioTesolConference presentations for tomorrow and Friday. Tomorrow is family engagement with #MultiLingual #GoogleForms during the B time slot.

Friday is re-leveling texts with #AI / #LLMs, but it went more to #VibeCoding to enhance texts. Sort of the reverse of re-leveling.

Re-leveling is lowering the complexity of the text.

Enhancing is adding supports so students can access the original text.

#TESOL #ESOL #ESL #Ohio #k12 #k12Education #EdTech

Putting the finishing touches on my #OhioTesolConference presentations for tomorrow and Friday. Tomorrow is family engagement with #MultiLingual #GoogleForms during the B time slot.

Friday is re-leveling texts with #AI / #LLMs, but it went more to #VibeCoding to enhance texts. Sort of the reverse of re-leveling.

Re-leveling is lowering the complexity of the text.

Enhancing is adding supports so students can access the original text.

#TESOL #ESOL #ESL #Ohio #k12 #k12Education #EdTech

Putting the finishing touches on my #OhioTesolConference presentations for tomorrow and Friday. Tomorrow is family engagement with #MultiLingual #GoogleForms during the B time slot.

Friday is re-leveling texts with #AI / #LLMs, but it went more to #VibeCoding to enhance texts. Sort of the reverse of re-leveling.

Re-leveling is lowering the complexity of the text.

Enhancing is adding supports so students can access the original text.

#TESOL #ESOL #ESL #Ohio #k12 #k12Education #EdTech

Putting the finishing touches on my #OhioTesolConference presentations for tomorrow and Friday. Tomorrow is family engagement with #MultiLingual #GoogleForms during the B time slot.

Friday is re-leveling texts with #AI / #LLMs, but it went more to #VibeCoding to enhance texts. Sort of the reverse of re-leveling.

Re-leveling is lowering the complexity of the text.

Enhancing is adding supports so students can access the original text.

#TESOL #ESOL #ESL #Ohio #k12 #k12Education #EdTech

Looking forward to the #2025 #OhioTesol #conference next week. I'm presenting two sessions --- one on multilingual forms for family engagement and the other on "re-leveling" texts.

The first is pretty straightforward. The second could be a dissertation. Nutshell: don't simplify; enhance. Add supports, preteach vocab, etc.

As an example, I created an enhanced version of day one of my AI agent short story.

Check it out (temporarily) at:
https://spackman-chris.neocities.org/enhanced-reading/conversations-with-nnedi

#ESOL #ESL #k12 #education

Created a #vocabulary reference sheet for Algebra 2 students today. Mostly juniors (in USA #k12 #education parlance) in the classes. I made the sheet for my #EnglishLearners but happily gave it to other students who asked for it.

I use #TexLatex a lot, but usually not for so much math.

#ESL #ESOL #Tesol

Was supposed to join a #webinar today about #FamilyEngagement, #technology, and #ESOL / #ESL / #EnglishLearners in USA #K12 #education.

The webinar site required a specific plug-in / extension that I have not heard of AND Google Chrome or MS Edge.

The did not have a "join in the browser" fallback option.

Hopefully I'll be able to watch the video later in #Mozilla #Firefox. Not holding my breath.

Canva totally borked a #Spanish translation for a #k12 #school flyer. Realized it was because the person who created the flyer put words in the title in separate text boxes. Canva, understandably, translated each word individually. Oops. Good to know. New practical tip to include in future PD sessions.

I don't know a lot of Spanish, but luckily, I know enough to recognize that the translation was not accurate.

#education #ESOL #ESL #MLLs

The PD was good - I don't have many opportunities to talk with other #ESOL #educators, unfortunately. Drawback of being in a small district.

Tomorrow is #AIInEducation PD. Should be interesting.

At PD for working with #ESOL / #ESL / #EL / #MLL students in USA #k12 #education. Looking forward to it.

Related, but read an opinion piece with advice for working with #EnglishLearners. Problem is, it was mostly high-level stuff like "be aware of cultural differences" or "view home language and culture as assets not deficits".

Yes, all good stuff, BUT in my experience the big issue is teachers not knowing how to, or having time to, implement #SIOP practices with their students.

Anyone else in #ESOL around?

I'm looking for activities to use with fairly large (25ish) classes of low-level (beginner to A2/Entry 2) learners. Crucially there is very little space in class so I can't realistically do mingling, or moving around, or lining students up, or anything else that requires floor space!

For example:
Intro from #Wikipedia page for "pedagogy" scores from high school senior to college graduate on #ReadabilityFormulas.com, average of ~college junior.

#ChatGPT, with several different prompts leveled it to around grade 11 each time. I asked for grade 8. Same thing with the MagicSchool Text Leveler tool. Grade 11.

Google Gemini did best - average of 8.15 grade.

I've not gone through the replies for language issues yet. That's next.

#ESOL #ESL #ELA #education #k12 #LLMs #teachers

For example:
Intro from #Wikipedia page for "pedagogy" scores from high school senior to college graduate on #ReadabilityFormulas.com, average of ~college junior.

#ChatGPT, with several different prompts leveled it to around grade 11 each time. I asked for grade 8. Same thing with the MagicSchool Text Leveler tool. Grade 11.

Google Gemini did best - average of 8.15 grade.

I've not gone through the replies for language issues yet. That's next.

#ESOL #ESL #ELA #education #k12 #LLMs #teachers

For example:
Intro from #Wikipedia page for "pedagogy" scores from high school senior to college graduate on #ReadabilityFormulas.com, average of ~college junior.

#ChatGPT, with several different prompts leveled it to around grade 11 each time. I asked for grade 8. Same thing with the MagicSchool Text Leveler tool. Grade 11.

Google Gemini did best - average of 8.15 grade.

I've not gone through the replies for language issues yet. That's next.

#ESOL #ESL #ELA #education #k12 #LLMs #teachers