Teacher Resources
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Elementary
Standards
WIDA
The WIDA website provides resources for educators, parents, and students.
CPALMS
“CPALMS is an online toolbox of information, vetted resources, and interactive tools that helps educators effectively implement teaching standards. It is the State of Florida’s official source for standards information and course descriptions.”
Building Culturally Relevant Classrooms and Instruction
Learning for Justice (formerly Teaching Tolerance)
“Learning for Justice seeks to uphold the mission of the Southern Poverty Law Center…providing free resources to educators—teachers, administrators, counselors and other practitioners—who work with children from kindergarten through high school… who use materials to supplement their curriculum, to inform their practices, and to create inclusive school communities where children and youth are respected, valued and welcomed participants.”
Literacy Resources
myON® Reader
myON® Reader matches student interests and reading level with content to personalize learning and predict future reading growth.” This electronic library is accessible to all K-8 students district-wide absolutely free of charge, twenty-four hours a day.
Imagine Learning Language and Literacy
¡Colorín Colorado!
“A bilingual site for families and educators of English language learners.” This is “a free web-based service that provides information, activities and advice for educators and Spanish-speaking families of English language learners (ELLs).”
Reading Rockets
“Reading Rockets is a national multimedia literacy initiative offering information and resources on how young kids learn to read, why so many struggle, and how caring adults can help.”
On-line Resources for Academic Language and Content Comprehension
CPALMS: Florida Students’ Educational Resources
FloridaStudents.org provides students with access to resources and over 800 tutorials to support learning in language arts, mathematics, science, civics, and U.S. History.
The Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools @ NYU Steinhardt
Bilingual Content glossaries that may be downloaded, printed and disseminated to educators, parents and ELLs for use during class and on assessments.Linguee
Free on-line dictionary to “look up words and phrases in comprehensive, reliable bilingual dictionaries and search through billions of online translations.”
DeepL
A free on-line resource used to translate small pieces of texts from
Instructional Planning Tools
FLDOE Edudata Portal
Clever
CPalms, ELLevation, Imagine Learning, myOn, Office 365, Zoom
CanvaseLearning
Scaffolding Grade-Level Content for English Learners
Using Graphic Organizers with ELLsVocabulary Instruction Graphic Organizer Template
HCPS Resources
Telephonic Interpreter Services
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Secondary
Standards
WIDA
The WIDA website provides resources for educators, parents, and students.
CPALMS
“CPALMS is an online toolbox of information, vetted resources, and interactive tools that helps educators effectively implement teaching standards. It is the State of Florida’s official source for standards information and course descriptions.”
Building Culturally Relevant Classrooms and Instruction
Learning for Justice (formerly Teaching Tolerance)
“Learning for Justice seeks to uphold the mission of the Southern Poverty Law Center…providing free resources to educators—teachers, administrators, counselors and other practitioners—who work with children from kindergarten through high school… who use materials to supplement their curriculum, to inform their practices, and to create inclusive school communities where children and youth are respected, valued and welcomed participants.”Literacy Resources
myON® Reader
myON® Reader matches student interests and reading level with content to personalize learning and predict future reading growth.” This electronic library is accessible to all K-8 students district-wide absolutely free of charge, twenty-four hours a day.
Reading Rockets
“Reading Rockets is a national multimedia literacy initiative offering information and resources on how young kids learn to read, why so many struggle, and how caring adults can help.”
On-line Resources for Academic Language and Content Comprehension
CPALMS: Florida Students’ Educational Resources
FloridaStudents.org provides students with access to resources and over 800 tutorials to support learning in language arts, mathematics, science, civics, and U.S. History.
The Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools @ NYU Steinhardt
Bilingual Content glossaries that may be downloaded, printed and disseminated to educators, parents and ELLs for use during class and on assessments.Linguee
Free on-line dictionary to “look up words and phrases in comprehensive, reliable bilingual dictionaries and search through billions of online translations.”
DeepL
A free on-line resource used to translate small pieces of texts from
Instructional Planning Tools
FLDOE Edudata PortalClever
CPalms, ELLevation, myOn, Office 365
CanvaseLearning
Scaffolding Grade-Level Content for English Learners
Using Graphic Organizers with ELLsVocabulary Instruction Graphic Organizer Template
HCPS Resources
Telephonic Interpreter Services
Email: ibia.ortiz-mestre@hcps.net -
Bilingual Paraprofessional Resources
Standards
WIDA
The WIDA website provides resources for educators, parents, and students.
CPALMS
“CPALMS is an online toolbox of information, vetted resources, and interactive tools that helps educators effectively implement teaching standards. It is the State of Florida’s official source for standards information and course descriptions.”
Building Culturally Relevant Classrooms and Instruction
Learning for Justice (formerly Teaching Tolerance)
“Learning for Justice seeks to uphold the mission of the Southern Poverty Law Center…providing free resources to educators—teachers, administrators, counselors and other practitioners—who work with children from kindergarten through high school… who use materials to supplement their curriculum, to inform their practices, and to create inclusive school communities where children and youth are respected, valued and welcomed participants.”
Literacy Resources
myON® Reader
myON® Reader matches student interests and reading level with content to personalize learning and predict future reading growth.” This electronic library is accessible to all K-8 students district-wide absolutely free of charge, twenty-four hours a day.
Imagine Learning Language and Literacy¡Colorín Colorado!
“A bilingual site for families and educators of English language learners.” This is “a free web-based service that provides information, activities and advice for educators and Spanish-speaking families of English language learners (ELLs).”
Reading Rockets
“Reading Rockets is a national multimedia literacy initiative offering information and resources on how young kids learn to read, why so many struggle, and how caring adults can help.”
On-line Resources for Academic Language and Content Comprehension
CPALMS: Florida Students’ Educational Resources
FloridaStudents.org provides students with access to resources and over 800 tutorials to support learning in language arts, mathematics, science, civics, and U.S. History.
The Metropolitan center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools @ NYU Steinhardt
Bilingual Content glossaries that may be downloaded, printed and disseminated to educators, parents and ELLs for use during class and on assessments.Linguee
Free on-line dictionary to “look up words and phrases in comprehensive, reliable bilingual dictionaries and search through billions of online translations.”
DeepL
A free on-line resource used to translate small pieces of texts from
Instructional Planning Tools
FLDOE Edudata PortalClever
CPalms, ELLevation, Imagine Learning, myOn, Office 365, Zoom
CanvaseLearning: Scaffolding Grade-Level Content for English Learners
Using Graphic Organizers with ELLs
Vocabulary Instruction Graphic Organizer Template
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