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If you’ve been around the world of ELL education for awhile, you’ve probably heard of Lana (Svetlana) Kandybovich and her blog, ELTcation.

Svetlana has been sharing excellent ideas about teaching for many years, and has, more recently, created great AI tools that educators can use with students.

She created a model of conversation to use with ELL students she calls Espresso Dialogues.

I’m not going to go into a lengthy explanation of them here since you can read her extensive post about them.

There are many versions of them, but they are basically dialogues that can begin (and sometimes end) with one word lines.

But that’s not all.

She also created an AI tool to help teachers create them!  You can read about, and find it, here.

I’m adding this info to The Best Sites For Developing English Conversational Skills.

     

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This is interesting, but not surprising:

You will find more infographics at Statista

     

‘Survival Mode’: A Minnesota Teacher of the Year Decries Immigration Crackdowns is the headline of my latest Education Week column, a guest post from Minnesota’s Teacher of the Year.

Federal agents are creating trauma and chaos for our students and schools in Minneapolis.

Here are some excerpts:

     

I originally published this post in September. Based on what’s going on in Minnesota, and what has been happening in Chicago, North Carolina and Los Angeles, it seemed timely to repost it today.

On Monday, I posted If I Was Still Teaching Today, I Would Be Telling My Students & Their Families To Always Carry Proof Of Citizenship (in the post, I also added anyone with a green card or refugee status should also carry their papers, and undocumented students should carry red cards).

It was in response to the Supreme Court decision approving racial profiling by ICE.

Illinois Governor Pritzker gave a good interview to NPR today, and it prompted me to find the following videos on YouTube.

 

 

 

 

     

Teachers Have to Be ‘Gatekeepers of Safety’ in Minnesota Since Killing of Renee Nicole Good is the headline of my latest Education Week column, a guest post from a Minnesota educator.

With the onslaught of ICE, teachers’ roles have shifted in the Twin Cities.

Here’s an excerpt: