Q: How do I download ELL Student Plans?

INSTRUCTIONS for Downloading ELL Student Plans: Create Student Plans Filter the Table to Show the Student Plans You want to Download Click the Download Student Plans Button in the Reports Toggle at the bottom of the page. **Note: **The Download Reports button will only download records that are showing in the table. If records are on the second page, they will not be included. You can choose All in the Show # entries above the table to download all at once or download the results page by page.

Q: How do I download Progress Reports?

INSTRUCTIONS for Downloading ELL Student Progress Reports: Create Student Progress Reports Filter the Table to Show the Progress Reports You want to Download Click the Download Progress Reports Button in the Reports Toggle at the bottom of the page. **Note: **The Download Reports button will only download records that are showing in the table. If records are on the second page, they will not be included. You can choose All in the Show # entries above the table to download all at once or download the results page by page.

Question 1

How do I delete a group?

Accepted Answer

On the Groups page, select the Mark for Deletion in the Delete field for a group you want deleted. These records are then deleted on a schedule, about every hour or so. Deleting groups and deleting students are a little different than most other records which get deleted immediately.

Question 2

How do I assign students to a group?

Accepted Answer

When you create a group, you can add students to it on the same form.

You can also add students at any time by clicking on the Assign Students to a Group button or by visiting the Group Details page and adding students there. The Group Details page can be found by clicking on the Details button next to any group in the list of Groups.

Add Students to a Group Now ->

Question 3

What are Monitoring Forms?

Accepted Answer

Monitoring Forms are commonly required by most schools in the United States for ELLs who are either in the ELL program or have exited it. Very often Former ELLs need to have monitoring forms completed about them by their content teachers for a period of up to 2 years after they have exited the program.

The Monitoring Forms included with the Kid-Inspired ELL Management Portal are there to help simplify this process for ELL teachers. For ELL teachers who need this functionality, you can invite colleagues, assign them to groups, and then schedule monitoring forms to be sent to those colleagues. Those colleagues can log into the platform and fill out the forms for the students in the group you assigned them. You can view all of the results as well as print reports.

Kid-Inspired Classroom is not responsible for state compliance though so be sure to know and understand the laws in your area in order to make sure you are complying by them.

Question 4

How do I download ELL Student Plans?

Accepted Answer

INSTRUCTIONS for Downloading ELL Student Plans:

Create Student Plans
Filter the Table to Show the Student Plans You want to Download
Click the Download Student Plans Button in the Reports Toggle at the bottom of the page.

**Note: **The Download Reports button will only download records that are showing in the table. If records are on the second page, they will not be included. You can choose All in the Show # entries above the table to download all at once or download the results page by page.

Question 5

How do I edit a group?

Accepted Answer

Double click on any field in the table to edit it.

Or you can click on any row in the Groups table and an edit button will appear. Click on the Edit button to edit details.

Question 6

Why do phonics lists in the beginners levels have so few words?

Accepted Answer

Here is a picture of one of the phonics practice pages from Beginners 3.

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The lists on these pages are quite short.

I learned this the hard way, through experimenting with lots of students over a lot of years.

Longer lists of words are fine for stronger students, but weaker students feel overwhelmed when looking at them.

Also, stronger students who can read all the words on a simple list are probably ready for simple texts instead of lists.

Use the short lists to help students master a new sound.

Once they have mastered that new sound, you can have them try longer lists of words, but they are probably going to be more motivated to reaad simple texts instead.

Question 7

How does the numbering on the lesson pages work? (i.e. Unit 1 #1, Unit 1 #1.1, etc)

Accepted Answer

If you've started using the curriculum, then you've probably noticed the numbers at the top of the pages within lessons.

The numbering system may seem a little odd at first.

Let me explain the logic behind the system and why it can be a little odd at times:

**Here were the criteria I wanted to meet: **

Each page, organizer and worksheet had its own number in case you were assigning a single page to students and needed to refer to it.
Subsidiary pages would be numbered in relation to their primary page. (Primary page like a vocabulary page for instance = Unit 1 #1; Subsidiary pages like vocabulary worksheets related to the primary page = Unit 1 #1.1, 1.2, 1.3, etc.)

**Here were some of the challenges that came up: **

Over the course of creating materials for the curriculum, some of which were created only for the site (we don't use them at our school) a couple of things happened from time to time:

Sometimes, subsidiary pages could relate to more than one primary page and when I chose to put them in one lesson as opposed to another, the numbering was sometimes off.
Sometimes, I chose to leave out a page from a lesson because I didn't feel like it was up to standard or was one too many pages for that lesson or still needed work. This has created gaps at times in the numbering.

The primary reason for the system is to give you a way to refer to a specific page, so you can safely ignore it if it does not benefit you.

Question 8

How do I remove students from a group?

Accepted Answer

On the Groups page, when you click on the Details button for a group, a new window will open with that group's details including a list of the students in that group.
To remove a student, simply click on any row. A little popup will appear that says Delete. Click on the Delete button to remove the student from the group.

Question 9

How do I download Progress Reports?

Accepted Answer

INSTRUCTIONS for Downloading ELL Student Progress Reports:

Create Student Progress Reports
Filter the Table to Show the Progress Reports You want to Download
Click the Download Progress Reports Button in the Reports Toggle at the bottom of the page.

**Note: **The Download Reports button will only download records that are showing in the table. If records are on the second page, they will not be included. You can choose All in the Show # entries above the table to download all at once or download the results page by page.

Question 10

How do I use NearPod to teach with the materials online?

Accepted Answer

The Kid-Inspired ESL Curriculum includes NearPod files!

NearPod is a really fun, free platform where you can create interactive slides.

You can teach one-on-one or get whole groups engaging with the lessons at the same time.

Lessons can be synchronous or asynchronous. Check out the video to learn more!

Live example (from one of our Independent Teachers Membership get togethers)

To get access to the curriculum, you can choose from one of the following memberships:

Kid-Inpspired ESL Curriculum Membership ->

Includes the entire curriculum and all supplementary teaching resources.

Independent Teachers Membership ->

Includes the entire **Kid-Inspired ESL Curriculum Membership **
Also includes your own website, payment processing, scheduling, course-building software, community of other teachers going independent, training courses on topics such as finding students, desigining your site, marketing, etc.