Q: How do I add a group?

Click on the Create a Group button on the Groups page and fill out the details for the group. You can also find this link from the menu at the top or the dropdown labeled Create found in the Quick Menu in the sidebar. Create a Group Now ->

Q: What are Progress Reports?

Progress Reports are a great way to communicate with parents, colleagues, or admin about how a student is doing. You can have the comments for the 4 language domains on the report automatically populated based on assessment results or complete them yourself. You can also easily duplicate previously created reports from the Progress Reports page or copy comments from a previous report on the Create Progress Report form page. INSTRUCTIONS: Create Reports Filter the Table to Show the Reports You want to Download Click the Download Reports Button in the Reports Toggle at the bottom of the page.

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.

Question 1

How do I add a group?

Accepted Answer

Click on the Create a Group button on the Groups page and fill out the details for the group.

You can also find this link from the menu at the top or the dropdown labeled Create found in the Quick Menu in the sidebar.

Create a Group Now ->

Question 2

Where do I send purchase orders?

Accepted Answer

You can send purchase orders to the following email address: support@kid-inspired.com

You can also ask any questions you might have in an email to the same address.

Question 3

What are ELL Student Plans?

Accepted Answer

The ELL Student Plans are a great way to share detailed information about your ELLs with colleages, admin, or parents.

The plans include:

Student Background Information
Can Dos Based on Assessment Results
Recommended/Required Instructional Accommodations
Recommended/Required Testing Accommodations
Goals in Different Language Domains
Notes

Not all information needs to be filled in if it is unecessary for your situation. If you have a Student Plan template that you'd like to see added, contact support and we will see if we can make it possible.

INSTRUCTIONS:

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.

Question 4

How do I edit a student in the ELL Management Portal?

Accepted Answer

On the Students page, double click on any field in the table to edit it.

Or you can click on any row in the Students table and an edit button will appear. Click on the Edit button to edit that student's details.

Question 5

Free Kid-Inspired Student Portal Account Terms of Service

Accepted Answer

Free Kid-Inspired Student Portal Account Terms of Service

These Terms of Service are in addition to the regular Kid-Inspired Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy.

For a limited time, members of the Kid-Inspired Interactive Online ESL Curriculum Membership can create a free account on the Kid-Inspired Student Portal.

This Free Account Comes with the Following Conditions:

The free account will remain active only as long as an active membership to the Interactive ESL Curriculum Membership is maintained.
If the active membership to the Interactive ESL Curriculum Membership is canceled, the free Kid-Inspired Student Portal account will also subsuquently be canceled.

If you have any questions or need any help, please contact support by emailing support@Kid-inspired.com or by visiting the support portal.

Question 6

What are Progress Reports?

Accepted Answer

Progress Reports are a great way to communicate with parents, colleagues, or admin about how a student is doing.

You can have the comments for the 4 language domains on the report automatically populated based on assessment results or complete them yourself.

You can also easily duplicate previously created reports from the Progress Reports page or copy comments from a previous report on the Create Progress Report form page.

INSTRUCTIONS:

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

Question 7

What is the Lock to All Students filter?

Accepted Answer

The Lock to All Students filter lets you show students without other groups. Since students can be in more than 1 group, the same records can show up in the table more than once for each group that is displayed and the student is part of. To lock to all students simply:

Set the "Lock to All Students" filter to "Yes".
If you want to filter by groups again, set the "Lock to All Students" filter to nothing or hit the Clear Filters button.

Heads up: When a student is in more than 1 group, their records will show up more than one time in the same table if you have all your groups showing, once for each group that they are in.

Question 8

What is a "tense" and why is it important?

Accepted Answer

As native speakers, we were never really taught formal English tenses.

We just learned them naturally, by speaking a lot.

If you ever took Spanish or French though, you'll know all about tenses.

The verbs in a sentence change based on the time frame in which they occurred. That is a tense.

And there are six major tenses in the English language. (There are lots more than that, but the others aren't as common and they are fairly easy considering they are just variations of the six major tenses.)

Here they are:

Present Simple
Present Continuous
Future ("will" & "going to")
Past Simple
Past Continuous
Present Perfect

I've had people argue with me that there is no such thing as a future tense, just a heads up.

In our case, considering we speak about the future using a particular grammar structure, for all effective purposes, it is a future tense, and our students need to know it in order to communicate effectively.

Now...

The next issue is how to teach these tenses.

Well, don't over-explain them.

Children learn English tenses just fine by interacting with their parents without their parents needing to give long, drawn-out grammar explanations.

Kids repeat everything they hear. Over and over.

Parents correct them at times by telling them how to say it correctly.

That's how we want to teach as well.

Tell the students what they need for a tense - a quick grammar explanation.

Then get them practicing it by hearing, speaking, reading and writing it A LOT.

That's it!

And that is exactly how the materials in the ESL Curriculum Membership are set up.

You'll find speaking pages with sentence starters that you can use with your students.

Start by using the example sentences, repeating them until the students have become familiar with the structure.
Then they can start changing words in the sentences to make them their own.
Then they can start making their own sentences in little back-and-forth Q&A activities with partners.
By the end of a class period, they will have said so many sentences in a particular tense that they will be doing it without thinking about it!!

Question 9

How do I assign materials online using Google Classroom?

Accepted Answer

Using materials on-line in Google Classroom is simple.

If you're already a member of the Kid-Inspired community, you can log in and take the course Engaging Learners Online! for lots more resources and strategies you can use while teaching online.

Start the Course

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.

Question 10

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.