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    • Annual Voices Journal Submission Guidelines
  • Annual Voices Journal 2025
    • Journal 2025 Picture Word Indicative Model (PWIM)
    • Journal 2025 Creating ESL Bilingual Units
    • Journal 2025 Creating Lessons for All through Picture Books
    • Journal 2025 Faculty Resources for ML Student Success
    • Journal 2025 Fostering Inclusive Environments
  • 2025 Spring Weekly Voices
    • Teaching Newcomers? Effective Writing Strategies for ELL Newcomers
    • Proposed Changes of HS Requirements for Districts and Students
    • Congratulations to April’s NJTESOL/NJBE Member of the Month: Daryl Perkins
    • Preserving Family Culture and Language: A Parent Workshop in Irvington’s Early Childhood Department
    • Trauma Informed Considerations and Strategies for Multilingual Learners
    • Addressing Student Trauma, Anxiety, and Depression
    • Free Resources to Explore and Use ChatGPT and AI
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    • Professional Development Opportunities in 2025
    • NJTESOL/NJBE Scholarships and Awards for your students and you!
    • Congratulations to January’s NJTESOL/NJBE Member of the Month: Brittany Fuentes
    • English Learners With Disabilities: The Rules Schools Have to Follow
    • 2024 Higher Ed Scholarship Winner’s Essay
    • 2024 Higher Ed Scholarship Winner’s Essay
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    • 2024 Raquel Sinai Newcomer Scholarship Winner’s Essay
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Notebook LM

By Jessica Duran

Advancements in AI keep occurring and have many functions that can be utilized by educators. One advancement in AI is called Notebook LM which was created by Google. Notebook LM facilitates note taking by having an option in which one can generate a study guide, table of contents, timeline, and audio by simply importing Google Slides, Docs, website, Youtube video, or embedding a text. Furthermore, a chat option is available and provides more insight about the notes.

I personally have utilized Notebook LM in the classroom by simply uploading the Google Slides that I utilize in the classroom as well as the platform’s AI generated study guides for each unit. This enables students to easily access all materials and study guides without having to go through a stream. Additionally, students have indicated that they use the audio function which creates a podcast version of the uploaded materials.

Other ways to incorporate Notebook LM:

  • Organize lessons by topics and skills and include interactive content (polls, videos, images, audio, and links),
  • Foster collaboration by assigning students to work as a group on a particular section of the notebook.
  • Check for understanding by having students answer questions within components in the notebook.

 

For more information, and to try making your own

Free PD opportunities

Jessica Duran is the NJTESOL/NJBE Secondary Bilingual SIG Representative.

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2024 Spring Conference Silver Sponsor

Come join the NJTESOL/NJBE’s Bergen County Chapter on November 19th, 2024, on Zoom from 4:30-5:30 PM. The guest speaker will be Emma Rosenblum, and she will share some great resources that ML teachers K-12 can use in the classroom. We invite others to bring a resource to share if you would like and if there is time. Please invite your content area colleagues and administrators as well. Everyone is welcome. Please register here on Eventbrite

All members of NJTESOL/NJBE are invited to attend our Countering Anti-Black Racism (CABR) Committee Meeting on Wednesday, November 20, from 7:00-8:30 pm. We will meet on the 3rd Wednesday of every month through June.
Please sign up at Eventbrite for a free ticket so that a Zoom link can be sent to you on the event day. You must be a member of NJTESOL/NJBE to attend.

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Nominate the member of the month!
NJTESOL/NJBE has so many amazing teachers throughout our state that it would be fitting to highlight some of them. Nominees could be colleagues who are available to answer questions about ELLs or the Bilingual Education code; educators who support students and their families beyond the classroom with projects, college applications, and extracurricular activities; someone who joins committees in support of ELLS or to implement positive change for the community. The nominee must be a member of NJTESOL/NJBE. Nomination Link

5 Ways to Use AI-Generated Images in Your Classroom

By Brent Warner

Warner describes five fun, language-building classroom activities using AI generated images. He suggests that teachers start by trying free versions of several AI platforms. Each description includes the activity, the prompt for AI, and examples of the images.

  1. Find the Connection – Given four somewhat related images, students have to describe how they think the pictures are connected. Since there is no right answer, the activity promotes conversation.
  2. Which One Doesn’t Belong? – This is similar to the one above, which again will get students talking.
  3. Idiom Adventures – Because idioms are confusing for MLs, AI generated images could aid understanding. Although it took a few modifications for Warner to successfully create an image for an idiom, he recommends that students try it.
  4. GrammarGrams – For this, students can ask AI to create an image that shows a grammatical concept. They can try different prompts until they get an image that accurately demonstrates the grammar. Then they add a written description.
  5. Art Dupes – Choose a famous painting or an artwork suggestion from students, have them play with vocabulary to describe it, and then share the various and sometimes strange results.

 

You can find the prompts and examples here.

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Meet Our New Executive Board Members

Science of Reading Podcast 3:
Diagnosing Dyslexia in Multilingual Learners
– with Francisco Usero-González
and
Science of Reading Podcast 4:
Practical Strategies for Multilingual Learning
– with Diane August, Ph.D.

Communication is KEY!
and
Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Has Consequences. What Schools Can Do to Help

Congratulations to October’s
NJTESOL/NJBE Member of the Month Kellie Cuccaro

and
Every Teacher Is a Language Teacher: Strategies for Supporting Multilingual Learners of English in the Mainstream Classroom– Naashia Mohamed

3 Ways to Ensure English Learners Benefit from the Science of Reading
-Leslie Villegas
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Supporting Multilingual Learners in Developing Reading Fluency across the School Day– Kate Kinsella

Announcing the 2025 Spring Conference Keynote Speakers!

Congratulations to November’s
NJTESOL/NJBE Member of the Month Mrs. Singh

and
4 Ways to Support Long-Term English Learners – Sarah Said

Word Analyzer Vocabulary Tool
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Online Dictionaries

Notebook LM
-Jessica Duran
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5 Ways to Use AI-Generated Images in Your Classroom -Brent Warner

Inspirational Quotations
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A Chorus of Reasons Why We Teach

Invitation to Write an Article for the Yearly Voices Journal
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Padres con Poder/Parent Power Parent Expo

5 Ways to Bring Cultural Diversity into Your Classroom -Carol Higho
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Defying Labels at Tables -Joyce Farr

Season’s Greetings from the NJTESOL/NJBE Executive Board

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Executive Director
Kathleen Fernandez

President
LeighAnn Matthews, Bridgewater-Raritan Public Schools

Past-President
Michelle Land, Randolph Township Schools

Layout
Dale Egan, Bergen Community College

Technology
Marilyn Pongracz, Bergen Community College

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