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So you still need, we need humans using AI to verify, to check.

You still need to check it against your WIDA Can Do Descriptors to make sure it actually is aligned to that proficiency level.

It comes up with some crazy things sometimes, right? You still need to build the sentence frame that makes the objective achievable.

You still need to make sure it connects to the vocabulary thread you've been building all unit.

It's a good first step.

You give it the context that makes it right for your specific students.

Now- In the next few weeks, we are going to be going deeper on WIDA specifically, so you will know exactly how to check that alignment and make those decisions with confidence.

But to me, creating language objectives, especially if you're the homeroom teacher, use it for that.

Next, we were talking about AI, specifically how to use it to cut your Yale planning time.

And then we're going to go deep on good old WIDA standards, what they actually mean, how to read CANDU descriptors, and how to use them to make planning decisions you feel confident about.

These next few episodes are going to feel like exactly what you need heading into October.

So make sure to subscribe wherever you listen so that you do not miss them.

Yeah.

Well, next year we're moving to WIDA, which is like almost every state in the whole country uses it.

Unfortunately, as much as I've tried to like access more information, I haven't learned enough about it to speak of it yet.

I do know that they use different indicators to like assess language proficiency.

The SIOP model blends content and language, et cetera, builds this exact framework.

The WIDA offers the same integrated approach.

Strong systems train every content teacher, not just specialists.

They embed language objectives inside every lesson plan.

Yeah, that's what we're here for.

Start the WIDA conference.

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with any kind of dread but with uh with a little little you know throwing it to the wind throwing caution to where

And so when directors Eleanor Wilson and Alex Houston Fisher began adapting Ursula Wills Jones' short story The Wicker Husband into the feature film Wicker, making the man was the first order of business.

Before the financing could be cobbled together, before Olivia Colman came aboard to star, the married filmmakers called up WIDA Workshop, the New Zealand special effects studio and creature design shop behind Lord of the Rings and Avatar.

The duo needed WIDA to make them a wicker man who could both seduce Colman and cause an entire village to lose its collective mind.

Often when you're creating creatures for movies, they're the scary thing, but this is the romantic lead, and he really has to be beautiful, Wilson said.

It's a whole different kind of challenge.