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Teaching Resources

Everything CARL generates to help you teach more inclusively — including Lesson Enhancements across 6 modules and multilingual ELL Supports. More resources coming as CARL grows.

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Two tools, one place

Lesson Enhancements and ELL Supports are both found in the same Teaching Resources panel in your lesson editor. Both generate based on your lesson content, and both are best used after your lesson plan is finalized.

Finalize Your Lesson First

Both Enhancements and ELL Supports generate based on your lesson content. CARL reads what you've written and tailors everything to what's actually in your plan — so the more complete your lesson is before you generate, the better the results.

Pro Tip: Finish your unit overview, learning goals, and daily activities before generating any teaching resources. Generating from a partial lesson produces generic results.

The 6 Enhancement Modules

Lesson Enhancements are targeted teaching supports generated directly from your lesson content. Each of the 6 modules focuses on a different dimension of inclusive practice — you can generate one, several, or all of them for the same lesson.

Module	What It Generates
UDL & Differentiation	Multiple means of representation, engagement, and expression — specific to your lesson content and activities
Equity & Inclusion	Prompts and strategies to surface diverse perspectives and disrupt assumptions embedded in the lesson topic
SEL Focus	CASEL-aligned social-emotional learning prompts woven into your existing lesson activities
Student Voice Action	Ways to shift agency to students — co-designing success criteria, choosing formats, leading discussions
Trauma-Informed Safeguards	Flags potentially triggering content in your lesson and offers opt-in alternatives, quiet zones, and teacher prep notes
Indigenous Voice Inclusion	Points to verified Indigenous authors, resources, and perspectives relevant to your topic — CARL does not generate Indigenous content

Note on Indigenous Voice Inclusion: CARL points educators toward specific Indigenous-authored resources and verified sources. It does not generate Indigenous content or prescribe how to apply Indigenous knowledge. Local Nation context is always encouraged.

How to Generate Enhancements

Generating Unit and Lesson Enhancements in CARL

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Step 1 — Open Teaching Resources

Click the blocks/grid icon in the left sidebar, then click Browse Teaching Resources. You'll land on the Enhancements tab by default.

Step 2 — Select Your Modules

Choose one or more of the 6 enhancement modules. You can select all of them at once — CARL generates each one independently based on your lesson content.

Step 3 — Generate

Click Generate Enhancements. CARL builds targeted teaching supports for each module you selected, tailored to what's in your lesson plan. Each enhancement appears as its own collapsible section in your lesson.

Pro Tip: You can regenerate any individual enhancement after editing your lesson content. Each module generates independently so you don't have to redo all six if only your lesson changes slightly.

ELL Supports Overview

ELL Supports let you generate multilingual resources for the English language learners in your class. You add the languages your students speak, set their English language proficiency levels, and choose which resources to create — CARL generates everything at once.

Resource Type	What It Includes
ELL Translated Glossary	Key vocabulary from your lesson translated into the student's home language, with definitions and context
Pre-Teaching Cards	Visual concept cards to introduce key ideas before the lesson begins — reduces cognitive load during instruction
Facilitator Guide	A teacher-facing guide with scaffolding strategies, sentence stems, and language support tips specific to your ELL students' proficiency level
Family Bridge	A plain-language summary of the lesson in the student's home language — helps families support learning at home

Note: You can generate all four resource types for each language added. If you have students who speak multiple different languages, add each one separately — CARL generates resources for all of them in a single run.

How to Generate ELL Supports

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Step 1 — Open Teaching Resources

Click the blocks/grid icon in the left sidebar, click Browse Teaching Resources, then switch to the ELL Supports tab.

Step 2 — Add Your Students' Languages

Click Add a Language and select each language spoken by ELL students in your class. You can add as many languages as you need — each one gets its own set of resources.

Step 3 — Set English Language Proficiency Levels

For each language you add, assign the student's English Language Proficiency (ELP) level. CARL uses this to calibrate the complexity and scaffolding in the resources it generates — a Level 1 student needs different support than a Level 4.

Step 4 — Choose Your Resources

Select which of the four resource types you want: ELL Translated Glossary, Pre-Teaching Cards, Facilitator Guide, or Family Bridge. You can select all four — CARL generates them all in one run.

Step 5 — Generate

Click Add ELL Resources. CARL generates everything at once for all the languages you've added. Each language gets its own collapsible section in your lesson with all the resources you selected.

Pro Tip: The Family Bridge is often the most underused resource — it's one of the most impactful for family engagement, especially for newcomer families who may not have enough English to understand what their child is working on in school.

Ready to Build More Inclusive Lessons?

Open any finalized lesson and head to Teaching Resources in the left sidebar. Start with one Enhancement module and work your way through.

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