This was a great year! I’ve talked what I want to do differently and how to change things up for next year and that’s what
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2019-2020 Curriculum Shakeup, Part 2: Reading
I have spent this year making breakthroughs in my teaching practice. Whether it’s using news stories, novels, story circles to engage more students, Non-targeted CI,
My CI Teaching Philosophy – 2019
I have been answering lots of questions in the past few days about my Spanish Teacher Success Academy presentation and it’s got me thinking about
ACTFL 2018 (Presentation)
Comments and debriefing will be coming soon in a separate post, but here is the link to the presentation on Google Slides:
Micromanaging the Class (part 2): Am I Getting in the Way of Student Communication?
Language textbooks catch a lot of flak, sometimes for good reason. One of those reasons is the fact that they don’t capture the full richness
Editing Final Projects: An Exercise in Giving up Micromanagement (part 1)
Finals time is always stressful – coming up with assessments, writing rubrics, hoping the students have had enough (or paid attention enough to) Comprehensible Input