When I saw this session with La Maestra Loca, I KNEW it would be my raison d’être this time. I knew from Annabelle’s April workshop that she had faced comparable management issues to those I confronted this year–WITH a new baby to boot!–so that she was presenting on equity from that perspective? I knew I was in the right place.
Brain breaks have been on my wishlist for years. I read, I watched videos, and…I ran away. Finally I broke down and went to a Maestra Loca workshop in April, and I left ready to try a couple. I am Read more…
Novices can read signs. They are some of the most accessible and potentially relevant “authentic texts” that language learners will encounter. Also, they happen to be the sort of thing that an assessment like the STAMP or AAPPL might throw Read more…
At my last school, I had this theory that my students could keep up their Spanish for the 12 months between level 1 and 2 by following me on Instagram. The good news is that the kids at my new Read more…
I have had to redefine how I see myself on SO many levels: as a blogger, a teacher, a professional, and a person. A lot–a LOT–of things that I thought were fundamental to my teaching and my identity simply had to be abandoned.
One of the many, MANY important things I learned from attending my first Maestra Loca workshop is that you have to keep things moving: https://twitter.com/SraSpanglish/status/1124757088700334085?s=19 I applied this principle for some intense STAMP test prep (I know, I know, I Read more…
To be honest, I generally avoid social justice and culture-oriented sessions. I feel like they all sound lovely and fun during the conference high, but somehow, I leave knowing they’ll never work their way into my lesson rotation. I took Read more…
It wasn’t just that Paul Sandrock successfully flipped his hot seat session so WE were on the hot seat. It wasn’t just that he ever-so-gently structured the session so that it would be perfectly tailored to our precise needs by Read more…
Teenagers need immediate feedback–it’s just a neurological fact. I had been at a loss for how to make that happen with 30+ students, since Nearpod cut me off at 30 and I can only take hearing “You forgot to stamp Read more…
How do you keep your Spanish up? I may have read a handful of TL novels since grad school, but most of my textual input is online, and mostly on Facebook. There are even some great ideas in some of Read more…