After iFLT this summer, I was ready to sprint back to the drawing board. I needed a good solid month to just sketch, doodle, redraw EVERYTYHING. I got a week. And two completely new preps complete with two completely new LMS platforms. So this year has been a bit of Read more…
I came to ACTFL 2016 with a conference path set for Everything Interpersonal, having had various students freeze up, blank out, and even two start crying during the interpersonal part of the most recent IPA–in spite of low-stress strategies that worked the last two IPAs–just hours before I boarded the plane to Boston. Perhaps Read more…
I’m not really assigning homework this semester. My students are setting their own language goals and figuring out how to accomplish them. It’s an idea I got from Jeorg Ellen Sauer at #ACTFL13, but I’ve had to tweak it a little bit for the high school level, scaffolding a bit Read more…
Does your district require justification for downloading any software to school computers? Convince them–no DAZZLE them–into adding Skype if they have not done so already. Feel free to take as much of the letter below as you need to make your case, filling in your own blanks–and/or links–as needed. Read more…