Jennfer sent me this interesting email: Ben, I have always been a 4%er, and now I may know why. I’m wondering how this can impact my classroom… I picked up my Russian copy of Bednaya Anya (Poor Ana) and have been happily reading through it as my bedtime reading. As such, I have been re-reading […]

There are two things that are considered standard operating procedure in foreign language classrooms that I just can’t accept. I really believe, and so must state that as my truth, that some, many, teachers are getting away with ineffective practices in their classrooms and nobody is calling them on it, in two ways specifically. First,