An Insidious System
Students who come from privilege – in language classrooms and in all American classrooms – continue to be trained in schools for their roles as
Play and Speech Output
It takes approximately 400 repetitions for our brains to make a new connection, unless it’s done through play, in which case it only takes 10
Drawn by an Echo?
This was written and posted here in 2016: Are Sauk, Latin, Myskoke, Chickasaw languages asleep or is there something more going on? It’s easy to
On Testing
Assessment instruments like common assessments and formative tests that require memorization destroy our students’ sense of self-confidence in the language. Who says that they have
Narcissism
A person with whom I used to work – until I cut her off in 2018 – tried to use me as her intellectual supply
Using the StarChart™ With Younger Children
Not too many teachers have tried to use the Ultimate CI™ approach (UCI™) with very small children. I guess the assumption is that it’s a