Card Stories are very simple stories based on the Circling with Balls activity cards that some of us did to start the year. Card stories represent an intermediate zone of CI instruction that is more complex than the simple sentences that characterize the PQA done with the cards, yet is much simpler than full blown stories. […]
Skip Crosby provides us with some numbers from Maine about how language teachers basically taught themselves out of jobs because they couldn’t grab and hold kids’ interests. Here is what he wrote: …when our school opened in 1999 we offered Latin, ASL, French and Spanish. We now only offer Spanish. At one point there were 9 teachers
This bio is from Dirk. It contains some radical thoughts, even for us. I agree fully with every single point he makes. Dirk is a freestyle expert. Read why: I just had a chance to go through the last month or of the blog entries. I apologize for not sending a bio sooner and not
