Lynette St. George (Lang) is the WL dep’t chair at Valor Christian High in Highlands Ranch, CO (south suburban Denver). Valor is our own Diane Neubauer’s new school as well. (Like Sabrina, Lynette and Diane are both from Chicago.) So today I rode my bike over there and spent a very nice hour and a […]
Looking back, I often wonder why the method, almost 25 years old now, hasn’t taken off in our schools, since it arguably still remains out of at least 99% of our classrooms in any effective way. Here are the five biggest reasons for this failure, ranked in order, in my opinion: 1. Lack of persistence
I just deleted my entire inbox, so if you have sent me something to attend to, it’s gone. I did it on purpose, because my inbox had become unmanageable, so it was necessary. I’m not alone on this, by the way. It has been claimed that Thomas De Quincey once lived in an apartment so
jGR is a way of observing certain non-verbal observable behaviors in our students that align with the national standards, in particular the ACTFL Three Modes of Communication, and in particular among the three modes, the listening skill. The term “observable non-verbal behaviors” was invented by Barbara Vallejos of Abraham Lincoln High School in Denver, Colorado
