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Receptive Language Assessments

There has been some discussion lately on assessment and I would like to highlight what Claire has written on her blog on this topic. It’s pretty much what I think exactly and I appreciate Claire’s

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Homework. Change. Now.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/brandy-young-texas-teacher-no-homework-letter-note-facebook-viral_us_57b60aede4b03d5136871eb7?section=&

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SLOW

This is a good article from Jim’s blog: http://www.trippsscripts.com/#!Slow-in-the-Other-Things-Too/c1uxc/57bc6f700cf279ec4135c6ba

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Spanish Position in Virginia

This is from Cherie: A teacher at Albemarle HS in Charlottesville VA had a family emergency and has to leave the country by the end of the month.  The full time position is for Spanish

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Mike Peto’s List of Novels

Mike Peto is creating a list of CI novels – grouped by languages – by independent authors. Now we don’t have to go search the web for a variety of literature. This means that all of our work

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Bathroom Policy

What are people doing for bathroom policies this year? Mine has always been they can’t go in the first or last 10′ of class, since they should be going during the break, unless of course

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Word Walls

Laura Avila shares and the group is invited to comment: The words I have on the walls in my Spanish classroom are all high up and are pronouns, adverbs, conjunctions and prepositions. No verbs, no

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