Report from the Field – Tina Hargaden
As regular readers here know, Tina is having quite the year. Strongly attacked by traditional colleagues at the high school level, to which her middle
Teaching with the Eyes
What Tina wrote here is important. It points to the direction we want to go in: The hardest part about this job is teaching to the
Human Intelligence Requires Free and Open Paths
The following is from a response by Tina to Carmen over the past weekend. I have made the comment into a post because of the
Authentic Texts – Oui ou Non?
The Director of Education of ACTFL, with whom we have tangled before, has recently written the text below. Thanks to Alisa Shapiro for sending it
Observation Observations
My principal was coming in to my classroom last year for a required unannounced observation. Beforehand, she asked me how she could be of help,
The Introverts Control The Class
Here is another thing Tina said in our conversation last weekend: …now the introverts in the class feel very safe doing stories with the Invisibles because
Report from the Field – Craig West
Craig reports from Los Angeles: Well I was totally demoralized before thanksgiving break. We had just started a new trimester and they had given me a
Riding the Rails
Here is something else worth sharing from when I talked to Tina last weekend: I have recently found out that my students will trust me, that
We Will All Teach Differently
Why are people advising that we all do this work in the same way? What we do with comprehensible input is our choice. Some like
There Is No Right Way
There is no right way to do this work. We all do what resonates best with our internal teaching artist souls. Why deny what we