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 schools students must matriculate and then be met with a

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 eyes – looking at a kid who is in

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 subtlety of points made: First Carmen said: It is like

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 to us. Note the hefty list of references. Hmmm. Who

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, what to look for. I responded: Hi Beth – I

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 I don’t “make them participate” anymore. What I am