Ben Fisher – a member of our PLC – asked this question about reading and my response is below. There is no intent to be contrary in my answer – it’s just the way I think, which always has some

Hi Ben - I have a  girl in my Spanish 1 class who is getting RTI'ed for issue with attention and attendance. Apparently she is one of the most difficult students that teachers are dealing with in her other classes. Yesterday

I do apologize for not writing more here recently. I am in the very final stages of working on a new book that is the third in a trilogy, a sequel to A Natural Approach to Stories (ANATS) and A

About twenty years ago when teaching high school French in South Carolina, being at that point roughly half way through my teaching career, I was struggling very deeply emotionally. I was not happy in my job. The only fun I was having was

Some people still think that the degree to which they can get a good problem going and then coming up with a cute and neatly wrapped solution is an indication of their talent as a CI teacher. Nothing could be further

Hey Carly and Alisa look what I figured out: I spent fifteen years thinking that I wasn’t good enough at TPRS, innocently going to national conferences and spinning stories with a big smile on my face like I was in complete control of the

Another thing about the problem of creating a problem in a story is that it depends on what our starting point is. If we start from a student card in Card Talk, we have less information than if we are

Let’s say when starting to build a one word image with your class that you accepted, from the objects called out, a grape. The first thing we have to do with any new vocabulary is “walk before we talk”, so

I'd forgotten that I had made some "places" posters for my walls back 15 years ago when I was still doing TPRS. Back then I thought it was all about the posters. Now I use about three. Anyway, maybe someone