I messed up and forgot to write an article for Teacher of the Month for February. Here it is:
There are certain people with whom I have shared many hours of stimulating intellectual conversation, albeit in cyberspace, over the seven years of existence of this blog. They have been very rich hours.
When I met John Piazza and David Maust in Las Vegas a few years ago, I must say that John – and certainly David as well – is one of those certain people who have my deepest respect on a every level, but especially because the quality of intellectual conversation with him is the best.
Devoted to his family, he is nonetheless a professional’s professional, one of those who may have spent years at the side of Stephen Krashen or (former Teacher of the Month and fellow San Franciscan) Jody Noble, drinking deeply from the well of Krashen’s hypotheses, plummeting the depths of how to apply comprehensible input to best practices in Latin instruction and being very active nationally alongside David Maust and Bob Patrick and the other kick ass Latin instructors we have in our PLC here.
Here are just a few examples that represent John’s beautiful contributions to the PLC over the years:
https://benslavic.com/blog/john-piazza-on-ci-2/
https://benslavic.com/blog/piazza-on-acquisition/
Read and enjoy! It is with great collegial admiration that we honor John Piazza as February’s PLC Teacher of the Month. He is as good as they get in this business, because of his intellectual honesty.