Chris mentioned in a comment here recently that he starts the year out on the first day with a story. It’s a good idea. I often turn the CWB card information into a story with the springboard words of where and with whom.
I just want to make it clear, as we start to hammer out our plans for next year, that there is no one way to do this work, no formula. That point is made often here and needs to be. What strategies we use when and how and how often is totally up to us.
The work is far too free in its fundamental nature – its core is love – to ever become a formula. Keep experimenting, keep testing, keep pushing out on the walls of how CI works. They are made of rubber. No matter how far you push out, you will find that CI and the Three Steps of TPRS invented by Blaine always resumes their guiding shape.
The only thing we need to do is align our instruction along the lines of the magic formula of establishing meaning, gesturing, getting reps in some form, any form, of PQA, then create something like a story, and then read what you created. The system is fool proof. The only thing that could take it down would be our thinking that there is only one way to do it.