The purpose of this post is to inform my readers that with the publication this summer of the two Invisibles books, with support videos to follow when they are ready, I can say with certainty that the long journey, the odyssey, really – that’s what it has been and nothing less – is over, with the Invisibles, of my own external voyage into CI.
These last two books are the best I can do and the logical outcome – for me – of all my book writing over the past 20 years. That’s it. I just don’t think that I will ever find a better way to teach than the Invisibles. But that is only the end of my own external odyssey to find the best way to teach a language.
The Invisibles books mark the closing of a chapter in my professional life, therefore. The trip has been arduous. I have met great souls in teaching, There are two women teaching in relative obscurity on the Maine coast who may be the two best CI teachers I’ve ever met – Anne Matava and Laura Avila.
There are three master teachers in Chicago – Greg Schwab, Sean Lawler and the incomparable Alisa Shapiro-Rosenberg, whose work with elementary kids will one day soon shake the planet – who have been like rocks to this group and to their communities which are now beginning to expand across the country.
There is the gentleman’s gentleman and master Spanish teacher Bryce Hedstrom right here in Colorado whose leadership in the CI world is stretching out now into its third decade. There is the master teacher of them all (along with Blaine Ray) – my teacher Susan Gross right down the road in Colorado Springs and boy do I owe her a visit!