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Robert Harrell has an excellent nine part series on textbook adoption. Find those links on the Primers page.

Apparently Tina’s boss didn’t get the message. And why doesn’t that surprise me? Hi Tina, After Debbie’s email this morning I went on a scavenger hunt for our language textbooks and resources. Just wanted to let you know that they are in room 160. If you would like to have us move those over to

First Reading Day! In Spanish One and French One, we spent the first quarter of the school year happily creating characters with One Word Images, telling their stories, and telling stories of Invisibles created by members of the class. The characters and their stories were much-loved by the kids, and by me. The students soaked

For anyone interested, Tina has a FB page that I personally want to be a part of. Lots of reasons for that, the main one being that it is a site that is very positive in nature. I want to keep this PLC for general discussion and (maybe Tina will comment on this point) I

I got a question: Ben, how is your new concept of the Invisibles different from other TPRS techniques? My response: Nothing is never new and I am not making that claim with the Invisibles. I feel that the Invisibles express in a wonderful way the word serendipity, where (1) the images we create and (2)

Jen puts us in touch with these words by Sant Kirpal Singh (1894-1975). They point to the future of this work: “The tender heart of a child calls for very delicate handling. In fact, education begins even before birth and therefore better care must be bestowed upon every pregnant mother. It is a constant association

Hi Ben, I just read the updates and other posts about Tina’s situation. I’m really glad that the ending is more positive than the beginning, even though I think the struggle is far from over. As a bit of counterpoint, I would like to share some good news from my neck of the woods. In

Mike Peto wrote on his blog yesterday: https://mrpeto.wordpress.com/2016/11/06/where-will-the-ci-community-be-in-100-years/

I am in year three of teaching, and year three of trying to teach with TPRS. This year, I moved to a new school because I got married and moved across the state over the summer. I am the only Spanish teacher in the high school (which will hopefully change next year), and am doing

Kathrin Shechtman has made this statement about the Invisibles: Stepping out of the shadow of a curriculum and going freestyle with these 100% student created stories has been a wonderful change. Do you really have to reinvent the wheel to come up with something new? Can’t you just change the material and composition and have

This comment was posted here by Cherie Thomas a few days ago. I see it as a tremendous breakthrough not just for Cherie but for all of us. Cherie please thank that person for her vision on behalf of everyone in this blog community and those throughout the country and world who are trying to

Martin Anders was the first person who ever joined this PLC, ten years ago. He writes from Germany: Dear Ben, “But how can we show up as human beings when we are not even able to do this in our own private lives, in our relationship with others who are important to us? We cannot