Ben Slavic

Importance of SLOW

I was once demonstrating Look and Discuss with a French 3 class because the picture was still up from a previous French 1 class. (I often use the same material for all my classes because I don’t enjoy planning classes and see no need to, which is a testimony to the power of the comprehensible

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Chris Roberts

The usual daily flow of ideas here is now almost eight years old. Each year we go through the cycle of returning to our classrooms and supporting each other by sharing ideas about our teaching and our emotional relationship to what is really a very difficult profession. After not hearing from Chris Roberts for some

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SLA Videos

Scott Grapin shares some important video with us: Hey Ben, It was so great meeting you and the other PLC members in Chicago. Hope you are doing well and enjoying some time off. I want to share with the PLC some SLA primer videos I’ve put together for my own district. The primers currently on

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