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Ultimate CI Training

The Zoom training on Book 1 of the Ultimate CI series begins this coming Monday, for those interested. Go to benslavic.com and click on “training courses”. If you want to really access what is in these new books, the Zoom training is important. If money is a concern due to the pandemic hitting everybody hard,

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Too Much Junk?

One of the most severe things we can do to ourselves as teachers is to collect so much information, so many different strategies and activities, that we can’t manage all of it. This is actually a form of self-harm. When we lack a simple formula in a simple and doable WL curriculum, when we end

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COVID Prayer – 10

So thank you for renewing our courage today, Lord. Thank you for reminding us to just put our trust in you each day and get up and brush off the wounds of the previous day and get back to work. Trusting in you is the motto of our country, after all. Thanks for the reminder!

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Equity

The rise of elitism in our society is paralleled in our schools. It would be unreasonable to think otherwise. When the few take over a class then that class becomes their property.  One thing that I fear about our field in 2020 is how the rise of the few in our language classes will subsequently

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