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Ben – Could you put this out on the blog? A former student is looking for a college online intermediate 2 French class. If anyone knows of one, I would appreciate the info. Chill

In Brian’s video, Jason noticed a singing bowl. Brian explained to Jason: Yes that is a singing bowl! I really want to integrate mindfulness training in my class, and that was one way of doing it. I tap it three times while we breathe deeply and then we are silent by the third. Sometimes I

This from Jeff Brickler: Ben, I have been thinking about how to make it easier on a teacher who teaches all levels, specifically Latin, German, Chinese, and occasionally Spanish. I have a hypothesis that I’d like people to hammer on for a bit before I decide to move forward next year. Here it is. Many

I know that both Greg and Michele did demos with eighth graders today, Greg as part of an interview process and Michele because somebody asked her to. I would like to get reports on how those went. My idea is that if Angie can write up a template of the things she did for her

Greg Stout is going to be working all day today to plan a demo, part of an interview process, for tomorrow (Thursday), so we need to act fast on this. Michele also has a demo tomorrow – her request was posted a few days ago here. Those who are willing and have time to respond

We were privileged to have video from Sean in Chicago and now here is some classroom footage from Brian in Detroit: Ben, I know I have been quite silent on your blog but I am still trying every day to improve my TPRS skills. I am going to at BOTH trainings this summer to help

This is from our PLC member Mark Knowles, Director of the Anderson Language and Technology Center at the University of Colorado in Boulder: Hi Ben, I wanted to post something on an experiment that occurred at CU-Boulder this past semester that I would call a CI and Listening Comprehension mash-up. I am very excited by

Hi Ben, I’m going to do two short class demos for a school this Thursday. The school offers Russian to every student at every level, K-8. This sounds great, except that new kids can come into the classes at any time through the years, and each class learns together by grade. That means that there

I got this from Mary Beth today but if you want it you have to act now because it is a one day only deal: Hi Ben – There is a FREE kindle book available today – “Teaching to the Child”. I thought you might want to share it on the blog. MB

I’m behind on Teacher of the Month but I’ll get caught up. This one is for March and is a no-brainer: Throughout the month of March and throughout the year, we have benefitted from the intellectual prowess and expertise – it’s the right word – of Eric Herman. He has sent us videos, shared all

When Mozart was a kid, his young mind was bathed in music – it is all he heard around him.  His dad didn’t say, “Hey, Wolfgang, this is an eighth note, and this is a half rest. We’ll do some cool music theory tomorrow morning. And check out this treble clef over here. I bet you’d

I just got this from Jim: http://www.classtools.net/qwikslides/10_U3X3gH Ben, here is one of those Qwikslides stories that you may want to share with PLC members. It’s about 5 de Mayo. I did it kind of spur of the moment, haven’t read it yet with students all the way through, so there may be errors or inaccuracies