I haven’t shared the WCTG in a long time with teachers since it is a Book 2 thing and most teachers are still trying to

The old days of “challenging” language students is over. Our field is challenging enough for them and for us.  Those days were part of something

Let’s say it’s a year from now and it’s a Thursday morning in March of next year (2023), and you’ve been using the Star in

Hello, Ben! We are in Germany near Berlin at my sister’s friend’s house. Everything is good. Waiting to see who’s available to drive with me

I’m doing two trainings this spring on the Ultimate CI Books 1 and 2 and the new StarSystem™ approach: Book 1: April 2 – May

I’ve been working with Marcel who is a teacher of English in Morocco with primarily intermediate students from Russia. We may be nearing some kid

Where did the fears around building stories come from? They originated in the early days of TPRS when Blaine Ray could and did create a

I just had a sad thought about those AP type students we teach. We teach them all sorts of boring stuff, the stuff that they

I got this message from our four intrepid travelers: We’ve made it in Poland 🤩

This is a passage from a rewrite of the Ultimate CI Book that I am currently doing for Teacher’s Discovery: If you worked diligently through

More from Victoria: Well we’ve been driving since 7 am, it’s 4 pm now. Skylynn is getting restless, the rest of the kiddos fell asleep,

The latest from Victoria and the Three Angels: Hello! We left Kremenchuk 2 hours ago. Should be arriving to West Ukraine in like 12 hours

When we use the StarChart™, we do not require kids to memorize anything, the students are not bored , and yet we are able to

In any field, if the curriculum* conflicts with the research, then which one should change? *By this term I mean both the textbook curriculum and

Victoria and the kids are safe, but they didn’t make it to Poland: Hello! Still in Kremenchuk. Roads to the border  got very dangerous and

There are three kinds of people who will read my new book, the Ultimate CI Book 1: Those who, hiking in the mountains of change

We are now finally connecting the dots between our work in language education and the 229 Black people who have been killed by police since

Victoria and the three little ones are heading for Lviv tomorrow with kids and stuff to apply for an emergency passport and then cross the

Diversity. Equity. Inclusion. Belonging. Belonging!  In case you haven’t noticed, we are in a new time.  We can’t teach grammar anymore. It’s just ridiculous that

The four Hub D students are a tech team. See the attached Seating Chart for an Ultimate CI classroom.  Hub D is not a physical

The language curriculum you use has a deep impact on kids. If you use the textbook and worksheets, you bore them. However, if you choose

Here is an update from Victoria: There is a lot of negativity and grumpiness in the country, and in Ukrainians, even those who have left

Someone objected to me today how “easy” the Ultimate CI quizzes are. Whenever I hear that objection, I refute it.  We must ask ourselves what

Victoria, whom many in the group know from working with her in trainings over the summer, moved from Maryland to Ukraine in the fall of