Mission Statement – 1

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  1. One way to say it, and it’s hard to admit, but it’s COVID time (time for some honesty), is that way back in the day I needed approval more than I needed to align with the research. I wasn’t alone. The textbook is a wonderful tool to gain the approval of people whose brains are still made out of wood. But I’m a big boy now. I just spent a lifetime thinking about this shit 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. I’m still doing it. But I’ve learned some true things, like we need to fricking align with the research and not let the new breed of CI experts bend the research down, twisting it against its inclinations, pulling the lovely branches of the Krashen, Mason and BVP trees down to the ground so they can pluck dollars from the branch, when in reality they need, like we in this PLC need, to work on our vertical leap, to be able to jump high enough to pluck the best fruit from the top of the research trees, where the eating is wonderful, and leave the wooden fruit to the experts. Look, ain’t nobody aligning CI with the research these days. Blaine was a high jumper in high school. Susan Gross, the best of them all, when at Cheyenne Mountain MS in Colorado Springs, could jump higher than anyone. Her CI horse itself was ten feet tall and when she came to my classroom to teach me about REAL CI, not the current crap, her cowboy hat touched the ceiling of my classroom. Oh, those were the days. But the new breed of experts has done to CI the same thing that the traditionalists did – turn CI into a money machine. Work on your vertical leap. Start by re-reading the research. Find a tall horse. Take yourself for a ride. Learn what real language teaching is all about.

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