Tina and I simplified the star sequence poster. Those using it will be happy with how simple it is:

I got this question today, and provided a makeshift answer, since the problem won’t be resolved until our Alisa writes her book: Daniel Salinero wrote: I’m really enjoying your book. On page 32 you mentioned that most of us only have three or four hours per week with our students. This book is probably geared

If you have the new book, there is an addition to the first chapter. It was requested by Teacher’s Discovery*. Here is the addition. It’s the new page 11: Meeting the Students Where They Actually Are There has been a lot of recent discussion in the World Language teaching community about performance assessments that ask

Your body/voice are your most important instruments in this work. Learn to play the instrument in the CI orchestra that you’ve been given. This is Performance Skills 101. You have to do CI in a way that reflects the instrument that you have been given. Your instrument is yours and no one else has it.

I got this from Alisa today: Sean Lawlor and family just bought the house next-door to mine! He and his wife are teachers; my husband and I are teachers. Can you say summer BBQ? Now that is a good way to work on our mental health in this difficult new field we work in – just

More good news from Chicago! I got this from Alisa today – Sean Lawlor and family just bought the house next-door to mine! He and his wife are teachers; my husband and I are teachers. Can you say summer BBQ? Now that is a good way to work on our mental health in this difficult new

Julia is doing the spring protocol that Tina and I describe in A Natural Approach to the Year. She’s working with the student storybook projects. Here is her report and, below it, the pages pasted in from the book that describe the details of how to do the project. Hi Ben – The kids are

From Greg in Chicago: Hi Ben, I know part of the PLC, being that it is a private community is that we also share pictures and stories of our family, like how Sean recently shared pictures of his children. Here is a picture of me and my fiancée, Rosa Marisol. We got engaged on 4/21

Here is information about Greg’s one day CI training in Chicago this summer: http://tprspunk.blogspot.com/2018/04/chicago-comprehensible-input-training.html

A lot of readers here know about the following great way to spend some fun time with the kids each week, but I republish this article from April of 2009 for anyone for whom it may be a new strategy: For whatever reason, I have avoided kindergarten day all these years. I guess I was

Greg just published a new FCR reader on Teachers Pay Teachers: Las aventuras de Nancy y Rodolfo https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Las-aventuras-de-Nancy-y-Rodolfo-FVR-SSR-e-book-Descubre-3-Chapter-1-3780022 For more products: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/The-Ci-Guy

If they tripled my salary and begged I might consider doing more planning. I may want to plan a little when doing a Movie Talk or something, but not with one of the Invisibles stories. When we work with emergent targets, we are freer to follow a story line that is much more interesting to