Brene Brown

There is very little that we can depend on in this new way of teaching. It is a scary proposition to retool to align our instruction with the research.  None of us is an expert. We are all just feeling our way forward here in the beginning days of this true paradigm shift in our

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Upcoming Training

I am happy to announce that my next Ultimate CI Book 1 training will begin Jan. 8th and go every Saturday until Feb. 12th.  Find the information here: https://www.benslavic.com/product/ultimate-ci-book-1-six-weeks-training/ Hope to see you then! Ben

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Family Reunion Oct. 2nd

For those who have done the UCI trainings, don’t forget that we have our first “family reunion” for those who have been trained in the method over the past year. It will be via Zoom at 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. MT this Saturday, Oct. 2. We’ll talk about what has been working and what needs

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Sample Tableau

I got this nice message and drawing – click on link below – from a teacher who took the Ultimate CI Book I training this summer: Hello Ben. I hope you are well. I just wanted to share that the tableaux have been coming out nicely in my classes. As expected the kids love it.

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The Bulb in the Ground

I got a question: Q. I have a third year student who is a great student.  She reads on an upper intermediate level.  Listening comprehension is a mid-intermediate level.  She is an EXCELLENT reader in English and LOVES to read.  She tackles her favorite English book in Spanish and is not afraid to work at

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Eight Traps

I am compiling a set of documents that, when finished, will become a book entitled In Defense of CI. Taken almost exclusively from posts from my blog over the past 15 years, it will be designed to offer CI teachers educated responses to those annoying and uninformed attacks about how we teach from helicopter parents,

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