Hi Ben – We had a great story today in my first period class that I wanted to share with everybody. We did a OWI on Monday where we created a purple and yellow – headed giraffe. She was in a jail in Ecuador with Lady Gaga. Fast forward to today when we made a […]

I’m not kidding. There are people who think that more homework means more learning. I have it in writing from this email I got from a member of our group. As they say, you can’t make this stuff up: I’m starting to see where many parents in my rich suburban district think that they’re perfect.

Here is a link to an article about a CI/TPRS teacher in Australia, discussing how comprehensible input language instruction has informed and transformed this teacher’s work: https://www.victorharbortimes.com.au/story/3564600/port-elliot-indonesian-teacher-celebrated/?cs=1537#slide=1

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

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

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

Note to reader: I have collected 24 articles addresses various aspects of CI instruction. They will be published under separate cover in these Patreon pages, but I also wanted to feature them here as blog posts over the next few weeks simply because they are so impressive and therefore useful to we who are waging

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.

How could all of us so badly miss the point about why we teach languages? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCmdhQLtwag

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

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,