Michael Peto wrote recently on facebook: Just a few quick thoughts before going to school: (1) Starting with student generated pictures for characters is a much more interesting launching point into stories than any of the premises of my best stories. (2) I used to work so hard that as the last class left for […]

Tina Hargaden, in response to Terry Waltz: I have heard some people say quite stridently and repeatedly that TPRS is difficult to learn, that it’s like walking on a tightrope. That it takes years. Then someone comes up with a new system, built on ideas that came before, but put together with some new elements

Terry Waltz: Is it [the Invisibles] new? Or something coming back around from earlier days of TPRS? One-word images as a way to begin stories — or even just to stimulate talk without any “story” — has been around for a long, long time. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a fine technique, but let’s be

For those investigating the Invisibles, there was some recent talk about it on FB. I share parts of that discussion here, because most of those who wrote are members of our PLC and because, for those who go way back in this group, the Invisibles respresent the biggest positive change in this work I have

Hey everybody if you have read The Big CI Book and found it helpful go to this page on the Teacher’s Discovery website and give it nice review! http://www.teachersdiscovery.com/product/bigcibook/books-1

It’s a roller coaster experience for us. No sooner do we hear just this morning such a positive report from Cherie, after sharing in the difficulties Tina encountered last week, than we get a new new negative report from PLC member Kristen ND Wolf. Check this out: I had a horrible experience with my admin

If you don’t get a response on the Forum please make sure you send anything you want to say or ask to me at benslavic@yahoo.com and I will post it here. I know that the Forum isn’t always the best place and we need to keep front and center the idea that anything we might

This is from Kathrin Shechtman in Germany: This summer I went to the Agen conference where Ben Slavic and Tina Hargaden unveiled their new initiative with stories created from images that the students create – the Invisibles. Before that I had almost completely moved away from stories and just gone to PQA with the kids,

In this post on his site Jim Tripp explains something he is working on when he writes story scripts: http://www.trippsscripts.com/single-post/2016/10/25/Somewhat-Simple

From David Maust of the famous Latin Kings: John Piazza is giving a workshop, accompanied by David Maust, at California High School in Whittier, CA this coming Saturday, Nov. 5, 2016. Although it deals directly with Latin, teachers of any language will have take-aways for this as John shows how to have students develop FVR

Administrators cannot be expected to know all best practices in language education, especially for a content area that is so drastically different from core subjects, so we have to educate them. In the following communication between Robert Harrell and a parent, we have a template from Robert that we all could modify to use to

Here are some possible zinger responses to the “What happens if they change schools and can’t conjugate verbs?” question that we often get from admins, parents and even kids. This might be good to tape to a desk and have ready to go when needed: 1. (Robert) “So, you’re asking me to do less than