June is Here

I am back in Colorado with my wife and my boys, and loving every minute of time with family in this beautiful part of the world.  Until the July conferences, I am putting family first, and resting my mind and body.  There are a few articles in the queue for the remainder of June and into

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Request

This question is for everybody. Is there anything we can do to make the blog better? Things we need to change? What are your end of year observations and reflections? Have you had time yet to formulate any thoughts on the new Forum initiative? Is there anything that we could add here that you feel would improve

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Out of Delhi

I’ll be away from my desk for a week or two, coming home, doing a workshop next week, lying down in the backyard and staring up at the beautiful blue sky, dusting off my road bike while also dusting off a year in one of the most spectacular countries on earth. It’s a good time for

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David Sceggel

I met David at North High School at iFLT about four years ago in Denver. Seeing him teach there made me see that he is a master of CI technique. My name is David Sceggel. I teach Spanish 1-4 at Midland High School in Varna, IL. I am the only foreign language teacher in the

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I Think I Can

This response to Julio Maestas from me in January of 2016 points the way toward this new focus on using the Forum for collaboration.  I am finding that the Forum is a more user-friendly way to interact for a true back-and-forth of collegial sharing. Julio was new to the blog at that time and had some questions on

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Forum

The Format of our blog community will change now. Readers will use the Forum more often. The expansion of options here will continue in the long run to include more and more changes. For example, we will set up opportunities for real time conversation down the road. That will be fun. Look for that addition here in

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Good News!

Usually the honor of being asked to mentor a struggling teacher is given to veteran teachers with years of experience under their belts. In his district in Fresno, CA, our own Steven Ordiano has been asked to mentor a young colleague next year and, really how cool IS this – he himself is only in

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Osmosis

Linda and I have a great department chair here at the American Embassy School. His name is Zach Al Moreno and he is from Seattle. Zach has been doing TPRS for about five years and he rocks the CI house. Anyone teaching using TPRS with Linda Li around is going to rock the house, right? I

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