10 mon. of SSR with music. 15 min. of comprehensible input (any form). 10 min. of dictée (content is formed from whatever the CI was about: use notes from story writer to pick the passage for the dictée)*. 5 min. quick quiz (written by your best quiz writer, five questions is just fine). 5 min. […]

It’s not typically expected that men in our society work at home, but it is of women. So, on this Mother’s Day, we salute all the women in our PLC community for not only bringing home the bacon but also frying it up in a pan. Y’all champions work two full time jobs, often with children involved.

This is a copy of an email I just sent to Dr. Krashen and my high school team and principals as well. I’m just putting it out there and would like to suggest that if we can get this idea off the ground, maybe we could start chapters in some of your schools as well:

I’m not hearing a lot of whining from the group so hopefully the virus scare is about over. Just don’t click on any hyperlinks in these posts.

This from a group member who would like some feedback from the group: Ben, I have been working with my classes to move toward using CI much more.  I used to use very traditional methods.  For example, I had a Powerpoint with examples of the grammatical topic.  We would cover the grammatical topic and see

The second topic I will be presenting on at NTPRS is Circling with Balls. Thanks again to those who edit for mechanical issues or clarity: Circling with Balls Each student has a sheet of colored card stock folded in half lengthwise with a line down the middle of one of the halves. (I use a different

I will be presenting two three hour sessions in Las Vegas. I ask the group’s help in proofreading my notes for inclusion in the conference program. Luckily, I am limited to two pages. Merci d’avance for rendering this service. The first topic I will be addressing is Moving from PQA into a Story: Moving From

I hade a long talk with each of my classes today. I told them that I need to grade them next year (I hope to be with them), in a different way than this year. I told them that I would grade them on their ability to follow the rules, and that I had to

The group decision to embrace the metacognition piece and use the rigor posters to foster discussion in each class next year so that kids reflect and verbalize their ideas on how they learn with us is an important thread from the year. We created that entire concept of rigor, the rigor posters that Clarice did,

Carol reports: Hi, Just got back from Laurie’s Beginning TPRS Workshop.  Great presentation. lots of great strategies for reading, working with the new circling  template, classroom management, and more – all delivered with large doses of Laurie’s open heart for teaching our kids. Kudos, Laurie, Lea and staff at Sidwell Friends for a wonderful day!

A recent thread here has helped me formulate my approach to discipline next year. It is a concrete response to kids who misbehave and it has teeth in it. This is the first of three posts that address how I plan to implement discipline next year. Another poster will be required to implement this change. That poster will

Today during our class self reflection discussions about how we learn languages, a question came upin one class about kids who put their heads down. I said that I felt it my responsibility to try to reach them and teach them. The class overwhelmingly said to let them fail. Any ideas from the group on this