Hi Ben, First, a little background. On Thursday, 15 November, I was in a district workshop focusing on Professional Learning Communities. As part of the push toward PLCs, the district is asking that we develop a common language and a common set of practices. There is also a great deal of talk about “best practices”. […]

Thanks Carol! https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150357451781540&set=a.10150357451686540.340738.63759686539&type=1&ref=nf (I would guess that the average attendance at the tech sessions was six)

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I did make a couple comments on your post today, but I thought I would send you a few other thoughts I had after day two. First, the number of sessions available at the conference that had something to do with technology was astounding!  Teachers (not only FL teachers) truly believe that if you use

I did go down there last night but just to hang out. Apparently though during the day there was almost no room to sit or squeeze in at Carol Gaab’s presentation, and I also heard that her table was busy with hoards of people seeking information about CI. Bryce got one of those bad slots,

Our own erudite Kelly provides us with her evaluation and insights from day 1 of ACTFL. I wish this report were longer – maybe it will be tomorrow! Ben, Doubt you were there today.  So, ACTFL day one….Carol and Bryce were great!  (one other good presentation on brain research, but that’s about it). The thing that

This is to tranfer important comments on the word wall discussion to a category for ease of reference. The idea of translated words on the wall is clearly best as Mark, Jody, Carol, Kristy and Diana all recommend it. Jody where can we get the Connector Word Wall if it is purchasable or do we need

Carol sent this email this morning: In case you want to view photos: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150353019811540.340191.63759686539&type=3&l=085a7af9d3 Carol Gaab President, TPRS Publishing, Inc. carol@tprstorytelling.com [ed. note: the first photo – that is Kristy Placido on the left and Diana Noonan in the center and behind her is Laura Friesen. Most of the photos are of Mark Mallaney –

Of course we have talked about how freaky it is to be observed, but I have come to an awareness after today that the level of kindness in the heart of the person observing us is a huge factor in how we present our version of this kind of teaching to visitors. Today Kristy Placido

This is too good to not post as a blog entry. It was originally a comment by Bryce on the Pigs Can’t Fly series of blog posts. It will be categorized under “Pigs” and “Classroom Discipline”: I have sneaked (snuck?) a proviso for this type of situation [ed. note: Bryce is referring here to when you have

Well, the day is over. How’d it go? Let’s respond to your suggestions from this morning point by point: 1.On the no English rule, I went overboard. I came across too strong on the enforcement. Maybe scared a few people. And, of course, to enforce it, I used English, so what’s up with that? All

Hi Ben, Hope your story, King of Pain (Vol. 2 Matava) goes well today. I like the way you hung in there on the quasi boring PQA yesterday. It wasn’t very entertaining, but you kept the conversation going just fine and averaged over 70 repetitions on that first structure, avoir mal, so that wasn’t too