Here’s an excellent bio from Krista:
Hello,
I’m Krista Applegate. I teach French and Latin at Palmyra Area High School in Palmyra, PA. I teach all levels of French (1-5) and Latin 1,2.
This is my 14th year teaching; 12 years were spent doing traditional textbook work. Then I attended a workshop given by Michele Kindt at Hershey and was overwhelmed by what her kids could do after 3 months that my kids couldn’t do after 3 years. With the help of a colleague in my building, I immediately switched to CI instruction and have never looked back. It’s been difficult with my fours and fives in French because they don’t have the CI background that my ones, twos, and threes now do but we chip away at it with reading, lots of discussion in French, and student stories.