We welcome Lori to this group. Indiana has been for some time an active state with comprehensible input:
I currently teach at Crestview Middle School in Huntington County, Indiana (the entire school corporation is TPRS-based). I’m not sure yet if I will still be there next year or not. [ed. note: Lori is now at Adams Central Jet Tech in Monroe, Indiana]
I joined this blog because I’d never even heard of TPRS when I got my job and was rather panicked. When I received my school packet last year, I read Ben’s book and noticed that he had a blog. Reading that blog saved my sanity and gave me the courage to keep trying even though I had no idea what I was doing. I was a four-percenter and loved grammar, but my own skills have improved so much by reading and listening (on my own time so that I can talk in class) that I know this method works.