James Hosler’s enrollment numbers are exploding. James uses Textivate. Therefore, if you use Textivate, your enrollments will explode.
Wouldn’t it be nice if it were that easy, right? Of course, James is doing other things with CI to make Latin the happening language in his school. He is reaching his kids on a human level, he is kind but unbending with rules infractions, he has a wide knowledge and classroom application of everything we’ve developed here over the past three years or so, he attends summer conferences and he is just a badass dude when it comes to teaching Latin. But Textivate is in fact a part of his coolness nonetheless.
I think we would all benefit from knowing what James does in more detail, actually, and James if you read this, and anyone else, please send in some reports from the field, because it’s time for them again. Reports from the field allow us not only to keep track of what others are doing in their classrooms, but also to be able to learn from their experiences, even from the so-called failures, which are not failures at all, just steps forward on the road to full command of the comprehensible input approach.
Anyway, here is a our first of what we hope are many reports from James, because he seems to definitely be doing something right to get those exploding numbers.
Read on:
Hi Ben –
For the past two years I have been teaching an “overload,” which means I have been hauling seven classes with only one plan period instead of the typical six class with two plan periods.
I have now been approved to teach a SECOND overload, which means I will get an eighth class and lose all my plan periods. I get compensated for this with more money and, perhaps more valuably, added job security and more interactions with students.
Thank you to everyone on this list who has helped me on my CI/TPRS journey. I am really seeing the fruits of all this hard work!
James
