Our PLC member Frank James Johnson has said this about the Star Sequence:
Scope: “Whole Language Instruction”
Sequence: “Spiraling Expansive Recurrence of Comprehensible Input”.
Of course, these blanket terms would freak out any admin who is not familiar with the Star. But then, you could just give them more information by showing them the Star (below) and explain to them that languages are not learned in a linear fashion one word at a time (from lists) but in big gulps. It might get them asking some questions. And it is important that our admins know what our curriculum looks like, even if they have trouble grasping why it is built that way and why we teach our students in circular and not linear fashion.
