Sabrina has played hooky from the blog since last August. Who could blame her? Last summer she moved from Chicago to Denver, as Diane Neubauer is doing this summer, and went into Thomas Jefferson High School in DPS and also worked throughout the year with Mark Knowles at UC Boulder teaching CU faculty French with stories, which was a big success (do a search using the keyword Knowles for more on that).
Moreover, Sabrina also served as a right hand to Diana Noonan all year, and was part of our district assessment writing team. That with a full teaching load. Luckily, she inherited top quality TPRS students from Paul Kirschling and got to work with Nina Barber and so the change wasn’t too bad. Anyway, she was busy.
My own respect for Sabrina as a person and as a teacher knows no bounds. She teaches from her heart, which is just so key in this method. Whenever my nervous self presented at national conferences, I could always count on her kind feedback to let me know that the presentation was effective and how to improve. I especially like coaching with Sabrina, again for the same reason that we think alike on coaching.
We are lucky that Sabrina will be teaching classes in the mornings at iFLT. Maybe with her help we can revive the videotaped interschool class competitions between blog members:
(https://benslavic.com/blog/category/cc-class-competitions)
Only Sabrina and Naomi Graham managed to pull those off last year. (I think we were all too busy but maybe next year we can explore this idea more.)
So those going to iFLT can learn a lot from Sabrina and so can the people going to Agen to study with her and Judy Dubois and her team over there.
I am sure that I speak for everyone in the group, Sabrina, that we missed your voice this year, we were happy whenever we heard from you, and we hope you comment more through the summer and on into next year, because you have so much to say that can help us.
Congratulations on this overdue honor!