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Adventures in a Spanish Classroom and the Educational World

Postcards to Every Kid

This year I mailed every student a personalized postcard home. It was a slow process. I wrote 5 a day, skipping days I was maxxed out, and it took me September thru December. My colleague Lisa actually inspired me –… Continue Reading →

Reading Strategies in the World Language Classroom

I stumbled upon some new reading strategies while observing my colleague, AJ Ferris. Typically I spent about 15 minutes on a reading activity – and I watched him teach the same reading over *gasp* 45 minutes! To quote AJ as… Continue Reading →

Class Countries – LOVE

Class Countries and why I LOVE THEM! Last year I took a PD by Annabelle Allen aka LA MAESTRA LOCA (which I can’t recommend enough!)She shared that each of her class periods/blocks has a class country from the Spanish speaking… Continue Reading →

On Zoom and in the Room

We have made it 7 months into this new world of learning! Kids are learning. I am learning. This is not the best teaching or learning we have ever done. It is not ideal for anyone. But we are doing… Continue Reading →

Final Exams- CANCELLED!

Reflections on having our standardized final exam (NYS – FLACS) cancelled: I haven’t always had respect for final exams. Are they a real indicator of mastery in my class? Are they gate keepers? This year, unlike my previous 13 teaching… Continue Reading →

My Lessons Learned (so far)

Wow. It has been a tremendous 7 week of remote learning, effort, anxiety, highs and lows. Before I taught virtually I imagined teaching confidently from my computer. I was (almost) excited because I LOVE tech and my kids have a… Continue Reading →

Caminatas Para Aprender: Learning Walks – Top Takeaways

I have ALWAYS wanted to participate in a learning walk since I saw them becoming popular on twitter and read the Cult of Pedagogy article about seeing Each Other Teach (Gonzalez, Jennifer). New to a district, I decided to tread… Continue Reading →

Cultural Love vs. Cultural Appropriation

This definition of cultural appropriation was taken from wikipedia: “Cultural appropriation, at times also phrased cultural misappropriation, is the adoption of elements of one culture by members of another culture. This can be controversial when members of a dominant culture appropriate from disadvantaged minority cultures.” I’ve been… Continue Reading →

#PersonalizedLearning: Reflections on #DigitalStations

After this years NYSAFLT I was inspired by two sessions: hyperdocs and stations. I am not in a Google school, and while I feel my highest level of the SAMR model happened with tech coach Annie Almekinder (@aalmekinder) using Gsuite,… Continue Reading →

How to Use a Word Clouds in Language Class

Last week I had the awesome opportunity to hear Martina Bex. She is an expert in CI (comprehensive input), and sort of a celebrity to us bloggers and twitter users. I learned so much in the session – but one… Continue Reading →

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