In 2017, I posted a guide for 20 gifts for the teacher you love. This month for the “throwback” section of my somewhat-monthly newsletter for teachers, I wanted to re-share the post, but alas- it’s the internet, and so many of my links had broken! I fixed a lot of them, but a lot changes […]
Meet Jack, the mean clown who wants to help you remember the map to TL Memory Lane. Earlier this year, I blogged about the lessons we can learn from Lisa Genova‘s book Remember. Check out that blog post for a more in-depth look at the content of the book. I mentioned there that my dear […]
It’s so sweet to be back, y’all. Last weekend, the annual conference of the Kentucky World Language Association returned to Lexington, Kentucky. Last year, KWLA was my first conference since I paused blogging while I wrapped my mind around a diagnosis of MS. I embraced friends, sat quietly, absorbed the learning– but I didn’t present. […]
It’s a new season for Musicuentos. You know this. You probably also know it’s going to include regular breaking news, like the return of the Musicuentos Monthly newsletter, or the new Facebook group Musicuentos Tips, Tools, & Talk for Spanish Teachers. JOIN US ON FACEBOOK! My next announcement involves travel itineraries– eventually, for every Spanish-speaking […]
This is the journey of teachers – another set of graduates moved on, another crop of kindergarteners coming in, another summer gone, another year just around the bend. Perhaps you’ve moved schools, or grades, or classrooms. Perhaps you’re making a really big change like when I was first asked to teach preschoolers when all of […]
Hey dear readers, a quick post to invite you to connect with me in an all-new way! Many of you are already following the Musicuentos public page on Facebook. But now, by joining my private Facebook group especially for Spanish teachers, you’ll see… constructive questions & tips new songs blog posts from the vault suggested […]
Remember that car that was parked two spaces down from you, at that store you went to, for that thing you wanted to buy? Of course you don’t. Every day, thousands of events pass through our experience, and they do not stay with us. For most of us, these experiences go in, they’re briefly acknowledged […]
Do your learners know each other’s names? Bear with a bit of a long introduction, and keep reading to perhaps discover a new idea for fostering community + target language in the classroom. After twenty years of teaching, when I go to a conference, I often choose presentations based on the presenter – something I […]
In the language teaching field, we have a long, treasured history of arguing and drama. We may agree or disagree on classroom setup, teacher recruitment efforts, and the best ways to encourage learners to study abroad, but primarily, our arguments center on one question: What works (or doesn’t work) for successful language acquisition? In true Sra. […]
Why, hello, my corner of the internet. How’s it going? As Ecclesiastes reminds us, there’s a time for everything. Today, it’s September 7, 2022, and for Sra. Musicuentos, it’s time to come back. You may not know me. Let’s see if I can condense this into a nice bio overview. In the fall of 2008, […]
We’ve come to the end, Musicuentos reader. You and I have been on quite a journey together, and I’m sure I’ve written something through the years that you loved and/or hated. Of 699 posts, here are the top ten Musicuentos posts of all time (actually, since hits have been measured by Google Analytics, which is […]
In the final Musicuentos post next week, you’ll see what posts are at the top of all 700(ish) of them, in terms of hits overall. But there are some that perhaps didn’t get viewed as much that are special to me, either because I said something I really thought was meaningful and needed, or because […]