Personal development
April 5, 2016
This post was authored by Justin Slocum Bailey and posted on Indwelling Language in response to my invitation for conversation on the learning vs. acquisition dichotomy, particularly in the context of translation, in the post Better acquisition by altering (not eliminating) translation.” (Finally! Someone is willing to talk about this!) Justin and Indwelling Language co-sponsor […]
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February 26, 2016
CAMP MUSICUENTOS IS A WRAP FOR 2016! Thanks everyone for all the learning! Seven days. Three locations. It’s a new year and an all-new format for the collaborative, intense curriculum planning workshop that is Camp Musicuentos. I can’t wait! What’s this about? Camp Musicuentos is a workshop I hold with a limited number of teachers […]
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January 11, 2016
Blogs to Watch 2016
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Whom are you listening to? It’s a critical question. Whom you’re listening to in the long-term can have a significant impact on your practice in the classroom, and that’s a big deal. Here’s my annual post about whom I’m listening to on new(ish) websites. I’m not having a “YOU MUST READ THESE BLOGS!” feeling for […]
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January 6, 2016
Stuck and confused. Those are the two words that describe how I feel as I contemplate what I want to change, do, and be in 2016. (No, I don’t have to have it figured out by January 1. There’s a lot of 2016 left.) I’m thankful for the online language teaching community for helping me find some […]
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December 29, 2015
Book Club 2015: Make It Stick
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I appreciate anecdotes, but I’ve been passionate for a long time about finding out what science says about how people learn in general, and how people learn language, and why people choose to learn anything. It’s what makes Brain Rules and Drive my top two books from the last decade to recommend to any teacher. […]
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December 22, 2015
How I love to read. Reading is a way I both escape the world and try to figure it out, to learn new words and meet new ways of thinking. If you like, you can check out my posts tagged book club. Last year I put out a series of them that crowded the blog […]
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November 27, 2015
Your turkey is digested and your shopping is all done. Now, are you ready for a shocking confession? Last week at the 2015 ACTFL Convention & Expo in San Diego, California, I was not able to attend a single session other than the ones I collaborated on. Shocking, I know. Part of the reason was […]
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November 19, 2015
See you at ACTFL ’15?
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It’s about time for me to hop on a plane (eventually) bound for San Diego! Will I see you there? If so, you can find me at these places and on Twitter via #actfl15. If not, connect with me virtually anytime, and stay tuned for my ACTFL resources and reflections next week.
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October 13, 2015
Here begins a flurry of posts related to my presentations and workshops at the Texas Foreign Language Association’s conference this weekend. First, our workshop (by our I mean I’m doing this with Amy Lenord, John Cadena, Melissa Vargas) on Thursday night is called Twitter 101 and is about how and why to get involved with a professional […]
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September 29, 2015
One of the best parts of KWLA: I got to sit down and chat for a few minutes or for an hour with some of the wisest people in our profession. (E.g.: ACTFL president Jacque VanHouten, ACTFL TOY Nicole Naditz, NNELL president Nadine Jacobsen-MacLean, Learning Shifts guru Thomas Sauer, TFLTA incoming president Julie Golden, KY-AATSP […]
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September 28, 2015
The Best Laid Plans (KWLA ’15)
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Given how long Thomas Sauer and I have been colleagues and friends, I can’t believe we haven’t presented together before. Well, we fixed that on Saturday and presented a 3-hour workshop on effective lesson planning. Two things: 1. Three hours was not enough. 2. I learned at least as much from Thomas as anyone there learned […]
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September 16, 2015
Meeting many of you during school visits, conferences, and workshops is one of my favorite aspects of what I do! Will I see you at any of these events this year? If not – or if so! – will I meet you at Camp Musicuentos next summer? Read on! KWLA ’15 – September 25-26, Louisville, […]
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