Resources
Regreso a clases! Ciudad on sale
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It’s back to school time and also feeling like time for me to ease back into doing what I love, while I enjoy the memories of my dad who was the conduit of love for Spanish in my life. The events of this summer have delayed several things, including new Black Box Podcast episodes and […]
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July 9, 2014
It’s coming!
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I haven’t been blogging much lately and am dropping off the radar for about a month and I feel the need to explain why. If you’ve ever used the “Recent Popular Posts” section on the right side of the blog, you’ve probably noticed that one very not recent post stays up there. I really ought […]
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June 16, 2014
Don’t smack me here, I know school JUST got out, but you know it’s true – it’ll be back before you know it! And one of our most important jobs in the first days of school is educating (and selling!) parents and students on proficiency-based teaching. I’m being hosted by The Webb School of Knoxville […]
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June 12, 2014
It’s a busy season for Musicuentos, can you tell? I feel like I just said that. I’m breathing a huge sigh of relief as an excellent cohort of teachers and I wrapped up a year-long project to lay the groundwork for something that has not existed in entirety before: an elementary curriculum map for the […]
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June 3, 2014
Time for you to get feedback?
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For many of you, especially in the southern U.S., this is coming a little too late, but some of you may still be in school and have a chance to do this. If you haven’t thought about surveying your students, it’s a great way for you to get feedback on the one thing that really […]
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If you listened to episode 3 of the Musicuentos Black Box Podcast, you heard all about the first two parts on Daniel Pink’s book on influencing others, To Sell Is Human, including why all of us (and especially those of us in education) are in sales now, and what we should be in order to effectively […]
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April 17, 2014
In a recent focus on social media and political upheaval, I needed an interpersonal communication activity that related to the issues. I needed to present students with relevant authentic material to spur conversation. I needed a way to monitor what they were doing. I wanted it all to apply to the focus. And so, TweetFest […]
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April 4, 2014
If you’re interested in the kind of professional development where: you suggest the topics you vote on the topics it’s no big deal if you don’t show up it can be life-changing when you do show up it grows your personal learning network by leaps and bounds every time if you don’t like the topic […]
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April 1, 2014
No April Fools’ joke here! Every project I work on matters to me, but some are just really close to my heart and I don’t know how else to explain it. One is the proficiency-based, comprehensible input-filled curriculum for homeschooled elementary students I’ve been working on with Calico Spanish. Another is the Musicuentos Black Box […]
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March 24, 2014
A brand-new teaching resource is now available on the Learning Activity Resources page. The Complete Verb Pack contains the three charts in the free Simple Verb Pack (present, sudden past, and descriptive past) and five more charts designed to help your intermediate to pre-advanced students refine their accuracy. Each page contains an entire verb tense […]
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March 18, 2014
Corrections to simple verb pack
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The beauty of offering digital resources is as soon as I notice an error I can fix it and let you know about it! I’ve made two corrections to the sudden past chart in the Simple Verb Pack. One is just a colon that was missing, but I had also added conducir as an afterthought […]
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March 3, 2014
I’ve released the first resource through my new resource/activities page. It’s free and it’s a package of three verb charts: present tense, sudden past (preterit), and descriptive past (imperfect). Distribute as you wish to your students; I think you and they will find it a handy resource to check verb accuracy with entire tenses in […]
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