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If you’re looking to improve your Spanish (or at least maintain it), summer is a great time to do it! You know the old adage, “If you don’t use it, you lose it.” Let us help you figure out fun ways to use your Spanish and improve it this season. – Follow us on Twitter […]

Hey Spanish learners and teachers, it’s almost Mother’s Day in the U.S.! Mother’s Day PDF! In previous years, we have offered a free Mother’s Day Spanish printable to help your learners celebrate their moms and abuelas and what makes them special. We know that family dynamics change from child to child, so we also wanted […]

Engage your learners with a Word of the Week today! – Follow us on Twitter – On social media, we’ve been posting a brand-new resource: Word of the Week! Teachers in our Teacher Team group on Facebook (which our members should definitely join) suggested we give our subscribers a template to create their own Word of the Week […]

As 2021 ends its first month, more schools across the country are resuming their in-person learning. Teachers are juggling more than they ever have due to the pandemic, with some teaching in-person and online students at the same time. The task at hand seems daunting enough but we also have to tack on the fact […]

Thinking Google Translate means you (or your child) won’t need a language learning experience? To be sure, Google Translate has helped us in a lot of ways like enabling language access to local government info, radically improving world travel, and even disseminating COVID-19 information. And every year, the beginning of the school year triggers a […]

Hey Calico Spanish, what are your virtual learning options? Requests for virtual Spanish learning have come across our desk from time to time for a long time. Sometimes it takes a crisis to make you figure out how to move something from the back burner to a front burner, and we’ve been watching that happen […]

Long ago in a home far from your own, there was a vague concept called “teaching from home.” It was something that a friend of a friend did as a moonlighting job. Perhaps they were helping kids with English at 5 A.M or becoming an adjunct in an online class at a university that needed […]

Digital elementary spanish The global crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic is changing faster than news stories can be written and published. The virus has brought almost every major system to challenges perhaps never faced before. Healthcare. Finance. Food service. Transportation. Education. In the span of a few days, the coronavirus crisis took us from […]

Dual immersion programs are a great option to get more language learning in the early grades, but how can caregivers and teachers work together, especially if Spanish (or other target language) isn’t spoken at home? Read on for our tips. The (well-founded) pressure to raise bilingual kids In this modern world with all of its […]

Early language educators, it’s ACTFL week!  This Thursday kicks off the 2019 Annual Convention & Expo for the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL).  It’s an enormous conference that’s enormously fun and some of the best professional development around.  This year, the ACTFL Convention is in Washington, D.C.  Calico Spanish is not […]