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Spring = Spanish class outside! Looking for spring activities for your Spanish class? We’ve got you! It’ss hard to believe that the end of the 2021-2022 school year is fast approaching! But spring has sprung, and the excitement of summer is just around the corner. As I get ready to execute the final weeks, I […]

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 […]

So, how are you today? ¿Cómo estás? It’s one of the first things we teach our learners to understand and answer, and for good reason.  Particularly young children will hear “How old are you?” quite a bit, and of course “What’s your name?” but right up there in the most common questions anyone hears in any […]

How can learners given less than 90 minutes per week for language class develop real proficiency? They can’t, according to the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Unless, that is, they have additional time outside of class to receive comprehensible input and interact in the language.  But how will they get this extra time? […]

What’s the top complaint of elementary world language teachers?  TIME. I cannot tell you how often I hear teachers and world language district specialists alike lament the prevailing mood in schools and districts that we really ought to be producing better results in language proficiency in our younger learners, and we really ought to be […]

 “Collaboration is THE 21st-century skill. Real collaboration is NOT cheating.” This wonderful quote from @SECottrell at last Thursday’s #langchat summed up the value that most world language teachers feel is inherent in collaboration activities. While some teachers believe that collaboration can put undue pressure on the few who may do a majority of work, #langchat […]

Thanks to everyone who joined us Thursday evening for a wonderful #langchat, and especially to our moderator, @DiegoOjeda66! Our topic was on three to five minute motivators, or warm ups, to get students ready for class — and participants blew us away with all the fantastic suggestions! We shared so many great ideas and resources […]