I teach Spanish to 3 years olds through 2nd grade at Trinity School 💙
Atlanta, GA
Joined August 2018
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TONIGHT! 8 Pm EST join me and @JL_Delf as we facilitate another great conversation about #earlylang. Tonight's topic: Running a program on a shoestring budget. See you there! #fles #langchat
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“A good story should alter you in some way; it should change your thinking, your feeling, your psyche, or the way you look at things.” Allen Say, born August 28, 1937. Winner of the Caldcott Award for Grandfather’s Journey. (Susan Ohanian, Books Day by Day.)
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If you have ever heard Craig Sheehy sing his LISTEN rules and you wanted something to hang up in your class, here is a free resource from tprsbooks.com/free-resources that you can hang up this year! bit.ly/LISTENrules #NTPRS2019 #TPRS
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Starts Aug 3! Gear up for teaching more in the target language this year w our 3 wk challenge, filled w tips, strategies & tasks, all focused on how to make your class more comprehensible & therefore get closer to/hit 90% target. All online, & all free! facebook.com/events/45436991…
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By encouraging pleasure reading, public libraries might be doing more than combatting the “summer slide.” They may be combatting the “school year slide.”
Posted in response to “Our View: Reading stops the summer slide,” (Wilkes Barre Times-Leader, 7/11). tinyurl.com/y4bcqmnn
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People Who Read A Lot of Books Are Way Nicer, Kinder and Empathetic, Study Shows - peacequarters.com/bookworms-…
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A study from the University of Washington says its never too early to expose kids to more than one language. ow.ly/U2Ni50uvThA
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Massachusetts high school seniors in the class of 2019 are the first ever to be eligible for a Seal of Biliteracy, part of the state's sweeping bilingual education revamp two years ago. ow.ly/jMUR50upNLK
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“Because mastering several languages isn’t just about words; it’s also about an underlying cultural understanding that is particularly sought after in today’s workplace...In short, language skills don’t just open doors; they keep them open.” @csinews bit.ly/2WhdPvX
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Why Multilingual People Have Healthier, More Engaged Brains kqed.org/mindshift/46188/why…
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A group of 16 Lakeside High School students were recently named the first in the school's history to receive the Arkansas Seal of Biliteracy. hotsr.com/news/2019/apr/28/b…
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"French will become more prominent because of the growing market of Africa and the strong presence of western Europe and Canada in the world economy. If you look at the top ten banks in the world, most of them are in French-speaking countries."
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English adjectives follow a set order. Native speakers, can you name it? We'll wait...okay, that's opinion, size, age, shape, color, origin, material, purpose. It's why native speakers automatically say "a big red plastic flowerpot" but not "a red plastic big flowerpot".
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Half of the world is bilingual. What’s our problem? ow.ly/tAva30oxsvr
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Most common county of birth for foreign-born residents, excluding Mexico. Mexico is the most common country of birth in 32 states. Many states have large immigrant populations from India. ow.ly/qweM30oup0A
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Calling all bookworms—this one's for you! "Language is about access, intelligibility, power...A bilingual text can hold an intimacy, a fluency, a wholeness which cannot be translated into either or any of its languages alone."
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Krashen says that input should be comprehensible and compelling, "so interesting you forget that it is in another language." @klasekastellano embraces this concept when reading in the language classroom. @profeashley #inspiredproficiency #podacst podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…