High interest, high context, low reading level texts to engage your French students!

How can teachers hold students accountable for their reading, assess true comprehension, and discourage reliance on translators? These practices can help!

Well-implemented independent reading is low-prep, high-impact, and 100% individualized.

Creating Independent Readers takes more than a pile of books on a shelf: we must curate an engaging library and equip students with tools to explore and enjoy target language texts.

(or, why I hauled in the sofas and beanbags… and then hauled them right back out again).

Harness pop culture for French instruction. The same students who tune you out will spend long periods of focused listening to understand a funny YouTuber!

Having a few tech tools up your sleeve can save the day when you have to re-plan on short notice!

Introduce your students to Spanish cuisine with these easy, no-cook tapas recipes!

Cooking with students brings culture, practical skills, and enthusiasm to your classroom!

Teaching vocabulary from authentic source documents and having students develop their own vocabulary lists develops student buy-in, language learning capacity, and confidence!

When students learn vocabulary from target-language sources, differentiating is easy and stress free!

No more tedious writing for teachers - Chat GPT can draft practice activities and student prompts in seconds!

AI has the potential to make some of the most time consuming and laborious aspects of teaching quick and easy.

Society and technology are changing, and our instructional practice must change with them. Chat GPT is reality. We can’t pretend it doesn’t exist and keep teaching in the same way.

I wanted to see if Chat GPT could replicate a believable student voice. Here are the results of my experiment… and what it means for teachers.

At least for now, AI Art generators won’t be replacing my graphics libraries. Find out why!

Teachers must face evolving technology with confidence and creativity!

Having students demonstrate their learning through gross motor activities can help with attention, engagement, and classroom management.

Brain science and student preferences align; kids learn more when they are out of their seats!

In Part 3 of our blog series on cooking with students we’ve done all the planning to help you cook with your World Language students!