Month: March 2015

    I usually reserve a few days each school year for some kind of large group reflection period. I don’t schedule it, but mentally I anticipate it and when the energy is right, I take the time. At the

If you’re a TCI language educator, you know about the iFLT. And you likely already know that iFLT 2015 is going to be in St. Paul this summer. You may not have known that it’s going to be held at

There are two essential approaches to language teaching in this era of humanity, as I see it and as Stephen Krashen has posited: Language Learning vs. Language Acquisition Let’s be clear. “Learning” takes language out of the acoustic realm and

THANK YOU!!! to all of you who came to my Central States sessions today! I’ve learned a ton from everyone in the last couple days! I LOVED reconnecting with friends and colleagues I haven’t seen (some since October, some since 1999!) and

If you’re a MN language educator and you don’t yet belong to our statewide language group, the Minnesota Council on the Teaching of Languages and Cultures, then now’s your chance to join! Here’s why you should become a member! Find

Hope to see you at CSCTFL in Minneapolis! Friday, March 13, 2015 SESSION 6: 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM S-615 Directors Row 2 Raising Enrollment and Achievement through a Focus on Comprehensible Input. Presenter: Grant Boulanger, Skyview Middle School – ISD

Here’s a preview of the two sessions I’ll be presenting at the Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages in Minneapolis: