"Culture is not an exotic notion studied by a select group of anthropologists in the South Seas. It is a mold in which we are all cast,...

A few months ago as we were developing a One Word Image, a class of mainly sophomores wanted our personified bar of soap to kill the...

Gist: A student gets someone to feed her pet, but the person gives the poor animal something bad. Main Questions Who has the pet that...

In less than 3 weeks Comprehensible Midwest is coming to eastern Wisconsin. Ripon WI to be exact. The second annual. Bob Patrick is going...

Kyle who came to my workshop at Comprehensible Iowa this summer recently asked me about some routine things I do in my classes. Here's...

I really like to start class by playing some Spanish-language music in my classroom. A couple years ago I started doing a bell-ringer,...

Comprehensible Iowa happened the weekend before last. Thanks in great part to the talented and hard-working duo Elizabeth Dentlinger and...

I'm reading Timed Writes from my Spanish 1 and 2 students and pondering the relative value of good spelling in the first 100-200 hours....

Rita commented yesterday on this post about non-targeted instruction, and how to communicate to kids that words and stories will be...

The other day I was chatting with my Spanish 4 students (my first year with them) about why I had missed work the day before. So I was...