Recently someone tweeted an image of their students doing a “lyric puzzle” from one of my “Song of the Week” resource packets. Many people have
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Numbered Heads Together
We are reading Noches misteriosas en Granada in Spanish 2 right now, and we needed a little ease back into school after Thanksgiving and a

Music Videos as Movie Talk
One of my favorite aspects of my classes is teaching with music, and nothing makes me happier than to hear students say they downloaded the

Planning my “El Salvador Civil War” Unit for Spanish 4
One of my favorite units to teach is my unit on the Civil War in El Salvador leading up to my MS-13 unit. I teach
Creating comprehensible input with commercials
Commercials are a really great way to infuse your language classes with a short burst of authentic language, but they are also really valuable as
An idealist meets the real world
Something I have always struggled with is the way that my own pie-in-the-sky huge teaching ideas don’t always play out in real life the way