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Somewhere to Share
2M ago
If you read my last post, you know that I am conducting a writing experiment this year. Honestly, my goal with student writing is to find ways to help them grow, not to penalize them for the level they find themselves in! I just haven’t found the magic key to doing it well. Enter my ..read more
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2M ago
An experiment in setting better writing goals and grading better ..read more
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2M ago
Getting back to school is so hard. I just finished my first full week (7 days total of classes down) and I am TIRED. The hardest part for me is the first 3-4 days when we are doing card talk or 2 truths and a lie to build community and dive back into hearing Spanish ..read more
Somewhere to Share
6M ago
Thank you so much to Kellie Henegar, Dean of Arts and Sciences at Kaskaskia College, for joining me to share our dual credit partnership!
I began teaching dual credit Spanish in 2002. At that time, all students received 16 credit hours for completing 4 years of high school Spanish. As the program has grown and developed over the years, we have changed to a more realistic 8 hours for every student and 4 additional for the IL State Seal of Biliteracy. It’s been such a great experience working with Kaskaskia College and Kellie and I wanted to share our path with you! If you’ve ever been intereste ..read more
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7M ago
It has been a great school year. My seniors are down to just 4.5 weeks left and my underclassmen have only 5.5. It’s a lot of time and yet SO LITTLE TIME. With all the interruptions of the spring, it will go by in a blink.
I’m very proud of this year’s Spanish classes. They took the STAMP test in February (this was our first time trying STAMP instead of AAPPL and we loved it) and they performed so well. We are awarding 41 IL State Commendations toward Biliteracy at Intermediate Low, 14 Global Seals of Biliteracy at Intermediate Mid, and 8 State Seals of Biliteracy at Intermediate High. The coo ..read more
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8M ago
It’s that time of year at Wildcat Spanish… testing. Yuck!
Since 2014, Illinois has offered a two-tiered State Seal of Biliteracy program. The lower tier, the State Commendation toward Biliteracy, is awarded to any student who demonstrates Intermediate Low + level of proficiency in all 4 skills (reading, writing, speaking, listening). The higher tier, the State Seal of Biliteracy, is awarded to any student who demonstrates Intermediate High + level of proficiency in all 4 skills (reading, writing, speaking, listening).
In addition, the Global Seal of Biliteracy offers a THREE tiered approach w ..read more
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9M ago
Sometimes it feels like the winter CRAWLS by… this year I feel like I blinked and its the end of February! Here are some things we’ve been up to in Wildcat Spanish!
Spanish 2 is reading Mata la piñata by Kristy Placido. (Side note, if you are planning to order readers for your class, be sure to contact your Wayside Publishing sales rep to get the classroom price on them!) This book is always such a hit. I got a Fortnite piñata and some purple streamers from Amazon, so our zombie piñata is making it real. (See him in the background?)
In this picture, they’re playing “The Scene Machine“. Each s ..read more
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10M ago
I had a surprise in my mailbox yesterday! A new book for my FVR/SSR library called No somos amigos. It is a prequel to the Diego y sus amigos video on senorwooly.com, but it is not necessary to have seen the video to enjoy the story.
Two notable things: I received a free copy of this book to review for you. Also, I helped write the story, so I may be biased about how amazing it is… but I don’t think so. I think it’s pretty great. JAJA
(Check out those scribbles in my planbook in the background. Very representative of every day of my life) In this book, Diego and Tomás are lost at sea. They ..read more
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1y ago
While I don’t love going back to school mid-August, I DO love that the semester ends at winter break so there is a clean split between first and second semester courses. Early in my career, I had to come back from break and prepare students for exams… I don’t miss that!
Whenever your exams fall, we are getting into the window of time when we start thinking about how we will assess a semester’s worth of learning. Somewhere to Share hopes to help you by offering the opportunity to watch a MasterClass we released last year called “That’s a Wrap.” In this session, I’ll talk to you about how I plan ..read more