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By Tina Hargaden

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29. Update on Our New Reality & Thoughts on Teaching Languages in a MASK!

Curriculum Club Coffee BreakJul 05, 2020

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Jul 09, 202002:26
30. Setting Learning Targets and Backwards Design....with the Brain in Mind

30. Setting Learning Targets and Backwards Design....with the Brain in Mind

Learn more about setting learning targets that really work.....and check out these resources:

Cycle One Rubrics and Continua

Cycle Two Phase Two Rubrics and Continua


and then please let me know what you think or if you have questions, comments, feedback, or anything else you want me to know! Leave me a voice message here.  You might find yourself or your ideas featured on a future episode!

If you are not a Curriculum Club member, you can join up now!  We launch July 8, 2020 and we will stay open through September 10, 2020 to welcome the new 2020-21 cohort -- If you sign up before we launch, you can get in on the Dollar a Day for Life Plan --  $365 for the year, and every year as long as you maintain your membership.  That's literally a BUCK A DAY for daily lesson plans with detailed explanations from Stepping Stones, ALL the Teachers Pay Teachers materials we EVER create, weekly live coaching with recordings available for you to watch anytime, bonus live webinars (plus recordings available anytime) with Tina, our coaching staff, and special guests, and a private Facebook group with your own dedicated coach and coaching assistants whose goal is to answer every single one of your questions as we go through the curriculum and work together to get you where you want to be in your language classroom!

To learn more about the book Stepping Stones Year One and Beyond, which this podcast series is based on, visit our online school.

And if you want to chip in to support my coffee habit, you can donate to the podcast here.

Jul 05, 202027:10
29. Update on Our New Reality & Thoughts on Teaching Languages in a MASK!

29. Update on Our New Reality & Thoughts on Teaching Languages in a MASK!

Learn more about What's Up in Tina Land and Teaching Languages in a MASK......and then please let me know what you think or if you have questions, comments, feedback, or anything else you want me to know! Leave me a voice message here.  You might find yourself or your ideas featured on a future episode!

If you are not a Curriculum Club member, you can join up now!  We launch July 8, 2020 and we will stay open through September 10, 2020 to welcome the new 2020-21 cohort -- If you sign up before we launch, you can get in on the Dollar a Day for Life Plan --  $365 for the year, and every year as long as you maintain your membership.  That's literally a BUCK A DAY for daily lesson plans with detailed explanations from Stepping Stones, ALL the Teachers Pay Teachers materials we EVER create, weekly live coaching with recordings available for you to watch anytime, bonus live webinars (plus recordings available anytime) with Tina, our coaching staff, and special guests, and a private Facebook group with your own dedicated coach and coaching assistants whose goal is to answer every single one of your questions as we go through the curriculum and work together to get you where you want to be in your language classroom!

To learn more about the book Stepping Stones Year One and Beyond, which this podcast series is based on, visit our online school.

And if you want to chip in to support my coffee habit, you can donate to the podcast here.

Jul 05, 202025:17
28. Introduction to the Opinion/Argument Cycle

28. Introduction to the Opinion/Argument Cycle

Learn more about Cycle Five, the Opinion or Argument Cycle......and then please let me know what you think or if you have questions, comments, feedback, or anything else you want me to know! Leave me a voice message here.  You might find yourself or your ideas featured on a future episode!

If you are not a Curriculum Club member, you can sign up for our waiting list.  We will open registration early next summer, in May or June 2020, for our 2020-21 cohorts. The cost will be $44 a month -- about a dollar and a half per day for daily lesson plans, weekly live coaching with recordings available for you to watch anytime, bonus live webinars (plus recordings available anytime) with Tina, our coaching staff, and special guests, and a private Facebook group where our goal is to answer every single one of your questions as we go through the curriculum and work together to get you where you want to be in your language classroom!

To learn more about the book Stepping Stones Year One and Beyond, which this podcast series is based on, visit our online school.

And if you want to chip in to support my coffee habit, you can donate to the podcast here.

Feb 27, 202021:48
27. Phase Four of the Information Cycle

27. Phase Four of the Information Cycle

Learn more about Phase Four of the Information Cycle......and then please let me know what you think or if you have questions, comments, feedback, or anything else you want me to know! Leave me a voice message here.  You might find yourself or your ideas featured on a future episode!

If you are not a Curriculum Club member, you can sign up for our waiting list.  We will open registration early next summer, in May or June 2020, for our 2020-21 cohorts. The cost will be $44 a month -- about a dollar and a half per day for daily lesson plans, weekly live coaching with recordings available for you to watch anytime, bonus live webinars (plus recordings available anytime) with Tina, our coaching staff, and special guests, and a private Facebook group where our goal is to answer every single one of your questions as we go through the curriculum and work together to get you where you want to be in your language classroom!

To learn more about the book Stepping Stones Year One and Beyond, which this podcast series is based on, visit our online school.

And if you want to chip in to support my coffee habit, you can donate to the podcast here.

Feb 27, 202020:40
26. What About Multiple Levels (Again)?

26. What About Multiple Levels (Again)?

Learn more about Setting Learning Objectives that Allow for Maximum Differentiation......and then please let me know what you think or if you have questions, comments, feedback, or anything else you want me to know! Leave me a voice message here.  You might find yourself or your ideas featured on a future episode!

If you are not a Curriculum Club member, you can sign up for our waiting list.  We will open registration early next summer, in May or June 2020, for our 2020-21 cohorts. The cost will be $44 a month -- about a dollar and a half per day for daily lesson plans, weekly live coaching with recordings available for you to watch anytime, bonus live webinars (plus recordings available anytime) with Tina, our coaching staff, and special guests, and a private Facebook group where our goal is to answer every single one of your questions as we go through the curriculum and work together to get you where you want to be in your language classroom!

To learn more about the book Stepping Stones Year One and Beyond, which this podcast series is based on, visit our online school.

And if you want to chip in to support my coffee habit, you can donate to the podcast here.

Feb 27, 202017:39
25. Phase Three of the Information Cycle

25. Phase Three of the Information Cycle

Learn more about Cycle Four Phase Three......and then please let me know what you think or if you have questions, comments, feedback, or anything else you want me to know! Leave me a voice message here.  You might find yourself or your ideas featured on a future episode!

If you are not a Curriculum Club member, you can sign up for our waiting list.  We will open registration early next summer, in May or June 2020, for our 2020-21 cohorts. The cost will be $44 a month -- about a dollar and a half per day for daily lesson plans, weekly live coaching with recordings available for you to watch anytime, bonus live webinars (plus recordings available anytime) with Tina, our coaching staff, and special guests, and a private Facebook group where our goal is to answer every single one of your questions as we go through the curriculum and work together to get you where you want to be in your language classroom!

To learn more about the book Stepping Stones Year One and Beyond, which this podcast series is based on, visit our online school.

And if you want to chip in to support my coffee habit, you can donate to the podcast here.

Feb 27, 202024:49
24. Curriculum Club and Me!

24. Curriculum Club and Me!

Learn more about how I REALLY feel about Curriculum Club......and then please let me know what you think or if you have questions, comments, feedback, or anything else you want me to know! Leave me a voice message here.  You might find yourself or your ideas featured on a future episode!

If you are not a Curriculum Club member, you can sign up for our waiting list.  We will open registration early next summer, in May or June 2020, for our 2020-21 cohorts. The cost will be $44 a month -- about a dollar and a half per day for daily lesson plans, weekly live coaching with recordings available for you to watch anytime, bonus live webinars (plus recordings available anytime) with Tina, our coaching staff, and special guests, and a private Facebook group where our goal is to answer every single one of your questions as we go through the curriculum and work together to get you where you want to be in your language classroom!

To learn more about the book Stepping Stones Year One and Beyond, which this podcast series is based on, visit our online school.

And if you want to chip in to support my coffee habit, you can donate to the podcast here.

Jan 24, 202015:27
23. Phase Two of the Information Cycle

23. Phase Two of the Information Cycle

Learn more about the second phase of the Information Cycle......and then please let me know what you think or if you have questions, comments, feedback, or anything else you want me to know! Leave me a voice message here.  You might find yourself or your ideas featured on a future episode!

If you are not a Curriculum Club member, you can sign up for our waiting list.  We will open registration early next summer, in May or June 2020, for our 2020-21 cohorts. The cost will be $44 a month -- about a dollar and a half per day for daily lesson plans, weekly live coaching with recordings available for you to watch anytime, bonus live webinars (plus recordings available anytime) with Tina, our coaching staff, and special guests, and a private Facebook group where our goal is to answer every single one of your questions as we go through the curriculum and work together to get you where you want to be in your language classroom!

To learn more about the book Stepping Stones Year One and Beyond, which this podcast series is based on, visit our online school.

And if you want to chip in to support my coffee habit, you can donate to the podcast here.

Jan 24, 202026:58
22. Phase One of the Information Cycle

22. Phase One of the Information Cycle

Learn more about the first phase of the Information Cycle......and then please let me know what you think or if you have questions, comments, feedback, or anything else you want me to know! Leave me a voice message here.  You might find yourself or your ideas featured on a future episode!

If you are not a Curriculum Club member, you can sign up for our waiting list.  We will open registration early next summer, in May or June 2020, for our 2020-21 cohorts. The cost will be $44 a month -- about a dollar and a half per day for daily lesson plans, weekly live coaching with recordings available for you to watch anytime, bonus live webinars (plus recordings available anytime) with Tina, our coaching staff, and special guests, and a private Facebook group where our goal is to answer every single one of your questions as we go through the curriculum and work together to get you where you want to be in your language classroom!

To learn more about the book Stepping Stones Year One and Beyond, which this podcast series is based on, visit our online school.

And if you want to chip in to support my coffee habit, you can donate to the podcast here.

Jan 23, 202026:10
21. Introduction to the Information Cycle

21. Introduction to the Information Cycle

Learn more about the Information Cycle......and then please let me know what you think or if you have questions, comments, feedback, or anything else you want me to know! Leave me a voice message here.  You might find yourself or your ideas featured on a future episode!

If you are not a Curriculum Club member, you can sign up for our waiting list.  We will open registration early next summer, in May or June 2020, for our 2020-21 cohorts. The cost will be $44 a month -- about a dollar and a half per day for daily lesson plans, weekly live coaching with recordings available for you to watch anytime, bonus live webinars (plus recordings available anytime) with Tina, our coaching staff, and special guests, and a private Facebook group where our goal is to answer every single one of your questions as we go through the curriculum and work together to get you where you want to be in your language classroom!

To learn more about the book Stepping Stones Year One and Beyond, which this podcast series is based on, visit our online school.

And if you want to chip in to support my coffee habit, you can donate to the podcast here.

Jan 13, 202027:01
20. Cornell Notes

20. Cornell Notes

Learn more about how to use Cornell Notes in the World Language classroom......and then please let me know what you think or if you have questions, comments, feedback, or anything else you want me to know! Leave me a voice message here.  You might find yourself or your ideas featured on a future episode!

If you are not a Curriculum Club member, you can sign up for our waiting list.  We will open registration early next summer, in May or June 2020, for our 2020-21 cohorts. The cost will be $44 a month -- about a dollar and a half per day for daily lesson plans, weekly live coaching with recordings available for you to watch anytime, bonus live webinars (plus recordings available anytime) with Tina, our coaching staff, and special guests, and a private Facebook group where our goal is to answer every single one of your questions as we go through the curriculum and work together to get you where you want to be in your language classroom!

To learn more about the book Stepping Stones Year One and Beyond, which this podcast series is based on, visit our online school.

And if you want to chip in to support my coffee habit, you can donate to the podcast here.

Dec 12, 201921:42
19. Hiring and Training Student Actors to Bring the Noise...So You Don't Have to Be "The Funny One"

19. Hiring and Training Student Actors to Bring the Noise...So You Don't Have to Be "The Funny One"

Learn more about the easy way to start using student actors to bring more fun to your lessons, and get in more dialogue using the "I" and "you" forms of verbs......and then please let me know what you think or if you have questions, comments, feedback, or anything else you want me to know! Leave me a voice message here.  You might find yourself or your ideas featured on a future episode!

If you are not a Curriculum Club member, you can sign up for our waiting list.  We will open registration around Thanksgiving for our Fall cohorts. The cost will be $34 a month -- about a dollar a day for daily lesson plans, weekly live coaching with recordings available for you to watch anytime. bonus live webinars (plus recordings available anytime) with Tina, our coaching staff, and special guests, and a private Facebook group where our goal is to answer every single one of your questions as we go through the curriculum and work together to get you where you want to be in your language classroom!

To learn more about the book Stepping Stones Year One and Beyond, which this podcast series is based on, visit our online school.

And if you want to chip in to support my coffee habit, you can donate to the podcast here.

Nov 02, 201927:47
18. Interview with Angie Williams - Transitioning to CI with Stepping Stones and Curriculum Club

18. Interview with Angie Williams - Transitioning to CI with Stepping Stones and Curriculum Club

Coming at you from IFLTA in Indiana!  Curriculum Club IRL!

Nov 02, 201929:32
17. Easing Your Way into Stories

17. Easing Your Way into Stories

Learn more about low(er)-stress ways to tell your first stories of the year......please let me know what you think or if you have questions, comments, feedback, or anything else you want me to know! Leave me a voice message here.  You might find yourself or your ideas featured on a future episode!

If you are not a Curriculum Club member, you can sign up for our waiting list.  We will open registration around Thanksgiving for our Fall cohorts. The cost will be $34 a month -- about a dollar a day for daily lesson plans, weekly live coaching with recordings available for you to watch anytime. bonus live webinars (plus recordings available anytime) with Tina, our coaching staff, and special guests, and a private Facebook group where our goal is to answer every single one of your questions as we go through the curriculum and work together to get you where you want to be in your language classroom!

To learn more about the book Stepping Stones Year One and Beyond, which this podcast series is based on, visit our online school.

And if you want to chip in to support my coffee habit, you can donate to the podcast here.

Nov 01, 201922:57
End-of-the-Month Mail Call!

End-of-the-Month Mail Call!

Thanks for being awesome, congratulations to winner of the monthly mail call, Eva Schulte, and happy November!

Oct 31, 201916:37
16. Transitioning to Cycle Two: Narration

16. Transitioning to Cycle Two: Narration

Learn more about starting Cycle Two, Narration, in the Stepping Stones curriculum......and then please let me know what you think or if you have questions, comments, feedback, or anything else you want me to know! Leave me a voice message here.  You might find yourself or your ideas featured on a future episode!

If you are not a Curriculum Club member, you can sign up for our waiting list.  We will open registration around Thanksgiving for our Fall cohorts. The cost will be $34 a month -- about a dollar a day for daily lesson plans, weekly live coaching with recordings available for you to watch anytime. bonus live webinars (plus recordings available anytime) with Tina, our coaching staff, and special guests, and a private Facebook group where our goal is to answer every single one of your questions as we go through the curriculum and work together to get you where you want to be in your language classroom!

To learn more about the book Stepping Stones Year One and Beyond, which this podcast series is based on, visit our online school.

And if you want to chip in to support my coffee habit, you can donate to the podcast here.

Oct 31, 201921:02
15. The Description Cycle in Upper Levels

15. The Description Cycle in Upper Levels

Learn more about planning Description-focused Guided Oral Input, your Shared Writing focus, and strategies for student application of the language for your more-proficient students......and then please let me know what you think or if you have questions, comments, feedback, or anything else you want me to know! Leave me a voice message here.  You might find yourself or your ideas featured on a future episode!

If you are not a Curriculum Club member, you can sign up for our waiting list.  We will open registration around Thanksgiving for our Fall cohorts. The cost will be $34 a month -- about a dollar a day for daily lesson plans, weekly live coaching with recordings available for you to watch anytime. bonus live webinars (plus recordings available anytime) with Tina, our coaching staff, and special guests, and a private Facebook group where our goal is to answer every single one of your questions as we go through the curriculum and work together to get you where you want to be in your language classroom!

To learn more about the book Stepping Stones Year One and Beyond, which this podcast series is based on, visit our online school.

And if you want to chip in to support my coffee habit, you can donate to the podcast here.

Oct 23, 201927:35
14: The Narration Cycle in Upper Levels

14: The Narration Cycle in Upper Levels

Learn more about planning Narration-focused Guided Oral Input, your Shared Writing focus, and strategies for student application of the language for your more-proficient students......and then please let me know what you think or if you have questions, comments, feedback, or anything else you want me to know! Leave me a voice message here.  You might find yourself or your ideas featured on a future episode!

If you are not a Curriculum Club member, you can sign up for our waiting list.  We will open registration around Thanksgiving for our Fall cohorts. The cost will be $34 a month -- about a dollar a day for daily lesson plans, weekly live coaching with recordings available for you to watch anytime. bonus live webinars (plus recordings available anytime) with Tina, our coaching staff, and special guests, and a private Facebook group where our goal is to answer every single one of your questions as we go through the curriculum and work together to get you where you want to be in your language classroom!

To learn more about the book Stepping Stones Year One and Beyond, which this podcast series is based on, visit our online school.

And if you want to chip in to support my coffee habit, you can donate to the podcast here.

Oct 17, 201924:44
13. Planning for Multiple Levels

13. Planning for Multiple Levels

Learn more about adapting the same lesson, phase, and cycle to multiple levels of language class......and then please let me know what you think or if you have questions, comments, feedback, or anything else you want me to know! Leave me a voice message here. You might find yourself or your ideas featured on a future episode!
In this episode, I reference these documents.
Cycle Three Phase One
If you are not a Curriculum Club member, you can sign up for our waiting list. We will open registration around Thanksgiving for our Fall cohorts. The cost will be $34 a month -- about a dollar a day for daily lesson plans, weekly live coaching with recordings available for you to watch anytime. bonus live webinars (plus recordings available anytime) with Tina, our coaching staff, and special guests, and a private Facebook group where our goal is to answer every single one of your questions as we go through the curriculum and work together to get you where you want to be in your language classroom!
To learn more about the book Stepping Stones Year One and Beyond, which this podcast series is based on, visit our online school.
And if you want to chip in to support my coffee habit, you can donate to the podcast here.
Oct 14, 201919:47
12. Planning Daily Lessons

12. Planning Daily Lessons

Learn more about planning daily lessons using the daily instructional framework known as the "Daily Dose of Language" in classes of various lengths and schedules......and then please let me know what you think or if you have questions, comments, feedback, or anything else you want me to know! Leave me a voice message here.  You might find yourself or your ideas featured on a future episode!

Check out this graphic guide to the Daily Instructional Framework and this video of me modeling a lesson using it with my pal Shawna...and yes, it is THAT Shawna, the one who is famous for her amazing grading trick to enter grades from Quick Quizzes, used as Student Application and Assessment, SUPER-FAST)

If you are not a Curriculum Club member, you can sign up for our waiting list.  We will open registration around Thanksgiving for our Fall cohorts. The cost will be $34 a month -- about a dollar a day for daily lesson plans, weekly live coaching with recordings available for you to watch anytime. bonus live webinars (plus recordings available anytime) with Tina, our coaching staff, and special guests, and a private Facebook group where our goal is to answer every single one of your questions as we go through the curriculum and work together to get you where you want to be in your language classroom!

To learn more about the book Stepping Stones Year One and Beyond, which this podcast series is based on, visit our online school.

And if you want to chip in to support my coffee habit, you can donate to the podcast here.

Oct 11, 201928:03
11. The Trajectory of the Year and Setting Long-Term Goals

11. The Trajectory of the Year and Setting Long-Term Goals

Learn more about where exactly it is that you are going with these Stepping Stones or Curriculum Club lessons, cycles, phases, and all that......and then please let me know what you think or if you have questions, comments, feedback, or anything else you want me to know!  Leave me a voice message here.  You might find yourself or your ideas featured on a future episode!

In this episode, I reference these documents.

Cycle Three Phase One

If you are not a Curriculum Club member, you can sign up for our waiting list.  We will open registration around Thanksgiving for our Fall cohorts.  The cost will be $34 a month -- about a dollar a day for daily lesson plans, weekly live coaching with recordings available for you to watch anytime. bonus live webinars (plus recordings available anytime) with Tina, our coaching staff, and special guests, and a private Facebook group where our goal is to answer every single one of your questions as we go through the curriculum and work together to get you where you want to be in your language classroom!

To learn more about the book Stepping Stones Year One and Beyond, which this podcast series is based on, visit our online school.

And if you want to chip in to support my coffee habit, you can donate to the podcast here.

Oct 11, 201914:35
10. You're Actually Doing Great!

10. You're Actually Doing Great!

Get a little pep talk about how awesome you're doing......and leave me a voice message here.  You might find yourself featured on a future episode!

If you are not a Curriculum Club member, you can sign up for our waiting list.  We will open registration around Thanksgiving for our Fall cohorts.  The cost will be $34 a month -- about a dollar a day for daily lesson plans, weekly live coaching with recordings available for you to watch anytime. bonus live webinars (plus recordings available anytime) with Tina, our coaching staff, and special guests, and a private Facebook group where our goal is to answer your questions as we go through the curriculum.

To learn more about the book Stepping Stones Year One and Beyond, visit our online school.

And if you want to chip in to support my coffee habit, you can donate to the podcast here.


Oct 09, 201906:43
9. Proficiency/Performance and Planning Portfolio Assessments

9. Proficiency/Performance and Planning Portfolio Assessments

Learn more about portfolio assessments.....and leave me a voice message here.  You might find yourself featured on a future episode!

Note:  I was recording this with my dog Max beside me, and he had a coughing fit.  So, that is the racket you can hear behind me.  Advance apologies!

If you are not a Curriculum Club member, you can sign up for our waiting list.  We will open registration around Thanksgiving for our Fall cohorts.  The cost will be $34 a month -- about a dollar a day for daily lesson plans, weekly live coaching with recordings available for you to watch anytime. bonus live webinars (plus recordings available anytime) with Tina, our coaching staff, and special guests, and a private Facebook group where our goal is to answer your questions as we go through the curriculum.

To learn more about the book Stepping Stones Year One and Beyond, visit our online school.

Oct 08, 201922:14
8. Kid Grid and the Mysterious Person Game

8. Kid Grid and the Mysterious Person Game

Learn more about using the information your students share in class to review and reinforce, and have fun, too ......and leave me a voice message here.  You might find yourself featured on a future episode!

In this episode, I reference these documents.

Kid Grid

The Mysterious Person Game and Kid Grid Mini-Jeopardy

Graphic Organizers

If you are not a Curriculum Club member, you can sign up for our waiting list.  We will open registration around Thanksgiving for our Fall cohorts.  The cost will be $34 a month -- about a dollar a day for daily lesson plans, weekly live coaching with recordings available for you to watch anytime. bonus live webinars (plus recordings available anytime) with Tina, our coaching staff, and special guests, and a private Facebook group where our goal is to answer your questions as we go through the curriculum.

To learn more about the book Stepping Stones Year One and Beyond, visit our online school.

And if you want to chip in to support my coffee habit, you can donate to the podcast here.

Oct 07, 201917:41
7. Card Talk and Academic Card Talk

7. Card Talk and Academic Card Talk

Learn more about using Card Talk, a versatile strategy that can be used throughout the year...and leave me a voice message here.  You might find yourself featured on a future episode!

In this episode, I reference these documents.

Card Talk and Academic Card Talk

Graphic Organizers for Card Talk

If you are not a Curriculum Club member, you can sign up for our waiting list.  We will open registration around Thanksgiving for our Fall cohorts.  The cost will be $34 a month -- about a dollar a day for daily lesson plans, weekly live coaching with recordings available for you to watch anytime. bonus live webinars (plus recordings available anytime) with Tina, our coaching staff, and special guests, and a private Facebook group where our goal is to answer your questions as we go through the curriculum.

To learn more about the book Stepping Stones Year One and Beyond, visit our online school.

And if you want to chip in to support my coffee habit, you can donate to the podcast here.

Oct 07, 201918:37
6: Visual Surveys for Description and Narration

6: Visual Surveys for Description and Narration

Learn more about using the low-prep, re-useable, and versatile Visual Surveys strategy...and leave me a voice message here.  You might find yourself featured on a future episode!

In this episode, I reference these documents.

Visual Surveys

Graphic Organizers that can be used with Visual Surveys

Sample Visual Survey for Cycle One (Description) Phase One (Describing Setting)

Sample Visual Survey for Cycle One (Description) Phase Four (Describing in the Past and Present)

Sample Visual Survey for Cycle Three (Description within Narration) Phase Four (Biography — Selecting mini-stories to illustrate a significant person’s attributes)

If you are not a Curriculum Club member, you can sign up for our waiting list.  We will open registration around Thanksgiving for our Fall cohorts.  The cost will be $34 a month -- about a dollar a day for daily lesson plans, weekly live coaching with recordings available for you to watch anytime. bonus live webinars (plus recordings available anytime) with Tina, our coaching staff, and special guests, and a private Facebook group where our goal is to answer your questions as we go through the curriculum.

To learn more about the book Stepping Stones Year One and Beyond, visit our online school.

And if you want to chip in to support my coffee habit, you can donate to the podcast here.

Oct 07, 201915:38
5. Go to Your Administrator.

5. Go to Your Administrator.

Learn more about speaking into your administrator’s listening by using some “buzzwords” to unpack what is happening in your World Language classroom using the materials and systems in Stepping Stones Year One and Beyond...and leave me a voice message here.  You might find yourself featured on a future episode!

In this episode, I reference these documents.

Go to Your Administrator

Using Grammar Discussions as Noticing Activities + PACE Lessons (Note:  PACE stands for Presentation, Attention, Co-Construction, and Extension)

Sample Input Flood (for the "Presentation" step of a PACE lesson) on the "futur proche" in French and sample Attention and Extension activities 

If you are not a Curriculum Club member, you can sign up for our waiting list.  We will open registration around Thanksgiving for our Fall cohorts.  The cost will be $34 a month -- about a dollar a day for daily lesson plans, weekly live coaching with recordings available for you to watch anytime. bonus live webinars (plus recordings available anytime) with Tina, our coaching staff, and special guests, and a private Facebook group where our goal is to answer your questions as we go through the curriculum.

To learn more about the book Stepping Stones Year One and Beyond, visit our online school.

And if you want to chip in to support my coffee habit, you can donate to the podcast here.

Oct 07, 201912:34
4: Using Graphic Organizers and Why It's Worth Finding Ways to Make Our Lives Easier in the Classroom

4: Using Graphic Organizers and Why It's Worth Finding Ways to Make Our Lives Easier in the Classroom

Learn more about using and grading graphic organizers to manage the paperwork load...and leave me a voice message here.  You might find yourself featured on a future episode!

In this episode, I reference these documents.

Shawna's Grading Trick for Entering Grades Speedy Quick

Graphic Organizers for Story Map

The "Daily Dose of Language" (a daily framework for instruction)
A graphic of the "Daily Dose of Language"

Shout out to my beloved Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, aka the TCRWP, or just "The Project"

If you are not a Curriculum Club member, you can sign up for our waiting list.  We will open registration around Thanksgiving for our Fall cohorts.  The cost will be $34 a month -- about a dollar a day for daily lesson plans, weekly live coaching with recordings available for you to watch anytime. bonus live webinars (plus recordings available anytime) with Tina, our coaching staff, and special guests, and a private Facebook group where our goal is to answer your questions as we go through the curriculum.

To learn more about the book Stepping Stones Year One and Beyond, visit our online school.

And if you want to chip in to support my coffee habit, you can donate to the podcast here.

Oct 07, 201919:13
3: Using Graphic Organizers to Make Your Life Easier...and Make Room for Differentiation and Higher-Order Thinking Skills!

3: Using Graphic Organizers to Make Your Life Easier...and Make Room for Differentiation and Higher-Order Thinking Skills!

Learn more about graphic organizers...and leave me a voice message here.  You might find yourself featured on a future episode!

In this episode, I reference these documents.

Graphic Organizers for Story Maps

If you are not a Curriculum Club member, you can sign up for our waiting list.  We will open registration around Thanksgiving for our Fall cohorts.  The cost will be $34 a month -- about a dollar a day for daily lesson plans, weekly live coaching with recordings available for you to watch anytime. bonus live webinars (plus recordings available anytime) with Tina, our coaching staff, and special guests, and a private Facebook group where our goal is to answer your questions as we go through the curriculum.

To learn more about the book Stepping Stones Year One and Beyond, visit our online school.

And if you want to chip in to support my coffee habit, you can donate to the podcast here.

Oct 07, 201921:07
2: Planning Daily Lessons Starting from Guided Oral Input

2: Planning Daily Lessons Starting from Guided Oral Input

Learn more about planning directly from the Overview document......and leave me a voice message here.  You might find yourself featured on a future episode!

I will talk about using the Overview documents to plan your own lessons, without having to rely on the lesson outlines in Curriculum Club (though you are certainly welcome to use them!), starting with Guided Oral Input and using some simple Scaffolded Oral Review, Shared Writing, Shared Reading, and Student Application and Assessment strategies to cut your planning time way down (which is my big goal for your participation in Curriculum Club) while still having a direction to go in (which is my other big goal for you).  I reference these documents.

Cycle Three Phase One

Go-To Scaffolded Oral Review Strategy:  Whole-Class Oral or Written Questions and Answers

Go-To Scaffolded Oral Review Strategy: Finish My Sentence 

Simple Shared Reading Strategies

Go-To Student Application and Assessment Strategy: Q and A Game   (Quick video example of the Q and A Game)

Go-To Student Application and Assessment Strategy: Oral or Written Quick Quiz


If you are not a Curriculum Club member, you can sign up for our waiting list.  We will open registration around Thanksgiving for our Fall cohorts.  The cost will be $34 a month -- about a dollar a day for daily lesson plans, weekly live coaching with recordings available for you to watch anytime. bonus live webinars (plus recordings available anytime) with Tina, our coaching staff, and special guests, and a private Facebook group where our goal is to answer your questions as we go through the curriculum.

To learn more about the book Stepping Stones Year One and Beyond, visit our online school.

And if you want to chip in to support my coffee habit, you can donate to the podcast here.

Oct 07, 201921:44
1: Overview of the Cycles and Phases

1: Overview of the Cycles and Phases

Learn more about the cycles and phases...and leave me a voice message here.  You might find yourself featured on a future episode!

I reference these overview documents.

Cycle Three Phase One

Cycle Three Phase Two

Cycle Three Phase Three

Cycle Three Phase Four

If you are not a Curriculum Club member, you can sign up for our waiting list.  We will open registration around Thanksgiving for our Fall cohorts.  The cost will be $34 a month -- about a dollar a day for daily lesson plans, weekly live coaching with recordings available for you to watch anytime. bonus live webinars (plus recordings available anytime) with Tina, our coaching staff, and special guests, and a private Facebook group where our goal is to answer your questions as we go through the curriculum.

To learn more about the book Stepping Stones Year One and Beyond, visit our online school.

And if you want to chip in to support my coffee habit, you can donate to the podcast here.

Oct 07, 201921:46