Necesito estos sellos para corregir tarea y exámenes.🤣

The faces of my Anglo students in Spanish 1 today as they found out what happens at the end of the movie Selena.

We finished reading Mata la piñata so of course we had a piñata party with churrumais and coca cola. I had the perfect zombie piñatas: slightly damaged leftovers from years ago when I taught elementary Spanish! I filled them with fruit and toothpaste. 😉 @placidolanguage.bsky.social

Africa, driving force of the #French #language (OIF report) www.financialafrik.com/en/2026/03/1... via financialafrik.com #Africa #langsky

Noooooooooo 😱

How meta is it to read Arepas by Adriana Ramirez while eating arepas? Will the Colombian author forgive me for choosing a Venezuelan restaurant?

Dr. Esmeralda Mora and I will represent LLLAB at Central States. We would love to see you there.

What I learned from this morning’s session at @cslang4all.bsky.social: native Spanish speaking teachers call this game “el juego de la torre” because the brand name sounds too much like a word that’s NSFW. 😂

It was a treat to meet language teachers from all over at the Central States Leadership academy yesterday. As the only language teacher at my school, it’s really special for me to be in a room with so many others who are passionate about language teaching. @cslang4all.bsky.social

I’m heading to Chicago today for the Central States conference on teaching languages. I’m feeling equal parts excited and stressed. I miss #langchat today. In the past I could have found dozens of posts from online friends heading to the same event. Now I’m going to conference like it’s 1999.

Who else is reviewing ACTFL proposals the night before they’re due? 🙋‍♀️

My students: “Bro!” “Bru” “BRUH 👀” “Bro.” None of them are brothers. Sometimes they’re not even boys.

I just heard a kid say “six-seven” but in an ironic tone of voice, like, “we all agree that we would never say that, right?”

No temas a las mariposas. 🤣 @senorwooly.com

Siobhán asked for advice on workload. This is something many teachers struggle with! I don’t know if any of this thread will help academics, but maybe. My wife will tell you I used to work late every night and on weekends too. Not anymore. 🧵

@senorwooly.com My Spanish 2 class spent 2 weeks on El antídoto del dragón and ended with a celebration where students illustrated the parallel stories they wrote while singing along to the song and sipping 3 kinds of “jugo” (and one kind of “veneno” 😉) 10/10 loved this unit.

Listen to them greeting their audience in Spanish. Language learning icons 👏

Same goes for #BadBunny fans who don’t speak Spanish.

My sweetie got me this for Valentine’s Day. I’m looking forward to reading it.

My Spanish 1 students made posters after they read Llama en Lima. I no longer grade this type of activity, but kids loved making them anyways. I used this as a springboard to a reading activity (read each others posters and find the quote) and later assessed with a speaking quiz.

Spanish 2 students playing the Es Posible game to review the book Peter va a Colombia. I love this game. Students are so engaged. I got the template from Comprehensible Classroom and I write my own questions for each novel.

Forth Worth teacher Chanea Bond says sticking with pen and paper keeps generative artificial intelligence out of her American literature classes. n.pr/4c3cdzs

I’ve been listening to the audiobook Mexican Gothic. I’m only in chapter 4, but whew, equal parts creepy and intriguing. What are you reading lately?

Mid-year is a good time to look back and look forward. Have you spotted anything you’ve outgrown?

I was looking through my files today and saw this old document 😬 I used to send this home with elementary kids. What was good about it: I was promoting a home-school connection. What was bad: They needed a LOT more input, until they didn’t need the cringy “how it sounds” column on the right.

How am I supposed to write a quiz on Peter va a Colombia like this?

More middle school student reflections. Señor Wooly is one of the most divisive elements of my class. Some students, like this one, say earning nuggets is very helpful. Others mention it as something that wastes their time.

Mid year self-reflection and goal setting in middle school. What did your teacher do that helped? Many students mentioned the gestures I use, inspired by TPR. How about you? What is working or not for you this year?

It’s too cold to go outside. School is closed and I’m spending the day playing my kitten. What are you doing today?

This is Boro. He went missing in southern Spain after a train derailment that killed 43 and injured 150. After four long days, he was captured by firefighters and has finally been reunited with his family. 14/10 welcome back buddy

New semester; fresh start. How is your year going?

El pato tiene más by Sarah M. White is a short, simple book about a duck and an elephant counting fruit, which offers simple vocabulary, repetition of numbers, and a sweet message about sharing.

Teachers looking for a nuanced book that opens up opportunities for classroom discussion about aspects of Ecuadorian society -- check out LLLAB’s review of Los ojos de Carmen by Ecuadorian author, Veronica Moscoso.

New year, new posts from LLLAB

On the way to #ACTFL25! Come see us on Friday at 4:30pm in room 213 for “Cutting It Out: Curating Diverse Classroom Libraries.”

On p 256 is a rubric to assess ourselves. One of my glowing points is "I can identify patterns of errors and patterns of strength in student work in order to provide growth-oriented written corrective feedback." In fact, I did that today as I graded letters students had written. #SLAyyy #LangChat

On page 226, the authors write "You may have also noticed that this feedback is in English." WHAT? After admonishing us to teach grammar in the target language, now we're giving feedback in English? I mean, yeah, that's how *I* do it with my novices in levels 1 and 2. #SLAyyy #LangChat

If you're heading to #ACTFL25, I hope to see you there! In the podcast, I give the wrong time for my ACTFL presentation. I'll be presenting with Esme Mora and Kristi Lentz of @languageboard.bsky.social on Friday at 4:30 in room 213. Our topic: Curating Diverse and Inclusive Classroom Libraries.

What an honor to be invited to the SLAyyy podcast with Ben and Bill. We had a lot to say about the book Teaching Grammar for Proficiency. It was fun hanging out and chatting with friends about something we are all passionate about -- becoming the best language teachers we can be.

i am familiar with the idea of a 'glow and grow' comment bank for use by teachers. I have even used one occasionally. What i haven't done is put this in the hands of students to use for peer feedback. I will use it this week as students finish their letters to their pen pals. #SLAyyy #LangChat

Ooh this is brilliant!

I’m a fan of Duolingo. I think it’s a good tool for language learners. I’ve spent 90% of my time on this app learning Korean, except for a few weeks spent learning Catalan and Hawaiian.

This episode inspired me to use more TL than usual with my students today. It was good for them. It was good for me. It was only partially effective. 😅 But I got better at it as the day went on. 3rd hour stared at me blankly, but I gave 4th hour better scaffolding and we managed to communicate. 🙌

My biggest TA is that I need to give students more structured opportunities to talk in Spanish. I HATED the information gap speaking activities that my textbook required, and they were one of the first things I dropped. But I hadn't found a way to replace them. Until now. #SLAyyy #LangChat

They say we shouldn't tell students our goal is to use certain grammar. I get that "Write a letter and ask 5Q in the preterite" is a bad task. But I think it's appropriate to say that one of our goals this unit is to be able to express things that happened in the past. Am I wrong? #SLAyyy #LangChat

I'm still struggling with the SCRAP and SPEAKING models of setting the stage for communication. "You are a student leader / traveler / camp counselor / etc." feel so FAKE to me. Didn't BVP talk about authentic contexts for communication? Do any of my mutuals remember? #LangChat #SLAyyy

Scaffolding: sentence starters, chat mats, and providing examples. I use these all regularly. I added a graphic organizer to my current unit on writing letters to pen pals. I started with it last Friday and will continue with it on Monday. It's working great! #LangChat #SLAyyy

On pages 210-211 the authors describe a Latin lesson that involves a storytelling game. My margin notes say "This is brilliant." I fully intend to use this game when I teach my storytelling unit to Spanish 2 in the third quarter of this year. #LangChat #SLAyyy

Ch. 6 describes a speaking task where students work in groups of 4 to talk, then the group chooses 1 student to share out to the whole class, and the whole class votes for the best 2 students. I could use this with Weekend Chat. Who had the most interesting/stressful/busy weekend? #SLAyyy #LangChat

I appreciated a deep dive into HOW, exactly, to format a lesson with a pre-task activity, a speaking task, and a post-task activity. I use chat mats regularly, but chapter 6 helped me see what to do before and after the turn-and-talk. #LangChat #SLAyyy