Growth & Change

NEW BEGINNINGS

By |2025-07-29T18:44:11-06:00July 29th, 2025|

Another school year is almost here. Starting off the new school year is a new beginning with new opportunities... and it's always exciting! I was driving a backroad in northern Colorado the other day and came upon this scene. A forest fire had swept through this hillside a few [...]

CLASSROOM JOBS & MOBY DICK

By |2025-10-02T15:19:48-06:00July 4th, 2025|

Classroom jobs let you do your job. In Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick there is a short chapter entitled The Dart that correlates with teachers' need to assign classroom jobs. The chapter talks about the role of the harpooner on a whale hunt. The role of the teacher in the classroom [...]

Graduate Students’ Questions

By |2023-10-27T09:43:18-06:00October 27th, 2023|

On October 24 I had the privilege of visiting Colorado State University again as a guest lecturer. This was a follow up lecture to my first visit on September 5 in the graduate course Methods and Assessment in Teaching Languages, Frédérique Grim, PhD. In the first visit, I explained [...]

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