If your students have ants in their pants and you want an activity where they can get up, but have a purpose and reinforce Spanish - this is the activity for you! There is also a digital version if your classroom is currently virtual or if your students are 1:1 with devices 😄 Oh, and it can be used with just about any grammar or vocabulary topic. So it's an easy activity that you can use over and over again for each unit. Yaaaasssssss. ...

I inherited a class set of student white boards (about the size of a piece of paper) in my first teaching position and it was The 👏 Best 👏 Thing 👏 Ever 👏.  ...

Lesson planning can be a MONSTER. It's this continual chore and sometimes I have felt like I'm barely ahead. And that's stressful! ...

Have you ever looked at your calendar and realized - wholly crap the midterm is 3 weeks away and I still have 6 weeks worth of material to teach! I know I've been there. #firstyearteacherproblems #andsecondyeartoo I have some tips to help you out in this moment of crisis and to help you avoid it in the future!...

Every year I look forward to some lessons more than the others that I teach. But there's one in particular that I looooooove teaching. It's my FAVORITE day of the school year because I love teaching this lesson so much....

This is my last blog post about traveling abroad with students. The first post focuses on why you should take a trip abroad with students ( HERE ), the second focuses on how to plan a trip ( HERE ), the third focuses on what to plan for before the trip ( HERE ), and this final post focuses on what to plan for once you get to your destination.  This post is basically what I learned through experience, having taken teenagers abroad....

This is my third blog post about traveling abroad with students. The first two focused on why you should plan a trip abroad with students and how to plan the trip. This blog post focuses on what you should plan for before you get to the airport. The first part "Why you should take students abroad" is  HERE  and the second part "How to plan for taking students abroad" is  HERE . ...