This post could also be called "How to teach the Spanish Alphabet so good that you have to ban students from singing it" .  Or "For heaven's sake - it's March, please stop singing that song" . For the record, I've only had to ban one class from continuing to sing the alphabet song well into March.  That class was full of overly enthusiastic 7th-grade girls. 🙃 ...

We're in the middle (like no end in sight) of a pandemic and yet some schools are planning on re-opening in person in the fall. This is deeply concerning for a number of reasons. ...

The first year is the hardest. Seriously. If you're in your first year now, just know that IT GETS BETTER . And easier. ...

I used to have a recurring nightmare every single year that it was the first day of school and I had an entire class of kids in front of me and I had no lesson plans . No PowerPoint, no papers, no supplies whatsoever. Just me and a class of kids staring at me. I had to wing it and try not to give them the impression that I'm an unprepared buffoon. ...

Get students speaking Spanish and getting to know each other on the very first day of Spanish 1!   This activity would also work as a great review of Spanish for Spanish 2 students.  ...