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CI Liftoff Facebook group:  Join a growing community of over 3000 4000 5000 6000 positive, supportive, nonjudgemental, growth-oriented educators interested in moving our instruction towards Massive Student Proficiency, each in our own way.  This is my happy spot on the internet and I’d love to add YOU!

CI Liftoff YouTube channel :  Videos and playlists of my HUGE LIBRARY of  French 1-2 and Spanish 1 classroom videos from the school years 2016-2018, plus other video missives, some conference sessions, and a few videos from ESOL this school year.

I do tailor-made video coaching sessions for individuals or small groups of up to five people.  We tackle your most pressing questions and make a growth plan just for you!  You can schedule 30 minutes, an hour, or pre-pay for a pack of three or six sessions, and save money.  Click here to schedule a session and pay via PayPal.  If you need to pay with a check or Purchase Order, please email Kim who can set you up!  Just tell her the package that your district wants to pay for and she will get you paid up and rolling!

You can also do a superfast free three-minute coaching session on the phone!  We can tackle one big question superfast!  The only caveat is that to pay myself back for my three minutes, I will record the call and I might use it (with your name and your personal details removed, of course) for training or commercial purposes.  If you are willing to let me record you, bop on over to this link and schedule yourself for a superfast three-minute coaching call.

I’m not sure how long I will be doing these for free;  depends on how much demand there is.  So, what the heck are you waiting for?

Work with me in person!

The World Language Proficiency Project
Summer Institutes

Our 2019 Summer Institutes are, quite simply, the most comprehensive world language teacher training ever developed.  Trust me;  I have been in this work for a long time.  I had to build the training I had always dreamed of.  Lucky you — you don’t have to wait!    We are coming to four cities this summer — Minneapolis and Atlanta the last two weeks of June, and Philadelphia and St. Louis the last two weeks of July.  And we plan to come back to those places the same weeks of 2020 and 2021!  Mark your calendar and plan to come join us to put booster rockets on your students’ proficiency!

Learn more and download a free chapter on typical proficiency and performance levels from our Summer Institutes Resource Manual here.

We have payment plans available so you can start budgeting now so that you can launch the 2019-2020 school year into higher orbit with SYSTEMS and MATERIALS to guide you every step of the way!

If you want to schedule a totally free 15-minute talk with me to learn more about our Summer Institutes, please click here!

Comprehensible Cascadia 2019
July 9-11, Portland, OR
Pre-conference workshop with Mike Peto and Tina Hargaden
July 8
More Information Coming Soon

 

CI Liftoff
Workshops for Proficiency-Focused Teaching

I often partner with talented colleagues to offer workshops on Teaching for Proficiency and other topics of interest to proficiency-minded language teachers.  Click here to see our schedule of upcoming workshops and join us for some good times and learning!

And if you want to get me to come do a tailor-made workshop in your town, and you have 36+ people and a space to host us, please download my flyer for all the deets on how to get that set up.  I would love to come to your area!  I am currently scheduling workshops starting after September 25, 2019.

If you want to schedule a totally free 15-minute talk with me to learn more about any of these training options, please click here!

 

 

 I love conferences!
Come nerd out with me!

OMG conferences!  They are Nerd Heaven!
Come nerd out with me at these upcoming conferences.

Comprehensible Online
Conference Website
Online, March and April, 2019

Spanish Teachers Success Academy
Conference Website
Free Online for five days, March 10-15, 2019,

CSCTFL (Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) in conjunction with OFLA (the Ohio Foreign Language Association)
Conference Website
Columbus, Ohio, March 14-16, 2019

MALT (Montana Association of Language Teachers)
Conference Website
Dillin, MT, April 12-13, 2019

CI in the Mitten Conference
Conference Website
Saline, MI, April 26-27, 2019

Comprehensible Cascadia Conference
Conference Website
(Sign up at this site for notifications when we finalize the details)
Portland, OR, July 8-12, 2019

IFLTA (Indiana Foreign Language Teachers Association)
Conference Website
Indianapolis, IN, October 31-November 2, 2019

 

Past Conferences

COFLT/WAFLT Joint Conference
Portland, OR October 2016
WAFLT (Washington Association of Foreign Language Teachers)
Eastern Washington March 2017, Western Washington April 2017
CI in the Mitten
Saline, Michigan April 2017
Comprehensible Iowa
Nevada, Iowa June 2017
Comprehensible Cascadia Conference
Portland, Oregon June 2017
Express Fluency Teacher Training
Brattleboro, Vermont August 2017
Comprehensible Midwest
Ripon, WI, September 2017
COFLT (Confederation in Oregon for Language Teaching)
Eugene, OR October 2017
CLTA (California Language Teachers Association)
Ontario, CA, March 2018
Comprehensible Online Conference
Everywhere, USA (and beyond!), March 2018
CI in the Mitten
Saline, Michigan April 2018
Express Fluency Teacher Training
Brattleboro, Vermont August 2018
Comprehensible Midwest
Milwaukee, WI, October, 2018
COFLT/WAFLT Joint Conference
Portland, OR October 2018
MiWLA (Michigan World Language Association)
Lansing, MI October 2018
TFLTA (Tennessee Foreign Language Teachers Association)
Franklin, TN, November 2018
ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages)
New Orleans, LA, November 2018
TULIP (Teaching and Understanding Languages in Paradise)
Honolulu, HI, December 2018
CCFLT (Colorado Congress of Foreign Language Teachers)
Aurora, CO, February 2019
AWLA (Alabama World Languages Association)
Montevallo, AL, February 2019