AFRO+FRANCO

Today's discussion was truly a dream come true for me. I cannot offer enough thanks to all who participated. And I know that there were...

I used to make fun of myself for always getting toward the end of the school year, barely surviving with nothing left in the tank, only...

What I enjoy most, and that which is most fundamentally aligned with my teaching philosophy is the idea of using my classroom to support...

As the world for which we prepare our students continues to evolve, our instruction also has to be nimble and agile so as to meet the...

Not too long ago, I began having students do a daily retell on FlipGrid as their primary homework assignment and they absolutely love it....

If I'm being entirely honest, I'm feeling pretty frustrated. I'm feeling frustrated with what I believe is an inordinate amount of time,...

For all that I love about comprehensible input in the classroom, there are definitely some challenges that it presents along the way. In...

I love teaching French, and I really have little interest in ever leaving the language classroom. My Master’s degree is actually in...

Here's a super short clip of a cool listening activity in our music unit. We've studied different styles of music that are from different...

I believe that I’m a good teacher and that I’ve always been pretty good at this. Teaching has always been, in my view, more a divine...

Being 100% honest, I'm exhausted. This is a time of the year that is always a struggle. Add to it that we've been hybrid (I, personally,...

One of my level 3 classes had a cool discussion today about different styles of music from the Black Francophone world. To scaffold...

I cannot begin to tell you how proud I am of this group. I’ve begun having students do a FlipGrid retell just about everyday where they...

As part of a unit we are working on about La Musique, today we started an introductory exploration of Senegal in the form of a Map Talk....

I PROMISE YOU that you can teach culture, and have "difficult conversations" in French class from early on. Here we are in the beginning...

Fun fact: My Master's degree is in Literacy and I'm a certified Reading Specialist. While I have absolutely NO desire to ever actually...

Here is a snippet of a review I did with my seniors from a unit we are doing on other native languages among Black francophone peoples. I...

This year has been equal parts challenging and rewarding in the classroom. I made a decision early in the summer that I would take full...