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"You are an incredibly talented teacher.  You have taught me so much about how to teach this age group and provided so many amazing ideas and resources.  I am so very grateful."
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28/9/2019

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I've been dying to write more about my Card Talk activities; I continue to work with establishing norms and expectations with my students, so that has delayed the release of some of my class videos. In the meantime, here's something to make your life easier. SOCRATIVE!
Below is a 10 minute tutorial video I made on how to use it. Watching this might be the best way to spend 10 minutes this weekend! 
Let's start with the most important feature of this assessment tool: IT'S FREE!!!!! No, it won't cost you a thing! (There is a pay option, but I haven't explored it.) 
This is an incredible website that allows you to create quizzes that kids can take on devices or through a web browser. You can add images to questions, insert a variety of kind of questions, decide if you want students to be able to go back and revisit questions, allow or disable instant feedback, and randomize question and answer order. You can't add audio, but I will often set the pace at "teacher-directed" and read questions to my students.
But the absolute best part is the data you receive at the end. You can get a whole class spreadsheet, individual question information, and a question-by-question analysis for each student. And let me remind you that you need not spend a penny!
Here are some examples of the reports you get. 
(The top two are individual students, bottom left is whole class question, bottom right is whole class spreadsheet)
I hope you are able to use this tool soon, let me know what you think!
​Bises
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Card Talk, video 1

14/9/2019

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Here is the first installment of my “Card Talk” video series. I am excited to bring you along this journey with me !! Let me know if you have questions or ideas.
Bises,
Allison
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Card Talk #1

12/9/2019

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There have been a lot of questions and conversations around Card Talk in recent days. I start the year with Card Talk with my fourth graders and, when I taught third grade, I did it with them, too (though different topics). I thought I'd do a series of video posts about how I structure it, what my goals are, what happens with input and output, and what "stretching" activities I do. ("Stretching activities"... Is that a real expression? If it isn't, I think it should be. I have a tendency to make phrases up, or rename something that already has an established term!)
Anyway, I just wanted to give y'all a heads up and a teaser for what's to come. (PLUS, if I put it out in the Interwebs, I HAVE to do it, right?!) I plan on recording my first video this weekend to set the stage.
In the meantime, check out this video from two years ago, the first year I did my "Hungry Planet" unit (outlined in this post). It's sort of mid-unit, and short, but it will least give you a preview of things to come.
Talk to you soon!
Bises,
Allison
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Curriculum Club

4/9/2019

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There are no words to express how unbelievably excited and honored I am to be part of an incredible community of teachers and coaches this year. Join me, my friend  and colleague Tina Hargaden, and a host of other top-notch teachers in the CI Liftoff Curriculum Club! Use this special link to sign up; registration ends on Sunday, 8 September.
Tina is the author of A Natural Approach to the Year and the owner of the CI Liftoff Facebook Group. Her latest brain child, this Curriculum Club, has lesson plans, a curriculum framework, weekly office hours, and webinars with special guests including Justin Slocum Bailey and Annabelle Williamson, AKA La Maestra Loca. Added bonus-earn PD credit!! The support that you will receive through this group will help you feel confident about your teaching. PLUS, you'll be less stressed, and what's better than that?!?!

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Please don't hesitate to let me know if you have any questions. I ran my first office hours yesterday; I learned so much from the participants and it was an inspiring and educational experience for all involved. It truly is an incredible program, so please consider joining us.

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Here is what some fellow New England teachers are saying about CI Liftoff and the Curriculum Club:
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"I am 100% obsessed with Stepping Stones. I'm LOLing as I read this incredible book. Last year, I followed ANATTY with my students K-8, but this fall I'll be teaching Spanish 1 and 2 to HIGH SCHOOLERS! I am so humbled to have achieved this personal goal so early in my career as a language teacher. I have you and this group to thank! Your ideas, encouragement, and positivity were essential during my first year as a teacher last year. I would have gone nuts without you all!"
"Can I just say that ... today, [I am] actually sitting here watching my daughter swim and NOT stressing about what I’m going to do with my students next week? Because I’m totally not stressing! Finally! I’m brand new to all of this CI and I feel like I could cry at how awesome this Curriculum Club is. I signed up yesterday and there it was—daily, scripted out, “say this and then do that” step by step. To feel such support is beyond anything I could have hoped for. Here’s also hoping that my lack of stress will be an advertisement to the rest of my WL to give this new stuff a try too!"
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    Allison Litten, the 2019 VFLA TOY, teaches French at the Marion Cross School, a public PreK-6 school in Norwich, Vermont. This is her twenty-third year teaching, and twentieth at Marion Cross.

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