Aligning your district’s curriculum map with our lesson plans can be accomplished and here’s how you can maximize the utility of our resources within the framework of your district’s requirements. Many districts base their standards on ACTFL, and our lesson plans are aligned with the ACTFL standards. These standards are identified at the beginning of […]

One positive change I’ve seen over the years is the greater acceptance of our students belonging to the LGTB+ community as a result. I began investigating a grammatical concept that didn’t even exist when I began earning my degree gender-inclusive language.

This course focuses on how we can best navigate this concept.

Activators and Exit Tickets are useful activities within the scope of a lesson. Activators (bellringers or warm-ups) can be used to activate prior knowledge and initiate the start of a lesson in a way that guides the learner to the purpose of the day, consider it a “warm-up and stretch” for the brain. These can […]

We created the Speaking Latino’s Spanish Teachers Community to provide teachers with all the lesson plans and materials to reduce their prep and planning. We believe that having 100% of your lesson plans covered will give you the bandwidth to do connect, differentiate, and teach your classes as never before. But how do you know […]

As you close out the year, it is good practice to take a few minutes to survey your students at the end of the school year for insights into what worked and what can be improved. Done-For-You Spanish Class End-of-School-Year Student Survey We have created the survey for you with this pack that includes: A […]

Can you believe we have been teaching in the pandemic mode for a year now? Your challenges of teaching remote, hybrid, in-person, synchronous, asynchronous, and any combination of those mixed together have been going on for months and months. Can you believe your 2nd semester of teaching is almost halfway in? Or perhaps, can you […]

We have been asked in the past if there is something similar to what we offer inside the Speaking Latino Spanish Teachers Community for elementary students. We reached out to elementary Spanish teachers in our Facebook group and these were their recommendations: 1. Rockalingua Rockalingua is an online resource to help children and beginners learn […]

This survey was created to give language teachers real answers they can use to make changes to their teaching, to provide comfort in knowing they’re not alone, and help make changes in their institutions and districts.

National Read Across America Day is celebrated every year on March 2nd. This day is also known as Dr. Seuss Day. Spanish teachers can always use these celebrations as opportunities to bring excitement to their class. If you need some activity ideas, check out the article 4 Read Across America Day Spanish Class Activities. To […]

In summary, language comprehension is “understanding what other people say and write”. Spanish teachers (and any world language teacher) must make sure that their students are actually understanding. But, how do you know? How do Spanish teachers access comprehension every day? Here’s what speakers from the Spanish Teacher Success Academy online conference do… Sam Finneseth […]

When teachers encounter one or more students who essentially don’t want to learn Spanish it can jeopardize the activities and class dynamics. Sometimes, teachers feel that they need to go back to the drawing board and re-think everything that they had planned. Fourteen speakers from the Spanish Teacher Success Academy online conference gave us some […]

Students that struggle to learn Spanish is something that any teacher encounters every school year. Here are some tips from Spanish Teacher Success Academy online conference speakers that can help you deal with this issue. Sam Finneseth “I high-five them every single chance I get.”  Sam finds small but meaningful ways of connecting with her […]

It’s not a secret that a teacher’s life inside the classroom can be complex and stressful. So we asked some of the Spanish Teacher Success Academy online conference speakers to tell us a trick they use to save time.  Here’s a summary of what they revealed to us as part of the Mastermind Q&A sessions. […]