Anti-racism teaching resources for Spanish language classes For the past 5 years, I have had the extraordinary good luck to work with the team that produces the… Posted on: August 25, 2020 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
Teaching (or something) during a pandemic This past March (which seems like decades ago) and when my school's spring break began, I had every intention of… Posted on: May 1, 2020 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
Oh..hello Clearly it has been a while. In fact I am sure somewhere out there Ryan is giggling because as the… Posted on: January 31, 2020 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
Taking the 20,000 foot view on my class A confession: I found myself, in one dark and gloomy moment of the semester, completely fixated on the size of… Posted on: April 19, 2018 By: bsawhill With: 3 Comments
Well this is embarrassing I just checked. It has been over almost a year since I last posted something to this site. I am… Posted on: April 16, 2018 By: bsawhill With: 2 Comments
Using Can-Do statements for student self assessment Once again this semester I asked my students to do self directed and self-graded projects as part of my conversation… Posted on: May 9, 2017 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
Building Eurovision into my (why yes it’s April, how could you tell?) syllabus Recently in my class we had a discussion of our guilty pleasures and when we choose to indulge ourselves in them.… Posted on: April 14, 2017 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
Weekly Check-ins Using Google Voice One of the hardest things to do in a second language is to talk on the phone. Worse still: leave a… Posted on: April 6, 2017 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
Doing the scary stuff I have begun to think about the things I want to get done before I say goodbye to my current… Posted on: March 21, 2017 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
Of Oscars, lotteries and taking leaps of faith In the early spring of 1998 my husband and I started a tradition. That year he was waiting to hear back… Posted on: March 14, 2017 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments