Language Lounge Wayside Publishing

Does your curriculum bring you joy? Does it spark joy in your students? If your answer is no, then it might be time to think about SPARKing some joy in your classes. Amanda Minnillo has some great practical advice for creating a Safe, Purposeful, Attention getting, Reflective, environment to Keep student engagement high.



Bio

Dr. Amanda Hajji Minnillo is the President-Elect of SCOLT and a Professional Learning Specialist consulting with districts across the country to support their language program needs. Before working at Avant Assessment, Amanda served as the K-12 World Language and Dual Language Immersion Teacher Support Specialist and instructional coach in Lexington, South Carolina where she started her career as a high school French teacher. Considering herself a language fun-doer, Amanda presents at state-, regional-, national-, and international conferences with a heart for topics involving the joy of language and cultivating language proficiency in the modes of communication.  The daughter of a Lebanese immigrant and South Carolina native, her research surrounds building leaders’ and districts’ cross-cultural capacity to support teachers new to the country and leveraging multicultural teachers' expertise for district growth. 



https://x.com/amandaminnillo



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The ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines have been revised. How are they same? How are they different? Language Lounge host, Michelle Olah and Dr. Meg Malone, Director of Assessment and Research at ACTFL discuss the changes.



Bio

Margaret E. (Meg) Malone (Ph.D., Georgetown University) is Director of Assessment and Research at ACTFL. She has published extensively on language assessment, standards and language assessment literacy. Her current research focuses on language assessment literacy, language program evaluation, oral proficiency assessment, the influences of the Seal of Biliteracy on language teaching and learning, and the development of short-cut measures of proficiency.



Producer's Notes

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Social Media https://twitter.com/mmaloactfl



Mentions

Timothy Boals https://wida.wisc.edu/about/teams/staff/timothy-boals

ACTFL OPI https://www.actfl.org/assessments/postsecondary-assessments/opi

Interagency Language Roundtable https://www.govtilr.org/

APPLE https://www.actfl.org/assessments/k-12-assessments/aappl

NCSSFL https://ncssfl.org/

ACTFL https://www.actfl.org/

Classroom management. It's tough. Enter Jon Cowart. He's an expert in classroom management and can help you develop the skill set that you need to succeed no matter your teaching style. It's not magic, it's a skill and you can develop and hone it so that your classes run the way you always wished they could.



Bio

Jon taught high school and middle school Spanish for 10 years in Memphis, TN, before stepping into leadership roles. He has been a high school AP, Director of Multilingual Learners, and most recently is a full time education consultant. He is passionate marrying the world of acquisition-driven instruction to strong K-12 practices.



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Social Media - joncowartteaching.com



Mentions

Stephen Krashen @skrashen

BVP, Bill Van Patten https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_VanPatten

James Asher https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_physical_response

ACTFL, American Association of Teachers of Foreign Languages https://www.actfl.org/

Dead Poet Society https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097165/

Bryce Hedstrom https://www.brycehedstrom.com/

Jon Cowart web site https://joncowartteaching.com/Jon

What Students Saw https://joncowartteaching.com/2023/01/07/what-the-students-saw/

Have you ever thought about presenting at a conference but just don't know how to get started? It's conference proposal submission season and your state and regional organizations want to hear from you. No really, they do. Guest Albert Fernandez and host Michelle Olah discuss everything you need to know about presenting from soup to nuts. Listen, get inspired and get cracking on YOUR presentation.



Bio

Albert is an elementary and middle school Spanish teacher in Orlando, FL.



Producer's Notes

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Social Media

@mr_fernie on Twitter



Mentions

SCOLT https://www.scolt.org/

ACTFL https://www.actfl.org/

FFLA https://www.ffla.us/

TPRS https://www.tprsbooks.com/what-is-tprs/

Thomas Sauer https://nflc.umd.edu/people/thomas-sauer

Greta Lundgaard https://www.linkedin.com/in/greta-lundgaard-tx/

Paul Sandrock https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulsandrock/

Whether you've been following the work of Thomas Sauer for most of the past 40 years, or you're new to his work you are going to LOVE this episode. Join Thomas Sauer and host of the Language Lounge, Michelle Olah as they discuss exciting new developments with the TELL framework and PEARLL. For every teacher who has ever wished for someone to just tell them what to do to be the best teacher they can be, this episode is for you. And for those of you who are really brave, you might just find yourself in the middle of Thomas' new project.



Bio

Thomas Sauer is passionate about helping teachers make the shift from teaching to learning.



Producer's Notes

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Social Media

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tmsaue1/ https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/pearll-nflc http://pearll.nflc.umd.edu



Mentions

Catalyst https://catalyst.uoregon.edu/

Dr. Rich Madel @SrMadel

Maris Hawkins @Marishawkins

The Annenberg Series https://www.learner.org/

PEARLL Library of Practice PEARLL Library of Practice

Mara Cobe @cobe_mara

Danielson https://danielsongroup.org/

Marzono https://www.marzanoresources.com/

TELL http://www.tellproject.org/

PEARLL https://pearll.nflc.umd.edu/

NFLC https://nflc.umd.edu/

Meredith White, host of the EdTech World podcast, returns to the show to discuss how and when to make educational technology work for you.



Bio

For 16 years, Meredith White taught Spanish in both Tennessee and Georgia. Focused on novices, her work with students ingrained proficiency-based teaching, comprehensible input, technology, and helping make learning Spanish fun. In March of 2023, she transitioned to an Instructional Technology support role to help more teachers in all content areas with both their teaching and technology use (or even paring down). She also teachers Technology in World Language Education at Kennesaw State University, hosts the EdTech World podcast for Wayside publishing, does consulting works, and often presents and shares resources at local, state, and national regional conferences.



Producer's Notes

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Connect with Michelle - https://twitter.com/michelleolah

Have a comment or question? Leave a voicemail at (207) 888-9819 or email podcast@waysidepublishing.com

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Social Media

Meredith White: http://www.twitter.com/@techMEWithyou



Mentions

EdTech World https://www.waysidepublishing.com/podcast/edtech-world

Amanda Minnillo Avant Assessment

Gimkit https://www.gimkit.com/

Josh Feinsilber @JoshFeinsilber

Jeff Osborn @JeffGimkit

Adrian Riley

NECTFL https://www.nectfl.org/

SCOLT https://www.scolt.org/

Central States https://www.csctfl.org/

Southwest COLT (SWCOLT) https://www.swcolt.org/

Pacific Northwest (PNCFL) https://pncfl.wordpress.com/

Tim Eagan @tjeag

Blooket https://www.blooket.com/

Formative https://www.formative.com/

Canvas https://www.instructure.com/canvas

D2l https://www.d2l.com/

Listening in the Dark: Reclaiming the Power of Intuition Amy Poehler https://www.harpercollins.com/products/listening-in-the-dark-amber-tamblyn?variant=40072200650786

Lisa McCargh @lisajmch

World Language Teacher Summit https://www.worldlangteachers.com/

Joe Dale http://www.twitter.com/@joedale