Sally Barnes
@sallybarnes.bsky.social
Author, trainer, coach, and teacher passionate about world language and multilingual education. I love cats, gardening, and practicing radical compassion.
Drops of wisdom from @lovemysummer.bsky.social today at SCOLT!
March 21, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Drops of wisdom from @lovemysummer.bsky.social today at SCOLT!
@lovemysummer.bsky.social hitting the nail on the head in her session about high quality, scaffolded activities at #scolt25!
March 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
@lovemysummer.bsky.social hitting the nail on the head in her session about high quality, scaffolded activities at #scolt25!
Hellooooo March! I can’t wait to host a workshop at CLTA, present at SCOLT in Nashville, and keynote at EMME! With a few pop ups in Spotsylvania VA, Ysleta TX, and Washington County MD, it’s a great month to fly around and talk about #7StepsWL!
February 23, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Hellooooo March! I can’t wait to host a workshop at CLTA, present at SCOLT in Nashville, and keynote at EMME! With a few pop ups in Spotsylvania VA, Ysleta TX, and Washington County MD, it’s a great month to fly around and talk about #7StepsWL!
#worldlanguage #teachers, this one is for you! Here’s a virtual vision board activity with ideas to scaffold for novices and intermediates! A great way to ease back into the school routine (and practice the future tense).
docs.google.com/presentation...
docs.google.com/presentation...
Scaffolded Vision Board
Level 1 - Provide sentence stems and key vocabulary in the target language (with image supports) for students OR let them choose from a series of choices (examples on next slide). Level 2 - Provide se...
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January 5, 2025 at 5:50 PM
#worldlanguage #teachers, this one is for you! Here’s a virtual vision board activity with ideas to scaffold for novices and intermediates! A great way to ease back into the school routine (and practice the future tense).
docs.google.com/presentation...
docs.google.com/presentation...
I love this idea!! We learn best from each other and we create community by supporting one another. This does both!
Today, my department has hired a roving sub to cover us so we can do peer observations! We're calling it the "World Language Department Exchange", inspired by my podcast-mate Bryn. Each teachers gets a period "off" to go watch a colleague teach a different language.
November 19, 2024 at 7:51 PM
I love this idea!! We learn best from each other and we create community by supporting one another. This does both!
Hey #langchat community! I’m working with a few districts to develop new curriculum centered around performance tasks aligned to AP themes. Question for yall: What is one piece of advice you’d give a supervisor of a world lang dept going through this transition? What works/doesn’t work?
November 19, 2024 at 4:22 PM
Hey #langchat community! I’m working with a few districts to develop new curriculum centered around performance tasks aligned to AP themes. Question for yall: What is one piece of advice you’d give a supervisor of a world lang dept going through this transition? What works/doesn’t work?