We believe that learning takes place when a person is involved and engaged in the process. Our aim as educators is to provide teachers with the tools needed to create a dynamic learning environment that allows students to demonstrate what they already know in the language, creates a need for them to know more, and helps them find the language they want to know.
These tools include visuals for the classroom, questioning strategies, guidelines for creating low risk and high expectations, and a method for intentional lesson planning. This method leads teachers to navigate the learning so that it is meaningful and practical ensuring that any child can find success in the target language at their learning level.
We encourage teachers to facilitate the learning for the students and to allow the burden of learning, which requires thinking and reasoning, to be placed on the student.
All that we provide has been developed for LOTE (foreign language) and ESL teachers. Our retreats and professional development seminars are conducted in English with examples provided in other languages. Our seminars require staff participation and hands-on creating of products.