Reflections on my teaching practice During my first year as a teacher, I experienced my first informal educational moment with a student. I was not yet an International Baccalaureate (IB) Spanish teacher but I was helping a few IB students after class. They wanted to review poems, the

No more “Does that make sense?” This pro tip – or pro reminder – is for anyone teaching and facilitating out there. Do you ever find yourself in front of a group of people, explaining an activity, and then asking something like, “Got it?” “Does that make

Can’t get enough of that sweet, sweet education? I’ve known for a long time that I’m a language nerd, but this week, as the northern hemisphere begins the new school year, I realize I might “suffer” from another condition – school addiction! Here ar

How did we do? I can’t believe how quickly this school year has flown by. When I was a kid the school year felt endless but so did the summers. As we are about I embark on our first summer vacation it’s seems appropriate to reflect on our bilingual daughter’s first y

Our bilingual goals and action plan for this year We’re exhausted – Kindergarten is a lot of work! After a long wait due to the BC teacher’s strike, our daughter has finally entered the world of public education. The goals that we set for her bilingualism were to ach

Countdown to Kindergarten Our daughter has now been accepted into our first choice kindergarten – the fine arts program at Nootka school. Even though this program was listed as our third choice in my blog Choosing a Kindergarten Program back in November, after visiting a few sch

Countdown to Kindergarten I can’t believe it but this week we are registering for Kindergarten. Our little one will turn 5 this coming April, and if we were still living in Mexico she would have started going to public school at the age of 3! Thankfully here in British Columbia