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The Spanish Teacher Success Academy Professional Development Certificate

When you first started out teaching Spanish, I bet you heard the same thing over and over again: grammar is the key, follow the textbook, drills, exercises, and tests are the best way to teach.

You took that advice to heart, but it was hard to know where to start. As you kept on researching, everyone had different advice about the best way to do it:

  • Verb conjugations every day
  • Stick to the textbook
  • Worksheets
  • Or one of a hundred other options!

The list went on and on. And any one of these approaches could work — if it matches what YOU need.

But no one really talks about that. And when you see just the bits and pieces, you can miss the big picture as you jump from one idea to another.

A little bit of this and a little bit of that and a LOT of wasted time.

Talk about frustrating! Lots of struggle and frustration. And lots of time wasted.

Can you relate?

If you’re sick and tired of not knowing the best ways to teach Spanish and you’re ready to know what works right now, I’ve got some great news: The Spanish Teacher Success Academy is now open for new members!

What is the Spanish Teacher Success Academy?

This online professional development presentation brings together 25 world-class experts who will share with you the best strategies for teaching Spanish. They will help you to:

  • Manage a mixed Heritage Speaker / Traditional student classroom
  • Move away from teaching grammar
  • Grow the sense of community in your classroom
  • Transition to Comprehensible Input teaching with a textbook
  • Project-based learning (PBL)
  • And much, much more!

Tina Hargaden, Meredith White, Adrienne Brandenberg, Laura Sexton, Amy Lenord, Jeremy Jordan… the list of 25 speakers reads like a roll call of A-Lister Spanish teachers and educators!

There’s no other place you can see this lineup of speakers. And there’s no one else who could amass this level of expertise and convince them to share their best strategies and secrets with you.

No theory, no outdated methods, no guesswork — just cold, hard strategies that WORK.

If you have any desire to get your students motivated and passionate about learning Spanish, you need to enroll in the Spanish Teacher Success Academy.

Who are the 25 speakers and what are they presenting?

  1. The ABCs of Project Based Learning by Laura Sexton

  2. Moving Away From Grammar-Based Teaching by Albert Fernández

  3. Creating And Assessing With Integrated Performance Assessments (IPAs) by Maris Hawkins

  4. Assessment Demystified by Tina Hargaden

  5. Working Smarter, Not Harder (To Maintain Your Sanity) by Bethanie Drew

  6. 5 Must-Have Tech Tools by Rachel Lucas

  7. Two Classes in One: Strategies for Heritage and New Language Learners in Mixed Class Teaching by Jenna Cushing-Leubner

  8. Myths (And Truths) About Teaching Spanish Heritage Classes by Adrienne Brandenburg

  9. Teaching Spelling To Heritage Learners: No Drills Required by Florencia Henshaw

  10. Managing the Mixed Classroom by Sam Finneseth

  11. Affirming Multilingual Identities: Language And Power by Kristin Montgomery

  12. Techniques for Heritage Speakers to Discover and Embrace Their Own Identity by Jen López

  13. Teach Bell To Bell, Not Yell To Yell by Meredith White

  14. Growing Community In Your Classroom by Laurie Clarcq

  15. Mindfulness: Every Student Is Seen And Heard by Annabelle Williamson

  16. The Arts In A Heritage Language Class: Student Engagement & Teacher Sanity by Michaela McCaughey

  17. Using Interactive Notebooks for Hands-On Engagement by Emilie del Risco 

  18. Get Your Spanish Class Moving! – Including Movement In Your Classroom by Allison Wienhold 

  19. Making Language Doable: Building Student Confidence by Amy Lenord

  20. The Big 3: Getting Your Students Reading, Speaking And Writing Every Day by Erin Carlson

  21. Transitioning to Comprehensible Input by Ashley Mikkelsen

  22. Compelling & Comprehensible Techniques by Sarah Breckley

  23. How To Involve Comprehensible Input Into Your Textbook Teaching by Jodi Stokydk

  24. Ten Target Language Teaching Techniques & Tips by Jeremy Jordan

  25. Reading With Your Students From Day One by Mira Canion

PD Certificate and More!

In addition to these sessions, you will also receive a PD Certificate for 22 hours, access to 12 Mastermind Q&A Sessions and bonus downloads.

Click here to get lifetime access to the Spanish Teacher Success Academy.