CI-Reboot 2022 Early Registration
CI-Reboot – Comprehension-Based Teaching Reboot and Recharge
Register now to attend 2022 CI-Reboot – Monday, June 27 to Friday, July 1
•The first goal is a CI RE-BOOT, A comprehension-based teaching reboot and recharge for teachers who have been drowning in technology and lost their connection to the roots of comprehension-based teaching.
•The second goal is to change the conversation around the CONTENT of that Comprehensible Input. Any CONTENT can be taught using the same basics of comprehension-based teaching.

- The IFLT/NTPRS / CI Teaching PLC
- Command Performance Books
- Fluency Fast Language Classes
- ImmediateImmersion
- World Language Teacher Tech Academy
- Growing with CI

CI-Reboot 2022 RECORDINGS
$145.00
“I was a skeptic about attending an online conference, but the CI Reboot was totally worth my time! It is a conference filled with engaging and knowledgable presenters who enriched our minds and touched our hearts. Must attend!”
“This is the best conference I’ve ever been to. The speakers were masters in their fields, yet the format with the live chat made it feel like we were having a conversation.”
CI-Reboot Presenters
Overview of the Comprehension-Based Communicative Language Teaching: TPR, TPR Storytelling, Movietalk, Picturetalk, Sheltered Subject Matter Teaching
Dr. Liam Printer – The Motivated Classroom
podcast live with Jason Fritze and Alina Filipescu
Dr. Stephen Krashen
The Good News in Reading Research
Rachel Lucas, World Language Teacher Academy
Must have Tech Tools for Teaching Comprehensibly
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About The Presenter (click to open)
Rachel also regularly presents in workshops and conferences such as, the CI Reeboot, World Language Teacher Summit and the Florida Foregin Language Assosiation.
You can follow her Facebook page Tech for World Language Teachers. Join the Tech for World Language Teachers Facebook group. The group has over 15,000 language teachers who love to collaborate and share ideas and resources.
Looking for more resources for language teachers, check out the Tech for World Language Teachers blog.
For On-Demand workshops and No-Prep resources visit the World Language Teacher Tech Academy.
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Must-Have Tech Tools for Teaching with Comprehensibly
This session will cover the latest tech tools for teaching using CI strategies.
Claudia Elliott, Growing with Proficiency
(SCOLT Teacher of the Year)
How To Plan For A CI Driven Classroom
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You love to create lesson plans that provide comprehensible-input to your students and support their proficiency journey but you don’t want to spend countless hours doing that. In this session, I will share with you how to craft an impactful lesson plans that provide a ton of CI to your learners while cultivating cultural competence.
Scott Benedict, Immediate Immersion
Sweet 16 Verbs / Proficiency vs Performance Assessments
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In his free time, he likes spending time with family, hanging with his 3 dogs, traveling, and doing photography.
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There are two types of assessments we can do in our classroom outside of simple pencil and paper quizzes and exams: proficiency-based and performance-based. What’s the difference? And why is one so much better than the other for both teachers and students? You’ll find out in this session!
Carol Bausor
Ted Talk and Toastmaster speaker
Can anyone learn a language?
Forget everything you thought you knew about learning a foreign language. Acquiring a foreign language has to give you pleasure and sure-fire progress.
Everyone is Capable: Teaching so that all students can acquire language
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Elicia Cárdenas is a former middle school Spanish teacher with extensive experience teaching a variety of levels, ages, and subjects. Her experience includes working with preservice teachers at Westminster College and teaching assistant for MIT Teaching Systems Lab and writes for the Education Ethics program at Harvard. Although she was trained as an elementary teacher, she shifted her focus to understanding of second language acquisition and its application to classroom instruction in a world language classroom. She presents regularly at national, regional, and state conferences and is proud to be a member of the IFLT coaching staff. Her areas of expertise include assessment with an equity lens and working to make sure all students are successful at acquiring another language. She is the Director of Training for The Comprehensible Classroom, and is the founder of the Deskless Classroom.
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Nothing is more motivating than success. In this session, we will look at instructional moves that build confidence and motivation for students in the world language classroom, with a focus on supporting students who often feel left behind in world language classes. Teachers will leave with simple, easy to implement strategies that can be used at all levels and in all languages.
Shelley Thomas
CALA
Total Physical Response demo
At the Center for Accelerated Language Acquisition (CALA) 5- day language classes are taught, which last three hours per day. TPR interactive activities are used to learn about 200 words, including various points of pop-up grammar the first two days, then TPRS is used in the next two days, which scaffold on another 100 vocabulary words/various points of pop-up grammar, and finally, day 5 is used to create an original student story, then read and answer questions about chapter one of a simplified novel, like Poor Ann. Another 50 words are learned in that context. See CALA research results published in Krashen’s IJFLT here: https://www.mtsu.edu/cala/documents/CALA_article_IJFLT.pdf
Dr. Shelley Thomas is the founder and director of the Center for Accelerated Language Acquisition (CALA). See her bio. here: https://www.mtsu.edu/cala/sthomas.php
In this workshop, Total Physical Response (TPR), as a powerful foundation of TPRS, will be felt by participants in a 1 hour demonstration of Japanese, ending with a quick assessment showing the level of acquisition of vocabulary, pop-up grammar and the skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking.
Teaching level 1 novels through parallel stories
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This session is for those teachers who work with beginners language learners that they see once or twice a week and who want to use level 1 novels but don’t know where to start. With concrete examples, we will look at how to teach a novel easily while creating more reading materials with our students using a combination of StoryListening with parallel stories.
The Ten Wrong Things You Can Say to An Asian American
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Adriana Ramirez*
Decolonizing our Language Classrooms – First Steps in the Process
Teaching with CI novels
MovieAsk basics with question-asking and readings
Panel Discussion: The door to interculturality
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Decolonizing our Language Classrooms – First Steps in the Process
Education is a political act. We are either in favour of the status quo or against it. What are we doing as world language educators to disrupt those practices that perpetuate inequalities? How can we make our language classes more inclusive while respecting interculturality?
In this workshop we will talk about what decolonizing means and how this could look like in our language classes. We will talk about history, colonization, today’s ways of colonization, and ways to start a decolonizing process in our language classes.
Teaching with CI novels
Classroom novels are a very powerful tool to take students through a cultural journey that will open doors for them to see and understand a culture different from theirs. When reading a novel as a class we are also helping students with their process of language acquisition. We are facilitating a deeper understanding of the story, and we are giving them tools to make stronger connections and build robust mental representations.
For this experience to be successful some steps should be followed. In this workshop we will talk about different activities and experiences that will allow the teacher to scaffold the process of reading a novel as a class.
MovieAsk basics with question-asking and readings
Panel Discussion: The door to Interculturaility
Adriana Ramirez with Haiyun Lu, Claudia Elliott, Ben Fisher, Benjamin Tinsley, Dahiana Castro
Research soundbites to motivate your students
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Ten years of research on TPRS, distilled into slides you can actually share with your students to motivate them to trust comprehension-based learning… or use to advocate for your curriculum with administrators and colleagues!
Assessment for Acquisition, The Comprehensible Classroom
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Martina has been published in The Language Educator and presents regularly at state, regional and national conferences in addition to consulting with individual districts and organizations. Her newest project for supporting teachers is the Garbanzo App, an interactive library of stories in Spanish designed specifically with language classes in mind.
About The Course
As teachers transition to a Comprehension-Based, Proficiency-Oriented model for teaching language, they need assessments that accurately reflect what their students can do. In this workshop, the presenter will share easily adaptable assessment formats for Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening.
Backward Planning Song Lyrics / Using Current Events As Story Starters / Afro-Latin Americans and the Harlem Renaissance
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Dahiana Castro teaches high school Spanish and French in Long Beach, California. She has a Masters degree in Multi-cultural Education and Second Language Acquisition. She was born in the Dominican Republic and grew up in Puerto Rico. She moved to California in 2005. She has been teaching Spanish and French for Fluency Fast since 2019 and training teachers in Comprehension-Based Methods since 2017. She is a member of the COACH Foreign Language Project in Southern California and in her spare time she crochets, dances Salsa, travels, runs and grades papers.
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Backward Planning Song Lyrics
Music is a great to acquire vocabulary and to expose students to culture. In this session in this session, we will teach you how to use authentic song lyrics as text. We will teach the steps of selecting and planning the vocabulary, how to create a story using the vocabulary from the lyrics, how read the lyrics and listen to the song in many ways and other activities.
Using Current Events As Story Starters
Alpacas escaped from the zoo? Snake found in the sofa? Using unusual current events and images as compelling story starters.
Personalizing Pre Scripted Stories
Co-create a basic story in French with collaboration from the students and to use their contributions to hold their attention and build a positive classroom culture.
Afro-Latin Americans and the Harlem Renaissance
Compelling Culture: How to make most culture topics understandable to novice learners by simplifying the language.
Play a game, guess a riddle, acquire the language
In this session, Dahiana Castro and Carla Tarini will show you how they adapted a familiar guessing game into a fully engaging, multi-purpose CI activity that will have your students listening intently, reading/building pictures in their minds, and squirming in their seats to shout out the answer. Students will beg to play it for the entire period. This game also naturally develops circumlocution skills, creates a bridge from novice to intermediate levels, and provides opportunities for writing and speaking if students are ready. We will demonstrate with examples based on the forthcoming series, À Quoi je pense? / En Qué estoy pensando? however, teachers can easily follow the format in class based on our demo. In English with examples in Spanish and French.
CI in Survival Mode: Strategies for the most difficult years
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CI in Survival Mode: Strategies for the most difficult years
Last year was hard. This year was even harder. I can show you practical strategies for making next year much easier. In the session, participants will learn how to provide input in a way that matches the challenges of the current moment. You can do this, I can help you.
What’s cooking ? CI through a guided recipe
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Double Polls—My Absolute Favorite Way to Guide Conversations / How to Use Any Picture for Classroom Conversations about any Theme
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Maybe you already poll your students on their preferences as a way to get conversation going. But do you Double Poll them? Come learn this tweak of class surveys that can make any topic more interesting and lead to many more—and more compelling—conversations.
Benjamin M. Tinsley
Centering Black and Brown People and Voices
with Comprehensible & Compelling Input
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Ben’s recent work has focused primarily on leveraging language acquisition and language education toward developing global literacy and 21-Century competencies.
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Attendees will take away concrete practices to foster student intercultural proficiency using CI methods. Teachers will be able to center the voices of the African diaspora, as well as indigenous peoples and other historically marginalized identities in ways that are accessible at any level.
Making Magic with Songs as Authentic Resources in the CI Classroom
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Songs are powerful authentic resources in our CI classroom! Find a song and transform it to an engaging acquisition experience for your students. Discover new ways to connect your learners to the target culture through leading students to discover new artists, making lyrics comprehensible, and providing interactive acquisition driven activities.
Participants will examine three engaging strategies to facilitate a meaningful connection with music in the target language from the target culture.
John Sifert*
Using Readlang.com for Presenting Music in the Classroom
Making a Song Last a Week
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John Sifert has been a Spanish teacher in Iowa and Texas for the past 24 years. His focus in the classroom is to provide comprehensible input through stories, novels, and song. He is also passionate about teaching students about life-long skills such as perseverance, respect, and kindness.
John creates a variety of classroom materials and is the author of La isla más peligrosa, La decisión más peligrosa, Seis nombres, L’isola più pericolosa del mondo, with several other novels in the works.
Nothing is more important than family, so when not focused on language acquisition, John spends all his free time with his wife and 5 children in the tiny, (but amazing) town of Belmond, Iowa.
“World language teachers teach the world more than language.”
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Using Readlang.com for Presenting Music in the Classroom
This will be a demonstration on how to use the website readlang.com to help present music and music videos as comprehensible input. Discussion can expand on other methods of using music in the classroom. Presentation will be in English with examples in Spanish, but useful for any language.
Making a Song Last a Week
How to use activities to make a single song last for an entire week of input. Since it is only a 15 minute session, it will not discuss the justification of why songs are an important addition to CI instruction, but will get straight to how to add songs into your curriculum. Presentation will be in English with examples in Spanish, but useful for any language.
Dr. Macheo Payne
OFS WE Manifest! Replicating how Oakland Freedom Schools raised reading levels
Dr. Macheo Payne is currently the Executive Director of Community & Youth Outreach (CYO). Dr. Payne is also a social work professor at Cal State East Bay. The program nearest and dearest to Macheo’s heart is the Oakland Freedom School program.
Dr. Payne is a content expert on addressing disparities among African-American and students of color in schools and other social systems. Dr. Payne’s research focuses on finding solutions to systemic inequity at the institutional and program level. Macheo has over 25 years experience as a skilled trainer and facilitator. As a social worker with clinical experience, Macheo has over 15 years experience training clinicians on how to provide mental health & behavioral health support to individuals and groups.
A graduate of UC Berkeley, Macheo also holds an MSW from Cal State University East Bay and a doctorate in educational leadership from San Francisco State University.
Bryce Hedstrom
You Can Develop and Maintain a Successful FVR Program
What?! C.I. and Grammar?
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You Can Develop and Maintain a Successful FVR Program
Avoid false starts with your free voluntary reading program, and even if it has flopped, you can get it back on track with these fast and effective techniques. Bryce will steer you to practices and products that will make it work. He’s had his students reading avidly for years and now he observes and coaches teachers. He knows a lot because he’s seen a lot. You’ll get the help you need here.
What?! C.I. and Grammar?
Why, how, and when to teach grammar in a C.I. classroom is always in the back of your mind. Years of experimentation, observation, discussion and coaching of teachers have given Bryce insight into what works and why when it comes to grammar instruction. You’ll find out his secrets in this fast-paced session. Hold on tight, we’re going to move quickly! It’s Ok, though because you can re-watch it and get those tidbits you might miss.
Play a game, guess a riddle, acquire the language
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About The Presenter (click to open)
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In this session, Dahiana Castro and Carla Tarini will show you how they adapted a familiar guessing game into a fully engaging, multi-purpose CI activity that will have your students listening intently, reading/building pictures in their minds, and squirming in their seats to shout out the answer. Students will beg to play it for the entire period. This game also naturally develops circumlocution skills, creates a bridge from novice to intermediate levels, and provides opportunities for writing and speaking if students are ready. We will demonstrate with examples based on the forthcoming series, À Quoi je pense? / En Qué estoy pensando? however, teachers can easily follow the format in class based on our demo. In English with examples in Spanish and French.
Margarita Pérez García*
Celebrating indigenous voices in the language classroom
Teaching level 1 novels through parallel stories
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Celebrating indigenous voices in the language classroom
This session is for teachers who want to celebrate indigenous voices by using indigenous narratives and legends as sources of accessible reading material and mentor texts in narrative writing.
Teaching level 1 novels through parallel stories
This session is for those teachers who work with beginners language learners that they see once or twice a week and who want to use level 1 novels but don’t know where to start. With concrete examples, we will look at how to teach a novel easily while creating more reading materials with our students using a combination of StoryListening with parallel stories.
Sustainable Feedback in the CI Classroom
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Feedback is a gift that leads to growth and student agency. Such gift in the language classroom must be given in an empowering way and received with appreciation. Feedback can also be daunting to the instructor, but it does’t have to be. By empowering learners to effectively self-reflect & provide peer feedback, feedback becomes more meaningful to learners, but learners must be taught to provide quality feedback as well as to receive it with appreciation. In this session, participants will be invited to challenge their perspectives on feedback by exploring highly three practical strategies to introduce feedback & to facilitate effective and engaging self reflection & peer feedback classroom experiences.
Making a Song Last a Week
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About The Presenter (click to open)
John creates a variety of classroom materials and is the author of La isla más peligrosa, La decisión más peligrosa, Seis nombres, L’isola più pericolosa del mondo, with several other novels in the works.
Nothing is more important than family, so when not focused on language acquisition, John spends all his free time with his wife and 5 children in the tiny, (but amazing) town of Belmond, Iowa.
“World language teachers teach the world more than language.”
About The Course
This presentation will show how to use activities to make a single song last for an entire week of input. Since it is only a 15 minute session, it will not discuss the justification of why songs are an important addition to CI instruction, but will get straight to how to add songs into your curriculum. Presentation will be in English with examples in Spanish, but useful for any language.
What?! C.I. and Grammar?
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Why, how, and when to teach grammar in a C.I. classroom is always in the back of your mind. Years of experimentation, observation, discussion and coaching of teachers have given Bryce insight into what works and why when it comes to grammar instruction. You’ll find out his secrets in this fast-paced session. Hold on tight, we’re going to move quickly! It’s Ok, though because you can re-watch it and get those tidbits you might miss.
Carla Tarini*
Qui Parle français? — Incorporating the series in your lower level classes
Play a game, guess a riddle, acquire a language
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Carla Tarini lived in Nice, France for several years after college and has been teaching French to students of various ages ever since. She discovered teaching with Comprehensible Input 10 years ago and became a CI presenter, coach, and trainer. Carla has written hundreds of short, engaging, comprehensible stories for her students. Her first published series, Qui Parle Français?, introduces readers to French speakers from across the globe. She is currently working on another non-fiction series, À Quoi je pense? which will also be available in Spanish, En Qué estoy pensando?
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Qui Parle français? — Incorporating the series in your lower level classes
In this session, Carla Tarini, will share some dynamic yet low-prep ways of including the figures of the Qui Parle français? series into your lower level curriculum. Activities described include twists on several CI favorites, such as 3-ring circus, passwords, and listen & draw. If time, she will also share a template that can be used first for scaffolded writing which then can be turned into a dynamic listening/reading/grabbing/rejoinder game! In French and English.
Play a game, guess a riddle, acquire the language
In this session, Dahiana Castro and Carla Tarini will show you how they adapted a familiar guessing game into a fully engaging, multi-purpose CI activity that will have your students listening intently, reading/building pictures in their minds, and squirming in their seats to shout out the answer. Students will beg to play it for the entire period. This game also naturally develops circumlocution skills, creates a bridge from novice to intermediate levels, and provides opportunities for writing and speaking if students are ready. We will demonstrate with examples based on the forthcoming series, À Quoi je pense? / En Qué estoy pensando? however, teachers can easily follow the format in class based on our demo. In English with examples in Spanish and French.
Karen Rowan*
Scaffolding Mini-Stories to get to 90% Comprehensible Input , How to create a text story, What is a Reading Walk? Using audio books to rest your voice while they act it out, read it simultaneously or draw it
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Karen Rowan is the founder and administrator of the IFLT / NTPRS / CI Teaching Facebook Professional Learning Community of 12,000+ teachers.
She is the author of Las aventuras de Isabela, Isabela captura un congo, Carl no quiere ir a México, Don Quijote: El último caballero, El callejón del beso (also in French, English, Latin, Russian and Italian) published through Command Performance Language Institute; The Fluency Fast Guide to Self-Coaching, Reader’s Theater for the World Language Classroom, TPR Stories for Paso a paso 1 and 2 and TPR Stories for Realidades 1 and 2. She became the owner of Command Performance when Contee Seely retired in 2019, and now distributes for an additional 35 independently published authors of CI novels.
She has taught elementary, middle, high school and college as well as adults through Fluency Fast Language Classes using Comprehension-Based methods. For more than 20 years she has trained teachers nationally and internationally. Rowan presents inservices on TPR Storytelling, Comprehension-Based Methods, Reader’s Theater, Self-Coaching for teachers, Adapting the Textbook, Curriculum Development, Storytelling and Personalization. Her school district inservices range from one day through two semesters of training, curriculum development and in-class demonstrations and coaching.
Rowan created the original Coaching workshops within the National TPRS Conference and was the director of NTPRS for 5 years. In 2008 she was one of the founding members of the International Forum on Language Teaching, IFLT. In 2020 she hosted the CISOS fundraiser for teachers transitioning to online teaching. In 2021 Adriana Ramírez, Dahiana Castro and Karen Rowan launched the first #CIReboot.
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Pre-recorded sessions
Scaffolding Mini-Stories to get to 90% Comprehensible Input,
How to create a text story
What is a Reading Walk?
Using audio books to rest your voice while they act it out, read it simultaneously or draw it
Ben Fisher
TBA
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Jason Fritze, Alina Filipescu, A.C. Quintero, Theresa Jensen* and more
Various live Q and A sessions with teachers
*author of Comprehension-based novels
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•The first goal is a CI RE-BOOT, re-grounding teachers who have been drowning in technology and lost their connection to the roots of comprehension-based teaching.
•The second goal is to change the conversation around the CONTENT of that Comprehensible Input. Any CONTENT can be taught using the same basics of comprehension-based teaching.
