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 Early Registration
$109.00
“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
podcast live with Jason Fritze and Alina Filipescu
Reading Research to build your CI Reading program
Must have Tech Tools for Teaching CI
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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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This session will cover the latest tech tools for teaching using CI strategies.
(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.
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?
Everyone is Capable: Teaching so that all students can acquire language
CALA
Total Physical Response demo
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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Decolonizing our Language Classrooms – First Steps in the Process
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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.
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.
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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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Compelling Culture: How to make most culture topics understandable to novice learners by simplifying the language.
CI in Survival Mode: Strategies for the most difficult years
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Last 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.
Leveraging History & Geography to Center Black & Brown Identities Through 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.
Using Readlang.com for Presenting Music in the Classroom
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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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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.
OFS WE Manifest! Replicating how Oakland Freedom Schools raised reading levels
You Can Develop and Maintain a Successful FVR Program
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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.
Play a game, guess a riddle, acquire the language
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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.
Celebrating indigenous voices in the language classroom,
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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.
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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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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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.
Qui Parle français? — Incorporating the series in your lower level classes
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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.
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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She began teaching Spanish using Comprehension-Based Methods in 1996 while teaching high school Spanish. For more than 20 years she has trained teachers all over the world, including three years training English teachers in the Turkish military.
She has taught students in elementary school, middle school, high school and college as well as adults using methods like TPR Storytelling, Total Physical Response and Reader’s Theater.
She is the author of Las aventuras de Isabela, a short novel for language learners set in Guanajuato, Mexico. It has been translated into English, Spanish, Russian and Italian.
The second book in the series, Isabela captura un congo, expands on the basic vocabulary in the first book and is set in Playa Hermosa, Costa Rica. The story explores the problems facing howler monkeys as more and more people move to Costa Rica. It has been translated into French and English.
Carl no quiere ir a México is also set in Guanajuato, Mexico. It tells the story of a young boy whose mother decides they are moving to México for a year.
Don Quijote: El último caballero is a simplified version of The Quixote. Half in past tense and half in present, it tells entertaining, well-known tales like Don Quijote and Sancho Panza attacking the windmills. It has been translated into English, French and Latin.
Her newest reader, El callejón del beso, is based on a legend from Mexico. It uses more complex grammatical structures and vocabulary.
Her book for teachers The Fluency Fast Guide to Self-Coaching is available as a download on this site. In July of 2019 Reader’s Theater for the World Language Classroom was published through Teacher’s Discovery.
Karen has been the editor of IJFLT, The International Journal of Foreign Language Teaching, since 2004. She is also the author of the TPR Storytelling ancillaries for Pearson/Prentice Hall’s Paso a paso and Realidades textbooks.
Karen serves on the founding board of the ACTFL Special Interest Group Comprehension-based Communicative Language Teaching, the largest SIG in ACTFL, with Dr. Bill VanPatten, Diane Neubauer and Jason Fritze. She is also the founder and administrator of the IFLT / NTPRS / CI Teaching Facebook Professional Learning Community of 11,000 teachers. She is the recipient of the 40 under 40 Business Award for the State of Colorado and the Colorado Congress of Foreign Language Teachers Lynn Sandstedt Program Leadership Award in 2018.
Her presentations and teaching are based on the work of Dr. Stephen Krashen and Blaine Ray, inventors of TPRS. She created the original Coaching workshops within the National TPRS Conference (2000-present) and was the director of NTPRS for 5 years. In 2008 he was one of the founding members of the International Forum on Language Teaching, IFLT, (2009-present). In July 2019 she was the keynote speaker at the Agen Conference in Agen, France. She presents inservices on TPR Storytelling, Comprehension-Based Methods, Reader’s Theater, Self-Coaching for teachers, Storytelling and Personalization. Her school district inservices range from one day through two semesters of training, curriculum development and -in class demonstrations and coaching.
Online webinars at Fluency Fast include:
- How to Write a CI Novel, Personalization, Self-Coaching and Reader’s Theater
- Beginning and Intermediate Spanish Classes for Adults
To hire Karen to teach a language class or present a school district inservice or present at a state, national or international conference, email mailtp:[email protected] for prices and availability or call 719-633-6000
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Various live Q and A sessions with teachers
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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.
