REGISTER FOR A FRENCH, SPANISH OR ASL CLASS REGISTER FOR CISOS LIVE BOOSTERS
Update: December 4, 2020
CISOS December Booster
We’re back! We will host mini-webinars to update previous webinars. We have learned a lot in 8 months! Webinars are FREE live — Three days — Wednesday, December 9; Saturday, December 12 and Wednesday, December 16. In January, they will be posted as recordings and available for purchase.
CISOS was a fundraiser that began on March 16, 2020 and rapidly endeavored to train language teachers who were transitioning overnight to online learning. The proceeds supported un-salaried and suddenly unemployed traveling teacher trainers. These sessions are a gift to our community in gratitude for their immediate and unconditional support.
We’re also adding sessions to improve presentation skills and have invited professionals to consult and up our game! Bold sessions are specifically for presenters.
For Teachers and Presenters
Wednesday, December 9: 6PM Pacific Leslie Davison, Google Walking Tour Demo of El Chico Global (can be shown to students)
Saturday, December 12th
- 9am Pacific / 12pm Eastern Carol Bausor, Ted Talk speaker and Toastmaster’s keynote speaker. How to be a Better Presenter – 30 minutes
Carol Bausor is a Ted Talk Speaker and Toastmaster International Keynote Speaker - 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern Justin Slocum Bailey, Teach Human, Are People Seeing What You Want Them to See? – 30 minutes
- 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern. Booster Sessions for Teachers
- HOUR ONE:
- Justin Slocum Bailey, Streamline learning in Zoom with 2 Advanced Screen Sharing Features
- 2 minute Seated Brain Break with Allison Litten
- Leslie Kronemeyer – Booster to Brain-based Trauma Teaching – 15 minutes
- HOUR TWO:
- Dahiana Castro Bookwidgets – 15 minutes. Download https://www.bookwidgets.com/ trial prior to demo
- 2 minute Seated Brain Break with Allison Litten
- Allison Litten, “Steps to get beginning readers to read” – 15 minutes
- HOUR THREE:
- La Maestra Loca Annabelle Williams – Mmhmmm – 15 minutes
- La Maestra Loca Annabelle Williams – New Brain Breaks – 15 minutes
- Tina Hargaden – 15 minutes (pre-recorded)
**Saturday evening Sane Saturday Social, 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern hosted by Allison Litten. Social, support, commiseration, cocktails and karaoke.**
Wednesday, December 16
4pm Pacific/ 7pm Eastern. Jade Alexander, Professional Videography Consultant 30 minutes plus 15 minutes coaching of pre-submitted 1 minute videos.
4PM Pacific Jade Alexander
Jade Alexander is a professional consultant on videography. She regularly coaches professional speakers on body language, wardrobe choices, lighting, sound and on-stage and on-line presence.
“The Subconscious Secrets to Successfully Influencing on Camera“is a powerful collection of videos designed for businesses like yours to get you better results on film. After 10 years of helping entrepreneurs and speakers successfully build their brand, their audience and buyers, Jade Alexander has now made it possible for anyone to easily and affordably do the same. Each module reveals a different concept, the subconscious science behind it and the action steps you can take to quickly implement and instantly increase your influence on camera.”

Hi! I’m Jade Alexander and I’ve helped business owners and speakers build their brand, their audience and buyers for the last 10 years. At times hiring a personal videographer can be cost prohibitive. I’ve compiled individual modules of my knowledge and experience that has helped my clients increase their income and audience goals. Now available to you is a convenient collection of videos called the Subconscious Secrets to Successfully Influencing on Camera. In this collection I reveal secrets for every skill level from basic to advanced. No matter your skill level with videography you can easily up your game and your influence with the use of these training modules. The videos are designed to respect your budget and filmed to respect your time. As virtual business becomes more and more of our reality, the subconscious secrets I share with you on video are easy to implement and make a vast difference in your results. The information covered isn’t something you’ll find many other places – I’ve looked. So, if you find your business becoming more and more virtual, and want to have more influence on camera, grow your audience and shorten the time it takes to turn someone into a buyer – this is for you!
———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————–
March 16, 2020 (Updated May 29, 2020)
In the immediate wake of this crisis, many full-time, self-employed Comprehension-Based presenters in our community have seen in-person workshops and in-services canceled for the next 10 weeks. These presenters have seen 50-100% of their incomes disappear in a matter of days. The goal of this page is to support these teachers / presenters who are most affected. We are creating a schedule of webinars to off-set this lost income as much as possible. Webinars are $8 per hour. (Further explanation moved to the bottom of the page). This is a list of all courses. You can add courses you still would like to take and accumulate hours for watching webinars and for work that you have done in cooperative lesson planning sessions or on your own. If you have not yet participated in any webinars, you can sign up for the entire course for one $150 donation
(Total of all webinars is over $300.00)
CISOS Fundraiser Course
Sane Saturday, this Saturday, May 30
Coffee and Conversation, 8:30-9am Pacific (optional) Come and go as you please. One Zoom link all day. Or watch recordings later.
9-9:30 plus Q and A. CI and Equity with Rachelle and Anna, CI with Equity in Mind
10-10:30 CI on Zoom with Jan Holter Kittok
11-11:15 BREAK
11:15-11:45 Jason Fritze with Dahiana Castro 11:45-12:15 plus Q&A
12:15-12:45 plus Q&A Alina Filipescua with Dahiana Castro plus Q & A
End at 1:15 Pacific (California time)
Sychronous and Asychronous Distance Learning with Comprehension-Based Communicative Language Teaching
Comprehension-Based, Communicative Language Teaching (9)
University credit information is now available.
________ Key Questions in Second Language Acquisition, Dr. Bill VanPatten
________ Relaxed Input Justin Slocum Bailey
________ Every Moment Matters, Faith Laux (aka “La Sustituta” Rrrrrrrrrr)
________ Tandem Teaching — Sabrina Janzcak and Daniel Dubois
________ It’s all about the Questions Justin Slocum-Bailey
________ Even More Ways to Use Pictures Justin Slocum-Bailey
________ Movietalk: Ageless, Timeless, Priceless Allison Litten
________ Movietalk High School Allison Litten
________ Reading Strategies to Extend Clip Chats
________ CCLT Independent Preparation and Lesson Planning
Student Relationships (1)
________ Fostering Resiliency a Trauma Responsive WL Classroom Leslie Kronemeyer
________ Student Relationship Independent Preparation and Lesson Planning
CI with Technology for Sychronous or Asychronous Teaching (9)
________Tips on Transitioning to Distance Learning Jason Fritze
________ Take a Trip! Geo Tools for an Immersion Experience Leslie Davison
________Way Cool Ways to use Virtual Backgrounds to Provide Input (Sane Saturday) (Sychronous or Asychronous) Justin Slocum Bailey
________Snap Camera Annabelle Williamson (Sane Saturday)
________Loom Darcy Pippins (Sane Saturday)
________ Screencastify Dahiana Castro (Sane Saturday)
________ 10 Slide Stories (Picturetalk) Greg Gross
________ QTalk Storymaker — co-creating visual stories instantly Maurice Hazan
_______ How to do CI Classes Online Elissa McLean
____ Diane Neubauer, Teaching on-line with Zoom 9-9:30 plus Q and A
– Favorites with live classes over 6 years: using images & drawing
– Planning a week at a time: what to do together live, & what students do on their own
_____ Peardeck, Elicia Cardenas 10-10:30 plus Q&A
_____ Cooperative Lesson Planning on Google Classroom with Dahiana Castro 11:15-11:45 plus Q&A
_______ CI with Technology for Sychronous or Asychronous Teaching Independent Preparation and Lesson Planning
Mental Health (1)
________ 10 Minute Meditation Jason Bond
________ Strategies for Staying Positive La Maestra Loca, Annabelle Williamson
________ Mental Health Independent Preparation and Lesson Planning
Providing CI Through Games (3)
________ How to Play Mafia on-line Greg Gross
________Making Distance Learning Fun, AnneMarie Chases
________ My Favorite Brain Breaks Annabelle Williamson
________ CI with Games Independent Preparation and Lesson Planning
Classroom Management (2)
________ Comprehensible Classroom Management, Annabelle Williamson
________ Classroom Management 101 Jon Cowart
________ Classroom Management Independent Preparation and Lesson Planning
Lesson Planning (2)
________ Backward Design Made Crazy Easy Justin Slocum Bailey
________ Covid19 Plans Annabelle Williamson
________ Independent Preparation and Lesson Planning
Specific to Elementary (2)
________ Movie talk for Elementary, Allison Litten
________ Reading in the Elementary Classroom Allison Litten
(________Tips on Transitioning to Distance Learning Jason Fritze)
________Independent Preparation and Lesson Planning for Elementary
Coffee and Conversation, 8:30-9am Pacific (optional) Come and go as you please. One Zoom link all day. Or watch recordings later. 9-9:30 plus Q and A. CI and Equity with Rachelle and Anna, CI with Equity in Mind
10-10:30 CI on Zoom with Jan Holter Kittok
11-11:15 BREAK
11:15-11:45 Jason Fritze with Dahiana Castro 11:45-12:15 plus Q&A
12:15-12:45 plus Q&A Alina Filipescua with Dahiana Castro plus Q & A
End at 1:15 Pacific (California time)
Tuesday, June 2
Access and Opportunity Through Tech with Maureen Lamb CISOS Tuesday 4pm Pacific 6/2
Sane Saturday, June 6
_____ Games for the CI Classroom with Andrea Schweitzer
_____ Rachel Lucas
_____ Writing Personalized Stories for students, Karen Rowan
If you have already registered for some sessions, you can continue to add more.
If you have not registered for any sessions, you can register for the entire CISOS Conference for a $150.00 donation to the CISOS fundraiser (includes future sessions through May 31)
If you can use University Credit for any of the CISOS webinars you’ve been taking and want more information. University credit information will be posted next week. 60 contact hours for 2 University Credits. Certificate of Completion for any number of hours completed. Between now and May 31, keep track of your hours. That is all.
LANGUAGE CLASSES
Beginning Spanish for Latin Teachers with Justin Slocum Bailey $99.00
Advanced Spanish May-June with Adriana Ramirez live
Beginning French Tandem taught by Sabrina and Daniel Tues / Thursday afternoons May-June
Intermediate French, Sundays through July 5 May-July
Beginning Spanish with Karen Rowan (recorded)
Intermediate Spanish with Karen Rowan (recorded)
SUMMER LANGUAGE CLASSES, July 20-24
Elementary Spanish with Jason Fritze, $50 per student, space limited, 1 hour per day for 5 days
Advanced Spanish with Adriana Ramirez 7am-9:30am Pacific, 5 days $90
Multi-level French with Sabrina Janczak, Daniel Dubois and Carla Tarini
Beginning Mandarin with Annick Chen
OTHER FOR CREDIT COURSES
Free Voluntary Reading Book Study (10 Hours)
________ How to Write a CI Novel (complete)
________How to Write a CI Novel Over the Summer June-August (Syllabus with online content)
Summer Conferences
Tina Hargaden Summer Conference, June
Here is a link to a video about LIVE with La Loca!
Here is a link to Annabelle’s Teachable courses (which LIVE with La Loca members get 50% off of!) ! She is SUPER proud of them and they are awesome!!
The Agen Workshop language courses will be merged with the NTPRS Fluency Fast language classes July 20-24. Advanced Spanish for Spanish teachers, Elementary Spanish, French, Mandarin, Arabic, 10am-1pm Eastern
Workshops will be July 27-31 on a variety of comprehension-based techniques by international presenters. 10am-1pm Eastern
Registration is free for anyone already registered for the Agen Conference. Registration for the entire conference is 115 Euros (about $125 dollars)
TPRS SPECIAL ONLINE WORKSHOP – JULY 20-24, 2020
_________________________________________________________________________
Friday, April 17
Saturday, April 18
Tandem Teaching — Watch Sabrina and Daniel’s Tandem Teaching Webinar and then join us Saturday for a Cooperative Lesson Planning Session
Sunday, April 19th
Intermediate French, Tandem Taught by Sabrina and Daniel
Webinars instantly available, recorded earlier:
Greg Gross How to Play Mafia on-line
Maurice Hazan, QTalk Storymaker — co-creating visual stories instantly
Leslie Kronemeyer Fostering Resiliency a Trauma Responsive WL Classroom
Jon Cowart, Classroom Management 101
Allison Litten
- Movietalk: Ageless, Timeless, Priceless
- Movie talk for Elementary
- Movietalk High School
- Reading in the Elementary Classroom
La Maestra Loca, Annabelle Williamson
- Reading Strategies to Extend Clip Chats
- Strategies for Staying Positive
- Comprehensible Classroom Management
- Covid19 Plans
- My Favorite Brain Breaks
Elissa McLean, How to do CI Classes Online
Justin Slocum-Bailey
- It’s all about the Questions
- Even More Ways to Use Pictures
- Backward Design Made Crazy Easy
- Relaxed Input
Additional webinars will be added as they are offered and can be attended live or later, pre-recorded. Space is limited in each webinar.
Beginning French with Daniel Kline Dubois, Sabrina Sebban Janzcak and Carla Tarini. Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10:30am Mountain time. High school students welcome for $4 per class as long as space allows.
Beginning-High / Intermediate French with Daniel Kline-Dubois and Sabrina Sebban- Janczak, $8 per class for 8 weeks, Sunday mornings at 9am Pacific. Materials included L’ile au Tresor and Mystere au Louvre by Theresa Marrama. High school students welcome for $4 per class as long as space allows.
Beginning Spanish with Karen Rowan
Intermediate Spanish with Karen Rowan
Advanced Spanish with Adriana Ramirez
Purchase books for Advanced Spanish
Watch Siempre Bruja on Netflix, set in Colombia (Jugar con Fuego shares themes with El camino del café). Total contact hours, 10 hours Netflix, 2 1/2 hours Zoom, 4 hours reading. 16.5 hours seat time. Additional reading Rigo, El Condor de los Andes and El Entierro. (Other titles by Adriana, Me Perdí en Medellín and Julio.)
Unlimited access to all webinars and language classes, $250.00 donation.
This is our CI SOS creatively co-created plan. (Pronounced “See Sauce”)
- We are accepting donations beginning immediately;
- We have made our platform available to these presenters to offer in-services remotely;
- Presenters are offering live webinars here. 100% of the proceeds from these webinars goes to presenters;
- Vendors have donated downloadable “packages”. (Please honor copyrights by not posting resources on-line). 100% of these proceeds from these sales go to these presenters.
- Additional presenters who do not rely on training as their sole source of income have generously offered to present webinars and to donate a portion of or all of the collected registration fees. Proceeds from these webinars will be distributed among those presenters whose income has been affected by COVID-19.
- Fluency Fast on-line language classes will be offered live through Zoom, supporting non-salaried teachers who have seen live classes canceled and income abruptly stop;
- Information will be shared about these resources by several partners including Voces Digital, Tina Hargaden and CI Liftoff
- Several free resources are available for students doing remote learning. A list of those resources can be found here and have also been posted on two Facebook pages, IFLT / NTPRS / CI Teaching and CI for French Teachers. Fluency Matters, Martina Bex and the Comprehensible Classroom, Voces Digital, Alice Ayel and Sr Wooly, as well as many others listed on those Facebook pages, are all offering online resources for students during this period of remote learning. TPRS Books has temporarily granted permission for teachers to share resources on internal school platforms (not public). At the end of this school year, all materials should be removed. Contact them for clarification. Sr Wooly has offered free Pro Subscription access for a limited time.
Command Performance Language Institute CI Liftoff
Full Disclosure: Fluency Fast is a for-profit business run by Karen Rowan, the admin of the IFLT / NTPRS / CI Teaching page that provides online and live language classes and school district in-service teacher training. While all profits from this collaborative emergency project will be funneled to the fund for CI presenters and teachers (independent contractors) this income is taxable. Using our online existing platforms and accounting infrastructure, we will follow all tax laws. For your own tax purposes as a customer, this is an educational expense on your own taxes, not a tax-exempt donation. Our accounting will be transparent and we will subtract only external credit card processing fees (those charged by Visa, Mastercard, Paypal etc.). We expect webinars to continue through May.