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About Ma Révolution FrançaiseIn 2014, I attended a workshop with ACTFL trainer Laura Terrill that really got me thinking. Her clear-headed presentation and helpful book, The Keys to Planning for Learning (co-authored with Donna Clementi), gave me the push I needed to finally rewrite my French curriculum with thematic units. Leaving my textbook on the shelf, I began teaching with authentic materials and creating assessments that would measure my students' performance in the interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational modes. The process was exciting and challenging, and I know I'll never go back.
My article about this experience, Reinvigorating Teaching Toward a Student-Centered Classroom, was featured in the March/April issue of ACTFL's The Language Educator and was written up in the April 16, 2015 issue of the Marshall Memo. Since the Terrill workshop, I've also had the chance to attend workshops by Chantal Thompson, Greg Duncan, Thomas Sauer, and Greta Lundgaard as well as ACTFL MOPI training. This website is one place where I try to synthesize what I'm un-learning and share my evolving work in the classroom. I became a National Board Certified Teacher in 2017. In 2019 I was selected as Teacher of the Year by the Massachusetts Foreign Language Association and Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. I was named National Language Teacher of the Year for 2020 by ACTFL. You can read my personal statement about the value of language-learning here and read a profile about my life and work in ACTFL's The Language Educator here. |
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Il était une fois... |
Since I began studying French at age 9 in a small town in western Massachusetts, I've been insatiably curious about the French language and its speakers. High school summers with host families in Nantes and Montpellier, a Fulbright teaching assistantship in St. Omer, a honeymoon year in Strasbourg, and 15+ years of middle school teaching later, I still want to know more. My husband and I speak non-native French to our two school-aged children and travel regularly to Québec and France.
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Qui suis-je? |
Before joining the large, suburban middle school outside Boston where I now teach, I interned at a small independent school on Cape Cod and worked as an assistante de langue via a Fulbright Teaching Scholarship in St. Omer, France. I hold a BA magna cum laude from Brown University and an MEd from Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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