Two weeks after the start of remote teaching, my school’s scheduled spring break began. And it couldn’t have come at a better time. I was…
Donna Tatum-JohnsApril 22, 2020
Within the first two days of the 2019-2020 school year, I knew that I was going to have a hard time getting the students in…
Donna Tatum-JohnsMarch 11, 2020
When I first heard about classroom passwords from Bryce Hedstrom, I was skeptical but intrigued. How could requiring my students to tell me the ‘secret…
Donna Tatum-JohnsMarch 11, 2020
As I prepared to teach the language lab at iFLT 2019, I was faced with the question that many teachers have asked me over the…
Donna Tatum-JohnsMarch 11, 2020
PART III At our first CI workshop for Haitian English teachers, we did an 8 to 9 hour ELL demo over the course of three…
Donna Tatum-JohnsJuly 2, 2018
When we set foot in our first Haitian school, we were shocked and dismayed. We saw dirt floors and a broken chalkboard leaning against the…
Donna Tatum-JohnsJuly 2, 2018
Our journey to bringing TCI/TPRS to Haiti What if you walked into school tomorrow to find that everything had drastically changed? Your whiteboard and SmartBoard…
Donna Tatum-JohnsJuly 2, 2018