Michael Peto
@mike_peto
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Language teacher & author, interested in pleasure reading, heritage speakers & highly-compelling CI. https://t.co/nK0QDM0z9b En busca de la cheveridad
California
Joined May 2012
Please take a few minutes to watch this. Great reporting by The @washingtonpost
Here, again, is Alex's outline of today's bombshell story from the Washington Post:
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Bad debate nights happen. Trust me, I know. But this election is still a choice between someone who has fought for ordinary folks his entire life and someone who only cares about himself. Between someone who tells the truth; who knows right from wrong and will give it to the
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I’m presenting at #MittenCi24 Come join me and lots of great teachers! Register now for MittenCI:
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What?! You don't have Degenhardt in your class library?! NOW is the time to grab a few of her books because...
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Tomorrow I'm presenting my 2-hour workshop at #mctlc21. This workshop is for #heritagelang teachers. I hope you will join me 10:30am-12:30pm Central! Don't forget to sleep in an extra hour first 🙂
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This is an interesting proposal. I'm excited that Kara's great work is getting a wide audience!
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Hit the nail on the head. Writing, rewriting, and more rewriting; the process brings forward our best ideas, not a flash of inspiration.
“Think of writing not as a way to transmit a message but as a way to grow and cook a message. Writing is a way of thinking something you couldn’t have started out thinking.” Peter Elbow, Writing Without Teachers.
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Snoop Dogg & a big Mexican Banda on the same stage... damn I miss California!
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This is one of my favorite poems.
Spanish teachers ✨unsuccessfully✨ hiding their grammar syllabus be like: Unit 1: Let’s describe ourselves 😉 Unit 2: What do I, you, he, she, we, they do in school? 😉 Unit 3: Let’s talk about our personal hygiene 😉 Unit 4: Let’s re-live childhood trauma together 😉
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I signed up for @mike_peto writers group and am excited to see how it goes. I want to be able to write my own stories for classes and hopefully this is what will help me get into a writing routine.
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When we buy novels from new teacher-authors, we get new voices, new types of stories & more choice for our students during student choice reading. My list of mostly indie teacher-authored novels: https://t.co/hxT4IVIGeR & eBooks:
mygenerationofpolyglots.com
A language teacher's website by Mike Peto
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Well, now it's official. @MerriamWebster just added "Second Gentleman" to the dictionary. I might be the first, but I won't be the last.
merriam-webster.com
the husband or male partner of a vice president or of a second in command of a country or jurisdiction… See the full definition
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I love this series!
Are you ready to go on vacation..with Mia Tang?? ❤️📚✈️So excited to announce the 3rd FRONT DESK book ROOM TO DREAM publishes this Fall!!! 🎉🥳🙌 After years of hard work, the Tangs & Hank finally go on vacation...to Beijing! Where Mia is reunited w her cousins! RT to win an ARC!
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Are you ready to go on vacation..with Mia Tang?? ❤️📚✈️So excited to announce the 3rd FRONT DESK book ROOM TO DREAM publishes this Fall!!! 🎉🥳🙌 After years of hard work, the Tangs & Hank finally go on vacation...to Beijing! Where Mia is reunited w her cousins! RT to win an ARC!
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2/ You know what gets banned in US schools and libraries? Books about LGBTQ+ people. Check out the @BannedBooksWeek lists. It’s not The Odyssey, folks. #DisruptTexts
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Class-created story comics are essential part of free reading library for beginner learners! Used @mike_peto templates. Build confidence with familiar class-created texts.
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When you have a difficult, disrespectful, and defiant student, my biggest tip for you... is to have lots of conversations with them when they are not in trouble. These conversations are where you build rapport... and that rapport makes future confrontations less likely.
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