Martina Bex, Elicia Cárdenas, and friends have been having a blast making informal video-based trainings to address many of the most important questions and issues in world language classrooms.  

Watch all our free video trainings that are available on Youtube. 

Summer Somos Fun Club, Summer 2019

• Mindsets for success
• Unit Overview (SOMOS original)
• Assessment Hacks and Hope: What to expect from SOMOS
• Teaching with Novels, with special guests from Fluency Matters
• Story Asking
• Not Storyasking
• Interactive-ish Notebooks
• Classroom Management with Alyssa Campbell

Stay-at-home Fun Club, Spring and Summer 2020

•  (st)Rip Bingo and Language Uptake
•  Reading Strategies for Engaging the Whole Group
• Language Acquisition Trivia Game and Distance Learning Model
• Question Lab: Processing Questions
• Classroom Tour! 
• Building (and using) a Classroom Library
• Big ideas for Distance Learning 
• Setting up for Synchronous Storyasking 
• Connecting with Students of Color with John Bracey
• Unboxing a Flex Unit
• Virtual Assessment: What Works 
• First Day Demo

Simplify to Connect: Summer Fun Club 2021

• Understanding and Using Inclusive Language with Abelardo Almazán-Vázquez
• Staying True to You
• Foundational Beliefs for Comprehension-Based teaching
• Getting Buy-in for your language program from stakeholders