World Languages Collaborative Podcast

Rebekah Hein and Angela Williams, two veteran language teachers from the Savannah Chatham County (GA) Public School System, discuss social-emotional learning. This is a great conversation about ways we can and should connect with our students in order to establish trust and security in our classrooms. 

Dr. Florencia Henshaw and I pick up where we left off in Episode 6 and discuss the role of grammar in the world language classroom. 

I had the pleasure speaking with Dr. Florencia Henshaw, a Spanish professor and Second Language Acquisition (SLA) expert from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. This is Part 1 of a two part episode (Part 2 coming soon!) where we discuss some optimal ways to think about comprehensible input and target language use in the classroom.  Dr. Henshaw has a wonderful YouTube channel where she e...

In Episode 5 of the World Languages Collaborative Podcast, our host Dr. Grant Gearhart discusses some of his thoughts on learner mindset in the language classroom, specifically how to engage students to think about mindset and why it's important for all learning, not just language learning. #growthmindset 

Cherie Dennis is Georgia's 2022 Teacher of the Year. She is also a dedicated, lifelong language teacher and learner. Currently she teaches ESOL at Hesse K8 in Savannah, GA. We discuss Cherie's early experience learning language, her travels and how Japanese helped her land a career in advertising, and how a move to Savannah in 2004 led her to pivot and enter the classroom as a teacher. ...

Dr. Sarah  Wike earned a bachelor’s degree in International Relations from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a master’s degree in Romance Languages, Literature, and Linguistics from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and a Doctor of Education degree in curriculum and instruction with a concentration in educational technology from the University of Florida. She has been...

In Episode 2, Dr. Dorothee Mertz joins us to talk about the strategies and activities she used to rebuild the French program at Armstrong State University (now Georgia Southern) in Savannah, GA. This episode will especially be of interest for anyone looking to drive student engagement in language learning! 

In our first episode we feature Mr. Patrick Wallace from the Georgia Department of Education.