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Things are going to get messy…

Written by Vivienne Kraus February 12, 2016

My action plan My goal for this year was to provide more opportunities for my students to communicate orally in French in an authentic manner. I had heard of Harkness tables from the English Department at my school, and I have been playing with this idea over the past couple of years. I didn’t realize … Continue reading “Things are going to get messy…”

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