Preaching To Acquire

Kaitlin Leppert

I'm here preaching to help your students acquire languages! My goal is to inform, transform, inspire, and entertain you in efficient and effective episodes!

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104 episodes
Updated Apr 26, 2024

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Apr 26, 2024 · 10 min
Smarter Storyasking
Kaitlin shares her recent experiences with storyasking that provided students with a voice without the chaos that this activity can sometimes bring!
Aug 20, 2023 · 10 min
Changes to Star of the Day
Kaitlin shares some reflections on using Star of the Day/Special Person Interviews in her classes and some changes she's making to it this year to improve her students' experiences with it.
Jul 7, 2023 · 12 min
The Quote Board
Kaitlin shares about a fun tradition she developed in her classroom during COVID that has continued to live on. She shares the quotes and stories behind them from the '22-'23 school year.
Apr 28, 2023 · 15 min
A Win is a Win
Kaitlin shares a happy story about some of her most challenging classes.
Apr 4, 2023 · 7 min
Farewell For Now ❤️
Kaitlin shares some updates.
Feb 23, 2023 · 11 min
Preparing for Wooly Week 2023!
Kaitlin shares about the 3 new resources being released during Wooly Week and more details about the lessons plans that were written for them. She also shares what her plans are to complete the activities with her different classes.
Jan 14, 2023 · 15 min
Using ChatGPT/AI to Generate Content For Your Classes
Kaitlin talks about her experience using ChatGPT to try to generate different content in Spanish for her classes. She gives tips to helped her get information at an appropriate language level and also shares how it can give your creativity muscles a much needed break.
Nov 30, 2022 · 18 min
A Different Kind of Engagement?
Kaitlin rambles about her struggles engaging students in class since her usual activities don't seem to be working the same way. She also shares some things that have worked to engage these students and ends with a plea for help and ideas!
Oct 5, 2022 · 12 min
29. What? How?: Tower of Knowledge (La Torre de Saber)
Kaitlin shares about a fun collaborative writing activity that she learned from Carrie Toth who learned it from Nelly Hughes. Students are challenged to write as much as possible so they can build the tallest tower.
Sep 29, 2022 · 14 min
Going Beyond Language Acquisition
Kaitlin shares her reflections on how sometimes activities we can do in the classroom can serve a purpose beyond driving aquisition for our students. Don't forget to check out this year's FREE World Language Teacher Summit by registering here. (linktr.ee/preachingtoacquire)
May 22, 2022 · 15 min
28. What? How?: Parallel Texts
Kaitlin shares a few different ways she has been using parallel texts to extend input and provide repetition to her students while giving them scaffolded opportunities to be creative and silly.
May 19, 2022 · 11 min
27. What? How?: Smash Doodles
Kaitlin shares how she has used Smash Doodles this year as a way for students to respond to different books by analyzing characters and events in an artistic way.
Apr 26, 2022 · 17 min
26. What? How?: Running Dictation
Running dictation is a fun, active, and collaborative way for students to work with a text!
Apr 20, 2022 · 6 min
An Exciting Announcement! I Opened a Teachers Pay Teachers Store!
Kaitlin shares in depth about some of her first products that are posted in her Teachers Pay Teachers Store. Check out the free download and listed products! The store is called Preaching to Acquire. Thanks for your support!!
Apr 12, 2022 · 15 min
A Twist on Classroom Library Story Projects
Kaitlin explains the fun twist that she added to her 8th grade students' story book projects.
Mar 17, 2022 · 10 min
25. What? How?: Reverse (Backwards) Charades
Kaitlin explains how to play this fun collaborative activity in your classes to review a story. Thanks to Señora Chase's blog post and La Maestra Loca's blog post about this awesome game!
Jan 19, 2022 · 29 min
4 Year Curriculum Map Part 3: Cycle 1 Phases 3 & 4 (Describing People Inside & Out and Past & Present)
Kaitlin talks you through her 4 year spiral curriculum map using the Stepping Stones Curricular Framework. This episode focuses on Cycle 1 Phases 3 and 4, which are all about describing people inside and out in the past and present. You can see her work in progress curriculum map here.
Jan 18, 2022 · 15 min
Extend, Extend, Extend!
Kaitlin shares some different ways that she is extending and recycling content in order to save her sanity and prevent too much burn out.
Dec 14, 2021 · 7 min
4 Year Curriculum Map Part 2: Cycle 1 Phase 2 (Describing Preferences)
Kaitlin talks you through her 4 year spiral curriculum map using the Stepping Stones Curricular Framework. This episode focuses on Cycle 1 Phase 2, which is all about describing preferences (likes/dislikes.) You can see her work in progress curriculum map here.
Dec 8, 2021 · 10 min
4 Year Curriculum Map Part 1: Cycle 1 Phase 1 (Describing Settings)
Kaitlin talks you through her 4 year spiral curriculum map using the Stepping Stones Curricular Framework. This episode focuses on Cycle 1 Phase 1, which is all about describing settings. You can see her work in progress curriculum map here.