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Recent Posts

Managing in the Gaps 29 Jul 2025
Getting Serious About Quality 7 Apr 2025
Leadership for the Slightly Bewildered 28 Jun 2024
How to be a Professional 17 Mar 2024
Paradoxes and Practices in Classroom Observation 1 Jan 2024
Your Superhero Team 5 Sep 2023
What is ChatGPT Like? 14 Aug 2023
Transparency in Part-Time Teacher Hire 4 Apr 2023
The Two Essential Tasks of Management 25 Dec 2022
Rubric’s Clues 21 Aug 2022
Is it okay for language learners to make mistakes? 21 May 2022
Teacher to Administrator – the perks and pitfalls of moving into the office 6 Feb 2022
Power-distance in the language classroom 24 Nov 2021
Compliance and creativity in language teaching 24 Oct 2021
Who owns the syllabus? 6 Sep 2021
Education – the journey and the destination 22 Aug 2021
Talking textbooks 28 Jul 2021
Proficiency by proxy: language proficiency and test preparation 23 Jun 2021
The importance of being open 16 May 2021
Deepening the well with Professional Development 21 Apr 2021
Inputs and outcomes – how we wound up with two systems for grading students in english language programs 13 Mar 2021
Goals, outcomes, objectives – clearing up the confusion (I hope) 18 Feb 2021
Defining your English language program’s value proposition 1 Jan 2021
Prepare to delight your students 12 Dec 2020
Handling student complaints 2 Nov 2020
Three organizational approaches to great student service 12 Oct 2020
Student Services when everything’s gone online 20 Sep 2020
Online teaching and creativity 30 Aug 2020
Tough times for English language programs 23 Jul 2020
In our students’ shoes 21 Jun 2020
Are English language programs threatened by online learning? 10 May 2020
English language programs: what the virus tells us about who we are 31 Mar 2020
“Why can’t we get rid of SLOs?” 9 Mar 2020
Why you should be teaching to the test 22 Feb 2020
“They don’t know how to order.” The challenge for ESL students outside the classroom 19 Jan 2020
Interaction: the imperative of the classroom 14 Dec 2019
The differing worlds of faculty and staff 15 Nov 2019
The baby and the bathwater 20 Oct 2019
The jury trial and the language test 8 Sep 2019
Forwards design, backwards design 18 Aug 2019
What makes a school? 30 Jul 2019
Intensive English Programs and the SEVIS Fee Increase 18 Jun 2019
Outcomes are fine, but inputs make the difference 19 May 2019
Putting Students First 1 Apr 2019
Left behind? Intensive English programs have to adapt to survive 3 Mar 2019
Easing the difficult conversations between IEP administrators and teachers 1 Feb 2019
What you should know about language placement tests 10 Jan 2019
Are adult learning principles at odds with accreditation requirements? 9 Dec 2018
Do’s and don’ts of delegation 14 Nov 2018
What’s your pricing strategy? 1 Oct 2018
The push and pull of power in intensive English programs 9 Sep 2018
Faculty freedom and curriculum design in intensive English programs 2 Aug 2018
Unintended Consequences? Effects of the 2010 Accreditation Act on Intensive English Programs 4 Jul 2018
How valid is that speaking test really? 5 Jun 2018
How SWBATs and can-do statements shortchange language learners 9 May 2018
The Accreditation-Ready Program 22 Apr 2018
Challenge and change in intensive English programs 4 Apr 2018
Is language proficiency measurable? 1 Mar 2018
The Inadequacy of “ESL” for International Student Preparation 11 Feb 2018
Working with the tension between language test validity and reliability 14 Jan 2018
Teacher Leadership for Program Improvement and Development 25 Nov 2017
Can an intensive English program go virtual? 30 Oct 2017
Keeping your Intensive English Program Relevant on Campus 1 Oct 2017
Job number one for education managers and leaders 14 Sep 2017
Performance evaluations – a few polite reminders 27 Aug 2017
Keep Calm and Dance 15 Aug 2017
Why language is best assessed by real people 23 Jul 2017
Goodhart’s Law and the Measurement of English Proficiency 25 Jun 2017
Hourly teaching rates in IEPs – reflection 30 May 2017
Let’s talk about those hourly teaching rates 11 May 2017
What’s the real story on international student applications? 27 Apr 2017
University IEPs: get the business back 12 Apr 2017
Recognizing the university’s obligations to its international students 29 Mar 2017
IEPs and the Rise of Pathway Programs 24 Mar 2017
Aligning assessment and IEP culture 16 Mar 2017
Where most IEPs trip up in CEA accreditation 9 Mar 2017
What is backwards design? 1 Mar 2017
Support for English language and international student programs 27 Feb 2017
Let me help you with your dissertation 27 Feb 2017

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