Collect & Integrate Authentic Hooks!

Discover how to find, collect, and integrate authentic, real-world Hooks that spark curiosity and make learning meaningful! Explore ways to connect students' interests, identities, and cultures to classroom content while building a collection of engaging, ready-to-use Hooks that inspire communication, deepen cultural understanding, and drive proficiency growth.

Focus: Use Hooks to foster curiosity and intrinsic motivation in your students! 

By the end of the session, you will:

• Have access to a library of Hooks, at different proficiency levels 
• Know when and how to use Hooks to meet the language level of your students 
• Understand how to create relevant, meaningful, authentic hooks that bring culture into your classroom for your students! 

Take It to Class:

Can use immediately in your class hooks in your target language and at the level that you teach. 

This is part of the PPATH in Practice: Planning That Moves Students. You can join the Series to access all sessions. There are five interactive sessions designed to give you the ideas, strategies, and support you need as you begin the year. See below for details. 

PPATH in Practice: Planning That Moves Students not only kinesthetically, but also towards greater language, deeper cultural understanding, stronger connections, and meaningful learning.

10 weeks with 5 live sessions that focus on real classroom practice & ongoing support. Past sessions can be accessed and you get access to all the materials from the Series.                                     

Series Description:

This ten-week, five-part virtual series takes a practical deep dive into each element of PPATH while giving you the time and support to put it into practice with your students.

Across five live sessions, you’ll explore ways to increase student-to-student communication, differentiate for proficiency, integrate literacy and all four skills, sustain engagement, and make planning more purposeful and manageable.                   

And the most exciting part is the learning that happens between sessions! You’ll take what you learn directly into your classroom, try it with your students, see what happens, and come back to share, ask questions, problem-solve, and refine.

It's a 10-week PPATH PLC where we'll learn together, try it in the classroom, reflect on what happens, and build from there, with five hours of live training and support woven throughout.

Together, we will practice, reflect, and implement, all while giving you the space to experiment, adjust, and discover what makes the greatest impact for your students.

October 21: Connect & Collaborate: Maximize Student Interaction

Bring Pairings & Groupings and Prompts & Questions together! Explore ways to create purposeful student interactions at all levels, develop ACTFL-aligned prompts, and differentiate communication across proficiency levels. Build classroom-ready activities that maximize student talk and strengthen relationships.

November 4: Get Them Talking! Creating Communication at Every Level

Discover how to create and adapt engaging prompts and questions at all ACTFL levels. Practice designing meaningful, student-centered interactions aligned with ACTFL proficiency levels, while exploring ways to differentiate and scaffold communication.

November 18: More Than Conversation: Building Literacy & Accountability

Explore how to support purposeful follow-up activities that extend student communication and integrate listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Design opportunities for students to demonstrate understanding, share their learning, and build proficiency through meaningful literacy and interaction.

December 2: Collect & Integrate Authentic Hooks! 

Discover how to find, collect, and integrate authentic, real-world Hooks that spark curiosity and make learning meaningful! Explore ways to connect students' interests, identities, and cultures to classroom content while building a collection of engaging, ready-to-use Hooks that inspire communication, deepen cultural understanding, and drive proficiency growth.

December 9: Streamline Assessment in Your Day to Day 

Discover how to make assessment a natural, meaningful part of everyday instruction! Explore practical strategies for integrating formative assessment, gathering evidence of student learning, and providing actionable feedback without interrupting the flow of your classroom. Learn how to track student growth, inform instruction, and move students toward greater proficiency—all while making assessment more manageable!

Can purchase the Resource Bundle as part of your registration. It includes the PPATH Interactive Resource, Pairings & Groupings Cards and a Literacy Organizer