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Brandee shares nearly 30 years of experience in language education, including work in dual language immersion, German instruction, curriculum development, assessment, professional learning, and proficiency-based teaching.
Together, they explore why proficiency can serve as a unifying goal across different language programs and why the intermediate stage of language learning deserves more intentional support.
The conversation also dives into:
- Productive struggle in language learning
- Why teachers should not do all the work
- Student curiosity and agency
- Novice, intermediate, and advanced proficiency
- Brandee’s Heart, Hoop & Horizon framework
- The cotton candy metaphor for understanding proficiency
- AI and the importance of a critical human lens
- Why mistakes should be celebrated as part of learning
- How teachers can take small steps toward more student-centered instruction
This episode is especially valuable for world language teachers, multilingual learner educators, dual language immersion teachers, instructional coaches, administrators, and anyone interested in proficiency-based learning.
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