On-Site School Workshops

I love working with teachers just as much as I enjoy teaching students. In addition to teaching full-time, producing the World Language Classroom podcast, and creating classroom resources, I regularly partner with schools across the country to lead on-site and virtual professional development.

These in-person workshops are one of the most impactful ways to support your department’s growth. When we come together as a team for a full day (or two), we go beyond individual podcasts, blog posts, or scattered strategies—we build a cohesive, actionable framework tailored to your teachers and your goals.

What to Expect

Each workshop is practical, engaging, and centered around building real-world communication in the target language. I’ll work closely with your department or leadership team to customize the content based on your school’s needs, areas of focus, and current practices.

You can choose from proven topics that have inspired teachers at state, regional, and national conferences—or we can design something unique for your team.

Popular Workshop Topics

  • From Comprehensible to Compelling: Designing input and output activities that truly engage learners
  • Building Proficiency Across the 3 Modes: Interpretive, Interpersonal, and Presentational
  • Integrated Performance Assessments: Designing meaningful, connected tasks
  • Grammar in Context: Moving from drills to real communication
  • Planning and Assessing for Proficiency and Performance
  • Authentic Resources: Finding them, using them, and building lessons around them
  • Using AI in the Language Classroom
  • The ACTFL Core Practices and High-Leverage Teaching Practices
  • Language and Culture: Supporting global citizenship and cultural competence
  • Focus on One Mode: Deep dive into planning, instruction, and assessment in Interpersonal, Interpretive, or Presentational communication

Workshops can focus on a single topic or combine several into a full-day experience. Half-day, full-day, or multi-day options are available, and virtual delivery is also possible if on-site isn’t ideal.

Ready to Plan?

If you’re a department chair, curriculum leader, or administrator, reach out to start the conversation. Not in that role? Feel free to pass this along and say, “Let’s bring Joshua in to support our language team.”

Together, we’ll build on your department’s strengths and make progress toward your teaching goals—whether school-wide, department-specific, or individualized.

—Joshua

THese are schools and districts that I have worked with along with topics.