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I turn language learning principles into experiences people can understand, use, remember, and come back to.
Thirty years of language-learning work across bilingual elementary education, adult ESL, university ESL, high school multilingual learner support, curriculum leadership, online learning materials, story-based teaching, and technology-supported practice. Proficient in seven languages, with self-taught immersion across Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Thai, Chinese, French, and English.
Swim In is where that long question has become something learners can use. One chapter becomes a small world learners can read, hear, say, play with, sing, and talk inside.
I am strongest where learning theory has to become a real experience: what learners should do next, how support should appear, what makes practice worth repeating, and how product choices protect motivation.
Stories, music, characters, conversation, retrieval, and careful scaffolding are not side interests. They are the center of how I think strong language products should work.
Swim In shows how I think about sequence, motivation, story, music, conversation, support, retrieval, and technology as parts of one learner experience. One chapter becomes a small world learners can enter and use.
The question behind each screen is simple: what helps the learner understand, care, try, remember, and come back?
Start with a world learners can enter.
One chapter becomes a small world learners can enter and use.
Story, audio, image, and support keep learners oriented.
The same chapter comes back through sound, with support still available.
Repetition returns as rhythm, feeling, and pronunciation.
Conversation stays connected to the language learners have met.
Partner and group games turn recall into scaffolded speaking practice.
Catskill Ave. Elementary, Los Angeles.
Adult ESL at GABA, M.Ed. TESOL through Temple University in Tokyo, and elementary ESL work at Myojo Gakuen.
ELLLO.org, American School of Bangkok, and Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU), where I served as Senior Lecturer / Curriculum Developer / Level Coordinator.
Arvada High School / Jeffco Public Schools. CLDE / ESL, Spanish, PE, curriculum design, testing, scheduling, and multilingual learner support.
TPRS Certified Expert, strengthening the story-based and comprehensible-input side of the work.
A language learning world built around recurring characters, music, conversation, adaptive support, and future consulting, speaking, writing, and collaboration.