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Quite Simply, the Most Complete, Structured, Flexible System Ever Developed for Proficiency-Oriented Communicative Language Teaching

There are a lot of methods, systems, textbooks, and approaches to World Language teaching out there. So what makes the work of CI Liftoff unique? It’s the Stepping Stones curricular framework that undergirds all of our materials, resources, and trainings. This framework is unlike anything most World Language teachers have ever used: a structured, standards-aligned framework for daily lessons, unit planning, and sequencing the year and program that gives you the train tracks and map to your destination, while allowing for an almost-infinite degree of flexibility, to incorporate your own topics, themes, and interests. Or, use our Free Year of Curriculum to guide you as you learn the system…and then LIFT OFF with the frameworks, structures, and strategies, and modify and adapt them once you get your “CI Legs” under you.

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Summer Institutes

Quite simply, the most comprehensive training ever developed for proficiency-focused World Language teachers. See exactly how the Stepping Stones curricular framework and the Free Year of Curriculum work in demo classes, and then learn the nuts and bolts in afternoon Teacher Talk sessions. Virtual again for the next school year.

Foundations

Learn the nuts and bolts of the Stepping Stones curricular framework and get step-by-step, lesson-by-lesson explanations of a year of instruction to transition to this approach. Tina’s latest book, full of visuals and graphics to help you get confident and strong in the fall. Available as an e-reader and hard copy.

Free Year of Curriculum

To support teachers transitioning to the Stepping Stones approach, we have produced an entire year of engaging, multi-level, multi-lingual materials for instruction & assessment. It’s all there, and it’s all free on our Teachers Pay Teachers store. You have nothing to lose but the overwhelm!

Curriculum Club

Curriculum Club is getting a total redesign for the 2023-2024 school year, to fully align with Foundations. Work through the year with Tina and our supportive coaching team, as you use our materials or create your own, to make next year a no-brainer. Get all the materials in our TpT store plus editable Canva templates, to customize the resources for YOUR students!

Transforming Student Outcomes

You have helped me see how to build proficiency in the upper levels. I learned how to plan & implement a nonfiction lesson on topics from our textbook. The strategies to scaffold higher-order thinking like the picture sorts & the matching cards for comparing & contrasting will support my upper-level Spanish students, as well as modeling more advanced language through shared writing and reading. I have seen so much more from my students this year.

Kay Cee Mills

Spanish teacher

These workshops provided me with a system, instead of just the next fun idea to try to jam into a class period. I feel like I am teaching real language. These engaging, communicative lessons culminating in “Write and Discuss” have changed everything for me. Very natural for the brain. My Level One students are producing output I never thought possible.

Jennifer Smith

German teacher

Tina lays out the stepping stones to run a proficiency-based program founded on brain-based best practices leading to stunning results and success for students and teachers. I have always known teaching could be like this.

Stephanie Connor Mignone

German teacher

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