About Me

Tim has been a teacher of French and Spanish for 30 years and has been an instructional leader since 2006. He's served on the board of directors of the Massachusetts Foreign Language Association since 2008 and as president for 2017. He holds a B.A. in French and Spanish, and an M.A. in critical & creative thinking with a focus on second language acquisition and curriculum development. He's particularly interested in effective program design and instructional practices.

I’ve never met a rubric I liked.
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I’ve never met a rubric I liked.

Did I really just spend June and early July working on a series of performance rubrics (about 20 hours worth of my life) only to throw them all out in late July with a smile on my face? Well, sort of… I’ve been creating rubrics for world languages for a long time. Back in the […]