Teacher Trainer, Author, & Curriculum Specialist
Hi, I’m Kristy, your partner on this exciting journey to becoming the best world language teacher you can be!
My specialty is creating high-quality materials for the world language classroom and providing teachers with career-changing training, drawing on many years of experience as a classroom teacher, curriculum creater, author, and teacher trainer.
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Services
Transform your teaching; improve your life
Personalized coaching
Get the meaningful feedback you need to take your teaching to the next level. I can work one-on-one or in small group settings via observation and feedback and/or instruction and demonstration.
Workshops and inservices
Participate in interactive sessions crafted for your world language teaching needs. Learn the basics of teaching for acquisition, commanding powerful class discussions, literacy strategies that work, and much more.
Impactful resources
Kristy shares resources for the classroom that are kid-tested, teacher-approved! From popular music, to clip chats/movie talks, film study guides, games, culture lessons, and much more, Placido Language Resources has the materials you’ve been looking for.
Comprehension-based readers
Kristy is a masterful author of chapter book novelettes for language learners. Students will forget they are acquiring language and get lost in a great story!
Kristy Placido 