cAsTa Ways: An Interview with Larry Ferlazzo

Barbara Lindsey | March 24, 2011


Prior to becoming an ESL and social studies teacher, Larry Ferlazzo served for almost two decades as a community organizer. “Organizing,” Larry told us in our interview, “is just another word for relationship building.” Good teaching anchors learning through relationships—relationships with our peers, with our mentors, with members of our close and extended communities. We [...]

cAsTa Ways: An Interview with Travis Allen

Barbara Lindsey | July 6, 2010


For Travis Allen the gift of an iPhone for Christmas in 2009 quickly became much more than the increasingly common rite of passage coveted by many American tweens and teens. As you’ll hear in this interview, the iPhone profoundly changed how Travis experienced himself as a learner. At the time, Travis was just seventeen. We [...]

cAsTa Ways: An Interview with Jon Pennington

Barbara Lindsey | August 20, 2009


Once again Twitter worked its networking magic and led us to Jon Pennington, who is a high school teacher of Spanish at Hunterdon Central High School in New Jersey as well as an adjunct professor of Spanish at the College of New Jersey. What caught our attention and led to this interview is Jon’s Spanish [...]

cAsTa Ways: An Interview with Enza Antenos-Conforti

Barbara Lindsey | May 25, 2009


On the Friday leading into the Memorial Weekend here in the U.S., Kevin and I had the pleasure of speaking with Enza Antenos-Conforti, a professor of Italian at Montclair State University in New Jersey. You’ll notice some issues with the recording in a few sections, but we hope they won’t detract from the quality of [...]

cAsTa Ways: An Interview with Silvia Tolisano

Barbara Lindsey | March 12, 2009


After a long hiatus we’ve started up our podcasts again by recording a fascinating conversation with Silvia Tolisano, a former Spanish and German teacher, who now supports the global studies curriculum of San Jose Episcopal Day School as their technology integration specialist. Her blog, Langwitches: The Magic of Learning through Technology received two 2008 Edublogger [...]