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We've updated our Spanish and English Core Paths, and added Core Playgrounds. Keep reading to learn more details about the updates, how it might affect your classroom, and why we're SO EXCITED about this change!

Learn how to extend the Garbanzo English lesson "Where is Bonzo?" into TWO fun interactive activities that will encourage language proficiency and have your students wishing for more class time!

Garbanzo, the digital library that provides language acquisition resources to world language teachers and students, launched its newest feature on August 19th: English lesson libraries for multilingual learners.

Extend the Garbanzo lesson "Roberto y el monstruo del armario" with a fun, whole-class activity designed to encourage language proficiency and comprehensible-input!

While it’s tempting to correlate Garbanzo points with a numerical score, it’s not actually the easy fix for your gradebook that you might think. Let’s chat about why Garbanzo is best used as a formative assessment across the board, and how restructuring your gradebook, if necessary, might be the best thing you can do for your students. 

Learn how to extend a Garbanzo lesson with our new series, where we highlight a Garbanzo lesson and the activity you can do to extend it! In this blog post, we focus on "El dibujo de Timmy." 

Ever wondered where Bonzo, Garbanzo's mascot and friendly guacamayo bird, came from? He's ready to share his origin story. Learn about the power of friendship, interactive storytelling, and creating connections across the world. 

Should comprehension-focused language teachers just retire dictation as an activity? Don't dismiss dictation as an outdated exercise just yet - there are ways you can use it in the language classroom, especially as a formative assessment.