Larissa Pahomov is a part of Science Leadership Academy, and the book she wrote offers not only her insight on creating an authentic learning environment, but also bears the mark of a true practitioner and some of the answers are the ones that make this book more than a guide for other SLA teachers.

Today, I feel pretty much like Santa, bringing you a fresh batch of free online courses you may enjoy during the December break, so that "New Year, New Me" spirit will have a solid background of December-learning. This time I've focused more on self-paced courses, as with the holidays preparation on our heads, we may be too busy to seriously focus on learning.

With the annual influx of Halloween-themed posts by my fellow bloggers I was like "meh, I don't even like Halloween, I guess I only wrote about it once" - so I looked through my own posts and realised my memory is somewhat problematic (it probably goes with my age, ah well...). Having brushed the dust off my old ideas I found six activities more or less connected to this pleasantly grim festivity you may enjoy with your students.