About MovieTalks, detoxing from the textbook, and the challenges involved in coordinating a large program with multiple teachers.

Rachel Ash and Keith Toda are two of the Latin teachers at Parkview High School, a large public school in Gwinnett County, Georgia. Rachel earned a B.A. from the University of Oklahoma and an M.A. from the University of Florida. She currently serves as Treasurer of the American Classical League and as State Chair of the Georgia Junior Classical League, and in the past, she has served as Chair of Excellence Through Classics, the ACL division that is dedicated to promoting and supporting elementary, middle school, and introductory classical studies programs. Keith earned a B.A. from the University of California at Los Angeles, an M.A. from the University of Georgia, and an Ed.S. in Instructional Technology from Kennesaw State University. He has served as President of the Georgia Classical Association and as Chair of the American Classical League's Visibility and Advocacy Task Force. He also maintains the Toda-lly Comprehensible Latin blog, a popular repository of instructional resources for teachers who are interested in comprehensible input.

This episode was recorded in June of 2023.

Quintilian is supported by a Bridge Initiative Grant from the Committee for the Promotion of Latin and Greek, a division of the ⁠⁠Classical Association of the Middle West and South⁠⁠.

Music: "Echo Canyon Instrumental" by ⁠⁠Clive Romney⁠⁠

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