Karen Rowan Bio

 About the author Karen Rowan began teaching Spanish in 1995 at Liberty High School in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She attended her first TPRS Workshop with Blaine Ray that December. Since then she has taught high school and middle school classes at The Colorado Springs School; volunteered teaching elementary school English in Playa Panama, Costa Rica for a year; taught high school Spanish at Palmer High School and taught adults through a company she originally founded with Blaine Ray, Fluency Fast Language Classes, Inc. She writes curriculum and readers for true beginning languages students. Las aventuras de Isabela, Isabela captura un congo and Carl no quiere ir a México are the first three books in the four book “Isabela series.” The fourth book, El secuestro de José, will be published in 2014. Isabela is also available in French. The readers, audio books and teacher’s guides are available at www.fluencyfast.com. She also wrote the TPRS ancillaries for Paso a paso and Realidades, which can be purchased directly through Prentice Hall. Karen Rowan, Fluency Fast, ©2014 karen@fluencyfast.com / www.fluencyfast.com In 2004 Karen and Stephen Krashen began publishing the on-­‐line journal, The International Journal of Foreign Language Teaching. It is a free on-­‐line journal dedicated to communicating research, articles and helpful information regarding language acquisition to support teachers as they endeavor to create fluent, multilingual students. It is a blind peer-­‐reviewed journal. Karen edits the Teacher-­‐to-­‐Teacher section, which publishes good teaching ideas among teachers. To read the journal, go to www.ijflt.org. To donate to the non-­‐profit that supports the journal, go to https://afgj.org/afgj-­‐donations. To join the IJFLT Facebook Community page, go to https://www.facebook.com/ijfltorg Karen Rowan, Fluency Fast, ©2014 karen@fluencyfast.com / www.fluencyfast.com Karen is available for workshops and in-­‐services on Personalization, Guided Personalization Systems, Coaching Workshops, Reading Workshops and to teach Spanish to adults through Fluency Fast. She lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado, but teaches Spanish classes through Fluency Fast in Denver and goes salsa and bachata dancing in Denver so often, she now considers herself a near-­‐Denverite. She frequently travels to Costa Rica to finish writing projects and to volunteer with the local elementary schools where she delivers suitcases full of children’s books and reads to the students. This book and all books are dedicated to her daughter and muse, Kassidy. Contact information: Karen Rowan
Fluency Fast Language Classes, Inc.
www.fluencyfast.com
719-633-6000
Karen@fluencyfast.com
Karen Rowan, Fluency Fast, ©2014 karen@fluencyfast.com / www.fluencyfast.com Fluency Fast materials (Las aventuras de Isabela and Les
aventures d’ Isabelle, Isabela captura un congo, Carl no
quiere ir a México, Don Quixote: El ultimo caballero,
audio books, teacher’s guides and on-line videos of
language classes in all languages) are available on the
website – www.fluencyfast.com. However, many free
teaching materials are also available. Please feel free to
download the Fluency Fast curriculum in any language
from the website, http://www.fluencyfast.com/freeresources
Question word posters are available as a free download at
http://www.tprstories.com/links-a-resources in English,
French, German and Spanish.
Karen Rowan, Fluency Fast, ©2014 karen@fluencyfast.com / www.fluencyfast.com