Level 1 Early Adopter Available Now
an acquisition-driven curriculum framework that makes proficiency doable, practical, and joyful
French 1
Spanish 1
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About the Curriculum
At A Glance:
- Age range: ages 12-18 (middle-high school US)
- Languages: Spanish 1 and French 1 (editable English resources coming soon)
- Standards: ACTFL-aligned with select CEFR elements
- Style: 6 thematic units
- Format: Hosted on Google Drive - Canva, PDFs, and more common resource formats
- Method: proficiency, flexibility, simple teaching strategies, communicative approach
- Target Proficiency: ACTFL Novice Mid for all, Novice High for some at the end of 1 year
Flexible + Communicative:
The Practical Proficiency Curriculum is a flexible, research-based framework designed to make proficiency natural and easy by directing class time toward measurable, specific communicative skills.
Unlike traditional textbooks, this curriculum focuses on quality over quantity, ensuring students build a rock-solid communicative foundation and passion for languages.
How It's Different:
- Age-Appropriate for Teens: This program uses reality-driven interests (college, street food, social justice) that resonate with high schoolers.
- Not Overstuffed: It prioritizes the most high-frequency language chunks that allow students to navigate real-world scenarios even with limited vocabulary.
- Built for Flexibility: Every unit is standalone and editable, allowing teachers to integrate their favorite existing resources while maintaining a proficiency-driven structure.
- Spiral Progression: Concepts are revisited in an upward spiral, building student confidence rather than isolated grammar forms.
- Ready to Teach: No new skills are needed to use this curriculum. It focuses on what you’re already good at - teaching!
- Teacher and Student Choice: The curriculum is designed to be flexible and personalized. It offers multiple options for presenting, reviewing, and conversing with students. It also relies on student personalization. Plus, it’s mostly editable!
See the FREE Unit Sample in Action
Level 1 Unit 3 - Making Friends
NOTE: THIS IS NOT A COMPLETE CURRICULUM (YET).
This is a FRAMEWORK with Unit Plans & select resources.
Your reduced pricing reflects this & you will receive the entire curriculum upon completion.
STATUS: 50+ resources and complete Unit 1
When do I get materials?
I am releasing resources as soon as they are classroom-ready.
The entire curriculum will be released in August 2026, for classroom testing and feedback.
Early Adopter: How it works
Get the 1st draft of Level 1 & be a part of the feedback phase. Save $ and help create the final product!
we'll use your feedback to create the final release!
Invest now, enjoy updates + new additions for life!
This is only the beginning.
Your early adopter purchase helps bring this project to life. By funding the editors and teacher creators, you make an even bigger vision for proficiency possible.
Our vision is to make a COMPLETE & ROBUST 5-level program, complete with lessons and detailed plans for implementation. You being an early adopter will help us hire the team we need to make it happen!
CURRICULUM PILLARS + PHILOSOPHY:
Quality Over Quantity (Not Overstuffed)
PPC maximizes class time on what matters most: understanding and interaction. By focusing on high-frequency language chunks rather than exhaustive vocabulary lists, PPC eliminates student overwhelm and significantly reduces teacher prep time.
Strategic Timing & The Upward Spiral
Units follow a scaffolded build from input to output, utilizing an ACTFL-aligned upward spiral model. By thoughtfully recycling key structures, PPC builds a rock-solid foundation that ensures student confidence doesn't fall apart by year 3—a common pitfall in traditional programs.
Personalization
Focuses on the student value-add to the classroom community with tools to help students personalize their language experience and get to know their peers.
Grounded & Age-Appropriate (Ages 12–18)
PPC is one of the few programs built from a high school perspective, grounded in reality-driven interests like college life, social justice, and global street food. Many other curricula are geared toward younger learners and rely on silliness to create engagement. Although there is plenty of fun in PPC, it is mostly grounded in reality-driven teen interests that are concrete, relatable, interesting, and relevant.
High-Frequency and Skill-Focused
PPC prioritizes the Survival Skills of language: high-frequency chunks, non-verbal communication, and the ability to negotiate meaning when words are missing. Students learn to navigate real-world communicative scenarios at their proficiency level, regardless of the size of their vocabulary. Speaking is the goal and focus.
A Framework, Not a Script (Editable)
This is a goal-driven framework, not a rigid daily plan. You get the structure and guidance needed for a rigorous program with the day-to-day flexibility to customize resources for your unique classroom.
(Early Adopters get unprecedented access to these editable files to truly make the curriculum their own.)
Foundational Impact: Novice Mid to High
PPC targets Novice Mid for all and Novice High for many within the first year. By focusing on the most challenging and impactful skills early on, we create a trajectory for long-term student success and retention.
Community-Building
The core lessons are based on class conversations in the target language. The resources make student-teacher interactions easy and low-prep for teachers. PPC facilitates frequent peer-to-peer interactions to build a culturally responsive classroom community with tons of student value-add.
Diversity, Interculturality and Social Justice
The ACTFL 5Cs are explored through the lens of cultural constructivism and developing interculturality through authentic texts. Students will both explore cultural perspectives and develop an emerging critical lens to examine their own culture through diverse voices from the target culture. Many lessons are aligned to SPLC Social Justice Standards.
What other Proficiency/ADI/CI teachers are saying:
Questions? Get in Touch!
devon@lalibrelanguagelearning.com
Thank you so much for taking the time to explore the Practical Proficiency Level 1 Curriculum.
I know how much heart and energy you pour into your classroom every single day.
My mission with La Libre Language Learning is to ensure that you have a curriculum that works as hard as you do—one that respects your time, honors your expertise, and prepares your students for real-world communication. I am honored to be a part of your proficiency journey and can’t wait to see the Practical Bridge in action in your school.
Choosing a curriculum is a big decision, and I’m here to help you (and your administration) feel 100% confident. Whether you need more details on standards alignment or help navigating the Google Drive, don't hesitate to reach out.
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- Join the Early Adopter Program today and lock in the current rate for a steep discount off traditional curriculum market pricing.
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- I gladly accept Purchase Orders from schools and districts.
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About Devon | La Libre Language Learning LLC
Hey there, proficiency teacher!
I'm Devon, the curriculum consultant, instructional coach, and resource author behind La Libre Language Learning.
People know me as the host of Practical & Comprehensible, an annual ADI/CI conference that draws an average of 4k teachers like you every year to more practical approaches to best world language practice.
I'm also the host of the Practical Proficiency Podcast.
Most importantly for your resource library, I am a top-ranked TPT seller consistently in the top 3% of creators on TPT with over 1,000 positive lesson plan reviews from CI/ADI teachers like you.
I also have worked as a curriculum creator and consultant with multiple schools, districts, and private companies (including language learning apps) to align curriculums to ACTFL proficiency standards.
My unique approach that bridges the gap between your current resources (maybe not so proficiency) with where you and your school want to be (yay proficiency!) is what makes the Practical Proficiency curriculum the most teacher-friendly approach out there.
My company's mission: make proficiency doable, joyful, and accessible to EVERY teacher and EVERY school context.
No matter your training level or comfort with CI, proficiency should be EASY!
These resources are designed to fit YOUR style, personality, and make tougher topics like interculturality and skills-based target language easier to achieve in your class, without you feeling completely drained every day.
I'm rooting for you!
Devon @ La Libre
