The Wooly Blog

News, stories, teaching ideas & occasional ramblings from Jim.

Published on Sep 20, 2025
I Hated Teaching Time in Spanish. So We Made Tarde.

How we gave one of the dullest topics in beginning Spanish some actual stakes.
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Published on Mar 09, 2023
¡Queremos eso!: The Ganga Girls Take Over a Restaurant

In 2014, we released Es una ganga, the story of two women with an almost supernatural ability to find a bargain.
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Published on Mar 08, 2023
El antídoto del dragón: A Spanish Rock Opera for the Classroom

Over two years ago, Nate Niederkorn and I sat down to write a rock song about a princess who accidentally drank a glass of poison.
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