Kevin Ballestrini

- The Pericles Group Foundation The Pericles Group is organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes, including the development and support of curricular materials for the learning of Latin and other languages, as wel...

HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT

15 years ago, a group of us started The Pericles Group (periclesgroup.org) in order to formally work on our games & learning endeavors. It has been an amazingly fulfilling ride creating Operation LAPIS, successful Kickstarters (CARD-tamen, VERBA, Underlings of Underwing), (1/7)

Annual Meeting (Membership Wall) - CANE CANE’s Annual Meeting is a two-day gathering where educators from New England and beyond network and share best practices about teaching and learning

Getting close to last call for registration for the CANE Annual Meeting, March 20-21 at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA.

Check out the details and program here: caneweb.org/annualmeeting/

Can't wait to see you there! The program looks great!

Thank you to everyone who has, and continues to, support all of us. This is a labor of love and we're excited to start the next chapter with you! (7/7)

We also hope that moving to a formal non-profit status will invite others to contribution content, as some of you already have!

We're inviting you to explore the new site, contribute to the cause if it is important to you, and explore newly added resources (especially tiered texts) (6/7)

TPG Foundation Support Help support The Pericles Group Foundation's ongoing costs to develop and host the resources provided at https://periclesgroup.org Your donation powers the servers that hosts the tiered readings and O...

We have a financial plan over the next few years to raise a relatively small amount of money through public support in order to build a protected endowment to cover the server costs indefinitely.

You can contribute from the website(s) or through Zeffy: www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati... (5/7)

As a result, we've created a new 501(c)(3) non-profit entity, The Pericles Group Foundation (periclesgroup.org) in order to carry on and continue the mission. Everything that we've built is still available, for free.

Every dollar generated is put back into the organization. (4/7)

That sounds like a bad thing, right? Well, it actually isn't...
After a lot of reflection, we realized the mission was bigger than any business structure. We've seen that the value of the things we've the things we've built, and continue to build, are squarely for the public good. (3/7)

and building a trove of digital resources for Latin instruction. Thousands of students have been using the tiered readings and other content each week.

But like the title of the Star Trek: TNG finale, "All good things...", we have wound down the LLC & we've decided to cease operations. (2/7)

- The Pericles Group Foundation The Pericles Group is organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes, including the development and support of curricular materials for the learning of Latin and other languages, as wel...

HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT

15 years ago, a group of us started The Pericles Group (periclesgroup.org) in order to formally work on our games & learning endeavors. It has been an amazingly fulfilling ride creating Operation LAPIS, successful Kickstarters (CARD-tamen, VERBA, Underlings of Underwing), (1/7)

Register for the 2026 Annual Meeting - CANE You can now register for the Annual Meeting, being held at Brandeis University from March 20 to 21. A draft program and more information is available

You can now register for the Annual Meeting, being held at Brandeis University from March 20 to 21. A draft program and more information is available at caneweb.org/annualmeeting.

American not only becoming a cult of personality but becoming the dumbest cult of personality in the history of the human species is a lot to process

My great grandmother literally lied about her birthday because she liked the one she chose better. Not year. Simply the day. Different month. Different day.

ACTFL | LGBTQIA+ Educators Affinity Group For language teachers who identify as LGBTQIA+

Tomorrow is our first #LGBTQIA+ #Educators #Affinity Group for language teachers who identify as LGBTQIA+. I'd love to see you there! Please spread the word to anyone who might be interested or reach out to me with questions. @actfl.bsky.social #languageteachers #wle

www.actfl.org/educator-res...

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

As of January 1st 2026, John and I are **no longer** the owners of Complexly (the educational media company we started 15 years ago that makes Crash Course, Eons, SciShow, Study Hall, and a bunch of other shows.)

We have been the sole owners for all that time...

I wrote the speech I *wish* Chuck Schumer would give tonight - as an actual opposition leader. Here it is:

"My fellow Americans: At this hour, an unrestrained force of militarized and violent federal officers is carrying out a project of ethnic cleansing in the streets of American cities."

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The people who'll tell you today's murder victim in Minnesota shouldn't have turned up to a protest carrying a gun are the same people who said Kyle Rittenhouse was perfectly entitled to do the same thing.

[Mature Content] From the Minneapolis community on Reddit: Alternative angle of ICE-involved shooting from the lady in pink's perspective Posted by Minute_Revolution951 - 662 votes and 110 comments

a second angle of the killing in south Minneapolis today is even worse

warning: video is graphic

They forgot the parenthetical (has no) in between Trump and Class.

But I’m with you; not the USS Defiant

(1/X) People often say things like "why does Trump appeal to people?" The answer is simple: he tells them what they want to hear. He has no beliefs of his own so he has infinite flexibility to do so.

That is what narcissistic sociopaths are like. And that is why in any discussion of Trump...

Spanish Core Set | The Pericles Group, LLC VERBA: Español core set. Includes 50 "grey" sentence cards and 146 "white" noun cards. Designed for the novice learner.

Two very exciting sales through the weekend!

For Spanish teachers/learners, VERBA Español for less than the original Kickstarter pricing ($25!) tpg-104198.square.site/product/span...

For Dragon fans, Underlings of Underwing also for $25 tpg-104198.square.site/product/unde...

Please share widely!

Spanish Core Set | The Pericles Group, LLC VERBA: Español core set. Includes 50 "grey" sentence cards and 146 "white" noun cards. Designed for the novice learner.

Two very exciting sales through the weekend!

For Spanish teachers/learners, VERBA Español for less than the original Kickstarter pricing ($25!) tpg-104198.square.site/product/span...

For Dragon fans, Underlings of Underwing also for $25 tpg-104198.square.site/product/unde...

Please share widely!

Hi there, #EduSky!

We're so grateful to have such a rich, talented community of educators with whom we share a passion for innovative, creative, and empathetic pedagogical design.

Can't wait to trade worldbuilding-based teaching practices, assessment methods, activity ideas, and more! ✨🌎

I’m coming down on the side of “Dem establishment was so terrified that the lesson learned on Tuesday was that the base wants more @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social that they were willing to blow off their own foot to prevent any building of momentum”

There’s no logical explanation for this. None.

Score a win for Gemini here... 😂

(NBC News) - President Donald Trump's pick to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics was among the crowd outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, with the White House saying he was a "bystander" who wandered over after seeing coverage on the news.

@ryanjreilly.com
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

I find the lack of a permanent usb c port on the dock for the camera to be even more bewildering. Unplugging it every time you take the switch out of the dock?

People like to compare big N to Apple, but these design decisions are baffling.

Father Nathan Monk posted on Facebook a message. This is a screenshot of the message, which says, "You are about to watch the whole world respect a chosen name. It's that easy."

It really is this simple.

#TransRightsAreHumanRights

Part of the unspoken motivation for me putting together this was to see if there were obvious gaps in things like the -que and we continue to see new materials produced.