 My name is Hilda Smolash. I teach literacy at the High School of Montreal Adult Centre. The name of my course is Building Foundations and Discovering the World of Print. I had a taste of stations when I attended, as a participant, a workshop given by Abby Spector and Tracy Rosen and it felt like a creative way to teach. Just the movement itself was energizing and just being in a different location every few minutes seemed to make things go really well. Everybody was very enthusiastic about it. Some of my students really need to move all the time. They can't sit still or if they have to sit still they're uncomfortable and they can't concentrate. And just the simple stand up and find a new place was enough to satisfy their urge to move. I like station because I need to move around. It's a spa space. I think that stations feels more like a professional conference rather than like we're in school. And for our students that's really important because they come here many of them have very high levels of education and they're not very happy to be back in school on the students side of the desk. So this felt like a really good fit for them. I think it helps the students increase their self-confidence because they discovered that they can help each other in English. They can lead, some of them became natural leaders of their group in English. I couldn't help noticing they really didn't need a lot of help from me. I told them in advance that their turn will come when they'll be with me and that means they have to work on their own when they're not with me. The autonomy level I think ratcheted up one or two points tonight compared to in a regular non-stations class. Activity helps because I know more words now and it's not just a word for me it's because it's something important because when I need to go to the hospital I need to talk with my doctor. The words is for my body, for my symptoms and that helps. I went to a doctor four feet ago but I couldn't communicate with him. Yesterday I returned to the same doctor. I could communicate with him very well. The doctor was surprised.