In my view, the greatest challenge currently facing the rising tide of young CI champions is to thoroughly convince their colleagues of one simple truth: that students trained in narrative methods acquire command of grammar in a way that is far superior to students who don’t receive such training.
The idea that has hung on for decades in our profession - that analytical, visually based grammar methods and related testing actually work - will soon give way to the fact that we learn correct grammar through our ears when hearing the language spoken properly and attending to its meaning.
Here is a tip for the new academic year for your level 1s: teach them to focus on your spoken messages, and not on how the language is built.
As more and more teachers begin to understand the true role of the new narrative methods in acquiring grammar through properly spoken speech (how we learned the grammar of systems of our first languages), CI methodologies will take their rightful place at center stage in what is currently a very tired and sad game of exhausted WL teachers and students crawling to the starting line for another year of internal sadness that they hide in our classes.