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Chinese Language Teachers Association--Oregon (CLTA-OR) received $500 of Professional Development Grant from the CLTA-US headquarters. Half of the grant ($250) will be used to support Chinese language teachers who do presentations at COFLT annual conferences. This scholarship will be able to support a maximum of 5 teachers for the 2017-18 school year, by offering $50 per teacher. Find more details through http://www.clta-or.org/

Job description here!

Ability to teach Spanish as well would sweeten the deal.

Vacancy Notice Spanish Teacher 17.18 (1).pdf

STRRRIVING FOR EXCELLENCE

Riverside Jr/Sr High School in Boardman, Oregon, is looking for a Spanish / ELL teacher – the job opening is located on the  district website:  http://morrow.k12.or.us/employment

Dear Language Educator,

Thanks to all of you who participated in last Wednesday's state advocacy call! Watch the recording or download the slides.

If you weren't able to join, we shared several critical actions you can take right now!

• Share the www.LeadwithLanguages.org website on your social media accounts and/or with friends, parents and students
• Download the Lead with Languages Badge and insert it in your email signature
• Sign up for Lead with Language Advocacy Alerts

Are you already a seasoned activist? Try this out!

• Visit the ESSA State Implementation Map and find out WHO is the appropriate State Education Association (SEA) person in your state to contact
• THEN ... Encourage that SEA employee to include increased World Languages funding in the state's Title IV-A grant request

There are also actions you can take once a week:

• Send a message to encourage full funding for ESSA, Title IV grant money to your representatives using ACTFL's pre-written letter tool.
• Share this letter writing tool with friends!

Want to share a state advocacy accomplishment? Have a question? Need help with the Seal of Biliteracy program? Have a legislative update or tip to share? Email Trey Calvin, Program Coordinator.

Thanks for all your continued efforts!

In 2014, a bipartisan group of members of Congress asked the American Academy of Arts and Sciences to undertake a new study of the nation’s language education needs. Four members of the United States Senate—Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisconsin), Mark Kirk (R-Illinois), Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii)—and four members of the House of Representatives—Rush Holt (D-New Jersey), Leonard Lance (R-New Jersey), David Price (D-North Carolina), and Don Young (R-Alaska)—signed two letters requesting that the Academy provide answers to the following questions:

How does language learning influence economic growth, cultural diplomacy, the productivity of future generations, and the fulfillment of all Americans? What actions should the nation take to ensure excellence in all languages as well as international education and research, including how we may more effectively use current resources to advance language attainment?

In response to this request, the Academy created the Commission on Language Learning. The Commission’s final report, America’s Languages: Investing in Language Learning for the 21st Century, offers concrete recommendations to improve access to as many languages as possible, for people of every age, ethnicity, and socioeconomic background.

Support for the Commission was provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Henry Luce Foundation, and resources from the Academy’s New Initiatives Fund.

Additional Resources

• Language and the Fulfillment of the Potential of All Americans
  Terrence Wiley, Ph.D., with Beatriz Arias, Ph.D., Jennifer Renn, Ph.D., and Shereen Bhalla, Ph.D., Center for Applied Linguistics
• America’s Languages: Challenges and Promise
  Richard D. Brecht, American Councils for International Education
• The Contributions of Language to the Economic Interests of the United States
  Prepared by the Joint National Committee for Languages
• Language and Productivity for all Americans
  Judith F. Kroll and Paola E. Dussias, Center for Language Science, The Pennsylvania State University
• Foreign language, Cultural Diplomacy, and Global Security
  Gail H. McGinn

Oregon Episcopal School is seeking an experienced, innovative educator to teach Mandarin language and Chinese culture in its Middle School. This individual will teach sixth, seventh, and eighth grade Mandarin with the possibility of an additional section of Mandarin I in the Upper School as needed. This teacher will collaborate with the World Languages Department on articulating a scope and sequence for Mandarin education at OES and will support Upper School Mandarin language trips. 

For more information, see the job posting.

George Fox University announces a tenure-track faculty position in Spanish at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor, to begin in August 2017. The successful candidate will teach a range of Spanish acquisition and Latin American or Iberian culture and literature classes for majors, non-majors, and Spanish heritage speakers. Service as department chair for the Department of World Languages is desired, though not required.

For more details, please consult the George Fox University website.

Come for a one week Spanish immersion experience this summer! 

June 26-30, 2017

Beginning through Superior level classes. 

Find more information at:  https://www.cocc.edu/cossi/