Welcome!
This publication of the World Language Leaders Quarterly Bulletin has details about:
- Standards Review Phase submissions due January 20
- Standard-by-Standard PSU survey for teams
- Data Review Committee (DRC) applications
- Spring K-20 World Language Coordinator & IHE Meeting on March 3
- World Languages Resources Hub Focus: Professional Learning
Standards Review Phase Submissions
Available until January 20
Two Standard-by-Standard surveys are part of the standards review phase and will be available through Friday, January 20, 2023, at 5:00 pm Eastern. The purpose of both surveys, All Stakeholders for individuals and PSUs for teams, is to collect feedback on the current standards from educators, administrators, parents, students, institutions of higher education, business/industry representatives, national organizations, and other education agencies.
The PSU Standard-by-Standard survey for teams to submit takes about 30 - 45 minutes to complete, depending on how it's deployed within each public school unit (PSU). World Language leaders have been sent the survey links below so that they can convene local teams and do the survey together.
Every group's voice is important! If your PSU has multiple teams for courses, languages, programs, schools, etc., you can submit as many PSU surveys as you need to in order to get the maximum amount of input from your PLCs or other teacher groups.
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Completing the PSU survey as a team ensures accurate PSU representation. The State Board of Education (SBE) expectation is for 80% or more of districts to submit the PSU survey, along with charter, lab, and regional schools.
So far, 75% of PSUs (or 87 out of 115) have submitted at least one survey. Feel free to view the PSU Surveys tally, which is updated periodically and shows PSUs in green that have already submitted, along with the number of surveys they have done.
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World Languages Data Review Committee (DRC) applications can also be submitted until 5:00 pm on Friday, January 20, 2023.
The World Languages DRC will consist of a range of external stakeholders and will be chosen from across the state’s eight regions to represent varying perspectives and experiences regarding the current Standard Course of Study, the North Carolina World Language Essential Standards.
DRC members review the data collected and compiled from Standard-by-Standard surveys, regional focus groups, and individual interviews, as well as research, policies, and legislation that pertain to World Language education. Once they analyze the feedback, they make recommendations that help drive both the review and revision phases.
Note: DRC members cannot serve on the Standards Writing Team (SWT) that is convened during the revision phase.
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Please use these links to access the World Languages DRC application or share with others who you think would be a good fit for this work:
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Spring K - 20 Meeting
Hybrid on Friday, March 3 @ 1:00 - 4:00 pm
The 2022 - 2023 Spring K - 20 World Language Coordinator & Institutes of Higher Education (IHE) meeting will be conducted in a hybrid format on Friday afternoon, March 3, 2023.
The K - 20 meetings are held just before the Foreign Language Association of North Carolina (FLANC) conferences, so the in-person location for the Spring K - 20 Meeting will be at or near the FLANC Spring 2023 Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Please submit the registration form for the March 3 meeting, where you can indicate whether you are choosing to attend virtually or in-person.
Our agenda for the Spring K - 20 meeting will include information about the progress being made to review and revise the state standards, discussion about the impact of policies like the Credit by Demonstrated Mastery (CDM) process, and K - 20 connections across educational organizations in North Carolina.
The agenda and resources for our Spring K - 20 meeting will be posted to the 2022 - 2023 World Language Coordinator/IHE Meeting Agenda & Collaborative Notes document at https://bit.ly/NCWLCIHE22-23, where you can also view the archives from the Fall K - 20 Meeting.
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World Languages Resources Hub
The NCDPI World Languages Resources Hub is available to all and can be accessed with this shortened URL: bit.ly/NCWLresources. This Canvas Hub houses a variety of resources that are organized into four main sections, including the Professional Learning section that has six areas to explore:
There are three self-paced Canvas Courses that have been designed for World Language educators and their colleagues. They are featured on the NCDPI World Languages Professional Learning page and in this area of the Canvas hub with details about how to enroll individually as a K-12 educator in NC Public Schools and how to access the course in Canvas Commons if you would like to download or import the course(s), in whole or in part, to adapt as a local offering.
- Counselor Advising and Scheduling Tips (CAST) for World Languages (0.5 CEU)
- Dual Language/Immersion (DL/I) Blue Book Study (1 CEU)
- Introduction to LinguaFolio (1 CEU)
The #GoOpenNC group discussions, and other online forums or asynchronous professional learning options, are being developed and shared by the NCDPI World Languages Team as free, on-demand professional learning opportunities to replace the World Language Webinar Series. Check this area for details about the LinguaFolio Professional Learning for 2022 - 2023 and other options as they are added.
The webinar archives from the past annual webinar series for World Languages, Dual Language/Immersion (DL/I), and LinguaFolio are linked in this area so that the presentation materials (slides, handouts, and broadcast recordings) can be used and/or adapted for local professional development.
The Foreign Language Association of North Carolina or FLANC is North Carolina's K - 20 World Language professional organization. FLANC provides two professional development conferences each year, regional ShareFests, the Catalyst newsletter, Teacher of the Year awards, various scholarships and grants, etc. NCDPI presentations from past FLANC Conferences are also posted in this area of the Canvas hub.
The Southern Conference on Language Teaching or SCOLT is the Southeast's K - 20 World Language professional organization. SCOLT serves over a dozen states in the Southeast, plus the Virgin Islands, and provides a spring professional development conference each year, the SCOLTalk newsletter and the Dimensions journal, regional Teacher of the Year awards, various scholarships and grants, etc.
The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages or ACTFL is the United States' K - 20 World Language professional organization. ACTFL provides a fall professional development conference each year, a variety of Special Interest Groups or SIGs, The Language Educator magazine and the Foreign Language Annals journal, national Teacher of the Year awards, various scholarships and grants, etc.
Reminder . . .
Newsletters and other messages disseminated on the NCDPI World Language listservs are archived in the Communications area in the Administrator & Program Resources section in the World Languages Resources Hub in case you need to reference a past publication, including:
- #WLWednesdays newsletters,
- World Languages #SettingTheStandard Updates,
- GLE, NC's Seal of Biliteracy Quarterly Updates,
- LinguaFolio Leaflets, and/or
- World Language Leaders Quarterly Bulletins (like this one!)
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