Enjoy the summer. You've earned it. 

Dr. V
veronica.trapani@k12.wa.us
360-819-0950

Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI):

World Languages 

Open Office Hours

Starting in September, World Languages will be hosting office hours. This will allow time for anyone - students, educators, district personnel, etc. - to ask Dr. Trapani questions regarding ANYTHING World Languages-related. She cannot guarantee she'll know the answers to every question, but she'll try!

During the busiest months (September, October, May, and June), office hours will be weekly. All other meetings will be once a month. 

Register for OSPI World Languages Office Hours to get them all added to your calendar. You only need to register once. 

September 2022 Dates:
Thurs, Sept 1 | 11:00 am -1:00 pm
Tues, Sept 6 | 11:00 am -1:00 pm
Tues, Sept 13 | 11:00 am -1:00 pm
Wed, Sept 21 | 11:00 am -1:00 pm
Wed, Sept 28 | 11:00 am -1:00 pm

Reporting World Language: PD Opportunity

Reporting World Language: Language Proficiency, Competency-based Credits, and the Seal of Biliteracy

This professional development focuses on educating district officials (registrars, educators, administrators, counselors, assessment coordinators, etc.) about two World Language programs: Competency-based Credits and the Seal of Biliteracy. Each has expanded over the years and with the recent changes, these sessions will aid in the who, what, when, where, and why of reporting data to CEDARS. Attendees will also learn about language proficiency and why it's crucial to the future of language education and assessment.

Attendees can chose from one of 9 different online sessions being held throughout August and September, including one Saturday option. Each session is 90 minutes and offers Clock, Equity, and Educational Leadership Hours. Each session is limited to 20 attendees.

Contact Dr. Veronica Trapani, Associate Director for Content, World Languages at veronica.trapani@k12.wa.us or 360-819-0950 if you have any questions.

Click here to register. 

August 2022 Dates:
Fri, Aug 5 | 9:00 - 10:30 am
Tues, Aug 9 | 2:00  - 3:30 pm
Thurs, Aug 18 | 10:00  - 11:30 am
Wed, Aug 31 | 3:00 - 4:30 pm

September 2022 Dates:
Thu, Sept 8 | 3:30 - 5:00 pm
Sat, Sept 17 | 9:00 - 10:30 am
Mon, Sept 19 | 4:00 - 5:30 pm
Tue, Sept 27 | 2:30 - 4:00 pm

Washington State:

Washington Association for Language Teaching (WAFLT-WA)

Bi-State WAFLT-COFLT Fall Conference

Reconnect | Reflect | Refresh

The 2022 Fall WAFLT-COFLT conference will take place October 13-15th at the Holiday Inn Portland - Columbia Riverfront (formerly the Red Lion) in Portland, Oregon. 

If you need a letter of support for your administrator, please download this one. 

OSPI Support Letter 2022.pdf

Registration: Visit our events page to register. Log in first for a quicker registration on our new system! Registration includes 2 lunches, 2 receptions and free clock hours for WAFLT members. 

• $120 for current WAFLT members 
  Join WAFLT or Renew your membership here.  
• $90 for current WAFLT retired members.
• $150 for current PNCFL members from our sibling organizations
• $200 for non-members with two lunches
• $50 for current Students

Add ons:

• Thursday's pre-conference workshop - Supporting Heritage Learners - $50
• Saturday's post-conference workshops - TBD, 2 to choose from -  $25 

Lodging:

Holiday Inn Portland - Columbia Riverfront 

Please help support our conference by booking your room with this link. WAFLT must meet a booking minimum in order to avoid extra charges. 

World Affairs Council

2022 EU Policy Forum Educator Workshop at the University of Washington

 Europe, the European Union, and Russia: Navigating an Uncertain Future

The UW Jackson School of International Studies welcomes middle school, high school, and community college educators to participate in the 2022 EU Policy Forum, an educator workshop co-sponsored by the European Union’s Erasmus+ Programme and focused on contemporary issues in the European Union. The workshop will include lectures by experts, a catered lunch, and facilitation by World Affairs Council Global Classroom Program Director and High School Teacher Ryan Hauk. The workshop also offers 8 clock hours for full participation in the workshop. Parking is provided on the UW campus. 

The workshop will address:

• How the EU Actually Works and How Is It Changing in the Face of Russian Aggression in Ukraine
• What to do about Russia? Russia, the EU, and the International System
• Is Russia European? How Russians See Europe and Themselves in Historical and Contemporary Perspective
• EU Economic and Energy Responses to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

Wednesday, August 17 | 9:00 am - 5:00 pm | Fee: $35 | Register here

National Updates:

United States Department of Education (DoE)

National Parents and Families Engagement Council (NPFEC)

Last week, the Department launched the National Parents and Families Engagement Council to facilitate strong and effective relationships between schools and parents, families, and caregivers. The council consists of representatives from national organizations that will work with the agency to identify constructive ways to help families engage at the local level. It will be a channel for parents and families to participate in their children’s education, by helping them understand the rights they have, create a feedback loop with schools to shape how American Rescue Plan (ARP) funding is deployed to meet students’ needs, and identify summer learning and enrichment opportunities for children within their communities.

In the coming weeks, the council will meet to discuss how children are recovering from the impacts of the pandemic; the different ways that schools are providing academic, mental health, and social and emotional support; and how they might best engage with schools. In the coming months, the council will hold local listening sessions with parents, families, educators, and other school community members to better understand the needs of students as they start the 2022-23 school year

Joint National Committee for Languages & the National Council for Languages and International Studies (JNCL-NCLIS)

Virtual Language Advocacy Days 2023, Feb. 8-10th

The past two years of JNCL-NCLIS virtual advocacy events have allowed more advocates than ever, across all 50 states, to unite and speak up for language education policy. To continue the momentum and give even more people a chance to participate, Language Advocacy Days 2023 will take place virtually!   

Planning at a Glance: 

• Wednesday, Feb. 8th - Half Day, Afternoon ET 
• Thursday, Feb. 9th - Full Day, Congressional Meetings
• Friday, Feb. 10th - Half Day, Afternoon ET 

Registration will open summer 2022! 

Modern Language Association

2023 MLA Annual Convention

The 2023 MLA Annual Convention will be held in person from 5 to 8 January in San Francisco. The presidential theme is Working Conditions. 

MLA 2023 Language and Literature Program Innovation Room

The Language and Literature Program Innovation Room at the MLA Annual Convention creates a space for MLA members to share successful and promising new programs, courses, collaborations, educational resources, and other pedagogical initiatives. Organized jointly by the Association of Departments of English (ADE) and the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages (ADFL), the Innovation Room is designed to offer convention participants opportunities to explore innovative curricular thinking in both discipline-specific and interdisciplinary configurations. Building on the inaugural Innovation Room at the 2020 MLA Convention in Seattle—a record-breaking session with one hundred presenters from a diverse range of institutions and disciplines—and the successful pivot to a virtual environment in the past two years, we will offer Innovation Room presenters a choice among two forms of participation in the 2023 annual convention: with a printed or electronic poster at the in-person showcase in San Francisco or as presenters in a virtual session. All confirmed presenters will be listed in the convention program.

National Network for Early Language Learning (NNELL)

Virtual Summer Summit
"Proficiency: It Starts with Us!"

Registration for the NNELL Summer Summit includes your NNELL membership until August 2023! 

Session Topics Include: Proficiency and SEL, Afro-Latino Culture, Thematic Planning, Core Practices that Support Language Acquisition, Online Learning, Building Emotional Intelligence, and MANY more!

Monday-Tuesday, July 25-26, 2022 from 8:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. ET

ACTFL 

ACTFL Discovery

Creating brave, affirming LGBTQ+ spaces of inclusion and agency in the WL Classroom

Discover new ways to be brave and become agents of change. This new digital seminar initiative will focus on the praxis behind the creation of brave, affirming LGBTQ+ spaces of inclusion and agency in the WL classroom. Attendees will be encouraged to embark on a journey of sustainable anti-bias practices by reflecting on their own biases, curriculum design, curation of resources, and the binary nature of Spanish. When revising the whys behind our praxis as educators, we can become aware of the ways in which language-biased norms can grant a privilege or marginalize entire communities. Although this seminar will have some components of Spanish as examples, we invite all educators - of all levels, contexts, and languages - to join us on this learning journey!

The seminar will open from July 1st to July 31st. Price is $14.99. 

ACTFL Convention 2022 - Boston

We're so excited to reconnect with everyone in Boston in November! We're bringing all the education and camaraderie you don't want to miss. Hundreds of thought-provoking sessions, three impassioned keynotes, cutting-edge research papers, and more to explore with thousands of your colleagues.

Remember to sign up for one of the six Pre-Convention Workshops for in-depth examination of timely topics.

Time is running out to get the best rates. Early registration ends July 13!

It's also smart to stay within the ACTFL 2022 room block. The ACTFL Convention offers a great selection of hotels through onPeak, the official housing company for ACTFL 2022. All hotels are within close proximity to the Boston Convention and Exposition Center to save you on transportation costs. We know there is a lot of competition but staying in the ACTFL block gives you access to competitive rates AND helps ACTFL keep costs lower for attendees at this year’s and future conventions. Learn more and reserve your room

American Translators Association

Ethically Speaking… Translation Technologies, Ethics, and Translator Education

Learn about translation technologies and how they fit within the wider spectrum of cultural, social, political, and professional concerns.

You will learn:

1. The basics of data-driven approaches (including neural MT) and how such approaches are sensitive to data (potentially leading to algorithmic bias)
2. How linked data can lead to a privacy breach
3. Ways the various translation stakeholders (e.g., agencies, translators, clients, end users) can be affected by integration of technologies into the translation workflow
4. The connections between translation technologies and sustainability
5. Where and how ethics can fit into education on translation technologies

ATA Member: $45 - Click to Purchase
Non-Member: $60 - Click to Purchase

National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC)

ConnecTalks

ConnecTalks is an event that features brief, TED-style talks by speakers with fresh viewpoints and diverse perspectives on language learning and teaching. The target audience is typically language educators, but the talks can be enjoyed by the general public interested in languages.

This year’s ConnecTalks features two internationally recognized speakers: Dr. Marta Gonzalez-Lloret (University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa), whose talk will focus on why Pragmatics should be an essential component of language learning, and Dr. Steven Thorne (Portland State University & University of Groningen), whose talk will focus on how language educators can better cultivate multilingual and interculturally aware societies.

Please join us on Facebook Live (Tech Center or NFLRC Facebook Page) on Saturday, July 23rd, 3:00-4:00 pm, Hawaiʻi time (6:00 pm Pacific, 7:00 pm Mountain, 8:00 pm Central, and 9:00 pm Eastern).

This event is proudly organized and sponsored by the National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) and the Language Flagship Technology Innovation Center (The Tech Center) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, with support from the National Heritage Language Resource Center (NHLRC), Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL), Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning (COERLL), Open Language Resource Center (OLRC), and Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA).

The 8th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC 8)

Centering Justice in Language Work
Virtual Conference
March 2-5, 2023

Attention to aspects of justice as a social responsibility has been growing in many fields in recent years. Our field should be no exception: the reasons for language shift and loss worldwide are arguably tied to historical and contemporary injustices and inequality. Furthermore, issues of justice affecting speakers and language communities are not just linguistic: a growing body of research shows that linguistic justice intersects with justice in the environmental, health, legal, political, economic, and educational realms.

The conference program will feature Keynote presentations, Talk Story and Workshop sessions, papers, and posters. The He ʻŌlelo Ola Hilo Field Study, showcasing Hawaiian language K-20 immersion programs, will be integrated into the conference schedule.

Language in Service: Connecting Washington's Military Graduation Pathway with World Language Education

In-Person Professional Development Opportunity

Have you or your students ever wondered how speaking a language other than English can be useful while serving our country? With this Clock, Equity, and Educational Leadership-Hour qualified professional development, teachers, counselors, and other district administrators will have the opportunity to meet with Educational Service Outreach Specialists, recruiters, and veterans from our Armed Forced as well as university officials to understand how students can utilize the Military Graduation Pathway (ASVAB) as a way to achieve their career, community, and college goals.

This will be a three (3) hour, in-person event hosted by the Edmonds College Veterans Resource Center in coordination with OSPI and the outreach branches of our Armed Services. Representatives from the Army, Navy, and Washington Army National Guard will be there to present and answer questions. 

Registration is limited to 25 people. There is no cost to attend. 

Sat, November 5 | 9:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT | Register here