Affiliate News
FLAGS has
had an exciting and busy start to 2005. Our annual Winter Workshop
took place this year on January 29th. A huge THANK YOU to Laguna
Creek High School in Elk Grove, and specifically French teacher
Kathy Ferrogiaro for graciously hosting and promoting the event.
Over thirty language professionals attended a four-hour workshop
on strategies for improving student literacy. Three speakers,
including Christine Lanphere, Nicole Naditz and Ursula Weaver,
took the participants through their paces. We were the lucky recipients
of several effective methods for approaching reading and writing
in our classrooms, all of which may be applied to a variety of
student proficiency levels. Thanks to all who presented and attended.
On March 11, 2005, FLAGS will
host its Annual Teacher Awards Banquet. This year we are honoring
Kazue Masuyama from CSUS, Inga Templeton from Mira Loma HS (Outstanding
New Teacher), and administrator Ann Walkup from Elk Grove (Friend
of the Profession.) Later in the month we will hold a Language
Ambush on the K Street Mall and check Sacramento's world language
proficiency.
April brings World Language Day
to the CSUS campus, and FLAGS will once again play a role. We
will hold a different kind of "Ambush" there, and have
an information table for teachers and the community.
In May we will honor students
at the annual Student Awards Breakfast, and initiate the Library
Reading Program.
CVFLA
began the 2004-2005 school year with its annual fall conference.
Some 40 teachers from around the San Joaquin Valley attended this
annual event held at Fresno City College on October 9. Currently
we are hard at work planning for language camps. French camp will
be held March 4-6 and Spanish camp will be April 8-10. Both will
happen at Camp Green Meadows, located at Fish Camp, at the entrance
to Yosemite. The final event of the year is the annual scholarship
awards luncheon. Five outstanding students receive $500 scholarships
and the outstanding student of the year earns the $1,000 Hazel
Tucker Memorial Scholarship.
Affiliates, we'd like to publish your
news!
In This Issue
- Front
Page
- About CLTA
News
- From
the President
- Greetings
from the Conference Registrar!
- Conference
University Credit
- Saturday
Evening Excursions with the CLTA Board
- Driving
Directions to the DoubleTree Hotel, Ontario Airport
- Affiliate
News
- Your Board,
Officers, and Representatives in Action
- Making
Your Voice Heard is Important
- The Way It
Was: Defining the State's FL Organization
- National
Security Education act H. R. 115:
- The
International Flagship Language Initiative
- The 22nd
Annual Summer Seminar for Language Teachers
- Spain 2005
- Study and Cultural Tour for Teachers