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Mar. 18, 2019 | New America
Grow Your Own (GYO) programs are being promoted as a strategy for ameliorating local
teacher shortages
and for increasing the r
acial and linguistic diversity
of the teacher workforce. New America defines GYO as partnerships between educator preparation programs, school districts, and community organizations that recruit and prepare local community members (e.g., parents, paraeducators, uncertified school staff, high school students) to enter the teaching profession and teach in their communities.
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Updated
: Mar. 20, 2019
On March 11, 2019, President Trump released his administration's proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2020. Overall, the spending proposal calls for a 10-12% reduction in Federal non-defense discretionary spending, as well as the elimination of several major programs.
We need
YOUR HELP
to advocate for funding all of these programs.
Show your support for language education, study abroad, and the humanities by sending an message to your members of Congress.
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Mar. 19, 2019 | Inside Higher Ed
President Trump for the third year called on Congress to wind down the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, the two biggest backers of humanities research on college campuses as well as education programs across the country. While the humanities endowment budget is small compared to other agencies, it has played a major role in supporting research, the growth of the digital humanities and efforts to preserve historic documents.
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Mar. 15, 2019 | Venture Beat
Yesterday, Google updated the iOS version of its
Gboard – the Google Keyboard
app to include automatic language translation, a change Android users noted was roughly two years behind their platform. Gboard now lets users of any iOS app (including popular stock apps such as Messages and Mail)
instantly convert typed phrases or sentences between upwards of 50 languages supported by Google Translate
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Mar. 19, 2019 | The New York Times
“The lack of interpretation for indigenous people has been a problem for a long time,” said Odilia Romero, a Zapotec interpreter who has been an activist with the Binational Front of Indigenous Organizations for the last 20 years. “But what we see now is something entirely different: We have entire populations showing up with
languages that we have not seen in the United States before.
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Mar. 15, 2019 | Houston Chronicle
Graduate student associations from five Texas universities have published a
joint letter
to elected officials opposing federal policies and proposals that they fear will deter international graduates seeking to continue their education in the United States.
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Mar. 14, 2019 | NPR
Processed foods get blamed for a lot of things. But this week, a group of linguists took it to a whole new level.
To put it crudely, they argue that the invention of processed foods like yogurt and gruel thousands of years ago gave us the F-word. Lots of F-words. To be more precise, the
researchers think that softer foods led to more frequent use of the sounds "f" and "v"
in human languages. (Other experts on language are skeptical; more about that later.)
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POLICY CLIPS
EDUCATION CLIPS
INDUSTRY CLIPS
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In this episode of Globally Speaking, we speak to
Bill Rivers
, “America’s Language Lobbyist,” about his work championing language endeavors in the US like education, translation and interpretation. You’ll want to hear more about what his advocacy for language at the highest levels has to do with immigration, national security, economic growth and the value of bilingualism.
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Are you currently teaching a high school AP German class, or thinking about getting started? AATG members may apply for financial aid to participate in an AP® German Language and Culture summer institute. Applicants can choose from a wide variety of 2019 summer institutes.
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Deadline is April 15
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The Greater Washington Association of Teachers of Foreign Languages (GWATFL) will hold its Spring Conference for World Language Educators on
April 27, 2019
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM at
National Cathedral School Washington, D.C., United States
In case you are interested in presenting a table, please
click here
We are incorporating more breaks in the schedule dedicated to the exhibits´ area during this upcoming conference. For further information on the event, please visit our website.
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PROFESSIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
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The
Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad Program
provides short-term seminars abroad for U.S. educators in the social sciences and humanities to improve their understanding and knowledge of the peoples and cultures of other countries. Each seminar features educational lectures and activities specifically designed for the group, including visits to local schools and organizations, meetings with teachers and students, and visits to cultural sites. Participants draw on their experiences during the program to create new, cross-cultural curricula for their classrooms and school systems back in the U.S.
How to apply
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Deadline: March 27, 2019
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On the occasion of its fifth biennial gathering, it is fitting that the ISLSP should “take stock” of what has transpired since its origins at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2012, and its accomplishments to date. This conference provides a forum for the community of LSP scholars, instructors, and administrators to
address, develop and reflect on issues related to LSP theory,methodology and practice
. At the same time, this fifth gathering should be all about “moving forward” with the CIBERs, exploring LSP developments and possibilities as we travel into the coming decade(s). “Taking Stock and Moving Forward: LSP Theory, Method, Content, Curriculum, Collaboration” will share developments and innovation in LSP research, practice, and curriculum development, broadly considered.
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Established in 2018, The Atlanta Global Studies Center (AGSC) is partnership of Georgia Institute of Technology and Georgia State University.
Our mission is to enhance access to advanced language learning and deepen knowledge of global and intercultural issues
for the benefit of Atlanta region students, faculty and the public. A National Resource Center and a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship program, AGSC is funded by a Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The award is one of only seven awards supporting centers with a focus on international studies.
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June 10-11, 2019, University of Utah Campus
Presenters: Carl Blyth (UT Austin) and Anne Lair (University of Utah)
The FLLITE project, a collaboration of COERLL (University of Texas at Austin) and CERCLL (University of Arizona), helps teachers to bridge the language/literature divide by developing their own literacy lessons as open educational resources (OER). Rather than focusing on canonical literature, FLLITE lessons focus on the poetics of everyday language (e.g., conversations, letters, blogs, YouTube videos, etc.). in brief, the goal of this workshop is to help foreign language teachers develop original materials based on authentic texts that promote language awareness and communicative abilities through the integration of reading, listening, speaking, and writing tasks.
Participants can receive
1 graduate-level college credit
but must attend both days. Sponsored via a Language Resource Center grant.
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Join us this summer for a 5-day workshop offered in French, specifically designed to
meet the needs of French Dual Language Immersion teachers
, new and already trained! This workshop is made possible thanks to the FACE Foundation (The French-American Cultural Exchange) in partnership with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States and the Second Language Teaching and Research Center (L2TReC) at the University of Utah.
When:
July 8-12, 2019
Where: University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Who: This workshop addresses teachers working in all French dual language and immersion model types (50/50; 90/10; and full immersion).
Application Deadline: March 31, 2019
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Registration is now open for
the 11th International Language Teacher Education Conference
; the early bird deadline is
April 1, 2019
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Details:
May 30–June 1, 2019
The Graduate Hotel in Minneapolis, MN.
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The 6
th
Annual Community-Based Heritage Language Schools Conference at American University will be held
on Saturday,
October 12, 2019.
The Coalition of Community-Based Language Schools is a nationwide initiative established to support, guide, and promote the interests of community-based heritage language schools and organizations across the United States. Registration will open in June.
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FEDERAL BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES
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Solicitation Number: 36C26319Q0180
Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs
Office: 263 Network Contracting Office 23 (NCO 23)
Location: Department of Veterans Affairs Black Hills Health Care System
Response Date: Mar 22
Solicitation Number:
W91247-19-R-0017
Agency: Department of the Army
Office: Army Contracting Command, MICC
Location: MICC Center - Fort Bragg
Response Date: Mar 26
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National Council for Languages and International Studies
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