Celebrate the arrival of Spring with World Languages. FLANC invites you to join our amazing DL/I site visits on March 1 and the Spring Conference in Greenville North Carolina Convention Center on March 2. Some highlights for the conference include:
4 in-person site visit schools in 3 counties: Pitt, Greene and Edgecombe Counties (available to register on the registration link, $10 for each site and normally only one will be selected by each registrant):
Option #1 Greenville/Pitt County Schools - Belvoir Elementary School: 50/50 Spanish/English Two-Way Immersion Program.
Option #2 Snow Hill, NC/Greene County Schools - Snow Hill Primary (K-1), and Greene County Intermediate (4-5). 50/50 Spanish/English Two-Way Immersion Program.
Option # 3 Edgecombe County Schools - Martin Millennium Academy (K-8) Full Immersion K-4 with Conexiones immersion continuation language course grades 6-8.
30 sessions targeted for both World Language and DL/I educators. The draft version agenda is ready to view.
Our keynote speaker is 2023 Best of FLANC presenter Bethanie Drew (also our 2022 Teacher of the Year)!
Hotel recommendations are provided for your convenience. Some of the hotels are providing us with a courtesy reservation at a reduced rate and are connected to or very close to the convention center on the same campus. Our friends at the Greenville-Pitt County Convention & Visitors Bureau have prepared a special flyer on discovering the area. Explore the Greenville area during your visit.
Payment options by credit card or check. (Checks must reach the FLANC mailbox by February 23). Bring your colleagues to join our dialogues and continue to grow as a community!
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Our Best of FLANC Conference will also showcase Project CAFE at our luncheon on Saturday, March 2, 2024.
Project CAFE is a teaching initiative aimed at recruiting and retaining teachers in world languages. Our goal is to strengthen the teacher pipeline with enthusiastic young people while also addressing the critical shortage of world language teachers currently in North Carolina.
One way we do this is by inviting FLANC members to nominate students who would make excellent world language teachers. Above all, Project CAFE is a world language teacher’s recognition of students who show promise for teaching; it is not an academic award. This year, FLANC will be creating a video to celebrate students nominated for Project CAFE; nominating teachers are strongly encouraged to attend the conference!
Project CAFE aims to plant the seed (as early as elementary school) that being a world language teacher is a rewarding and exciting career choice! To accomplish this, we need your help! Nominate a deserving student (or multiple students!). Nominations will be accepted through February 26, 2024.
If you have questions, please contact the FLANC Spring Conference chair, Bonnie Wang, at 2vp@flanc.org
Presenters Titles
Bethanie Drew Less Stress, More Joy: low prep games that work
Thomas Soth The benefits of “chistes” are no joke
Lisa Bartels Authentic Vocabulary Instruction
Aimee Falk & Victoria Schmoyer Games and Things for When You Just Can’t Even
Dayna Brower Teacher Self-Care
Christen Campbell From Content to Context: Grammar & Vocabulary in the Proficiency-Based Classroom
Donna Podgorny & Marcela Marambio KEEP CALM and HAVE THE STUDENTS TALK!
Radwa Ahmed & Ayoko Amoussou Effective Strategies for PLC Meetings
Leslie Baldwin I Beg to Differ: Differentiation in the World Language Classroom
Maria Rodriguez & Rachel Breazeale Enhancing World Language Learning with ChatGPT: Creating Activities, Lessons, Rubrics, & More