World Languages Webinar Spring 2008Robert CrawfordCoordinator, World LanguagesWest Virginia Department of Educationrcrawford@access.k12.wv.us

Overview•Background of Office Plan•Summer Professional Development

Opportunities•Pilot Projects•Updates•LEA FLAP Grant

Communication•WV Connections

http://wvconnections.k12.wv.us/•Webinars

▫Spring▫Fall

•World Language Distribution List ▫County Contacts▫County World Language Teachers

World Language Strategic Plan

•Board of Education Presentation in January

•5 Strategic Objectives•3 Key Strategies.•http://wvconnections.k12.wv.us/21stcentu

ry.html

Summer Professional Development•2008 Summer Institute for ESL and World

Language Teachers: Connecting to the World through the 21st Century Classroom ▫Marshall University/June Harless Model

School at Kellogg Elementary ▫July 14-16, 2008 ▫Assessment, Technology, International

Collaboration ▫ http://wvconnections.k12.wv.us/

summerprogram.html

Summer Professional Development•CPD GATE Immersion Academies for

enhancing Global Awareness▫Pre-K – 12 teachers of any content area▫Passport to Spain: Martinsburg (July 28-

31)▫Passport To Japan: Huntington (August 4-7)

▫Registration www.wvcpd.org

Pilot Projects

• Linguafolio West Virginia

• LinguaPods

• Language Trekkers

• World Language e-learning course

Policy 2510•WVDE conversations with County

Superintendents•The teaching of foreign languages in

grades 5 and 6 is encouraged. A foreign language course, in the same foreign language, must be offered for students in grade 7 and grade 8. Implementation of the foreign language program should model best practice and promote positive proficiency outcomes.

Other Updates

•Instructional Materials Adoption▫Review of materials at state level this

spring/summer

•Visiting Chinese Guest Teachers

Announcement from the U.S. Department of Education •Under this competition, as required by the

fiscal year 2008 Appropriations Act, 5-year grants will be awarded to LEAs to work in partnership with one or more institutions of higher education (IHEs) to establish or expand articulated programs of study in languages critical to United States national security in order to enable successful students to achieve a superior level of proficiency in those languages as they advance from elementary school through high school and college.

Critical Languages

•Arabic•Chinese•Korean•Japanese•Russian•languages in the Indic, Iranian, and

Turkic language families.

Released Information

•Anticipate publishing the FLAP Application in the federal register and at www.grants.gov by the end of March

•The reference number for the FLAP LEA program is 84.293.

•Need to register at www.grants.gov

Anticipated Grant Awards

•Estimated average size of award is listed at $200,000

•Estimated 12 awards •Dates:

▫Applications Available: March 27, 2008. ▫Deadline for Notice of Intent to Apply: April 11,

2008. ▫Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: April

30, 2008. ▫Deadline for Intergovernmental Review: June 30,

2008.

Requirements for Local Educational Agencies (LEAs) Programs•Show the promise of being continued

beyond the grant period•Demonstrate approaches that can be

disseminated and duplicated in other local educational agencies

•May include a professional development component

Special Consideration•Connect native world language speakers

in the community with schools to promote two-way language learning

•Make effective use of technology (language laboratories, distance learning)

•Innovative approaches (language immersion, partial immersion, content-based instruction)

•Intensive summer PD

Focus of Proposals•Articulated program of study. Each grade

level of the elementary-school-through-college foreign language program is designed to expand sequentially on the achievement students have made in the previous level, with a goal of achieving a superior level of language proficiency.

• (2) Superior level of language proficiency. A proficiency level of 3, as measured by the Federal Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR), achieved by a student.

Factors to Consider•Partnerships•Matching of Funding•Program Evaluation•Proficiency Assessments•Best Practice and Program Models •GPRA Performance Objectives and Measures

▫The number of students participating in world language instruction funded by FLAP

▫The average number of minutes per week of world language instruction in languages funded by FLAP

Resources • Center for Applied Linguistics: Foreign Language

Assessment Directory (FLAD) http://www.cal.org/CALWebDB/FLAD/

• FLAP home page http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/oela/OELAprograms/4_FLAP.htm

• Grants and Contracts Overview http://www.ed.gov/fund/landing.jhtml?src=rt

• Forecast of Funding Opportunities-The Department of Education Discretionary Grant Programs http://www.ed.gov/fund/grant/find/edlite-forecast.html Click on Chart 1

• FIND and APPLY for Federal government grants www.grants.gov