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As you are making plans for your well-deserved summer break we want to remind you of a wonderful Summer Professional Development opportunity on July 24-25: NNELL’s Summer Summit! This year the theme for NNELL’s Summer Summit is “Unlocking the Power of Languages.” They have an exciting lineup of early language professionals who are presenting on […]

Maryland State Liaison Dr. Richard Dabrowski, who oversees Russian andUkrainian instruction for government employees, spent two weeks in Poland inMay attending a special course in Ukrainian at the University of Warsaw. Hisreport on his trip, lightly edited was as follows: The timing of my current trip to Poland centers on a summer Ukrainian language and

The North and South Carolina Association for Bilingual Education (CarABE), announces its inaugural event. It is an affiliate of the National Association for Bilingual Education. Across the two states, there has been a tremendous increase in bilingual students, families, and bilingual education programs. At this year’s Southeast Regional TESOL Conference (SETESOL) the organizers are hosting

Missouri State Liaison Dr. Lisa Dorner reports that the University of Missouri at Columbia will host the annual Cambio de Colores (Change of Colors) conference on June 7-10, 2023, in Columbia, Missouri. This is a multistate conference focused on the integration of Latin@s/Latinxs/Hispanics and immigrants in new destinations, and it provides a professional development opportunity

Turkiye Liaison Gülşen Şencan is developing an original project is to create an Augmented Reality (AR) guide that transforms audio guides into sign language to facilitate access to museums for the hearing impaired. This project, titled “AR Museum Guide with Sign Language in Museums” will be based on exhibits in the Imaret Museum, located in

National Library of Spain Exhibition “Hell and Wonders” by Richard Dabrowski In November 2024, I had the opportunity to visit the National Library of Spain in Madrid, which recently opened a new permanent exhibition titled “Hell and Wonders” which could be of interest to teachers of Spanish [none of the materials are available in English