Kentucky World Language Association

Congratulations to Dr. Jim Natsis & Dr. Patrick Litanga! They are the 2024 recipients of the KWLA Amici Linguarum Award in Education for their work on their podcast, Récits Fracophones au Coeur de l'Amérique.

Help us honor them in person at the KWLA Fall Conference, September 13-14 in Louisville, KY. Register Here: https://kwla.wildapricot.org/event-5554298

Only two weeks left to register for the KWLA Fall Conference!

Register here: https://kwla.wildapricot.org/event-5554298

EXCITING NEW OPPORTUNITY FOR WORLD LANGUAGE TEACHERS IN KENTUCKY!!! OUR INAUGURAL 1ST SEASON OF MEETINGS STARTS UP IN ONE WEEK! GET TODAY!!! ALL MEETINGS WILL BE ONLINE AND WILL START AT 7PM EST.

GOT QUESTIONS? EMAIL US: [email protected] (PLS SHARE!)

Thank you to Wayside Publishing for sponsoring the 2024 KWLA Fall Conference.

Join Us Sept 13-14. Register athttps://kwla.wildapricot.org/event-5554298

Only 3 weeks left to register for the KWLA Fall Conference!
Register here: https://kwla.wildapricot.org/event-5554298

Last chance to reserve your hotel! The KWLA Conference Block closes tomorrow!

Book your room here: http://tiny.cc/KWLA-Hotel2024

Register for the conference here: https://kwla.wildapricot.org/event-5554298

Check out our amazing workshop presenters! Make sure to join us Friday to learn from Dr. Laura Youngworth, Dr. Emily Ibrahim, Dr. Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby, .speedy Jennifer Kennedy, Tavane More, Musicuentos's Sara-Elizabeth Cottrell & Haylee Ziegler!
Register here: https://kwla.wildapricot.org/event-5554298
Book your room here: http://tiny.cc/KWLA-Hotel2024

The KWLA Fall Conference is less than one month away! Time is running out!
September 13-14 in Louisville, KY
Register here: https://kwla.wildapricot.org/event-5554298
Book your room here: http://tiny.cc/KWLA-Hotel2024

Group block at the Holiday Inn Hustbourne closes August 22!
Book your room now: http://tiny.cc/KWLA-Hotel2024

Register for the conference: https://kwla.wildapricot.org/event-5554298

Join us TONIGHT (Tuesday) at 6pm EST as KWLA President-Elect Beck Sexton leads our final, double discussion on Honing our Craft. We'll start with a discussion of Chapter 5: Using Project-Based Learning to Engage Students with Education for Sustainable Development from 6pm-7pm EST, then we'll move to Chapter 10: World Languages for Specific Purposes and Community Service Learning.
--FREE and open to all (pay-what-you-can donations appreciated)
--NO registration required
--Attendance will be taken so that PD certificates can be sent at the end of the series, around August 15
LINK to Google Meet: tiny.cc/KWLA-Book24
Klett World Languages

Join us tomorrow (Tuesday) at 6pm EST as KWLA President Jen Hoban leads our discussion on Honing our Craft, Chapter 7: Standards-Based Grading for Proficiency-Based Language Instruction
--FREE and open to all (pay-what-you-can donations appreciated)
--NO registration required
--Attendance will be taken so that PD certificates can be sent at the end of the series, around August 15
LINK to Google Meet: tiny.cc/KWLA-Book24

Klett World Languages

Additional Update: The final session (August 6) will be a DOUBLE session to make up for the cancellation on 7/23. We will be discussing Ch 10 from 6-7pm and Ch 5 from 7-8pm.

Did you know that you can nominate your students for awards and recognition from KWLA!! We have extended the nomination deadline to July 31!

For more information, see our website https://kwla.org/awards/ or contact Alfonso de Torres Núñez at [email protected]. You can also fill out the nomination form here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeixZnvexIiLc1IBuOGmjNXJIJmYXxLNeBUylnVdyWv2H3tJQ/viewform

Due to unforeseen circumstances, tonight’s book study session has been canceled.

Join us tomorrow (Monday) at 6pm EST as Diego Ojeda leads our discussion on Honing our Craft, Chapter 4: What Is and Is Not Comprehension-Based Communicative Language Teaching

--FREE and open to all (pay-what-you-can donations appreciated)
--NO registration required
--Attendance will be taken so that PD certificates can be sent at the end of the series, around August 15

LINK to Google Meet: tiny.cc/KWLA-Book24

Klett World Languages

Join us tomorrow (Wednesday) at 6pm EST as Laura Roche Youngworth leads our discussion on Honing our Craft, Chapter 8: Heritage Language Teaching as Critical Language Arts

--FREE and open to all (pay-what-you-can donations appreciated)
--NO registration required
--Attendance will be taken so that PD certificates can be sent at the end of the series, around August 15

LINK to Google Meet: tiny.cc/KWLA-Book24

World Languages

KWLA Board Member Dr. Laura Roche Youngworth receiving thanks from Secretary Miguel Cardona on behalf of the Kentucky Department of Education for the state’s adoption of the Seal of Biliteracy.

Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA)

Join us tomorrow (Tuesday) at 6pm EST as Madeline Griffitt leads our discussion on Honing our Craft, Chapter 3: Multiliteracies Pedagogy: Redesigning Literacy Practicies in Beginning World Language Instruction.

--FREE and open to all (pay-what-you-can donations appreciated)
--NO registration required
--Attendance will be taken so that PD certificates can be sent at the end of the series, around August 15

LINK to Google Meet: tiny.cc/KWLA-Book24

Klett World Languages

Join us tomorrow (Tuesday) at 6pm EST as Diego Ojeda leads our discussion on Honing our Craft, Chapter 2: Differentiated Instruction for Proactive Planning in Lesson Design for the World Language Classroom

--FREE and open to all (pay-what-you-can donations appreciated)
--NO registration required
--Attendance will be taken so that PD certificates can be sent at the end of the series, around August 15

LINK to Google Meet: tiny.cc/KWLA-Book24

Klett World Languages

Thank you to all who joined us for our first book study session last week! It was a great conversation. We have now finalized the full schedule.

--FREE and open to all (pay-what-you-can donations appreciated)
--NO registration required
--Attendance will be taken so that PD certificates can be sent at the end of the series, around August 15
--Sessions run from 6pm-7pm EASTERN time
LINK to Google Meet: tiny.cc/KWLA-Book24

June 18 - Diego Ojeda - Chapter 2: Differentiated Instruction for Proactive Planning in Lesson Design for the World Language Classroom

June 25 - Madeline Griffitt - Chapter 3: Multiliteracies Pedagogy: Redesigning Literacy Practices in Beginning World Language Instruction

(Break for July 4th week)

July 10 (WED) - Laura Roche Youngworth - Chapter 8: Heritage Language Teaching as Critical Language Arts

July 15 (MON) - Diego Ojeda - Chapter 4: What is and is not Comprehension-Based Communicative Language Teaching

July 23 - M Beck Sexton - Chapter 5: Using Project Based Learning to Engage Students with Education for Sustainable Development

July 30 - Jen Hoban - Chapter 7: Standards Based Grading for Proficiency-Based Language Instruction

August 6 - M Beck Sexton - Chapter 10: World Languages for Specific Purposes and Community Service Learning: Needs, Motivations, and Affordances

Tonight's the night! Join us at 6pm EST as Margaret Collin Smith leads our discussion on Honing our Craft, Chapter 1: Difference as the Impetus for Design.

--FREE and open to all (pay-what-you-can donations appreciated)
--NO registration required
--Attendance will be taken so that PD certificates can be sent at the end of the series, around August 15

LINK to Google Meet: tiny.cc/KWLA-Book24

Klett World Languages Florencia Henshaw Kim Potowski

KWLA is seeking nominations for our 2024 Awards. There are categories for educators, students, administrators, and community members. Nominate a friend (or yourself!) at tiny.cc/KWLA-Awards24

JNCL-NCLIS has a new video series of interest for advocacy. The Language at the Intersection (https://www.languagepolicy.org/languageattheintersection) series produced last year is great, this one is too. It's called Elevating Language Learning with students studying language (including our own Cody Smith) interviewing multilingual professionals (https://www.languagepolicy.org/elevatinglanguagelearning)

Join us for our Summer Book Study on Honing Our Craft.

KWLA members receive a discount when ordering the book through Klett World Languages.

Our first session will be on June 11 with Margaret Collin Smith (Chapter 1), and our second session will be on June 18 with Diego Ojeda. Join at tiny.cc/KWLA-Book24

Reminder! Only a couple days left to submit your proposal!

Call for Proposals closes May 30, 2024! Please join us in Louisville, KY this September for our annual conference. We are seeking proposals for 2-hour workshops and 45-minute sessions about any World Language topic, with specific interest in Pedagogy & Practical Strategies. Apply at tiny.cc/KWLA-CFP24

If you would like to present as a representative of a business, please contact [email protected] for more information.

Looking for GREAT summer PD? Check out the NNELL summer summit! I spy some KWLA legends amongst the presenters.

✨Meet NNELL Summer Summit 2024 inspiring faces!
🗓️Live online conference July 22-23

"Seeding a Foundation for a Multilingual World"

📝Registration is open:
https://nnell.org/join-online-registration/

Fee includes a one-year membership to NNELL

Call for Proposals closes May 30, 2024! Please join us in Louisville, KY this September for our annual conference. We are seeking proposals for 2-hour workshops and 45-minute sessions about any World Language topic, with specific interest in Pedagogy & Practical Strategies. Apply at tiny.cc/KWLA-CFP24

If you would like to present as a representative of a business, please contact [email protected] for more information.

📣Join us for our fifth annual NNELL Summer Summit:
"Seeding a Foundation for a Multilingual World"

📝Click here to register: http://nnell.org
😃Registration fee includes a one-year membership

REGISTRATION & PROPOSALS OPEN NOW! The KWLA Annual Conference will be held September 13-14, 2024 at the Holiday Inn Hurstbourne in Louisville, KY. Our theme is Finding our way, Finding our why and we will have a keynote by Dr. Florencia Henshaw, professor of Spanish at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, co-author of Common Ground: Second Language Acquisition Theory Goes to the Classroom and co-editor of Honing Our Craft: World Language Teaching Today.

(1) To submit a proposal (closes May 30, notifications by June 30): https://forms.gle/vtgQ8qtNcoqLLaUT8
(2) To nominate an individual or organization for an award: https://forms.gle/UcJeqT6y63BeHsZr7
(3) To register for the conference (closes Sept 6; onsite registration will include a $50 upcharge): https://kwla.wildapricot.org/event-5554298
(4) To reserve your hotel room (closes Aug 15): https://www.ihg.com/holidayinn/hotels/us/en/find-hotels/select-roomrate?fromRedirect=true&qSrt=sBR&qIta=99801505&icdv=99801505&qSlH=SDFEA&qCiD=12&qCiMy=082024&qCoD=14&qCoMy=082024&qGrpCd=XS7&setPMCookies=true&qSHBrC=HI&qDest=1325%20South%20Hurstbourne%20Parkway,%20Louisville,%20KY,%20US&srb_u=1&qChAge=&qRmFltr=
(5) Sponsor/Exhibitor/Corporate Information (closes Aug 15):
https://kwla.wildapricot.org/event-5488696

A note about registration costs: KWLA is aware that conference registration has increased substantially over the past several years. Part of this is due to the return to the in-person, two-day format. However, venue costs (including venue-mandatory food costs) have also risen dramatically. In order to keep KWLA a thriving and supportive world language community, changes must be made. This year, in order to honor our venue contract, we have increased prices. Over the summer, KWLA will be sending a survey to members to determine how you would like our organization to proceed in light of current costs. Thank you for your understanding!

We're thrilled to announce the release of the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines 2024, marking a giant leap in language assessment standards! Thank you to our wonderful members and staff for their invaluable contributions! Check out the full press release at: https://bit.ly/3xlV7L5