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| A New Year's
Message from NNELL President, Rita Oleksak |
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Welcome to 2014!
 I
am happy to share with you that your NNELL
board and representatives have been hard at
work for you! Let me share with you a some
brief highlights regarding some very
important upcoming endeavors in early 2014:
- Thanks to everyone
who participated in the discussion on
the revisions to the bylaws. We
appreciate your feedback and will
incorporate your suggestions as we work
to modernize our bylaws. We will be
contacting you for a vote in the late
spring.
- A small team of NNELL members has
been invited to help review ACTFL
proposals for the San Antonio
convention.
Please consider submitting a proposal
for early language learning sessions!
Join us for one of our webinars
this winter/spring. Stacie
Berdan, author of
Raising Global Children is
presenting on January 30th at
7pm EST time.
- Check your inboxes towards the end
of the month for our fall/winter issue
of the Learning Languages Journal, where
Jessica Haxhi is
featured as she addresses the theme of
Learning Languages: Any time Any
place.
- This spring we will host a
northeast regional workshop in New
Jersey on April 5th. Please
check the website in March for more information. Thanks to
Nathan Lutz for hosting
NNELL.
- You won’t want to miss our
national summer institute from July
11-13, in Glastonbury, CT.
Registration will open in early
February. Stay tuned for details on
this!
- Next month we will be
unveiling a streamlined e-message system.
NNELL will be combining eNNELL notes and
eNewsworthy to offer one message,
eNNELL News. This will
come out on the 15th of the month. We
have heard your requests and we want to
streamline your inbox. Alerts will
continue to be a pop up when you check
the website and the journal will be sent
in an e-blast to members. Also on our
agenda, we have begun the process of
digitizing all of the NNELL journals in
order to allow our members electronic
access to the archived journals.
I welcome your ideas and suggestions and
look forward to opportunities to network. If
you would like to become more involved in
the organization, we are looking for
committee members for the nominating
committee and the awards committee.
We are also looking to fill the vacant seats
for
state and regional
representatives. (Check the
website or the newest journal for more
information or contact
msummerville@nnell.org.) Please consider
nominating someone outside of the profession
for the NNELL award. (Contact
njacobsen@nnell.org)
As always, thank you for your continued
support of NNELL! May you have a wonderful
new year filled with amazing professional
opportunities!
Rita Oleksak
NNELL President
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Upcoming Webinar: Raising Global Children with ACTFL
Author Stacie Nevadomski Berdan |
 Please mark your calendars for:
Date: January 30, 2014
Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm EST
In today’s ever-more connected global world, both language and cross-cultural skills are proving to be essential differentiators for long-term career success. The process of raising global children begins at home, but it must also be reinforced and expanded on in schools. Join award-winning author Stacie Nevadomski Berdan as she presents both strategy and tactics for teachers and parents alike as detailed in her latest book, Raising Global Children. |
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http://www.nnell.org/webinars |
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Changes
to NNELL ByLaws |
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Thank you to all of you who gave feedback
and participated in the revamping of the
bylaws. The last day for feedback on the
latest draft was December 22, 2013. At this
time, the Bylaws Committee will meet again
to review the bylaws once more, and create a
final draft to be presented to the NNELL
Board. NNELL members will be able to vote on
the approval of the bylaws in the spring of
2014.
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A
Picture of Early Language Programs Across
the Nation |
| Continuing the work of Dr. Marcia
Rosenbusch, Tammy Dann
(NNELL’s new Membership Secretary)
will be contacting public and private
schools across Iowa in an attempt to gather
information on early language programs each
school offers. This important work will help
NNELL create a current picture of where
early language programs are located across
the state. NNELL hopes to expand this work
across the country. If you are interested in
helping, either in Iowa or in your own
state, please contact
tdann@nnell.org or
msummerville@nnell.org. |
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| ACTFL 2014
Call for Proposals |
 The
2014 ACTFL Annual Convention and World
Languages Expo of the American Council on
the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
will be held November 21, 2014
through November 23, 2014, with
pre-convention workshops on November 20 at
the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in
San Antonio, Texas. The ACTFL Convention
features more than 600 educational sessions
covering the whole spectrum of the foreign
language profession. The theme for the 2014
Convention is Reaching Global Competence.
The entire selection process is designed
to provide attendees with an exciting array
of sessions and events to further your
knowledge and skills to become better,
well-informed teachers and administrators.
We welcome language educators at all levels
and of all languages to
submit a proposal.
Please note:
We are using a new submission system this
year, which has been designed to make the
process quicker and easier. When you login,
it is very important that you carefully read
all the information in the Submission
Guidelines before proceeding to complete
your online submission. The
submission deadline is Wednesday, January
15, 2014. All proposals for
consideration must be submitted online and
will not be accepted after the deadline
date.
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