2013 Central States
Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages,
Columbus, Ohio – attended by Jacque Bott Van Houten,
past president and Nadine Jacobsen, vice president
During her Keynote, Terry Caccavale,
past president of NNELL thanked our organization and its
hardworking members for their efforts on behalf of early
Language Learning.
Congratulations to Carol Ann Dahlberg
who received the 2013 Founders Award for Professional
Excellence in Language Education for the work that she
and Helena Curtain have done for the
profession. We all concur with the quote below and are
so proud of their contributions!
“Together they provide an inspiring model for all
language educators to follow. Each has made countless
contributions to language teaching and learning.”
2013 Northeast Conference
on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Baltimore,
Maryland – attended by Rita A. Oleksak, president
NNELL president, Rita A. Oleksak,
attended the NECTFL conference recently last month in
Baltimore. She had the opportunity to network with our
generous sponsors and advertisers in an effort to secure
more opportunities for our NNELL members. Please look
for these sponsors who have agreed, to date, to support
our NNELL National Summer Institute 2013:
ACTFL, Santillana, Sans
(Chester Technical), MaFLA
If you know of other companies that would like to
sponsor a part of this exciting summer professional
development event please have them contact our president
directly at:
roleksak@nnell.org
Upcoming Conferences:
Rita will also be attending the upcoming National
Chinese Language Conference from April 7-9, 2013 in
Boston, MA and she welcomes the opportunity to meet
fellow NNELLer’s!
Nadine Jacobsen
(njacobsen@nnell.org) and Rita A. Oleksak
(roleksak@nnell.org)
will be attending the Joint National Committee on
Languages meeting in Washington, DC from May 9-11, 2013
in order to advocate for support of early language
learning. Please send them your comments and ideas to
bring forward to our national lobbying organization.
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