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Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTL) Summer Teacher Institute (Posted on 4/8/08)

Our third Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTL) Summer Teacher Institute will take place on June 16–20, 2008. During this five-day workshop, teachers will work with nationally-known consultants to develop standards-based materials for teaching and assessing Chinese and Japanese. The institute will be held at Walt Whitman High School, 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Funding for the institute is provided by the International Research and Studies Grant, Meeting the Standards for Less Commonly Taught Languages.

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To register for the institute, please contact Janet D. Parker janet_dannemiller@mcpsmd.org

Karen Willetts from Springbrook HS won a $10,000 grant (Posted on 4/8/08)

Springbrook High School teacher Karen Willetts and Springbrook’s Foreign Language Department won a $10,000 grant from the National Foreign Language Center of the University of Maryland’s STARTALK project. Their proposal was titled “Arabic Summer Institute: An Introduction to the Arabic Language and Cultures.”