Lucas Hoffman, OFLA President 2016-2017
French & Spanish Teacher, Sylvania Southview High School
Dear OFLA colleagues,
As the 2016-2017 academic year comes to an end, I’d like to look back at the good work that OFLA has accomplished this year. I also have a number of acknowledgements to make as well.
Last spring, we sent out a membership survey gathering information about your member needs and interests. In late summer, the OFLA board came together to reflect on your feedback in order to update our OFLA Mission, Vision and Strategic Plan. In an effort to combat teacher shortages in world languages, the OFLA board adopted a fourth objective as part of our Strategic Plan: Advocate to attract, support and retain highly qualified foreign language educators in individual committees specifically targeted your goals as they developed their projects for the year.
In addition, the Ohio Teacher of the Year Committee was very excited to announce Angela Garritano as the 2017 Ohio Foreign Language Teacher of the Year. She is an outstanding teacher with strong and warm support from her administration, parents and students. Continue reading
