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Monthly Archives: February 2025
Meet the OFLA Teacher of the Year
Lesley Chapman, OFLA Public Relations and Advocacy ChairFrench Teacher, Sycamore High School It is so exciting to introduce our membership to Maria Herman, OFLA’s 2025 Teacher of the Year. Maria is a great advocate of world language education, and we … Continue reading
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Spotlight on New Teachers: Kendal Smith
Abby Arace, OFLA Beginning Teachers ChairFrench Teacher, New Albany Middle School The OFLA Beginning Teacher Committee is working hard to connect with new teachers and to support them in becoming excellent, innovative, resourceful, and long-lasting world language teachers. Our goal … Continue reading
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Listen Up!
Implementing Luvvoice AI into Your Interpretive Listening Activities Samantha Colby, OFLA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee ChairSpanish Teacher, Toledo Technology Academy of Engineering In an effort to give my students more authentic listening opportunities, I began searching for a text-to-speech … Continue reading
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Recommended Websites for World Language Education
Jonathan Harris, OFLA Early Language Learning ChairSpanish Teacher, St. Gabriel Consolidated School In my previous article, I provided a list of apps recommended by NNELL, the National Network for Early Language Learners. As an early language teacher for nearly the … Continue reading
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On the Same Page
Aligning Practices as a Tool in Increasing Program Enrollment Dawn N. Michael, OFLA Recruitment & Retention ChairReynoldsburg City Schools This is a follow-up piece to my October article entitled “Where Did All the Our (Language) Students Go? Examining Systemic and … Continue reading
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A Peek Inside the 2025 Conference Raffle
Supporting our Scholarship and Grant Fund! Nicole Hanlon, OFLA Scholarship ChairFrench Teacher, Buckeye Valley High School Did you know that every year at the Conference, we host a raffle to help fund our scholarships and grants? Participation in the raffle … Continue reading
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Have You Heard about Cleveland’s Community Arts Center?
idden Gem for Modern Language Educators Alondra Pacheco, AATSP 9-12 Representative As an educator, I am always looking for innovative ways to bring culture alive for my students. Being able to visit the Community Arts Center/ Centro de Artes Comunitarias … Continue reading
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Around the State
Ryan Wertz and Kathy Shelton, Education Program Specialists for World Languages and Cultures, Ohio Department of Education and Workforce Ohio’s Learning Standards for World Languages and Cultures as the basis for establishing an effective pathway to the Ohio Seal of … Continue reading
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Left Off the Map, Left Out of Democracy
Comparing French Polynesia and U.S. Territories Dr. Roger W. Anderson, Independent Scholar Find the world map hanging in your school. Does it: This is the most common (political) world map and most common way it is mounted on walls within … Continue reading
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Portrait of the Language Department Chair as a Young Federalist
In Which I Passionately Defend 0.0004% of the Department of Education Derek A. Petrey, Chair, Department of Humanities, Government and Modern Languages, Sinclair Community College In 2024, the United States Department of Education (DoE) proposed to spend 90 billion dollars … Continue reading
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