Category Archives: Committee News

Abby Arace, OWLA Beginning Teachers ChairFrench Teacher, New Albany Middle School The OWLA 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. We want … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

Abby Arace, 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 is … Continue reading →

Samantha Colby, OFLA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee ChairToledo Technology Academy of Engineering In a world that is becoming more diverse and language is being used to understand and communicate with others, OFLA must ensure that diversity, equity, and inclusion … Continue reading →

Jonathan Harris, OFLA Early Language Learning ChairSpanish Teacher, St. Gabriel Consolidated School Before I proceed with this article, let me briefly introduce myself. My name is Jonathan Harris and I have been teaching Spanish in grades K-8 at St. Gabriel … Continue reading →