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How 3 Teachers in Stark County Created a Travel Team to Get More Students into the World Megan Brady, OFLA Beginning Teacher Chair Spanish Teacher, Northwest High School What are we doing to motivate our students to learn languages when … Continue reading →

Dr. Roger Anderson, Assistant Professor of International Languages & Cultures, Central State University In the 18th century, French aristocrats fleeing the violence of the French Revolution were lured to the Ohio River Valley by scammers, who succeeded in swindling them. … Continue reading →

Dr. Roger Anderson, Assistant Professor of International Languages & Cultures, Central State University For those unfamiliar, Rick Steves is the U.S. European travel expert whose brand (empire?) encompasses travel shows on radio and television, annual guidebooks, and even touring packages … Continue reading →

Richard Emch, Ohio Foreign Language Association PresidentFrench Teacher, North Royalton High School Planning a conference, particularly one the size and quality of the Ohio Foreign Language Association’s Annual Conference, is always quite an undertaking. As you can imagine, it has … Continue reading →

The Ohio Foreign Language Association voted at its February 12, 2022 board meeting to revise its Vision Statement. The inclusion of the word culture puts OFLA in step with the Ohio Department of Education’s Learning Standards for World Languages and Cultures adopted in March 2020. This is from ODE’s website:  In March … Continue reading →

Kaleigh Baker, OFLA Executive Vice PresidentSpanish Teacher, Butler High School If you are newer to being 1:1 with Chromebooks or iPads in your school, you have probably come across the problem where your former Word documents or PowerPoint presentations just … Continue reading →

Cheryl Johnson, OFLA Immediate Past PresidentInstructional Technologist for the Dept of Modern Languages, Denison University What is social annotation? As defined by Cornell’s Center for Teaching Innovation, “social annotation is reading and thinking together. It brings the age-old process of … Continue reading →

SpanishPlans.Org Lisa Howie, OFLA Executive TreasurerSpanish Teacher, Smithville High School I learned about this activity, like so many others I use, at an OFLA conference several years ago. Actually, I believe my colleague first showed me one in German and … Continue reading →

Beth Hanlon, OFLA Executive Recorder and Editor of The CardinalSpanish Teacher, Oberlin High School I want to first state that I realize how unbelievably late to the Pear Deck scene I am.  As a Xennial, I grew up as the … Continue reading →

Antiracism in the world language classroom and the importance of having difficult conversations Milton Alan Turner, OFLA Editor for Electronic MediaFrench Teacher, Saint Ignatius High School The recent Disney film Encanto tells the story of the Madrigal family whose members … Continue reading →