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In February, the Association of Teachers of Japanese in Oregon (ATJO) visited CASLS at the University of Oregon in Eugene. ATJO promotes and supports Japanese teaching in Oregon, and they create strong connections among all Japanese teachers in the state.

CASLS and ATJO have a unique history of working together. CASLS was founded in 1997 as the Japanese Language Project to help establish standards-based benchmarks for Japanese as a result of state legislation passed in 1992 targeted at reforming the K-12 school system. CASLS founding director Carl Falsgraf spent many months visiting ATJO members' classrooms to discover the realities of K-12 education.

CASLS current director Julie Sykes reaffirmed the center's historic connection with ATJO. As a leader in the field in digital technologies and language acquisition, she provided a talk on place-based augmented reality and mobile games, specifically focusing on their application in a Japanese language and culture context. ATJO members participated in small group discussions. Afterward, ATJO conducted their annual meeting.