| Body |  The joint project between the University of Oregon Chinese Flagship Program and the Portland State University Russian Flagship Program, funded by the National Security Education Program, is coming to a close. The goal of this grant was to bring together Chinese and Russian classroom teachers, curriculum designers and experts in pedagogy in order to strengthen articulation between programs and develop clear pathways for students to continue their language learning throughout their academic careers. Working collaboratively with Portland Public Schools (PPS), Woodburn School District, Anchorage School District (ASD), and Portland Community College (PCC), the project had four major initiatives:
- A Strategic Planning and Advisory Board to review and evaluate project activities and to evaluate articulation needs related to the Portland State Russian Flagship Program and the University of Oregon Chinese Flagship Program.
- A K-16 Flagship Articulation Document for Russian and Chinese to inform stakeholders of the various pathways to graduation from either the PSU Russian Flagship Program or the UO Chinese Flagship Program.
- A Community College Network plan to identify areas of need in preparing students for Language Flagship Programs and to provide proficiency training and pedagogical support to Russian and Chinese community college instructors in the Pacific Northwest.
- A weeklong Summer Teacher Professional Development Workshop entitled, "Assessment, Curriculum Development, and Articulation" hosted in summer 2016 for Russian K-12 teachers with the goal of creating an online repository of documents and materials for other Russian teachers to benefit from, as many of the teachers and instructors often make all their own materials, particularly in K-12 immersion programs. The professional development workshop also was expanded to include the creation of STEM curriculum in Russian as a collaboration between PPS and ASD.
This was a unique grant as it was the only one of six other Language Flagship Linkages grants that involved community colleges in regards to strengthening articulation. CASLS would like to thank everyone who contributed and participated in this project and made it possible. To see our past spotlights on this project, please see July 4, 2016 and September 9, 2015.
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