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Title: Health and Human Services Announces New Funding for Native Languages
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HHS announces new funding to preserve Native languages, strengthen early childhood development and tribal courts
August 18, 2015
Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell today announced up to $5.8 million to help tribal communities boost early learning and development services, enhance native language revitalization efforts, and assess and improve the handling of child welfare cases including abuse, neglect, guardianship and adoption. HHS will award $4.2 million for Native American language revitalization, $600,000 for the Tribal Early Learning Initiative (TELI), and $1 million for the Tribal Court Improvement Program (TCIP).
…HHS, through the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), is funding 17 new grants totaling $4.2 million to help Native American language revitalization efforts. Use of Native languages has been declining for decades. This funding will help preserve and strengthen tribal communities’ cultures and identities by supporting the use of Native American languages. One special category of Native language revitalization grants, the Esther Martinez Immersion grants, will be awarded to the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation of Montana to launch a language immersion nest, serving children through age 3. The Bitterroot Salish dialect, spoken on the Flathead Reservation, is critically endangered with less than 1 percent of the tribal members using it for daily communication and only 30 fluent speakers, all over age 50.
Other Tribes and Native American organizations that will receive new funding for Native Language projects include: Stone Child College (Montana), Chickaloon Native Village (Arkansas), Passamaquoddy Tribe (Maine), Sitting Bull College (North Dakota), Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde (Oregon), Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians (Michigan), Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians of Michigan (Michigan) Kaw Nation (Oklahoma), Igiugig Village (Arkansas), Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association Inc. (Arkansas), the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria (California), Rural America Initiatives (South Dakota), Red Cloud Indian School Inc. (South Dakota), Lakota Language Consortium (Indiana), the 'Aha Kane Foundation for the Advancement of Native Hawaiian (Hawaii), and Para I Probechu'n I Taotao-ta Inc. (Guam).
Read the full article at http://nativetimes.com/index.php/news/federal/11964-hhs-announces-new-funding-to-preserve-native-languages-strengthen-early-childhood-development-and-tribal-courts
Source: Native American Times
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Title: 2015 Dora Johnson Awards for Arabic Teachers
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From http://www.cal.org/news-and-events/in-the-news/2015-dora-johnson-awards
The ACTFL Arabic SIG announces the 2015 Dora Johnson Awards, sponsored by the Qatar Foundation International (QFI). The 2015 Dora Johnson Awards will provide funding up to $1,000 for 15 K-12 Arabic language educators to support attendance at the 2015 ACTFL Convention in San Diego, California in November 2015.
Submissions are due Sunday, August 30, 2015.
For full details go to http://www.cal.org/news-and-events/in-the-news/2015-dora-johnson-awards
Source: CAL
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Title: Lesson Plan Contest: Arab Society and Culture
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From http://arabicalmasdar.org/lesson-plan-contest/
Are you a K-12 teacher? Would you like to win $500? Have you ever designed a lesson that centered on some aspect of the Arab world? The Qatar Foundation International (QFI) is hosting a lesson plan contest to showcase outstanding lesson plans about Arab society and culture in the Arab World in various disciplines (such as the arts, science, history, geography, and more).
The deadline to submit your lesson plan is September 30, 2015.
For full details go to http://arabicalmasdar.org/lesson-plan-contest/
Source: Al-Masdar
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Title: Grants and Fellowships from the Japan Foundation
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From http://www.jfny.org
Here are three sources of funding from the Japan Foundation:
INSTITUTIONAL PROJECT SUPPORT - SMALL GRANT PROGRAM -
This program is designed to: (i) support institutions that face difficulties maintaining current levels of infrastructure due to cuts in funding for Japanese studies in the US; and (ii) stimulate interest in Japanese studies by small and newer institutions without an established program of Japanese studies or those that lack personnel or resources.
Grants of up to $25,000 will be given to institutions that execute proposals designed to maintain and advance the infrastructural scale of Japanese Studies at their institution.
Support in this round will be given for project activities taking place within one year of award.
Application materials must arrive at the JFNY office no later than Thursday, October 15, 2015.
Full details: http://www.jfny.org/japanese_studies/ips_smallgrant.html
INSTITUTIONAL PROJECT SUPPORT (IPS) PROGRAM
This annual program is designed to encourage innovative and sustained growth of Japanese studies in the United States. Each institution should formulate convincing proposals that enhance the teaching of Japan, the quality of research on Japan, the quality of equipment and materials (including libraries), and provide opportunities for students and faculty to travel to Japan.
Projects must commence between April 1, 2016 and March 31, 2017 and its duration can be up to three years. The maximum amount of the grant request from the Japan Foundation is $150,000 per year.
The application must be received by the Japan Foundation, New York by post no later than Monday, November 2, 2015.
Full details: http://www.jfny.org/japanese_studies/institutionalsupport.html
JAPANESE STUDIES FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
This program provides support to outstanding scholars in the field by offering the opportunity to conduct research in Japan.
2016-2017 Fellowship Categories
Scholars and Researchers (Long-Term) (2-12 months):
Scholars and researchers in the humanities or social sciences. Applicants must hold Ph.D. or equivalent professional experience at the time of application.
Scholars and Researchers (Short-Term) (21-59 days):
Scholars and researchers in the humanities and social sciences who need to conduct intensive research in Japan. Applicants must hold Ph.D. or equivalent professional experience at the time of application.
Doctoral Candidates (4-12 months):
Doctoral candidates in the humanities or social sciences. Applicants must have achieved ABD status by the time the fellowship begins.
Application deadline: 11:59pm EST on Monday, November 2, 2015
Full details: http://www.jfny.org/japanese_studies/fellowship.html
Source: Japan Foundation New York
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Title: Candy Cone Tradition Sweetens Start of School for First-Graders in Germany
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Here is an English-language article about the tradition of giving candy-filled cones to first-graders at the beginning of the school year in Germany: http://www.germany.info/Vertretung/usa/en/04__W__t__G/01/05__Schultueten/Schultueten__S.html
Source: Germany.info
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Title: PANDEKTIS: Digital Thesaurus of Primary Sources for Greek History and Culture
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From http://pandektis.ekt.gr/dspace/history.jsp
'PANDEKTIS - A Digital Thesaurus of Primary Sources for Greek History and Culture' is a project of the National Hellenic Research Foundation which contains major digital collections of Greek history and civilization. The project aims to provide free access to eleven integrated and scientifically elaborated collections produced by the three humanistic Institutes of the National Hellenic Foundation for Research - Institute of Greek and Roman Antiquity, Institute of Byzantine Research, Institute of Neohellenic Research.
The collections originate from primary documents of Greek history and civilization. Certain applications have been developed to ensure the digital homogeneity of the documents, a single interface for the provision and search of the databases through Internet services, by using tools and products developed by EKT.
Visit the PANDEKTIS website at http://pandektis.ekt.gr/dspace/
Source: PANDEKTIS
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Title: SLO Pre-Assessment for French 2 Students
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Do you need to set Student Learning Objectives and pre-assess for them in your school? Here is an example for how you can do it, from French teacher, blogger, and InterCom guest contributor Lisa Shepard: http://madameshepard.com/?p=820
Source: Madame's Musings
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Title: Comme Une Française: Focus on Colloquial French
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From http://www.commeunefrancaise.com/
Géraldine Lapère is a French woman with a website dedicated to French as it is actually spoken in France. Website resources include videos with lessons in colloquial French and an email subscription to tips and more video lessons each Tuesday.
Ms. Lapère’s website is available at http://www.commeunefrancaise.com/
Source: Comme Une Française
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Title: Authentic Resources for Young Spanish Learners
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Teen magazines are engaging for your young learners - and here are some authentic resources from Spanish-language teen magazines dealing with going back to school, from the SpanishPlans.org website: http://spanishplans.org/2013/08/18/authenticresources/
Source: SpanishPlans.org
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Title: Actividad con refranes
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From http://anotacionesconele.blogspot.com
Here is a quick mixer activity for exposing students to different refranes (sayings) in Spanish: http://anotacionesconele.blogspot.com/2015/08/actividad-con-refranes.html
Source: Anotaciones con ELE
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