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From http://www.caesny.org/p/annual-institute.html

The CAES board is pleased to announce that the 55th Annual Institute will be held at Skidmore College on Friday and Saturday, October 26-27, 2018. This year's theme is Omnia mutantur nos et mutamur in illis.

Visit the institute website at http://www.caesny.org/p/annual-institute.html

TFLTA Annual Conference
"Paving the Path to Proficiency: Investigate, Innovate, Integrate"
November 2-3, 2018
Franklin

Visit the conference website at http://www.tflta.org/annual-conference.html

From http://www.statehumanities.org/2018-national-humanities-conference-nola/

The Federation of State Humanities Councils and the National Humanities Alliance are organizing the 2018 National Humanities Conference in New Orleans, LA, November 8-11, to bring the public and academic humanities communities together again to share best practices, encourage collaboration, and inspire conversation on how we can best use the humanities to respond to local, national, and global challenges. The humanities offer a wide range of tools for exploring solutions to contemporary issues as well as provide context for better understanding between diverse groups and viewpoints.

Visit the conference website at http://www.statehumanities.org/2018-national-humanities-conference-nola/

From https://www.kentuckyteacher.org/bulletin-board/conferences-workshops/2018/08/academic-language-of-math-webinar-offered/

The Kentucky Department of Education and the WIDA (World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment) Consortium will host a webinar on the academic language of mathematics from 2 to 4 PM on September 13. The webinar is designed for English learners (EL) teachers, mathematics teachers and other staff members who work with ELs.

The webinar will focus on sociocultural factors that influence language use in math classrooms and types of supports and strategies to support ELs access to math content. It will be grounded in the disciplinary practices of the mathematics classroom and the communication needs to participate in these practices.

The webinar will be recorded and archived in the WIDA download library located in the WIDA Secure Portal. Access the portal and webinar requires a username and password, and only Kentucky teachers and administrators that give the ACCESS test to students have an account. Staff members such as EL coordinators or EL teachers may log in to the archived webinar, download materials and lead a professional learning community group in a school or districtwide.

Register at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeqgWiAGEphxdgw-G4QY3zdIrvU8EvVQWji4a85lnKGleYDow/viewform

The national Association for Bilingual Education will host its 2018 NABE Equity institute in collaboration with the Education Trust West. The institute, "Resisting Inequity: Language as Power and Right," will take place September 14 in Sacramento, California. 

Engage with superintendents and other senior leaders in examining values-driven and research informed approaches for designing and sustaining powerful multilingual learning environments for English learners.

Learn more and register at https://www.nabe-conference.com/equity-institute.html

From http://www.cal.org/news-and-events/calendar-of-events/dle-in-21st-century

Dual Language Education in the 21st Century: Opportunities, Challenges and Lessons Learned
Presented by Dr. Kathy Escamilla, Dr. Fred Genesee, Dr. M. Beatriz Arias, Dr. Igone Arteagoitia
September 26, 2018
Center for Applied Linguistics
Washington, D.C.

Dual language education programs are becoming increasingly popular across the U.S. Not only have the numbers of K-5 dual language programs increased exponentially, dual language approaches have extended to Pre-K and secondary education. A soon to be released CAL/Multilingual Matters publication, Profiles of Dual Language Education in the 21st Century will be highlighted.

Join members of CAL’s board of trustees and staff for an insightful discussion focused on research, opportunities and challenges of dual language education. 

Welcome and Introductions: Dr. Fred Genesee and Dr. Joel Gómez
Dr. Kathy Escamilla will review the challenges to dual language implementation
Dr. Fred Genesee will identify lessons learned from dual language research
Dr. Beatriz Arias will summarize research on the three goals of dual language education
Dr. Igone Arteagoitia will identify salient programmatic components for a legacy dual language program

Please RSVP by September 10, 2018. Full details are available at http://www.cal.org/news-and-events/calendar-of-events/dle-in-21st-century

From http://iallt.org/webinars/9-14-18/

Free International Association for Language Learning Technology webinar for September 14, 2018
Let’s Chat! A Model for Proficiency-Based Conversation Labs and Task-based, OER Activities

In this webinar, the presenter will discuss the conversation lab model used at Boise State and the resulting OER project that will make the activities available to other universities, community colleges, and K-12 institutions. Over 400 interpersonal speaking activities (proficiency levels ranging from Novice to Advanced) have been developed for six different languages, with more to come.

Learn more and register at http://iallt.org/webinars/9-14-18/#

Episode 68 of the Wee Teach Languages podcast series is available at https://weteachlang.com/2018/08/31/ep-68-with-erin-whelchel/. 

In this episode, Maris Hawkins interviews Erin Whelchel about the Lead with Languages campaign from the American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). Did you know that research shows that world languages are one of the top skills required by employers across all industries? Listen as Maris and Erin discuss the value of language learning as well as the advocacy resources available through the Lead with Languages campaign.

The Lead with Languages website is available at http://www.leadwithlanguages.org/

From https://languagepolicy.org/senate-committee-holds-hearing-on-native-american-language-revitalization/

Senate Committee Holds Hearing on Native American Language Revitalization
August 22, 2018

The Senate Committee Hearing on the efforts to revitalize Native American Languages was a great success in both making new connections at DHS as well as hearing positive testimony from Senators and panelist alike about the tangible and intangible value that Native American languages bring to this country. JNCL-NCLIS was in attendance and distributed dozens of America’s Languages Call to Action one-pagers.

After the hearing, JNCL met with the new Commissioner of the Administration of Native Americans, Jeannie (Jean Carol) Hovland, during which she was given a hard copy of the full Congressionally commissioned AAAS report for her and her staff to review. Ms. Hovland is a veteran Hill staffer, working in the office of Sen. Thune (R-SD) on Tribal Affairs. Now only two months into her new tenure as Commissioner, she eager to learn more about the ANA and wants to continue our conversation in upcoming meetings with our office.

You can download highlights from the meeting as well as the witness panel’s written testimony at https://languagepolicy.org/senate-committee-holds-hearing-on-native-american-language-revitalization/. You can view the recording of the hearing here: https://www.indian.senate.gov/hearing/oversight-hearing-examining-efforts-maintain-and-revitalize-native-languages-future

JNCL-NCLIS represents over 100 national, regional and state organizations encompassing virtually all areas of the language field: the major and less-commonly taught languages, including English and English as a second language, bilingual education, the classics, linguistics, exchanges, research, technology, and translation.