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Title: December Edition of the NCLRC Language Resource Center
Body: From: "nclrc" National Capital Language Resource Center Georgetown University The George Washington University Center for Applied Linguistics Vol. 7, No. 7 THE LANGUAGE RESOURCE December 2003 The Language Resource is a monthly publication of the National Capital Language Resource Center. The purpose of the newsletter is to provide practical teaching strategies, share insights from research, and announce professional development opportunities for elementary, secondary, and post-secondary foreign language educators. The center is funded by the U.S. Department of Education through Title VI of the Higher Education Act. We are a consortium of Georgetown University, The George Washington University, and the Center for Applied Linguistics. ACCESS THE NEWSLETTER ARCHIVES FROM www.nclrc.org/caidlrar.htm NEW & IMPORTANT: • Culture Club: The NCLRC will be creating a brand-new online hotspot for anyone interested in teaching and experiencing the world’s diverse cultures. Culture Club will feature pertinent articles on culture, innovative suggestions about teaching culture to FL students, quality lessons/activities, and current listings of cultural events. Stay tuned for this exciting feature in the Language Resource and on the website. • Summer Institute Offerings: Check the NCLRC website and next month’s newsletter for details on NCLRC’s 2004 Summer Institute Schedule. • Elementary Immersion Learning Strategies Resource Guide available free online! • Arabicizing Windows: Enabling Windows Applications to Read and Write Arabic by al-Husein N. Madhany has been revised and updated.
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Title: WEB SITES FOR TEACHERS
Body: From: NCLRC WEB SITES FOR TEACHERS - Abigail Bartoshesky As language teachers, we are constantly searching for outside resources to supplement our classroom materials. In this article, we aim to save you some time by exploring and recommending language and education websites we find interesting and effective. This month: - A guide to typing foreign characters on your computer - A guide to developing fun, educational bilingual web sites for language students - Learn how to count to 10 in over 4,500 languages Link: http://www.nclrc.org/caidlr77.htm#web
Source: Abigail Bartoshesky
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Title: ECIS Videos
Body: From: "richard harrison" ECIS Videos are available at http://opal.ecis.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~jems/hosokyoku/bangumi.html 43 「それ」はなんでしょう。14 地下鉄開業 紙幣発見 ENJOY !! Richard Harrison Educational Center for International Students Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Japan Tel 052 789 4594
Source: ECIS
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Title: The 2004 Fellowship in Educational Equity
Body: From: "Anselmo Villanueva" The 2004 Fellowship in Educational Equity Description of Responsibilities: Applications are now being accepted for California Tomorrow's 2004 Fellowship in Educational Equity. California Tomorrow is a non-profit organization based in Oakland, CA and dedicated to helping create a fair and equitable society that promotes the full participation of all people. We value all forms of diversity and have done extensive work and research on valuing culture and language as one of our greatest assets. The organization works throughout California to support individual, institutional and community transformation through action research, policy development, advocacy, coalition building and capacity building. The Fellowship is named for Lew H. Butler, a visionary who as President of California Tomorrow's board for 16 years fundamentally shaped the direction of our work. The Fellowship honors his enduring commitment to investing in the development of a new generation of leaders. The 2004 Fellowship in Educational Equity offers an opportunity to work alongside and learn from California Tomorrow's Director, Laurie Olsen. Dr. Olsen is a nationally renown researcher, writer, evaluator, keynote speaker, passionate advocate, state leader and sought-after provider of professional development and technical assistance support to communities and educators on creating equitable and high achieving schools that honor and celebrate the languages and cultures of all children. The 2004 Fellow will accompany and be involved in a variety of activities with Dr. Olsen, including: - coaching schools through equity-centered change processes - participating in state-wide educational justice coalitions - designing and conducting workshops for educators and community members - conducting research on topics related to educational equity - developing materials (tools, publications, videos) to articulate a vision, inspire and inform people about creating inclusive schools and communities - and participating in the life and work of a small, exciting social justice oriented non-profit organization COMPENSATION The Fellowship is a full-time position for 9 - 12 months in residence at California Tomorrow. It pays $2,500 per month, plus health, dental and vision benefits. All travel expenses associated with the Fellowship are covered. A small "learning and personal development" fund is also provided. ELIGIBILITY The ideal candidate has a strong interest in education, teaching and social justice. The candidate should be pursuing a career in public education and/or the non-profit sector and advocacy related to educational equity. APPLICATION PROCESS Interested candidates should submit a letter of interest no later than January 15, 2004. The letter should: explain why you would like this Fellowship opportunity, describe what you hope to do in your life related to education, identify particular issues that you hope to be able to learn about as part of this Fellowship (and why), and tell us about your personal experience and the skills and perspectives that you would bring to this position. Attach a resume and list of three references. Applications should be sent to: California Tomorrow Attn: Laurie Olsen 1904 Franklin Street, Suite 300 Oakland, CA 94612 Questions should be directed to Laurie Olsen at (510) 496-0220, ext. 321 or through email at laurieo@californiatomorrow.org.
Source: California Tomorrow
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Title: Call for Submissions
Body: From: "Anselmo Villanueva" For an upcoming issue of Manoa, I would like to gather international writing from younger authors from throughout the Pacific region, without regard to national boundaries. As you know, over the last several years, we've been focusing on specific countries. I'd like us to break out of this format, at least for now, and showcase a greater mixture of voices, all bound together. I'm requesting that Manoa corresponding editors and friends please join in collaborating on this issue, which we will call, unglamorously for now, "The Pacific Hemisphere Under Thirty-Five: Younger Writers from Asia, the Pacific, and the Americas." For now, I'm looking for prose only: either fiction or literary nonfiction. (Perhaps we can do a volume of poetry like this later. ) The age "thirty-five" is pretty arbitrary; the impulse here is simply to see what upcoming---rather than beginner or established---writers around the region are doing. I am not seeking experimentation for its own sake, so the work need not be explicitly "post-" anything. Good writing is hard enough to find without putting too many requisites on its form or content. In this case, age, hemisphere, and quality are enough restrictions. Please look around your region for what you think are the best stories by younger authors and send them to me by no later than the first week of March 2004---or have the authors send them directly. Send as many as you like, and tell others if you like---but really I'm depending on each of you as individuals that I trust. The works should be previously unpublished---or, they may be previously published provided they have had only limited distribution, not worldwide, and have no unreasonable copyright restrictions on them. The works may be written originally in any language, but they need to be sent to me in translation and will be published in English. All of you who send submissions and suggestions will be credited with editing the book; Manoa's general editor and staff will make final final selections. Of course I would like to have as broad and equitable a representation of voices as possible, but that is not the book's goal and will not drive the final contents. Authors, translators, and contributing editors will receive multiple copies of the book, but shouldn't expect a fee. We are too poor. The book, however, will be beautiful and the content as wonderful and surprising as we (with your help) can make it. Thanks very much. As usual, you can send things by post to: Manoa Journal Department of English University of Hawaii 1733 Donaghho Road Honolulu HI 96822 USA Best wishes and aloha for the new year, Frank Frank Stewart, Editor Tel: 808-956-3059 http://www.hawaii.edu/mjournal/ Launched in 1989, MANOA strives to bring the literature of Asia and the Pacific to the United States and to bring American writing to Asian and Pacific readers. To date, the journal has published fifteen volumes and about 3,000 pages and 700 writers, translators, reviewers, and editors. It also sponsors readings and performances, sometimes bringing writers from other countries to the U.S.
Source: Manoa Journal
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Title: Meyer Memorial Trust Teacher Initiative Grants
Body: From: "Anselmo Villanueva" Meyer Memorial Trust Teacher Initiative Grants can be submitted until February 1. This is the second year for these grants to be submitted entirely online. This year there is more money: $2,000 for individual grants and $6,000 for team grants--and money matching options have been eliminated. These grants are only for classroom projects that occur in Oregon or Clark County Washington, which makes the odds very favorable. The new application is easy to complete, but if you would like assistance in planning or completing an application there is still room in the Meyer Workshop on Thursday, January 8, at 4:00 p.m. in the Tower Room at the Education Center. Please RSVP to Mazzarella@4j.lane.edu or call 687-6948 so that we can accommodate everyone. Meyer will not fund salaries. See http://www.mmt.org/stiguide.html for guidelines.
Source: Meyer Memorial Trust
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Title: NEA Foundation for the Improvement of Education (NFIE) Learning and Leadership Grants
Body: From: NEA NEA Foundation for the Improvement of Education (NFIE) Learning and Leadership grants fund recipients to participate in a high-quality professional development experience or organize a collegial study group that leads to improvements in practice, curriculum, and student achievement in the school. They award $2,000 for an individual and $5,000 for a group and give 75 grants per year. NFIE Innovation Grants provide $5,000 to support collaborative efforts to develop and implement creative ideas that improve student achievement. Break-the-mold ideas that focus on closing the achievement gap for underserved students are encouraged. The majority of grant funds must be spent on materials or educational experiences for students. No deadline, but grants are reviewed February 15, June 15, and November 15. See http://www.nfie.org/programs/grantguides.htm
Source: NEA
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Title: Please help us recruit teachers and students
Body: From: Leeann Bennett Hello! You may recall that back in December I contacted you asking for your assistance in advertising our focus groups and interviews. Thanks to your help we were able to hold focus groups with parents and some students. It may have been the time of year which prevented us from being able to recruit teachers and other students, and for that reason, I am contacting you again to ask for your assistance once more. We would very much like to hear from K-3 teachers and students so that we may meet their needs as we build a program to help reduce racial bias in young children. During the month of January, we will be conducting focus groups and interviews. We would greatly appreciate any help you may be able to provide. Please expect a call from me in the next day or two to ask permission to drop off flyers advertising these opportunities. Appended to this email is a blurb about our research project that you may choose to print in a newsletter that your school may put out. Please feel free to mention this opportunity also in a staff meeting or a meeting with parents groups. As always, please contact me with any questions or concerns you may have. I may be reached at (541) 342-7227. Yours truly, Leeann Bennett Project Coordinator All That We Are Project Oregon Center for Applied Science (541) 342-7227 Newsletter blurb: It's not too late to participate! The Oregon Center for Applied Science needs your assistance with its research project to help reduce racial bias in young children. We need 15 K-3 teachers. We need 10 children of color (African American, Asian American, Bi-racial, Hispanic/Latino, Native American, etc.) in grades 2-3. We need 10 European American (white) children in grades K-1. Teachers receive $30 or $50 compensation (depending on the group). Children receive $10. For more information, please call the All That We Are Project at 284-1000.
Source: All That We Are Project
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Title: Celebrating Educational Opportunities for Hispanic Students
Body: From: "Anselmo Villanueva" April 23-25, 2004 Doubletree Hotel, Lloyd Center, Portland, Oregon 2004 Northwest Conference on Celebrating Educational Opportunities for Hispanic Students Call for Model Program Submission: Do you have a successful program for Hispanic students that you would like to share with education leaders in the Northwest? If so, we'd like to hear from you. Visit website below for more information on call for submissions. The Oregon School Boards Association is proud to join with the school board associations of Idaho, Nevada and Washington in presenting the second annual Northwest Conference on Celebrating Education Opportunities for Hispanic Students. This conference will present innovative programs and strategies that have proven successful in strengthening the education of Hispanic/Latino students - strategies that can be applied across a variety of student groups. Who Should Attend: School board members, superintendents and district-level staff responsible for the education of English language learners, migrant students, Hispanic/Latino students, and other diverse student populations. Registration materials will be mailed in early 2004. For additional information contact Max Janikowski at or visit http://www.osba.org/leadrshp/ceo/index.htm Oregon School Boards Association 1201 Court Street NE, Suite 400 Salem, Oregon 97301 (503) 588-2800 1-800-578-OSBA FAX (503) 588-2813
Source: Oregon School Boards Association
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Title: Grant opportunities / Web sites
Body: From: Margaret Bates Education Specialist Curriculum, Instruction and Professional Technical Education Oregon Department of Education 503.378.3600, Ext. 4503 Funding Opportunities: Inspiration Software's 2004 Inspired Teachers Scholarships Deadline: Jan. 28, 2004 http://www.inspiration.com/prodev/index.cfm?fuseaction=scholarship National School and Business Partnerships Award Deadline: Jan. 29, 2004 http://www.corpschoolpartners.org/ SMARTer Kids Foundation's 2004 U.S. State Teachers of the Year Deadline: Jan. 31, 2004 http://www.smarterkids.org/excellence NEC Perfect Classroom Competition Deadline: Feb. 9, 2004 http://www.sciserv.org/necfoundation.asp FRONTLINE Teacher Center Contest Deadline: March 1, 2004 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/teach/contest.html HP Technology for Teaching Grant Initiative Deadline: March 1, 2004 http://grants.hp.com/us/programs/tech_teaching/index.html 2004 Docutek "Enhancing Teaching and Learning With the Web" Grant Program Deadline: March 15, 2004 http://www.docutek.com/products/atschool/grant.html Kids Karpet Playground Surfacing Giveaway Deadline: March 31, 2004 http://www.kidskarpet.com/main.php/contact_us/contest SMARTer Kids Grants for SMART Products Deadline: Sept. 30, 2004 http://www.smarterkids.org/k12/SMARTproducts/ Cartridges 4 Kids Fundraising Program and Contest Deadline: None http://www.cartridges4kids.ca/contest/contest.htm ------------------ web sites ------------ School Grants http://schoolgrants.org/ American Sign Language University http://www.lifeprint.com Teachers Network-Grants http://www.teachersnetwork.org/grants/
Source: Oregon Department of Education
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