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From: Administration administration@zachary-jones.com
Date: Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 4:01 PM
Subject: ACTFL World Languages 21st Century Skills video

Hello World Languages colleagues!
I would like to share a video we made recently for possible inclusion in
your newsletter and/or website.  The video is entitled "ACTFL World
Languages 21st Century Skills: A Visual Introduction" and can be found at
the following address:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXurDF0IbuQ

Hope it proves useful and interesting to you!  Also we hope you have a
great start to the school year! :)

Saludos
Zachary
									
FLAVA Advocacy Report

Thomas Sones, February, 2011

Everything you need to know about advocacy including ideas and resources can be found at 
http://www.discoverlanguages.org and http://www.languagepolicy.org.  We want to collect information 
about and photos of your Discover Languages, Foreign Language Week, or other advocacy type 
activities for some upcoming events and the bullet or web page. For more information or to submit 
your events, please email them to me at advocacy@flavaweb.org.

Discover Languages Month and National Foreign Language Week: February was Discover Languages 
Month and March 7-13 in National Foreign Language Week. In support of these two events, on January 
14 2011, VDOE Superintendent issued a Superintendents' Memo (#009-11) with info about each. It can 
be found on the VDOE web site.  

Social Networking and Advocacy: There are many online opportunities to spread the word about 
language learning and the Discover Languages campaign. You can "like" or "friend" FLAVA, Discover 
Languages, ACTFL, and other organizations on FaceBook. Add the Discover Language button to your 
profiles pics on FaceBook and Twitter.  

JNCL-NCLIS has formed a committee and is in the middle self assessment to plan for its future.  
It will conduct a survey of member organizations to gauge member's opinions and interests pertaining 
to the organization's relevance, performance, organizational structure and fiscal stability. In 
particular, it is trying to plan for the retirement of the current Director. As FLAVA's 
representative, I intend to attend the Delegate assembly in May and will be visiting congressional 
offices in D.C. 

Congress and Educational Funding: 

You can track Virginia General Assembly Educational actions at http://www.doe.virginia.gov/boe/legislation.  

Nationally, there's been little recent movement on the ESEA Renewal Act or the Holt Excellence and 
Innovation in Language Learning Act (H.R. 6036). However, On In February, House Republicans and 
President Obama have introduced a new spending bills or budgets that could have major impacts on 
federal educational spending. Please contact the White House and your Congressmen to voice your 
opinion on spending matters.

The International Research and Studies (IRS) program fiscal year 2011 competition that been announced 
in the Federal Register at the following link: 
http://origin.www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2011-01-13/html/2011-681.htm. Please note that the US 
Department of Education is using http://Grants.gov for this competition and that all attachments must 
be in .PDF format.  Other types of files will not be accepted.  The Opportunity Number for Research, 
Surveys and Studies is ED-GRANTS-011311-001. The Opportunity Number for Instructional Materials is 
ED-GRANTS-011311-002.

Additional Resources: 

Get ACTFL SmartBriefs: weekly email of language education news.  Sign up at http://www.ACTFL.org. 

ACTFL has a new Language Learner Registry for all language learners. Members could earn cash for 
participating.