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The Foreign Language Association of Virginia
AWARDS and GRANTS
AWARDSFLAVA Awards! Click here for past and present FLAVA award recipients! 2009 FLAVA Awards David E. Cox Excellence in Teaching K-12 Award The David E. Cox Excellence in Teaching K-12 Award goes to Alisa Bearov Landrum, Oscar F. Smith High School, Chesapeake, VA. Alisa switched from a brilliant career as a lawyer to that of World Language educator seven years ago. She sought and obtained National Board certification in 2007 after achieving a 200/200 in her Praxis exam in French. That same year, she held a Fulbright Scholarship to Guadeloupe. Already in 2006, Alisa shone in FLAVA circles, earning the Best of FLAVA for that year. Even in her first year in our ranks, she won the Rookie of the Year Award from Hugo Owens Middle School (2004-2005). Alisa joined the Oscar Smith faculty two years ago and immediately set out to create a "bonjour culture" and increase the visibility of French within the school. Within her first few weeks, Alisa redecorated the foreign language hall with posters and articles promoting the study of French and quotes by famous Americans who had either lived or studied in Paris. She revived the Cercle Français and recently chartered the Société Honoraire de Français, which will have its first induction this spring. Alisa has also been instrumental in promoting National French Week by getting students to broadcast a "French Fun Fact" on our televised morning announcements and publicizing the event throughout the school. 
Alisa Bearov Landrum, Oscar F. Smith High School, receiving the 2009 David E. Cox Excellence in Teaching K-12 Award from Kathryn Murphy-Judy Business and Industry Award The 2009 Business & Industry Award goes to James Kinard of For the Love of Chocolate, an educational taste treat for many of us at 3136 Cary St. in Richmond's CaryTown area (Phone: 804-359-5645). James has long been more than a friend of World Languages in our area. For many years he has taught Spanish at VCU as an adjunct professor all the while developing his chocolaterie, which has become nearly legendary in the Richmond area. Not only does he carry a delicious selection of sweets from around the world but a walk through the aisles of FLC is a lesson in the global sweet tooth. There are delicacies from every continent but Antarctica! The emphasis, as the store's name bears out, however, is chocolate. Foreign language educators in the our area can go to FLC to get educational treats for our classes. James always has something significant for various world language learners and he discounts when I tell him it's for class. So, if it's Gummibears for German, or Eiffel Tower chocolate squares, or rain forest cocoa, James offers it. 
James Kinard, For the Love of Chocolate, receiving the 2009 FLAVA Business and Industry Award from Kathryn Murphy-Judy Virginia Tech The 2009 Jocelyne Couture-Nowak Memorial Scholarship awardee of an annual membership in FLAVA is Kathryn Steele. The 2009 Jamie Bishop awardee of an annual membership in FLAVA is Lisa Cotter. These awards are presented to language majors at Virginia Tech in memory of the two faculty members slain in 2007.
Accepting the awards is Elizabeth Calavera Warm Welcome to a new US Citizen! A warm, all-American welcome to a corporate sponsor (Vista Higher Learning) and her spouse:
The ACTFL-NYSAFLT Anthony Papalia Award for Excellence in Teacher Education Dr. Judith L. Schrum, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
As one nominator wrote, Judith Shrum "personifies the type of person that Tony Papalia himself was. She is a pillar of the profession who has selflessly dedicated herself to improving the quality of language teachers and language teaching." - Laurel Rasplica Rodd Accepting the ACTFL/NYASFLT Anthony Papalia Award for Excellence in Teacher Education reminds me of my humble beginnings as a teacher of French and Spanish in elementary, middle, and high schools in Kentucky and North Carolina, in suburban and inner city schools during the integration years of the 60's and 70's. When I joined ACTFL in those early days of my career, I didn't realize that I would grow up with ACTFL and with award winners like Anthony Papalia and Wilga Rivers, who shaped the way I taught. At ACTFL conferences and throughout graduate school, Papalia Award winners were the 'must read' scholars who shaped the way I thought. To be among them is a cherished honor that, for me, carries a responsibility to continue to inform and be informed, to inspire and be inspired by foreign language professionals everywhere. - Judith Shrum ACTFL Website 3/11/09 FLAVA Awards and Award Recipients 2008 The FLAVA Executive Board in 2007 voted to rename the FLAVA Awards to honor three of Virginia's long-standing and highly influential members. The K-12 award is now posthumously named the David Cox Excellence in Teaching K-12 Award, the post-secondary award will heretofore be the Marshall Brannon FLAVA Excellence in Teaching Post-Secondary Award, and for distinguished service we now have the Helen Warriner-Burke FLAVA Distinguished Service Award. We look forward to awarding these latter two in 2008 with Mr. Brannon and Mrs. Warriner Burke presenting to the winners.
Dr. Warriner-Burke reminded all of us of the importance of language education and preparing new generations of teachers and students. Then, she presented the award to Dr. Laura Franklin. Dr. Franklin is a shining example of the best and most dedicated of language professionals in Virginia. Many FLAVA members know her from her cutting edge technology work: since 2000, she has been the co-editor of MERLOT, the leading source of professionally vetted multimedia online resources for learning and online teaching. A veteran language educator, with a BA with distinction from George Washington University in 1979, she went on to get her Masters in 1981 and doctorate in 1989. She has been on the faculty at Northern Virginia Community College since 1992 where she is currently a professor and she also served as Assistant Dean for World Languages. She is the 2009 chair of the Northeast Conference and has been president of our sister organization, GWALT, in addition to memberships in ACTFL, AATF, College Board Testing committees, New Horizons. In addition, she has been awarded the 2008 Innovative Use of MERLOT Award with the Virginia Community College System (and her college, the Northern Virginia Community College was just cited nationally as one of the top three community colleges in instructional technology), 2007 ACTFL/Houghton Mifflin Teaching Languages with Technology with IALLT, Outstanding Faculty Award, State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, Chancellor’s Commonwealth Professor, Virginia Community College System, 1998-2000. She publishes widely and very, very importantly to Virginia Teacher Education has been highly instrumental in the Career Switchers Program for teachers. Where the Virginia Community College System is critical to education today in the Commonwealth, Dr. Franklin, herself is pivotal in the delivery of dual enrollment, career switcher opportunities and technology integration in languages and beyond.
Marshall Brannon spoke of his career and the importance of mentoring language colleagues. He then presented Dr. Patricia Cummins with the award. Since finishing her doctorate in 1973 from UNC, Dr. Cummins has participated fully in the teaching ranks as a certified teacher of French-Spanish-English-Social Studies, a college professor, a chair, a dean and a Vice-Provost for Academic Affairs. Even during her years in administration, Dr. Cummins always kept a foot in the classroom. In Virginia since 2000, she has worked tirelessly to articulate LinguaFolio with the Global Language Portfolio and has integrated the Common European Frame of Reference for global validation. Her grant work is helping develop commonly and less commonly taught languages, currently opening doors for Arabic and Chinese studies. She maintains strong links to Business and Professional language uses, not only in her courses and grants but in constantly seeking linkages and opportunities for students. Since coming to Virginia, she has been knighted in the French Order of Palmes Académiques (lifetime achievement award). I cannot even begin to list her grants, awards, publications and many endeavors because they are all so impressive and important.
Last year FLAVA awarded the first David E. Cox FLAVA Excellence in Teaching K-12 Award. This year Mrs. Carolyn Cox, David’s wife, came to recognize the naming of the award in her late husband’s honor and to present the award to the 2008 recipient, Mrs. Susan Bowman of Salem High School in Salem Virginia. Mrs. Bowman who is a graduate of Radford College and has an M.Ed. from the College of William and Mary, teaches Latin and has served in the past as Chair of the Foreign Language Department. She is, notably, also a math teacher. Mrs. Bowman routinely participates in the Latin Immersion weekends, IB training, the governor’s Latin Academy, Alpha Delta Kappa, and numerous statewide, regionaland local Latin and Classical organizations. Yet, it is at the school level where we can really see the heart and soul of her teaching. She runs the Latin Club and the Latin Honor Society in addition to frequent study abroad programs. Her chair and nominator wrote of her unflagging volunteerism, where her ‘first priority is harmony, productivity and collegiality...” Virginia Tech Couture-Nowak & Bishop Awards The next set of awards honors the upcoming generation among whom we hope will come great future language educators: In honor of our slain colleagues from VA Tech, FLAVA has created the Jocelyne Couture-Nowak and Jamie Bishop Scholarships. Each award constitutes a 1-year FLAVA membership and registration for that year’s conference. The 2008 recipients are Rebecca La Creta, Audrey Froelich and Elizabeth Potter. Dr. Fabrice Teulon, professor of French from VA Tech accepted the awards in their stead. FLAVA Grant for National Board Certification
Best of FLAVA 2008 Determined by evaluations turned in at the end of the conference, we honor two of our presenters as the best presentations at FLAVA. One will go to NECTFL and one to SCOLT in the spring of 2008, representing FLAVA and presenting their sessions there. The session descriptions from the conference program are below. Our congratulations to Cindie and Fabrice! ... to SCOLT Becky McQueen
“A Bag of Tricks” “A Bag of Tricks,” my presentation at FLAVA, is a collection of what one might call “eye”deas (ideas) to get past the use of English in a foreign language class. The “tricks” consist of visuals and manipulatives designed to immediately get the students thinking in the language. They range from simple laminated pictures, phrase lists, and verb charts to a variety of puppets and dolls as well as paper lunch bags filled with pictures of things to eat. Whether the object merely hangs on the wall or is actually placed in a student’s hand, the goal is the same—to eliminate the English footbridge and move him into internalizing the language. These ideas are applicable to any language and lend themselves easily to beginning language concepts or more complex linguistic structures, depending on the needs of the class. Most are quick and easy to pull out for those moments in the lesson where a little more reinforcement or merely a change of pace is needed. ... to NECTFL Welby Griffin "Virtual Villae" My presentation “Virtual Villae: an Interactive Approach to Teaching about Roman Houses” was based on an interactive slide show I developed for my Latin I students. It involves two browsable, hyperlinked slide shows. The first uses photographs, illustrations, animation and text to guide users through an introduction to types of houses and the most famous archeological sites. The second teaches students about Italian geography, rooms of the houses, and customs related to houses by allowing users to build and furnish a virtual Roman house. They begin by picking between properties, then chose a home model and finally furnish each room. Each room sequence begins with a slide giving information about that room and a collage of photos and illustrations from actual houses. In the rooms they can choose from a selection of accurate mosaics and frescoes and then accessorize with furniture (which was hand drawn by me—each piece is based on archeological evidence and was enhanced with realistic textures and patterns using Adobe Photoshop). The show is paired with a catalogue/workbook which prompts the students to answer questions about the rooms while challenging them to complete their house within a set budget. |
Dr. Judith L. Schrum's academic title is Professor of Spanish and Second Language
Education at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, but the list
of her accomplishments and the testimony of the many colleagues, students, and former
students who wrote nominating her for the Papalia Award for Excellence in Teacher
Education make it clear that she has truly been a mentor, teacher, and leader to all
of us in the field of foreign language education.
The 2008 recipient of the Helen Warriner-Burke Distinguished Service Award
is Dr. Laura Franklin.
The 2008 recipient of the Marshall Brannon FLAVA Excellence in Foreign Language Teaching Post Secondary Award
is Dr. Patricia Cummins
The 2008 recipient of the David Cox Excellence in Teaching K-12 Award
is Mrs. Susan Bowman.
The final award of the year
was the FLAVA grant for National Board Certification applicants for 2008-2009. Isi
Kessel explained the importance of National Board Certification for FLAVA Grant
National Board Certification for Virginia language educators and named this year’s
recipient, Ms. Heather Nolan, who teaches in Henrico County.
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