NEWSLETTER!
Volume 26
Number 3
January 2014
Welcome back to the cold, warm, rainy, windy, dark, and bright school days of January! We’re
getting all types of weather – sometimes in the same day.
We are excited and honored to have Ken Stewart present our workshop in January. This meeting
has been changed to January 25 (rather than February 1) to accommodate his schedule. We hope
everyone has been receiving announcements and flyers and that you are sharing them with
colleagues. A flyer is attached to the newsletter message.
Already we have over 40 persons registered, and we are expecting more. I you have not signed
up, please do so immediately: http://cfflc.pbworks.com . We need to make final
arrangements for our breakfast snacks, and we need to arrange for a larger room if necessary.
Thanks to all who signed up early.
Dates for our remaining Professional Development Meetings for 2013-2014
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January 25
March 22
8:45- 12:00
8:45 - 12:00
Leutze Hall 111 Parking in Lot G (north of Leutze Hall)
Leutze Hall 136
JANUARY MEETING
8:45
Breakfast snacks and registration
9:00
Business meeting and announcements
Please bring announcements of school changes, cultural events, workshops and
conferences, etc. We will hear a report from the treasurer and discuss committee work.
9:30
“Building Proficiency through Scaffolded Reading Strategies” – Ken Stewart,
Chapel Hill High School, Chapel Hill, NC
Ken is a board-certified teacher, author, and College Board Consultant. He has received
awards from ATTSP, the State of NC, FLANC, and SCOLT and was named ACTFL
National Teacher of the Year in 2006. He has conducted more than 100 workshops and
summer institutes throughout the US as well as in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and
Latin America.
T-SHIRTS ARE COMING!
Our official CFFLC t-shirts have been ordered and should arrive soon. They will be
distributed at the January 25 meeting. Thanks to Rachel Hatfield for her work on this
project!
INTERCULTURAL FESTIVAL – February 22, 2014.
CFFLC will have a table featuring passports for traveling through the festival. Office
of International Programs is providing prizes (banks and maracas) with an international
theme for children and the young at heart. Prizes will be given to those who complete
passports. PLEASE access the WIKI to sign up to help at the festival or with advance
preparations. You may also sign up at the January 25 meeting. For more information
contact Rachel Hatfield: rhatfield@capefearacademy.org .
We are also asking teachers to encourage attendance by students and their families. The
Office of International Programs is hoping to see more participation from students K-12.
SPEAKER FOR MARCH 22:
North Carolina Virtual Public School – Ellen Minter Hart, (NCVPS) Curriculum and
Instruction, Division Director, Arts Education and World Languages
FUNDRAISING RAFFLE – March 22 (second half of the meeting)
As was reported in November, our wild and funny raffle now has national attention! It
will only be a matter of time until it is also internationally known! Who knows…there
may be a raffle at the Winter Olympics!
The raffle is great fun, but most importantly, it is essential for our scholarship program.
Please plan to contribute and to participate!
SCHOLARSHIPS: Our scholarship program continues to be a success. We gave scholarships
to three UNCW students in Fall 2013 for a total of $900; in the spring, we will give a scholarship
to one high school senior for a total of $200.
Scholarship nominations for high school seniors are due February 20, 2014. Please see
attachment and read nomination form carefully. Forms will also be available at the
meeting.
YEARLY DUES: Yearly dues are $15 ($5 for full-time students). Checks should be made to
Cape Fear Foreign Language Collaborative. Dues may be mailed at any time to our treasurer
Julie Bordo, 202 Wayne Drive, Wilmington, NC 28403. We depend on your dues to help with
miscellaneous expenses and with the scholarships.
SPONSORS: CFFLC has been sponsored for twenty-five years by the Department of Foreign
Languages and Literatures at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
Funds for the January meeting have been generously provided by the Department of Foreign
Languages and Literatures, Centro Hispano, and the Office of Institutional Diversity and
Inclusion, all at UNCW.
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Film at UNCW: “Speaking in Tongues.” February 3, 5:30 pm, Morton Hall Aud., UNCW
For Cinematique Films, see http://whqr.org/topic/cinematique-wilmington-film-series
For UNCW Presents, see http://uncw.edu/presents/currentseason.html
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Please contact Joann Mount at mountj@uncw.edu in the event that you
have professional information and announcements that you would like distributed to our
membership.
Everyone is encouraged to forward a copy of this newsletter with a personal invitation to
attend to someone else in your school or county. If you are the only person who attends from
your school or county, please send personally or ask a coordinator to send an e-mail with an
announcement and this newsletter to your list of FL and ESL teachers. Consider especially new
teachers or teachers new to our part of the state. Our membership and participation is holding
steady, but we would be delighted to have new faces and new ideas.
The following persons have signed up to be recruiters and send announcements to various
counties or units:
Brunswick Co. – Kayce Smith, Theresa Lominac, Kate Hanly
Pender Co. – Lisa Byrd
New Hanover Co. – Leslie Dobkin and Holly Marshburn
Duplin Co. – Nivia Batista
Horry Co. – Elana Núñez-Tiso
Cape Fear Academy and other private schools – Rachel Hatfield
UNCW – Terry and Joann Mount
We need volunteers for community colleges and Columbus, Onslow, and Bladen Counties.
As always we will keep track of attendance for the year and will distribute certificates
verifying attendance at meetings. These may be used to request CEU credit from your
school system.
Joann McFerran Mount, Coordinator of CFFLC
Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures, UNCW / mountj@uncw.edu