NEWSLETTER!
Volume 24
Number 1
September 2011
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Welcome back to the news and events of CFFLC! Greetings to all our active members in
southeastern North Carolina, to professional colleagues who watch our announcements for
cultural events and job openings, and to friends who have left our area but read from lands
beyond. We hope our newsletter and e-mailings have proven successful in distributing
information concerning foreign languages and English as a second language.
This newsletter will be short and sweet! Mark you calendars and we will see you on Sept. 17!
Invite new FL and ESL teachers in your schools and counties to join us!
Dates for our Professional Development Meetings for 2011 -2012
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September 17
November 5
January 28
March 24
8:45 - 12:00
8:45 - 12:00
8:45- 12:00
8:45 - 12:00
Leutze Hall 136 and adjacent rooms
Leutze Hall 136
Leutze Hall 136
Leutze Hall 136
SEPTEMBER MEETING
We have some great presentations planned for the year! September’s program will include (with
approximate times):
8:45 Breakfast snacks and registration
9:00
Business meeting
9:30
“Centro Hispano and Opportunities for Hispanic Students at UNCW” – Edelmira
Segovia, Centro Hispano, UNCW
10: 20 “Bookmarks for Literacy: Latino Book Club Outreach Program” – Amrita Das, Lizzy
Irvin, and Scott Juall – Foreign Languages and Literatures, UNCW; Mary Bulluck, New
Hanover Community Health Center. Bookmarks may be purchased for $1.00 ea.
11:00 “Getting Your Students Moving with Total Physical Response Storytelling” - Martina
Jonsson, Friends School of Wilmington
Please be ready to pay CFFLC dues at the September meeting. Yearly dues are $15 ($5 for fulltime students). Checks should be made to Cape Fear Foreign Language Collaborative. Dues
may be mailed at any time to Julie Bordo, 202 Wayne Drive, Wilmington, NC 28403. We have
been fortunate to have approximately 40-45 members paying dues in the last few years. We are
still hoping to hit 50!
INCREASING MEMBERSHIP AND ATTENDANCE: Everyone is encouraged to
forward a copy of this newsletter with a personal invitation to someone else in your school
or county. Let’s see if we can’t increase our membership bit by bit by introducing our
colleagues to our programs and activities. If you are the only person who attends from your
school or county, please send an e-mail announcement to your list of FL teachers. Consider
especially new teachers or teachers new to our part of the state. Some teachers may not know
that the CFFLC exists! We all have so much support and knowledge to share. Don’t forget
that we 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.
SPONSORS: CFFLC has been sponsored for twenty-three years by the Department of Foreign
Languages and Literatures at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. In recent years,
we have also received support from the Office of Public Service and Continuing Studies.
SCHOLARSHIPS: Our scholarship program continues to be a success. We gave two
scholarships to UNCW students last year and one to a graduating senior in high school for a total
of $800 awarded. Thanks to all faculty who made nominations. We will hope to bring in
enough from dues and our fund-raising raffle and to give the same scholarship amounts this year.
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.
Hoping to see you soon!
Joann McFerran Mount, Coordinator of CFFLC
Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures, UNCW / mountj@uncw.edu