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 * OZARKS FOREIGN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION **

LANGUAGES AND CULTURES IN ACTION

**Our annual conference will take place on April 2, 2016 at Missouri State University. ** **We hope to see you there! **

**If you have not received our email with the President's letter, Agenda and Registration Form for 2016, see below. **** Also, please feel free to share this information with your colleagues! **

Dear fellow world language colleagues and enthusiasts,

You are all invited to join us for the 2016 OFLA conference: Languages and Cultures in Action, this April 2, 2016, on the Missouri State University campus in Springfield.

This year’s theme is a call to action in more ways than one. As teachers, we strive to make our subjects relevant and bring them to life for our students; but we have to make sure that this message reaches our colleagues, our administrators, and the communities in which we live and work. All should agree on a common goal: to establish and maintain quality world language instruction in our classrooms. OFLA’s role in this respect has been to reach out to all teachers in Southwest Missouri and provide connections, resources and support. The need for qualified AND inspired teachers in our schools is more crucial than ever, as budget constraints and/or the lack of results, as well as the absence of prospective teachers in certain areas all lower the chances of saving teacher-led language programs in our schools. And we eventually find ourselves compelled to advocate for world language education in our schools, wishing that past, current and future, all eager and professional educators would let everyone see and hear what their students “can do” in a second language (or third, why not?). What a daunting but wonderful prospect!

Please pass the word and invite other world language colleagues you know in the area. Don’t forget student teachers (who have a fee discount for the conference), new teachers in your district and retired teachers. Let’s put our languages and cultures into action.

See you on April 2!

Most sincerely,

Elisabeth Cheminel-Roten Logan-Rogersville High School OFLA President 2016

Download the 2016 OFLA conference REGISTRATION FORM here:

Download the 2016 OFLA CONFERENCE AGENDA here:

Download the 2016 OFLA GRANT APPLICATION FORM here: