Upcoming World Language Events

The following opportunities are available to Students, Teachers and Administrators who are interested in expanding their knowledge of World Language.

• Ascanius: The Youth Classics Institute - LatinSummer 2013 comes to VA, MA, SC, MO!

• Classics Institute - McGill University, Summer Institute in Classical Studies Montreal, Canada

• Cross Culture Immersion Program Overview - offers a chance for students to learn English/Chinese in a more meaningful setting

• Deaf and Hard of Hearing Program info - University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. My name is Amy Otis-Wilborn and I am the coordinator for the Certification Program in Deaf/Hard of Hearing at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee offers a distance education program that prepares individuals to teach children/youth who are Deaf/Hard of Hearing. The program is designed for individuals who are certified in some/any area of special education and want to add on either DHH Certification (only) or DHH Certification and Masters. All work is at the graduate level. Graduates earn Wisconsin State Certification. Applicants who want certification in their own state must determine if their state's certification is reciprocal with Wisconsin's. However, we can design a program that meets a state's requirements so that certification can be directly through the individual state.
  Attached is a brochure outlining the program . Please distribute as you think is appropriate. I am available to talk with you or another representative in your certification office if there are any questions. At this time, we do have a federal grant that can provide some tuition support to students within and outside of Wisconsin.
  

• Institute of International Education - IIE.Interactive: 10,000 Scholarships Available to U.S. Students to Study in China

• NECLTA (The New England Chinese Language Teachers' Association) is calling for paper presentations at its 2nd Annual Conference of the NECLTA-International Conference on Learning and Teaching Chinese Language and Culture. The conference will be hosted by the University of Rhode Island on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013 and proposals should be submitted online at www.neclta.org by June 1, 2013

• NRCSA Teacher Immersion Workshops for 2013
• One Million Bones Collection - Since August, I have been coordinating the One Million Bones project in New Hampshire, while also settling into my teaching role at Souhegan High School in Amherst. Over a dozen NH schools have joined this collaboration, though I am still seeking schools and community groups to make handmade bones. The purpose of the project is to raise awareness about humanitarian conflicts through making handmade clay or plaster bones. For each bone that is made the Bezos Family Foundation donates $1 for relief in Central Africa. The one million bones made nationwide will also be exhibited in a large-scale installation in Washington D.C. this June. The project has many layers of meaning for participants, including interdisplinary connections between the arts, social studies, and literacy. I have attached a few documents sharing more information about the project. Please visit www.onemillionbones.org for more information and I highly recommend watching the video on the homepage, which highlights an installation with 50,000 bones.

• OMB flyer with letter
• OMB Bone Making Supply List
• OMB and Students Rebuild Fact Sheet
• K-6 OMB Curriculum
• K-6 UbD Lesson Plan
• 6-12 OMB Curriculum
• 6-12 UbD Lesson Plan

Rachel Belmont
NH Coordinator: One Million Bones
www.onemillionbones.org
www.facebook.com/onemillionbonesnewhampshire
(603)-677-2180

• Spanish Speakers in the Lakes Region
  Come join our Spanish speaking group the first Friday of every month at 5:30 at El Jimador Mexican Restaurant in Belmont NH. For more information contact Rosa Blais at rjblais@metrocast.net or 603-520-1708

• THE CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF NEW ENGLAND SUMMER INSTITUTE 2013
  JULY 15-20, 2013 BROWN UNIVERSITY, PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND

  America’s Founding Fathers and the Classics of Greece and Rome
  The organizers of the 2013 C.A.N.E. Summer Institute invite you to join us this summer as we celebrate the role of the Greek and Roman Classics – literature, history, art, and architecture – in the formation of our own national traditions. Whether you are a high school or college teacher of Latin and/or Greek, English, History, or other related disciplines, a graduate student, or a devoted lifelong learner, you will enjoy an enriching educational experience that includes a wide variety of mini-courses, lectures, workshops, and special events while also offering ample opportunity for collegial interaction between participants. Special attention will be focused on the literature (both prose and poetry), art, architecture, and other aspects of Greco-Roman antiquity that most strongly influenced America’s Founding Fathers, as well on the Classical authors and works most commonly read in our nation’s schools and colleges in the formative years of the 18th century, many of which are still taught regularly today.

• The McLane Family New Hampshire Student Membership Program
  Effective September 1, 2012, the McLane Family New Hampshire Student Membership Program allows New Hampshire students of all ages in public and private school, as well as those who are home schooled, to visit the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston free of charge. To request a school group visit, please complete our request form and indicate that you are visiting from a school in New Hampshire

• UNH Graduate Course: Sociolinguistics of Spanish in the World, the U.S. & New

  SPAN 997: La sociolingüística de español en el mundo, en los EEUU y en Nuevo Hampshire
  Sociolinguistics of Spanish in the World, the U.S. & New Hampshire
  
  This graduate seminar will explore Spanish language variation around the world, from Spain to Latin America to the U.S., including New Hampshire. Special attention will be paid to the issues involving bilingualism, bilingual language acquisition, bilingual education and Spanish heritage language language, which should be of particular interest to students who are or plan to become teachers of Spanish.
  
  The course will be taught in Spanish and all required reading will be in Spanish in order to provide students the opportunity to practice and improve (or simply use and enjoy) their Spanish-language skills. The course will meet weekly on Wednesday evenings from 6:10-9 pm at UNH's Durham campus from Aug. 28 through December 4; there will be no meeting on Nov. 27 due to the Thanksgiving holiday. The instructor, Prof. Holly R. Cashman, can be reached at holly.cashman@unh.edu if you have any questions or you are interested in more information.

• U.S. Department of State - Host an International High School Exchange Student

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