SCOLTalk
The Newsletter of the Southern Conference on Language Teaching
Number 44 Message from the SCOLT President
Spring 2012 with the Florence Steiner Award for Leadership in Foreign Language Education, K-12, at ACTFL in 2011. David brings endless energy, creativity, and enthusiasm for the teaching of languages. SCOLT is most fortunate to have him on our team. You will soon discover that all three new Board Members are very tech-savvy. Not merely will you be seeing frequent updates and enhanced design in our web-page, but between them they venture into Facebook (are you a SCOLT fan yet?), Twitter, Edmodo, and other platforms. continued on page 4....
Dear SCOLT Colleagues, It’s a pleasure to welcome everyone to a brand new year for SCOLT, particularly as we also welcome two new Executive Board Members, and (...drum roll, please!) a new Executive Director. Dr. Carol Anne Costabile-Heming, comes to us from Northern Kentucky University, in Highland Heights, Kentucky, where she is Professor of German in the department of World Languages and Literatures. In addition to her day to day experience working with colleagues in a varied department that offers courses in ten different languages, Carol Anne has been very active in AATG, most recently serving as President of their Executive Council. Alisha Dawn Samples, our second new Board Member, hails from Lexington, South Carolina. Dawn brings an entirely different set of experiences to our board. She is Coordinator for World Languages and Partial-Immersion in Lexington School District One, just outside Columbia. There she coordinates World Language Programs for grades 3-12, as well as K-5 Partial Immersion Programs. Finally our board is delighted that David Jahner is beginning his first year serving SCOLT as our Executive Director. Originally from South Dakota, David came to Atlanta in the 1990s, and enjoys the South so much that he has been here ever since! In addition to his SCOLT duties, he is the Foreign Language Director for Gwinnett County Public Schools in the Atlanta area. He is highly accomplished. In addition to several state honors, he was recognized as the NADSFL Supervisor of the Year in 2008 and was presented
The Southern Conference on Language Teaching (SCOLT) and The Alabama Association of Foreign Language Teachers (AAFLT) April 11-13, 2013 Conference Birmingham, Alabama at the Birmingham Jefferson Convention Complex Sheraton Birmingham Hotel SCOLT Web Site: www.scolt.org Conference Theme: World Language Learning: Setting the Global Standard Contact: David Jahner, SCOLT Executive Director scoltdj@gmail.com