2022 Fall WAFLT Voice

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Fall 2022 Volume 49 Number 2

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Table of Contents WAFLT Executive Board Contact Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 From Your President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dan Tess. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 From Your Conference Program Co-Chairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Linda Havas & Cathy Stresing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Pedagogy, Methodology, and Policy DPI Updates and Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pam Delfosse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2021-22 Contributor Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Affiliate Organization Newsletters The National Network for Early Languare Learning - NNELL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 American Association of Teachers of German - Wisconsin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Wisconsin Association of Chinese Language Teachers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 American Association of Teachers of French - Wisconsin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Wisconsin Association of Teachers of Japanese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Wisconsin Latin Teachers Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

WAFLT Mission: The purpose of WAFLT shall be to promote, strengthen, and facilitate the teaching and life-long learning of world languages and cultures in schools and communities to meet the needs of our increasingly interdependent world.

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WAFLT Executive Board & Contacts for Wisconsin Association For Language Teachers President Dan Tess Brookfield Central High School president@waflt.org President-Elect Victoria Carter Onalaska High School awards@waflt.org Past-President

Local Arrangements/Exhibits Sub-Committee

Discover Languages Contest Coordinator

Language Association Representatives

Lee Belanger-Gonzales Kenosha Unified School District lbelange@kusd.edu

Devin Pettys Onalaska High School petde@onalaskaschools.com

AATF-WI President

Finance Committee Chair

Grants & Scholarships

Cathy Stresing Fond du Lac School District stresings@aol.com

Dan Tess Brookfield Central High School grants@waflt.org

Communications & Linda Havas Publications Chair Greendale Schools linda.havas@greendaleschools.org Lauren Rosen University of Wisconsin Secretary webmaster@waflt.org Brian Wopat Member Services Onalaska High School Subcommittee Chair wopbr@gmail.com Victoria Carter Treasurer Onalaska High School carvi@onalaskaschools.com Kellie Villalobos Muskego High School The VOICE of WAFLT treasurer@waflt.org Subcommittee Chair/Editor DPI International Education/ Katy Dueppen World Languages Consultant Middleton High School voice@waflt.org Pamela Delfosse pamela.delfosse@dpi.wi.gov Advertising Subcommittee Chair NNELL Representative Josh LeGreve Jessica King Fox Point-Bayside School District Green Lake School District advertising@waflt.org jking@foxbay.org Fall Conference Program Committee Co-Chairs Linda Havas Greendale Schools Cathy Stresing Fond du Lac School District program@waflt.org

Public Relations / Advocacy National Chair Pablo Muirhead MATC advocacy@waflt.org State Chair Joslyn Hegelmeyer Brookfield East High School advocacy@waflt.org

Cathy Stresing Fond du Lac School District presidentAATFWI@gmail.com AATG-WI President

Melanie Lasee Ashwaubenon High School Professional Development Chair mlasee@ashwaubenonk12.org Jamie Gurholt Stateline Community Foundation, WiATJ President Beloit/French Alliance, Milwaukee Magara Maeda profdev@waflt.org UW-River Falls HS Guests Subcommittee Chairs magara.maeda@uwrf.edu Danielle Chaussee Oconomowoc High School chausseed@oasd.org Amber Little Stoughton High School amber.little@stoughton.k12.wi.us Mentoring/Leadership Project Julie Horvath Beloit Memorial High School MOPI Training Coordinator Jodi Ziemann jziemann@berlin.k12.wi.us

WLTA President Nate Kolpin Wauwatosa School District kolpinna@wauwatosa.k12.wi.us OWL Vacant WACLT President Yongyan Liu Milwaukee yongyan.liu85@gmail.com AATSP-WI President

Jessica Santiago New Berlin West High School jessica.santiago@nbexcellence.

Iva McLean Academies of Racine at Park High org School iva.mclean@rusd.org Summer PD Chair

The VOICE of WAFLT appears twice annually, in the spring and fall, with copy deadlines of January 1 and June 1. Manuscripts describing world language pedagogy as well as study and travel opportunities and experiences are always welcome, and, if accepted, generally will appear in the next issue. Submissions for publication should be saved as a Google document or Microsoft Word document and sent as an email attachment to voice@waflt.org. Any photos or graphics must be sent as separate attachments in a .jpg format.

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From Your President ... ach spring, I have the unique opportunity of studying the Aeneid with my seniors. Some of them have been studying Latin since seventh grade, and it, of course, a nostalgic, joyous, and yet bittersweet conclusion (for most students) to their classics track. Some of them continue their studies in college, perhaps as a minor or a double major, but for many it’s the end of the via.

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Vergil would be an ACTFL superior/ distinguished author which, in theory, has no business being a part of high school curriculum, but the poem absolutely needs to be one of the last things a senior gets a chance to read, translate, question, rehearse, memorize, despise, and enjoy. Most students only excerpt about 10% of the whole poem in Latin. But that 10% is so fascinating that one can use it as a springboard into some of the more ignored sections or keep on revisiting it in future readings.

It has prosaic elements although it is almost 10,000 lines of poetry, and it is both art and propaganda. Those inherent contradictions allow for endless discussion. The author's rhetorical style and bias cannot be avoided, and students get a chance to study their own in addition to Vergil’s.

Yet for all its grandiosity, the granular moments shine. Between Olympian discussions and prophecies about boundless empire, there are countless meditations on love, suffering, and virtue. Who is the more destructive monster: Rumor or one of the Furies?

Can one control the fates? How do heroes sound and act? Vergil waxes

grandiose when needed and gets very small and perspicacious as he considers the workings of minds and hearts.

Many of us who select the canon for classroom consideration every semester are in constant search for both: grand themes and focused inquiry—the experience of which might just have some life following exams.

In UbD language, we are pursuing essential questions and enduring understandings.

I can’t pursue those EQ’s and EU’s without my WAFLT colleagues.

Whether it’s a major event like Fall Conference or FLESFEST, or a casual roundtable like our Power Hour zooms, the opportunity to get together with colleagues helps me revisit my practice and continually interrogate what, how, and why we do what we do. Will I ever dispense with Vergil and pursue another author? It’s hard to imagine, but I’d love to hear a colleague convince me to try another source.

Dan Tess

We are very much looking forward to our first in-person conference in three years. In previous evaluations, many teachers expressed how fatigued they had become with a purely virtual format. November will be the perfect opportunity to visit an abundance of topics—from the lacrimae rerum, the tears of our current situations, as Vergil put it, like injustice and war, to the sine qua non, the indispensable “I can” gears of our daily lessons. No matter what you’d like to discuss, the epic, the ephemeral, or both, WAFLT is here to support that forum for continual professional development.

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WAFLT Statement on Equity and Inclusion As the state language teachers' association, WAFLT values inclusion, compassion, open-mindedness, unity, peace, and hope in our increasingly interdependent world.

So much of our work is predicated on our commitment to these values. We stand united with our BIPOC colleagues and students as we continue to work together to achieve a global society that ensures equity and justice for everyone.

We see you. We support you. We stand with you.

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WAFLT 2022 Fall Conference Level Up: Embracing Change, Empowering Learners November 3-5, 2022 Hilton Appleton Paper Valley, Appleton, WI We are thrilled to return to our first in-person conference since 2019 and invite you to experience it with us! We are excited to offer you a wide variety of engaging professional development opportunities as we reflect on our practice and Level Up: Embracing Change, Empowering Learners. Along with your colleagues, explore the myriad of approaches to support our students’ quest for improved proficiency.

Here are a few key highlights of our conference in Appleton from November 3-5, 2022.

Thursday Pre-Conference Workshop: Jill Woerner, Director of Education for AFS-USA, hosts an interactive workshop entitled Empowering Gen Z: Using the UN Sustainable Development Goals as Your Anchor for Learning. Join Jill to build and expand units around the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their targets! Participants will engage in an exploration of resources to actually make the SDGs tangible anchors, thus ensuring that global competence and community engagement are ingrained in every unit in alignment with the revised Wisconsin Standards for World Languages.

Friday Afternoon Awards and Keynote Event – Join us to celebrate our colleagues at our annual awards ceremony, and then stay to enjoy a slate of speakers in Wisconsin Voices, a TED talk-style presentation featuring educators from around the state sharing their perspectives on leveling up, embracing change, and empowering learners!

Registration The best way to register for the conference is online. You must have a current email address and create a login on the WAFLT website (waflt.org). As you register, be sure to carefully read instructions and note the sessions that require an additional fee. Remember to register early and check deadlines for the conference and hotel reservations. For the latter, contact the Hilton Appleton Paper Valley directly.

We encourage you to share this document with your colleagues who are new to the profession and/or your building, as well as those who may not be WAFLT members.

Friday Morning Workshops – We are again featuring a range of interactive workshops encompassing a variety of topics. Consult the WAFLT Pre-Conference bulletin for more information. Back this year is the High School Student Workshop to bring our future colleagues along for the ride!

We also encourage you to renew your WAFLT membership online at waflt.org. WAFLT members receive many benefits throughout the year, such as reduced registration fees for the Fall Conference and FLESFEST as well as the opportunity to apply for grants and scholarships, and participate in other professional development opportunities throughout the year.

Friday Morning Poster Sessions – Back by popular demand, colleagues will share their research and projects with attendees via Electronic Poster Sessions that will be presented in the exhibit hall on Friday morning.

We hope you will join us for the energy, professional development, and collegiality of the 2022 WAFLT Fall Conference!

Friday and Saturday One-Hour Sessions – This year’s conference includes an abundance of learning opportunities across languages, levels, and areas of focus.

Linda Havas & Cathy Stresing WAFLT Program Co-chairs program@waflt.org

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DPI Updates and Resources

by Pam Delfosse, DPI World Languages & Global Education t is so exciting to be preparing to come together as a professional community, in person, for the WAFLT Fall Conference this year!

Let’s bring our stories, our struggles, and our successes to share. Let’s be open to learning from each other, and willing to lean on one another, to improve our practice and our well-being.

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The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction has enhanced its process for collecting data on world language education programs. This data will help us better understand the learners, languages, and learning experiences represented within Wisconsin’s world language landscape.

More detailed and accurate data can help us improve policies and practices for equitable and effective language learning. Please familiarize yourself with the working definitions for each program model, identify the programs within your school community, and help school and district colleagues who use WISEhome to submit world language and other program data to DPI. World Language Education Program Models Submit WISEdata related inquiries World language educators across the state continue to make progress implementing the 2019 Wisconsin Standards for World Languages. New resources are available to support standards- and proficiency-based planning. These planning and professional learning resources include a revised template for unit planning, sample units, and videos

highlighting practices for engaged and equitable learning. I learned so much from the design team who created these resources with all of you in mind. We value your feedback. Visit the DPI World Language Education website to access and engage with these new resources here.

We continue to make connections between language, intercultural and global learning, and school programs designed to prepare graduates who are workforce and world-ready. All of us are invited to reflect on how we introduce and connect language learners to community and career contexts for language use. Sample units and lessons are being collected and created as models for this work through DPI’s Careers in the Classroom project. Thanks to educators who have already contributed to this work! Please contact me to share more examples of how academic and career planning and world language learning intersect within your school community. I look forward to sharing more of what world language educators already do!

Virtual collaboration throughout the global health pandemic highlighted the value of time to learn with and from others. In that spirit, I have scheduled three professional practice, peer consultancy sessions from 4:00–5:15 p.m. on the 3rd Tuesday of September, December, and March.

Zoom links for each session will be posted on the World Language and Global Education Google Site and also sent to DPI’s languageleadership listserv two weeks prior to each session.

Pam Delfosse

To join the listserv, send a blank email to: [Join-languageleadership@lists.dpi.wi. gov] and reply to the confirmation email.

More Wisconsin school districts are participating in our state’s Seal of Biliteracy program. Please consider joining us to improve equity in access to this pre-college credential recognizing students for proficiency in languages in addition to English. Be a part of this national movement to celebrate and value multilingualism. A planning guide and application materials are available here.

Contact me anytime to share what’s new and what’s needed. Know that you are seen, heard, and valued.

Wisconsin is world-language strong and, in WAFLT, we all belong! pamela.delfosse@dpi.wi.gov

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Thank You, Contributors!

WAFLT thanks the following individuals for their contributions in 2021–22.

General Endowment Fund Linguiphile ($100+)

Contributor ($1-24)

Donna L. Clementi

Anne Chartier (in memory of Jim

Benefactor ($50-99)

Danielle Chaussee Kelly Ferguson Katelynn Jensen Pablo Muirhead Deborah Paprocki Kelsie Pattillo Cathy Stresing Deana Zorko

Paul Sandrock Sponsor ($25-49) Justin Gerlach Lynn Sessler Neitzel

Oakley)

Patrick T. Raven CSCTFL Professional Development Scholarship ACTFL Sue Atherton Michael Becker Mary Blickle Jaci Collins Bryan & Robin Dworak Mary Ellen & Michael Fletcher Linda Havas Bridget Geboy-Helfenstein Margaret L. Gilster Greg Griepentrog Horseshoe Bay Golf Club Sandy Karkossa Henry & Jean Kranendonk Julie Kreckow

Mary & Wayne Novak Susan Otto Karen Ralston Dan & Barb Rank Ryan & Sarah Scott Sarah Shackelford Nancy Smetek Steve & Judy Straus Judy Sweeti Robert Terry Kevin & Patti Van Kampen Beth Vogel Stephen & Diana Voitek Shawn Yakich

Professional Development Scholarship Fund

Student Travel Scholarship Fund

(Honoring Dr. Roma Hoff, Dr. Connie Knop & Dr. Irène Kraemer)

(Honoring O. Lynn Bolton)

Linguiphile ($100+)

Contributor ($1-24)

Benefactor ($50-99)

Contributor ($1-24)

Donna L. Clementi Paul & Nuria Hoff

Anita Alkhas Kelly Ferguson Katelynn Jensen Pablo Muirhead Kelsie Pattillo Deana Zorko

Bridget Geboy-Helfenstein Deborah Hoem-Esparza Peter Hoff

Anita Alkhas Kelly Ferguson Katelynn Jensen Pablo Muirhead Kelsi Pattillo Cathy Stresing Deana Zorko

Benefactor ($50-99) Deborah Hoem-Esparza Peter Hoff Karen Luond Fowdy

Sponsor ($25-49) Kristy Albrecht Anne Chartier (in memory of Jim Oakley)

Sponsor ($25-49)

Justin Gerlach Deborah & Juvencio Esparza

Anne Chartier (in memory of Jim Oakley)

Melissa Dalton Justin Gerlach Sy Kreilein Michelle Nielsen

Your Contributions Are Appreciated!

Please consider contributing to one or more of these funds for 2022-23. You can do this online at waflt.org – log into your online account, and click “Endowment Contributions” on the top of the page to make your contribution, or mail your check to P.O. Box 1493, Appleton, WI 54912, noting to which fund(s) you would like your donation assigned.

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Wisconsin Representative to NNELL Jessica King Fox Point-Bayside School District jking@foxbay.org FLESFEST Co-Chairs Carley Goodkind Jody Schneider

Central States East Regional Representative to NNELL Kathy Olson-Studler Minnesota kathyolsonstudler@gmail.com Wisconsin Website: wi-nell.org National Website: nnell.org

American Association of Teachers of German – Wisconsin President Melanie Lasee Ashwaubenon High School mlasee@ashwaubenonk12.org

Past President Jeffery Dyer Oregon High School jmd3@oregonsd.net

Vice President Derek Schaefer Slinger High School derek.schaefer@slingerschools.org

Secretary Sarah Seidler-Halwas Ripon High School seidlers@ripon.k12.wi.us

Treasurer David Coury UW-Green Bay couryd@uwgb.edu

Professional Development Opportunities Wisconsin Association For Language Teachers (WAFLT) Fall Conference November 3-5, 2022 | Information: waflt.org American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Conference November 18-20, 2022, Boston, MA | Information: actfl.org FLESFEST February 25, 2023 | Information: wi-nell.org Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages March 9-11, 2023, Columbus, OH | Information: csctfl.org Join a Language Leadership Listserv : join-languageleadership@lists.dpi.wi.gov Join Your Language Association: Go to waflt.org/about-waflt/language-associations for a list of all organizations. Reach out to learn how to join their listserv.

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Wisconsin Association of Chinese Language Teachers President Yongyan Liu Milwaukee yongyan.liu85@gmail.com

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Secretary Yuzhou Wu Middleton Cross Plains Area School District ywu@mcpasd.k12.wi.us

022 Chinese Speech Contest Report

On April 23, 2022, the 19 th annual Wisconsin Chinese language speech contest was successfully conducted through Zoom. This was the third online speech contest since 2020.

Encouraged by a larger number of virtual participants last year, the WACLT board decided to extend the online format for one more year. This year’s contest welcomed 90 Chinese language learners ranging from pre-K to over 60 years old. Many family members, teachers, and friends of the participants showed up on Zoom to support the event.

The opening ceremony of the event was a series of pre-recorded students’ performances by Wisconsin Chinese students and teachers. The showcase included a Chinese traditional instrument Guzheng performance, group Taiji forms, group singing of a Chinese song written by students themselves, and traditional Chinese dress dance, etc.

The contestants were grouped based on their age and language proficiency level. Each group selected gold, silver, and bronze medal winners. The speech

Treasurer Remya Sarma-Traynor UW-Stevens Point rsarmtr@uwsp.edu

rubric includes four aspects: content, fluency, pronunciation, and stage performance. The judges and observers were highly impressed with contestants’ performances. The final awards and certificates were delivered to the contestants’ teachers a week later.

The WACLT board would like to thank all the participants (students and teachers) in the 19th annual Chinese speech contest. We especially appreciate the support and encouragement from the Language Resource Center at UW-Milwaukee, and the online newspaper Milwaukee Chinese Time. They both provided sponsorship to this year’s speech contest. Check out the article in the Milwaukee Chinese Time by scanning the QR code below. We look forward to the in-person contest next year.

WACLT Monthly Sharing Event Highlights – February 2022 The WACLT board continued the monthly sharing event for fellow Wisconsin Chinese teachers. The TCI guru Haiyun Lu shared her new book series, Not Easy To Be a Child. She demonstrated in great detail the planning, teaching materials, class activities, and assessments of one of the series. The participating teachers raised many questions and were encouraged by Lu laoshi’s new guided series.

Yuzhou Wu

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American Association of French Teachers-Wisconsin Chapter President Cathy Stresing Fond du Lac School District

presidentAATFWI@gmail.com President-Elect Andrew Irving presidentelectAATFWI@gmail.com

Secretary-Treasurer Brian Wopat Onalaska High School treasurerAATFWI@gmail.com Past President Kara Torkelson Wausau West High School pastpresidentAATFLWI@gmail.com

Concours Oral concoursoralAATFWI@gmail.com AATF Regional Representative Tom Sapp tsapp@loy.org

AATF-WI website: aatfwi.org Join us on Facebook: AATF-Wisconsin AATF website: frenchteachers.org

Les dernières nouvelles de AATF-WI! ATF successfully held its second Concours Oral virtually this spring. We had a record number of participants including students in Singapore. There were 27 teachers who facilitated the participation of 240 students from 23 different schools. 44 judges filled out 720 forms and awarded 223 gold medals and 17 silver. For the last three years, M. Brian WOPAT has been artfully organizing our concours and making sure that all students had a successful experience. Brian has decided to hand over the reins this year. The new coordinator of our Concours Oral is Mme Lorraine POPLASKI. Lorraine is a French teacher from Green Bay, and we are thrilled to welcome her on board, grateful that she has decided to take on this role

Saturday morning where we will give an update on our events and budget.

As always, door prizes will be drawn.

You are also invited to join us for our “share fair” Friday afternoon. This is an opportunity for all French teachers to give and get ideas, plans, and activities and to provide support to each other and each other’s programs.

Hoping to see you there!

AATF-WI would like to encourage you to attend the WAFLT Fall Conference November 3-5. AATF will be conducting its yearly meeting on

Don’t forget you can always write an article for The Voice (the publication you’re reading now)!

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On an exciting note, we are pleased to present two outstanding French teacher candidates for WAFLT president elect. Andrea BEHN and Brian WOPAT will be running, and we wish them both the best of luck. We are certain that either one will represent AATF and will successfully fulfill the responsibilities that this position holds. We encourage you all to vote as the time approaches.

As you know, during the school year a plethora of “things” can come up. I invite you to reach out to AATF and me PresidentAATFwi@gmail.com if you would like me to put out a message to members. Please let me know if there are any announcements you would like shared, have questions that I can answer or have ideas that we can collaborate on. I look forward to sharing information about future workshops, graduate credit opportunities, and teaching resources, as well as working with all of you.

Cathy Stresing

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Wisconsin Association of Teachers of Japanese President Magara Maeda UW-River Falls (715) 425-3121 magara.maeda@uwrf.edu

President Ex-officio Takako Nakakubo UW-Madison (608) 262-3473 tnakakubo@wisc.edu

President-Elect Patricia Breun Madison Country Day School pbreun@madisoncountryday.org

Secretary/Web Page Editor Shinji Takahashi UW-Milwaukee (414) 229-5650 takahash@uwm.edu

Activities Director Yuko Kojima-Wert UW-Milwaukee (414) 229-5650 kojima@uwm.edu

Treasurer Yu Kitamura Wisconsin Virtual School Kitamurayu2017@gmail.com

Membership Information: aatj.org/membership WiATJ website: wisconsinatj.wordpress.com WiATJ Facebook: facebook.com/wiatj

elcome back to the 2022-2023 school year! I hope everyone had a relaxing and rejuvenating summer and it is off to a good start whether your mode of instruction is face-to-face, online, or anything in between.

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— Samantha S., and Makenzie P. (Level 3), and — Brook B., Leah P., and Victoria S. (Level 3) — Hannah, Mark, and Dalton’s team took third place in the Level 1.

WAFLT Fall Conference 2022 The 2022 WAFLT Fall Conference will be held November 3-5 and this will be a fully in-person event. This year's conference theme is Level Up: Embracing Change, Empowering Learners.

News Across Wisconsin C 2022 Virtual Minnesota J-Quiz, Saturday, 2/12/2022 Teams from three Wisconsin high schools participated. Congratulations, Stone sensei (Denmark High School), and Patty sensei (Madison Country Day School). The Denmark teams included: — Hannah N., Mark W., and Dalton W. (Level 1)

Kudos! Japanese National Honor Society (JNHS) award recipients!

Tracy Leemon, Eli Nahkla, and Alice Shock at UWRF were inducted into the College Chapter of the JNHS in April, 2022. Recipients must have completed five semesters of Japanese language study, earned a GPA of 3.5 or higher in the language classes, hold an overall GPA of 3.0, and be nominated by an instructor. They were UWRF Maeda sensei’s students and graduated this past spring.

Madison Country Day School teams took 1st & 2nd place in the Level 4.

C 9th Annual Speech & Recitation Contest on Zoom by UW-Milwaukee Japanese program, 3/4/2022.

Alice Shock

C 36th Annual Japanese Language Speech Contest (2022), Consulate General of Chicago, 3/26/2022.

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Kudos! Global Seal of Biliteracy recipients!

C #EdamameChamp Workshop (April, 2022)

Bevan Breau (UW-La Crosse) and Matthew Albee (UW-RF) received the Global Seal of Biliteracy in Japanese/ English. Bevan took four semesters and Matt took two semesters of Maeda sensei’s Japanese language course and reached a level of Intermediatemid-proficiency on the STAMP 4s test

by Avant. This is CLP’s (Collaborative Language Program) first time piloting the STAMP test for the second and the fourth semester language students in the program.

Maeda sensei’s students from UW-RF, UWSP, and UW-L participated #EdamameChamp Workshop by Table For Two. We learned about soy-related food in Japan and enjoyed the chopsticks game and making inarizushi.

C 2022 Virtual Annual Spring Conference (March 17-19, 2022)

— Maeda sensei (UW-RF) co-presented with Sanae Jennings sensei from East Los Angeles Community College on “Onigiri Action, so what!?: Zero beginner Japanese learning community enrichment through Onigiri Actioat.” This presentation was the part of the pedagogy panel (Curriculum/Course Design and Implementation) titled “Dream Collaboration Between Table For Two USA (TFT) and University Japanese Classroom: A Pathway to Global Citizenship.”

Japanese Professional Night by Avello

The past two events were online due to Covid, but this time I was able to meet everyone in the long-awaited face-to-face, and the teachers were also excited!

Members Activities Update

— Hanai sensei and Emori sensei (UW-Oshkosh) presented on “How to make the most of rapid development of one-to-one technology environment: New implementation model at elementary levels.”

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C AP Japanese Language & Culture Reading (June, 2022), Cincinnati, OH Maeda sensei (UW-RF) and Kojima-Wert sensei participated in the AP Japanese Language & Culture reading and scoring of the exam. This is Kojima sensei’s first time and Maeda sensei’s third time doing this. This is a great professional development opportunity for high school and post secondary language educators. For those interested in becoming an AP reader, please visit the Becoming an AP Reader. For more information, please visit AP Japanese Language & Culture. AP Japanese Language & Culture and Exam Description (PDF) is particularly very useful and important.

C Peace for Ukraine Collaboration Project Magara Maeda’s university Japanese language classes and Mrs. Patty Breun’s high school Japanese language classes at Madison Country Day School collaborated and started a “Peace for Ukraine” campaign on Padlet. Students learned about Hiroshima peace tourism, the horror of the Atomic bomb, and Sadako & 1000 paper cranes. They made paper cranes and posted the image along with their short message for peace.

The Padlet site was shared with one of the independent media in Ukraine.

This collaboration is part of Maeda sensei and Patty sensei’s action plan for the year-long AATJ/JFLA Advanced Leadership Training.

During the last meeting of the training on July 30, 2022, Maeda sensei and Patty sensei reported how their action plan, “High school and university Japanese program collaboration” was implemented.

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If you or your institution has any news, held any events, or received any awards, please share them with us so we can include them here in future newsletters. We would love to hear from you.

Magara Maeda

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Wisconsin Latin Teachers Association President Nate Kolpin Wauwatosa School District kolpinna@wauwatosa.k12.wi.us

Secretary Michelle Bayouth Madison West HS mbayouthicloud@gmail.com

very year, come January, a state of anxiety until March or April (or May, this year!) surfaces. Departments find out the enrollment numbers and FTE allocations for the next school year.

Most of our programs rely on enrollment numbers, and most of the time the responsibility for attracting new students is placed on the teachers. This is the sort of topic not dealt with perhaps if one’s school has mandatory language requirements, but for many of us, what used to energize us in our methods classes (how can we sustain an amazing program!) becomes something of a burden if fickle fortune deals us a low-request section for the following year.

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The obstacles faced could be primarily due to ignorance, which includes not knowing colleagues, principals, and guidance counselors. With most of the adults in students’ lives mesmerized

by STEM or off campus internship opportunities, the best avenue left for persuasion is the direct one, the students themselves. Our current students realize the value in their language study and they attract new recruits. Friends, siblings, and peers reach out to friends, siblings, and peers to the extent that they are willing. Clubs and trips help energize the mustering process. It takes a lot of effort since good teaching and good curriculum are not sufficient. One must

Webmaster Treasurer Mark Krause Daniel Tess Brookfield Central High School krausemg1@gmail.com tessdanielp@gmail.com

be a great teacher as well as a decent advertiser. This also might have seemed like an easy thing during practicum and student teaching, but making sure the courses we teach have advertisable appeal might become shifted to the back-burner when work load already pushes the boundaries of what’s doable within a reasonable schedule.

Magistra Caledonica had sustained a healthy program at Madison West with healthy enrollment numbers. She fostered a real community. And still, Latin was targeted for excision from Madison West due to administrative budgeting decisions. For all who wrote support letters and worked to persuade board members to consider an alternative, no thanks could ever be enough, and your efforts are valued by the parents and students who are still striving to have their voices heard.

The perennial angst around enrollment reveals a more fundamental issue than numbers. We have a cultural problem of superficiality and a moral problem of values. In a world that wants workers, we also need to convince students, parents, and the businesses which they eventually work for or create, that what they need are amazing human beings. There are ample anecdotal articles attesting to employers seeking quality of candidate over a specific skill.

Latin, and we would argue all language learning, is uniquely situated to explore humanitas. Not only do we frontload communication but we also explore deep questions of how we view the world and how something which perhaps initially seems foreign to us can become our own.

We might still need the panem et circenses of program peripherals to sustain interest in our classes, but those types of auxiliary activities might be the perfect door to welcome more people to explore our shared humanity.

Keep an eye for both WLTA and WJCL events as the school year starts, and we’ll see you at the Fall Conference in November!

Nate Kolpin

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American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese President Jessica Santiago New Berlin West High School jessica.santiago@nbexcellence.org

Secretary Alix Madden Pittsville School District maddeale@pittsville.k12.wi.us

Past President Kathy Varda JEDI Virtual School k.m.stenlund@gmail.com

Treasurer Catalina Cabello Pacelli Catholic High School, Stevens Point ccabello@spacs.k12.wi.us

President Elect Bridget Geboy-Helfenstein School District of West Allis-West Milwaukee gebob@wawmsd.org

Webmaster Josh LeGreve Green Lake School District joshlegreve@gmail.com

Sociedad Honoraria Hispánica Nicole Thompson School District of New Berlin nicole.thompson@nbexcelle nce.org

Concurso Oral Coordinator Barb Olsen Kettle Morraine High School barbara.olsen@kmlhs.org

Join us on Facebook: NSE Coordinator tinyurl.com/AATSP-WITeac Victoria Carter hers Onalaska High School carvi@onalaskaschools.com

¡Hola / Olá! ¡Un gran saludo de AATSP-WI! / Saudações a todos do AATSP-WI!

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n 2023 we’re looking to fill this leadership position:

C Sociedad Honoraria Hispánica Coordinator — Responsibilities include keeping a database of the members of the chapter. They advocate for teachers to implement chapters of SHH. They serve as a resource for chapter sponsors in the state of Wisconsin.

Nominate your colleagues! Please email Jessica Santiago, jessica.santiago@nbexcellence.org, if you are interested in joining our Board or with any nominations by October 15, 2022. Voting will take place at the AATSP-WI Networking Session during the WAFLT 2022 Fall Conference.

The “P” of AATSP-WI Are you a Portuguese Teacher? Do you know someone who is? We are seeking greater PORTUGUESE REPRESENTATION in AATSP-WI!

Please consider joining, sharing information about AATSP-WI with your fellow Portuguese Teacher colleagues/contacts, or emailing Jessica Santiago, jessica.santiago@ nbexcellence.org, with any contact information so she can reach out to them. Muita obrigada!

Achievements of 2021-2022 School Year C We have 155 registered members for 2022.

C NEW! Members are invited to participate in a BOOK CLUB. —The goal of the book club is to provide a community where AATSP members can read and discuss literature together, en español. It is in no way a formal club, so feel free to join us for this novel, and skip out on the next or vice-versa!

—Look for a new book selection at the WAFLT Fall Conference (and win a copy of the book in our raffle!)

—Email Alix Madden, maddeale@pittsville.k12.wi.us, for more information about joining the book club.

C Concurso Oral: We had 268 students participate; the contest was virtual with a two-week window to submit a recorded Flipgrid; we plan to continue the Concurso Oral virtually.

—10 student winners received $100 scholarships.

C National Poster Contest winners from Wisconsin: First Place 2nd-3rd grade: Tavish M.; and Third Place 4th grade: Zora S. —State-level winning posters can be viewed on our AATSP-WI website —This year celebrated the 50th Anniversary of the National Poster Contest, with a theme of Valuing Our Roots and Building Our Future.

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C The National Spanish Exam is no longer a state-level position; the exam is coordinated nationally, with results sent to individual teachers.

C Sociedad Honoria Hispánica: Two students in Wisconsin won the Bertie Green Junior Travel Award to Puerto Rico this year: —Kate B. from Waunakee Community High School —Jesús H. from Arrowhead High School Upcoming events for the 2022-2023 school year: C National Teach Spanish Week: [aatsp.org/page/NationalTeachSpanis hWeek] Sunday, September 25–Saturday, October 1, 2022.

C National Teach Portuguese Week: [aatsp.org/page/NationalTeachPortugu eseWeek] Sunday, October 30–Saturday, November 5, 2022.

C AATSP-WI Networking Meeting during the WAFLT Fall Confernece, November 3-5, 2022.

C AATSP-WI Share Session during the WAFLT Fall Conference, November 3-5, 2022.

C Nominate a Spanish/Portuguese Teacher for the AATSP-WI Distinguished Educator Award.

Each year AATSP-WI recognizes a teacher throughout the state that has made an impact in the classroom and/or in our organization.

—The nomination form will be available on our website and Facebook page at the end of August, will be due on October 1, 2022, and the winner to be announced during the networking meeting at WAFLT Fall Conference, 2022.

C Book Club: Continuous and casual - check our website and Facebook page, or email Alix Madden, maddeale@pittsville.k12.wi.us, for the joining link, book information, or book suggestions.

C Concurso Oral: Submissions will be virtual in 2023 with submissions date TBD (mid-February–early March, 2023). Please check for more details, registration information, and selections on our website.

C Poster Contest: Do your students have artistic talent? Entries may be hand-drawn (K-12) or digital (9-12), with a 2023 theme and submission date TBD (early March 2023). The winner(s) of the state competition will be sent on to the national AATSP Poster Contest. See our website for information.

C National Spanish Exam: Students discover individual proficiency compared to the rest of the country.

Winners earn gold/silver/bronze/ honorary distinction, and may qualify for scholarship to Concordia Language Village, International Travel, and College Scholarships.

2023 test date is TBD (mid-April–early May). Register your students here.

C Sociedad Honoraria Hispánica: Interested in starting a chapter? Need support or suggestions for how to encourage student participation or service opportunities? Not sure how to arrange an induction ceremony?

Contact Nicole Thompson, nicole.thompson@nbexcellence.org —We are seeking a Coordinator for SHH for 2023. Email Nicole Thompson or Jessica Santiago for more information.

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Interested in supporting AATSP? Join AATSP-WI today!

Become a new member and enjoy the benefits for your students’ achievement and your professional collaboration and support for just $45 here.

Membership benefits: C Professional networking and collaboration with local and international teachers of Spanish and Portuguese C Professional learning and development opportunities C Annual conference with more than 200 sessions C Study-abroad scholarships, conference attendee travel stipends and awards C Wealth of student awards, scholarships, travel opportunities C Student participation in Concurso Oral speaking contest, Poster Contest, National Spanish/Portuguese Exam C Sociedad Honoraria Hispánica (10-12) or la Sociedad Hispánica de Amistad (1-8) Join us on our Facebook group: AATSP-WI Teachers Look for updates and local information online @ wiaatsp.org. ¡Todos a una! Todos por um!

Jessica Santiago

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WAFLT Awards, Scholarships, and Grants: Details & Forms available @ waflt.org WAFLT Distinguished Language Educator Award: WAFLT's highest recognition, may be conferred annually on an individual of the language teaching profession who has demonstrated long-term achievement and service to WAFLT and to the profession locally, statewide, regionally, and/or nationally. Nomination Deadline: March 15 Anthony J. Gradisnik Award: May be conferred on an individual or group especially from outside the world language teaching profession who shares Mr. Gradisnik's enthusiasm and advocacy for language education in such areas as international education, early language learning, and creative initiatives in language education. Nomination Deadline: March 15 Frank M. Grittner New Teacher Award: May be conferred annually on an individual new to the language teaching profession with one to three years experience who has demonstrated excellence in teaching and leadership in the promotion of language learning and international understanding; has given service to school, community, and state organizations; and has shown commitment to regional and national organizations. Nomination Deadline: March 15 WAFLT Excellence in Language Study Award: May be conferred on students who have demonstrated great achievement and progress in language study and who exhibit great potential for further achievement in the language.

Students currently enrolled in a world language course offered at their school. Elementary, middle school, high school, and post-secondary students are eligible. Nomination Deadline: March 15 WAFLT Honors in Language Study Award: May be conferred on students who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in and commitment to their school’s language programs. Students currently enrolled in the most advanced world language course offered at their school; high school and post-secondary students are eligible. Deadline: March 15 WAFLT Future Language Teacher Award: May be conferred annually on students in teacher-training programs who have shown exceptional promise and potential to become outstanding world language educators. Students currently enrolled in a teacher-training program are eligible. Nomination Deadline: April 1 Donna Clementi Award for Excellence in World Language Programs: Recognizes one school and/or district that promotes language learning through quality programs.

WAFLT Professional Service Award: May be presented annually to recent retirees who have served both the profession and their students in providing quality world language education. Recent retirees with a minimum of ten years’ experience as world language educators and who have been members of WAFLT a minimum of five years within the past ten years are eligible. Nomination Deadline: May 15 WAFLT Recognition of Merit: May be presented annually to individuals who have demonstrated excellence in teaching or who have made significant contributions to the language teaching profession. Nomination Deadline: February 15 WAFLT Student Travel Scholarship: Designed to help Wisconsin pre-collegiate world language students to participate in language and cultural immersion programs, this scholarship was established in 1999 to honor O. Lynn Bolton, a Spanish teacher in the West Allis-West Milwaukee school district. Nomination Deadline: December 1 WAFLT Scholarship for Professional Development: Designed to help world language educators in Wisconsin improve their classroom teaching skills, this scholarship was established in 1995 to honor Professor Roma Hoff as she retired from the Department of Foreign Languages at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. The fund was expanded to honor Professor Constance Knop who retired from the faculty of the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1996, and again in 2005 to honor the memory of Professor Irène Kraemer who served in many capacities at Carthage College. Nomination Deadline: April 15 WAFLT Scholarship for Tomorrow’s Teachers: Designed to offer financial assistance to attend the WAFLT Fall Conference for up to 20 college-level students preparing to become language teachers. Deadline: September 25 WAFLT Special Projects Grants: Designed to support research efforts, exchange initiatives, special programs, and projects that clearly demonstrate an ability to benefit a broad constituency of world language educators and students in Wisconsin. Deadlines: April 15 and November 15 WAFLT Central States Extension Workshop Grant: Designed to offer financial support for two WAFLT members to attend the Central States Extension Workshop each spring.

Recipients of the grant are expected to work together to present a WAFLT Extension Workshop at the Fall Conference in Appleton. Deadline: December 15

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