Each program is listed alphabetically, by state.
Alaska
Anchorage School District
Janice Gullickson
4600 DeBarr Avenue
P.O. Box 196614
Anchorage, AK 99519
Project Troika: An Elementary-Middle School-High
School Russian Program
Russian
This project will create an extended, sequential,
and articulated program of Russian language study
beginning at the elementary school level and
continuing through middle and high schools. The
project will introduce the study of Russian to a
student population which has never had consistent
access to Russian language instruction. Student will
begin Russian language study early in order to reach
high levels of proficiency in a less commonly taught
language. Teachers will create a program to address
the needs of early second language learners.
California
Capistrano Unified School District
Kristen Nelson
32972 Calle Perfecto
San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675
Chinese Culture Center provides a comprehensive K-12
foreign language program in Mandarin Chinese
including advanced technology skills.
Mandarin Chinese
To provide all K-12 students within the Capistrano
Unified School District (CUSD) the opportunity to
learn Mandarin Chinese, and to establish a Chinese
language demonstration site by expanding the Chinese
Cultural Center as Las Flores Elementary School in
Las Flores, CA.
California Department of Education
Robert Cervantes
P.O. Box 944272
721 Capitol Mall, 4th Floor
Sacramento, CA 94244
Foreign Language Assistance Request for Proposal to
Provide Professional Development
The California Department of Education would
collaborate with the California Language Teachers
Association in providing comprehensive staff
development opportunities for California's foreign
language teachers. Project funds would assist in
expanding and enhancing current staff development
activities for foreign language teachers throughout
the states.
San Rafael City Schools
Naomi Spiegelman
310 Nova Albion Way
San Rafael, CA 94903
Project Mandarin
Mandarin
This project will expand the existing Mandarin High
School Program and introduce a comprehensive K-12
program for the District. A comprehensive program
will provide continuous, sequential instruction in
Mandarin and Chinese culture and history.
Delaware
Delaware Department of Education
Townsend Building
Shuhan C. Wang
Federal & Loockerman Sts.
P.O. Box 1402
Dover, DE 19903
Delaware CAP Initiatives
The Delaware Department of Education (DDOE) proposes
to conduct a three-year statewide foreign language
(FL) capacity-building project, Delaware CAPacity
(CAP) Initiatives. It strives to achieve three
goals: (1) to improve and complete the Delaware FL
Performance Indicators (PI); (2) to offer an
intensive FL teachers' summer institute with study
abroad; and (3) to establish elementary (grades 4 -
6) FL after-school and summer camp programs that
also serve as teacher training laboratories.
Florida
The School Board of Broward County, Florida
Vilma T. Diaz
600 S.E. Third Avenue
Ford Lauderdale, FL 33301
Project AMIS
French
Project Amis is a three year initiative that will
provide innovative resources and technical support
for over eight hundred elementary students in the
district. The project will promote the sequential
study of the French language and culture for
students K-5. A proficiency-based beginning French
curriculum will be developed, field-tested, and
disseminated. This curriculum will provide units in
that French language and cultures of French-speaking
countries.
Kentucky
Kentucky Department of Education
Jacqueline Van Houten
Division of Curriculum Development
500 Mero Street, 18th Floor
Frankfort, KY 40601
Kentucky Curricular Frameworks and Teacher Academy
This two-part, three-year project is designed to
address the needs of a growing interest in
elementary and middle school foreign language
learning. It will build the foundation for a
systemic inclusion of foreign languages by:
designing a comprehensive, curricular framework;
and, providing teachers with intensive and
long-term, professional development.
Louisana
Lafayette Parish School Board
Sandy LaBry
P.O. Drawer 2158
Lafayette, Louisiana 70502
Project FACT: French Acquisition, Curriculum and
Teacher Training
French
Project FACT will serve a K-8 French Immersion
program which has been growing in Lafayette for the
past years, as well as other immersion programs
throughout the state of Louisiana. The goals of
Project FACT are to develop comprehensive,
articulate, and instructionally-sound curricular
documents based on the new state standards and
benchmarks and to enhance the professional abilities
of French immersion teachers across the curriculum,
ultimately increasing French immersion students'
intellectual growth and proficiency in French.
Maryland
Montgomery County Public Schools
Myriam Met
850 Hungerford Drive
Rockville, MD 20850
Meeting National Standards in Immersion Programs
French and Spanish
The purpose of this three their project is to
promote student achievement of national standards in
foreign languages, mathematics, science, and social
studies through improvement of existing K-8
immersion programs. The project will enhance the
professional skills of staff and the curriculum of
the foreign language immersion programs of
Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) and other
districts in the U.S. The project addresses the
purposes and priorities of the Foreign Language
Assistance Program. It promotes the sequential study
of foreign language through the development of a
curriculum in French or Spanish language arts and
other curriculum areas for immersion students n
Grades K-8, its work will be continued after the
project period, and it provides a professional
development component, including an intensive summer
program.
Massachusetts
Medford Public Schools
Katherine Lopez Natale
489 Winthrop Street
Medford, MA 02155
Italian Training and Language in the Elementary
Schools (ITALIES)
Italian
This program offers Italian language instruction in
a variety of formats in grades one through eight, to
develop a content-based curriculum for grades four
and five, and to provide training toward full
certification for paraprofessional staff and looks
to expand its curriculum by seeking to integrate the
regular curriculum and Italian language instruction.
Springfield MA Public Schools
Dr. Kathleen M. Riordan
195 State Street
P.O. Box 1410
Springfield, MA 01102
Foreign Language for All: The Vision Becomes a
Reality in an Urban District
The Springfield Public Schools will develop and
implement an innovative model program. The program
will provide for the improvement of foreign language
study for elementary school students in K - 8 in the
district's 36 elementary and middle schools. The
project will (1)include a professional development
component, and (2) demonstrate new and innovative
approaches that can be disseminated and duplicated
in other local education agencies.
Oregon
School District No. 1
Mary Bastiani and Patrick Burk
P.O. Box 3107
Portland, OR 97208
Hola Hola: Phase II
Spanish
This project will implement a professional
development program for regular classroom teachers
to facilitate sequential foreign language in
elementary (FLES) programs. Over a three year
period, 60 "lead" elementary school teachers will
participate in training which will enable them to
facilitate the HH distance learning program, and to
train an expanding cadre of FLES teachers in their
respective schools.
Pennsylvania
School District of Philadelphia
J. Patricio Concha
21st Street South of the Parkway
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Interactive Distance Learning Chinese Language and
Culture Middle School
Chinese
The School District of Philadelphia proposes
innovative projects, which will allow middle school
students to participate in a program of televised
and live interactive Mandarin Chinese language and
culture lessons. The project will offer students
currently engaged in the District's Elementary
Chinese Distance Learning program the opportunity to
continue their study of Chinese along with their
classroom peers beginning study of Chinese.
Texas
Richardson Independent School District
M.K. McChristian
400 S. Greenville Ave.
Richardson, TX 75081
Title VII Foreign Language Distance Program Grant
Spanish
This grant will help expand and upgrade the current
Elementary Foreign Language Distance Learning
Program by extending the program from its former 10
schools to 16 schools. Additionally, the project
will: (a) add additional teachers/specialists; (b)
install language laboratories at all 16 schools; and
(c) provide significant staff development to all the
teachers in the Richardson Independent school
district who provide instruction to students
learning a language other than English.
West Virginia
West Virginia Department of Education
Deborah M. Harki
1900 Kanawha Blvd., East
Building 6, Room 330
Charleston, WV 25305
Expanding FLES: Laying the Foundation
Expanding the FLES: Laying the Foundation will build
on two current West Virginia initiatives designed to
increase elementary foreign language programs. These
initiatives are (1) a mandate by the West Virginia
Legislature to add a foreign language curriculum to
the seventh and eighth grade by the fall of 2002,
and (2) the establishment of a West Virginia chapter
of the National Network for Early Language Learning
(NNELL).
