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Resources to Share: On this page, please post personal resources (powerpoints, agendas, etc) that you have found or that you have collected in other professional development workshops or seminars. Please include a summary or explanation of the program.

=**Information from MFLS meeting, January 24, 2013**= Summary: Below are numerours resources for you and your teachers. Scroll down to find websites, travel, upcoming events of the World Affairs Council of Dallas, and conference information and invitations from your colleagues. Go to the meetings tab to see the calendar for the remainder of the year.

Get support and encouragement from your fellow MFLS supervisors/coordinators/lead teachers! Give back by posting helpful hints, or comment on any of the resources provided this month.
 * Quote of the day: "Maintaining momentum is tough!"**

//**Welcome to our newest members: Elda Rojas of Dallas ISD, MagdaSchenck and Rod Segovia of Grand Prairie ISD, Dede Woods of Parish Episcopal School!**// //**Welcome also to visitors Lisa Camp of Hockaday and Kelly Day of Good Shepherd Episcopal School.**//

~Thanks to Paul Tidmore, Chief Technology Officer, for conducting a tour of the building today!~ ~Thanks to Dolores Gende, Director of Instructional Technology, for an excellent presentation!~

**Websites** **Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century**

 * Click here for Dolores Gende's video that Thursday's MFLS participants requested. Very well done! (created using animoto)**

**Digital Tools for Foregin Languages, compiled by Dolores Gende**
Click here to see the tools that Dolores demonstrated during our meeting. Also available at this site from the left-hand menu is a wealth of information regarding PBL and Student Centered Classrooms.

**Super cool virtual museum websites**
museos virtuales del mundo (world) museos virtuales de latinoamérica

**NADSFL Website**:
http://nadsfl.wikispaces.com/

**Travel**
Thanks to SPIAbroad for sponsoring the January MFLS luncheon. Please note that they have added an optional global leadership component to their trips. For more information, click on SPIAbroad Click here to see the people behind SPIAbroad, then xplore the pages of their website for a variety of information on the different trips that they offer. Please let your teachers know that students may apply on their own, even if the school is not sponsoring a trip.

** 2013 World Affairs Council of Dallas Events **
1. International Educator of the Year Award nominations due **__Feb. 15__**. Please consider nominating a teacher that brings the world to his/her classroom. It is easy! Winning teacher gets expense paid trip to DC and $500 for school’s international publications. Click here.

2. Academic WorldQuest Competition at UT Arlington on **__Feb. 27__**th. High School student teams need to be registered by Feb. 1. Study guide online. The Council pays for winning team/sponsor to go to DC to compete in national competition. Great for AC Dec teams. For more information Click here.

3. Tony Wagner, Harvard education professor and author of the //Global// //Achievement Gap//, //Creating Innovators,// and several other education books, is coming to speak on __**April 2, 2013**__ .He is an amazing speaker and the topic is about creating innovation in the classroom. C lick here.

4. Click here to read more about the World Affairs Council of Dallas and to see other events that may be interesting to your teachers or students. 325 North St. Paul Street, Suite 4200 **|** Dallas, Texas 75201 (214) 965-8415 (direct) **|** (214) 965-8419 (fax) Jbowden@dfwworld.org ** | ** __www.dfwworld.org__
 * Jennifer Bowden / Director of Education **
 * World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth **

**SWCOLT**
Henderson, Nevada April 4-6 Click here for information

**Students in the Global Economy**

 * Click hereto see the offerings and to register for February 16!**
 * This wonderful Saturday opportunity is __local__ at Region X in Richardson.**

**TFLA: Texas Foreign Language Association**

 * Click here to see upcoming and future conferences which include regional conferences in Midland and Portland this spring!**

**PASF: Pan American Student Forum of Texas**

 * Check here for information on this exciting student opportunity. There is still space available for March, but you will definitely want to be sure your teachers know about this yearly event. In fact, they celebrate their 70th anniversary this school year!**

**Garland ISD** will have a MS AP workshop on February 19, 2013. Contact Barb Hanna @ bahanna@garlandisd.net.
map ===**Plano ISD** teachers will learn how to norm their rubrics to the performance and proficiency standards on February 18, 2013 at Clark High School -- Spanish at 8:30 and French, German and Chinese at 1:45. If you are interested in observing, contact Greta Lundgaard at Greta.Lundgaard@pisd.edu.===

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