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Come listen to what this year's finalists have to say and vote for your favorite in the People's Choice Award!



📅: Friday, July 10th
⏰: 11:15am-12:30pm
📍: FSB 1000 - Taylor Auditorium

Learn more about LaunchPad, language education technology competition: https://thelanguageflagship.tech/launchpad/

🔵 Speaking🌀of 🟦 the 🔷 conference....

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VICTORY!

3 Retrieval Games to Try in Your High School Classroom These activities make reviewing content fun, so they can really motivate students to cement their learning.

Foreign Language Annals | ACTFL Language Teaching Journal | Wiley Online Library The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into second language (L2) writing instruction has generated an ongoing debate concerning its pedagogical value, ethical implications, and classroom imp...

House Appropriators Vote Out Education Spending Bill With Deep Cuts Early Wednesday morning, the House Appropriations Committee approved, on a party-line vote, the House’s version of the FY27 Labor HHS Education spending bill, which proposes to cut 10% of the Department of Education’s funding and eliminate key language education programs. Specifically, the bill ...

Advocacy Alert: ACTFL proudly joins education-focused organizations in endorsing the Beginning Educator Mentorship and Retention Act introduced today by Sen. Kaine & Rep. Hayes, legislation to support early-career teachers and school leaders. Read more: https://www.kaine.senate.gov/press-releases/kaine-hayes-introduce-legislation-to-provide-mentorship-training-to-new-teachers

In celebration of World Oceans Day, this we’d like to share a delightfully obscure word: “fluctisonant” — sounding like rolling ocean waves.

From Latin “fluctus,” meaning “a wave, a flowing” and “sonare,” meaning “to make a sound,” the word does exactly what it describes. Say it out loud and you’ll hear it.

Notable enough to appear in both Thomas Blount’s 1656 Glossographia and Elisha Coles’s 1676 An English Dictionary, “fluctisonant” has unfortunately since fallen out of fashion. Can you help us bring it back? 🌊

Teachers Have Something to Share You might think your expertise and ideas aren’t worth discussing, but sharing what you’ve learned with your peers and beyond your school has a lot of benefits.

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