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CONFERENCE INFO.

LATEST NEWS

The 2008 SDWLA Annual Conference will take place Oct. 17-18 in Rapid City, SD at the Radisson Hotel. We hope to charter a bus to take East River folks to Rapid on October 16. Download, circulate and display the 2008 Call for Papers/Session Poster. We hope you'll consider submitted a propoasl. Early Bird registration (before June 30, 2008) is also available; download and submit your Registration Form. Check back again for registration information.

The 2007 SDWLA Conference took place on Friday-Saturday, Oct. 5-6 at the Holiday Inn City Center in Sioux Falls. Keynote speakers included Vickie Scow, Tom Welch and Peg Hensen.

Photo Album
View photos from this year's SDWLA conference and state AATF, AATG and AATSP meetings in our photo album.

Make sure to join the updated Listserv in order to keep informed of the conference and to share concerns and ideas with other members. Remember, if you have new e-mail address, you'll need to resubscribe to the listserv! Complete information is available by selecting "listserv" from the menu.

NEW URL
The SDWLA web-site has a new URL (address); please update your bookmarks!

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2007 SDWLA Teacher of the Year
Congratulations to Brenda Lynch who was selected as the SDWLA 2007 Teacher of the Year! Brenda teaches Spanish at Madison High School. View previous recipients in the awards section of the Roundtable Bulletin.

2006 SDWLA Nominee for the Central States Teacher of the Year Award, Marsha Klein

2006 SDWLA Nominee for the Central States Conference Teacher of the Year Award.
Congratulations to Marsha Klein who was selected as the SDWLA 2006 Nominee for the Central States Conference Teacher of the Year Award! Central States asks each state world language association to nominate one outstanding K-12 teacher. Brenda Lynch, on behalf of SDWLA, nominated Marsha Klein who teaches German and Spanish at George S. Mickelson Middle School in Brookings. Marsha is a long-time member of SDWLA and advocate for world languages. She has been honored several times for excellence in teaching and has served as an SDWLA Board member.

What world languages are spoken in South Dakota?
The Modern Foreign Language Association's Language Map uses data from the 2000 United States census to display the locations and numbers of speakers of thirty languages and three groups of less commonly spoken languages in the United States.

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