GWATFL - MFLA 2010 Fall Conference October 15 - 16, 2010

Mark your calendars now for next fall to attend the conference, whose theme will be Go Global: Communicate, Collaborate, Participate. The dates are October 15 - 16, 2010 and will feature a joint venture with GWATFL (the Greater Washington Association of Teachers of Foreign Languages). The fall conference offers you all the benefits of a large national conference -- a keynote speaker, a banquet, immersion workshops, concurrent sessions, meals, and exhibitors -- but at a much lower cost -- a great value in today's economy!  More . . .

Fall Conference Keynote Speaker Announced - Bruce Cohen, Peace Corps

Bruce Cohen, new Director of the Office of Recruitment, Selection, and Support, will be the keynote speaker at the GWATFL - MFLA 2010 Fall Conference Banquet on October 15, 2010.  Mr. Cohen was appointed to head this new Peace Corps office upon his return from Jamaica in March 2009.  Prior to that time, he had spent four months in Kingston, Jamaica, as interim Country Director and five and a half years in Morocco as Country Director.  Before returning to Peace Corps for the Morocco assignment, Mr. Cohen worked six years in New York City - first as the Director of International Programs and the Jewish Volunteer Corps at the American Jewish World Service, and later, as the Director of Volunteer Services at the U.S. Fund for UNICEF.  Prior to his work in New York, Mr. Cohen served as the first Director of AmeriCorps Recruitment with the Corporation for National Service in Washington, D.C.  Mr. Cohen began his affiliation with the Peace Corps as a volunteer in Tunisia, teaching English at the high school level.  He later spent twenty years working with Peace Corps, fourteen years of which were in recruitment, including the position of Director of Recruitment.  Mr. Cohen followed this with three years as Peace Corps Country Director in the Democratice Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire) and three years as Country Director in Senegal.

Gerstell Academy Wins ACTFL Video Contest

Middle school students from Gerstell Academy in Carroll County won the ACTFL Video Contest popular vote.  Check out their winning entry HERE.