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Keep up with opportunities, announcements and events in the language community across the state of Virginia.

  • FLAVA President’s Message – June 2023 Greetings, FLAVA Members! Wow! The end of the school year is finally upon us! For those of you who have already started summer break, please take this time to relax and recharge. For those of you who are still......

  • The Emory & Henry College Foreign Languages Department invites applications for a synchronous online (Zoom) French adjunct position beginning August 2023. Online Zoom schedule: MWF 1:30 – 2:20 pm, Thursday 1:30 – 2:20, 4 credit hours Qualifications   Masters or PhD required in French or......

  • The Emory & Henry College Foreign Languages Department invites applications for a synchronous online (Zoom) Spanish adjunct position beginning August 2023. Online Zoom Schedule: MWF 10:00 – 10:50, Thursday 9:30 – 10:50, 4 credit hours Qualifications   Masters or PhD required in Spanish, Hispanic Studies,......

JOIN US AT THE 2023 FALL CONFERENCE!

Submit a proposal for the FLAVA Fall 2023 Conference. The deadline to submit is May 31, 2023.

In Memoriam

Many of you know Marshall Brannon, FLAVA member and namesake of FLAVA’s Brannon Post-Secondary Award for Excellence in Teaching. I am so sorry to share that he passed away on May 2, 2022 after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. If you have had the chance to work or be with Marshall, you will know what a great person, leader, and advocate he was and what a loss this is for our world language profession and the organizations with which he worked. I would ask that each of you keep Marshall’s family in your thoughts during this extremely difficult time. To read the obituary and share your condolences with the family, please click here.

“Recharge, Reconnect, Reflect”

 

FLAVA is pleased to announce the following recipients of the Best of FLAVA Award for their outstanding presentations at this year’s FLAVA conference.

 

Shane Goodpasture with “Get Ready to Embark on ‘The Amazing Race,'” who will represent FLAVA at SCOLT

Julia Inglesby with “Number Talks in a Dual Language Immersion Setting,” who will represent FLAVA at NECTFL

Congratulations to the FLAVA 2022 Award Recipients!

Christina Ballew
2022 David Cox Award Recipient
Virginia K-12 World Language Teacher of the Year

Dr. Martha Davis
Marshall Brannon Award Recipient
Virginia Post-Secondary World Language Teacher of the Year

Dr. Lily Goetz
Helen Warriner Burke Award

Please consider nominating a deserving colleague for one of this year’s FLAVA awards. Applications are due May 1. For a full list of awards and information on how to submit the application, please click here.

We are a growing, dynamic organization of professionals in education and business, students, and all those who have a common interest in promoting and utilizing world languages to accomplish their various goals.

We advocate for world language education on behalf of members at the local, state, and federal levels. We promote online opportunities to educate the public about the benefits and issues related to language learning.

For almost a decade, FLAVA has offered interactive, online workshops through the auspices of the Washington & Lee University’s Global Discovery Laboratories, webcast throughout the region as part of our mission for professional growth.

Our fall conference serves as a primary means of fulfilling our mission in gathering the community around the association’s business, and our spring conference provides an opportunity to recharge and learn the latest theories and practices in language learning.