EASC/OATJ Virtual Spring Workshop 2020: Keep the Airplane Flying! Advocacy for Japanese Language Programs

April 26, 2020

1:00PM - 3:30PM

Virtual (via online Zoom meeting room)

Add to Calendar 2020-04-26 13:00:00 2020-04-26 15:30:00 EASC/OATJ Virtual Spring Workshop 2020: Keep the Airplane Flying! Advocacy for Japanese Language Programs Presented by the Ohio Association of Teachers of Japanese (OATJ):Keep the Airplane Flying! Advocacy for Japanese Language ProgramsJessica Haxhi, Supervisor of World Language for New Haven Public SchoolsTIME: 1:00pm-3:30 pm (EDT - Ohio); 12:00pm-2:30 pm (CDT); 11:00am-1:30pm (MDT); 10:00am-12:30 pm (PDT)Participant Fee: $10Registration/Zoom meeting details: LinkOATJ Website: Link ABSTRACT: In this presentation, we will discuss the essential components to maintaining a Japanese language program in the long-term, from curriculum and instruction to publications and events. The presenter will use examples from a PreK-5 program that she established in 1994, as well as examples from her current role overseeing K-12 language programs for New Haven Public Schools in Connecticut. The second hour will include time for individual program advocacy self-assessment, structured collaboration with other participants, and feedback from the presenter.SPEAKER: Jessica Haxhi is the Supervisor of World Languages for New Haven Public Schools, a mid-size urban district with 90 world language teachers and six languages taught. Previously, she spent 20 years teaching Japanese in an elementary magnet school in Waterbury, CT in a program that is now in its 26th year. She has been teaching world language methods courses at Southern Connecticut State University for 15 years. Jessica has served on the Board of the Northeast Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (NECTFL) and has been President of the National Council of Japanese Language Teachers (NCJLT) and Co-President of the American Association of Teachers of Japanese (AATJ). She worked with CT COLT to advocate for Seal of Biliteracy legislation in Connecticut and served on the the NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements Revision Committee. Jessica is ACTFL President-Elect for 2021. This event is sponsored in part by the East Asian Studies Center and a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant to the East Asian Studies Center at OSU. Virtual (via online Zoom meeting room) OSU ASC Drupal 8 ascwebservices@osu.edu America/New_York public

Add to Calendar 2020-04-26 13:00:00 2020-04-26 15:30:00 EASC/OATJ Virtual Spring Workshop 2020: Keep the Airplane Flying! Advocacy for Japanese Language Programs Presented by the Ohio Association of Teachers of Japanese (OATJ):Keep the Airplane Flying!  Advocacy for Japanese Language ProgramsJessica Haxhi, Supervisor of World Language for New Haven Public SchoolsTIME: 1:00pm-3:30 pm (EDT - Ohio); 12:00pm-2:30 pm (CDT); 11:00am-1:30pm (MDT); 10:00am-12:30 pm (PDT)Participant Fee: $10Registration/Zoom meeting details: LinkOATJ Website: Link ABSTRACT: In this presentation, we will discuss the essential components to maintaining a Japanese language program in the long-term, from curriculum and instruction to publications and events.  The presenter will use examples from a PreK-5 program that she established in 1994, as well as examples from her current role overseeing K-12 language programs for New Haven Public Schools in Connecticut.   The second hour will include time for individual program advocacy self-assessment, structured collaboration with other participants, and feedback from the presenter.SPEAKER: Jessica Haxhi is the Supervisor of World Languages for New Haven Public Schools, a mid-size urban district with 90 world language teachers and six languages taught.  Previously, she spent 20 years teaching Japanese in an elementary magnet school in Waterbury, CT in a program that is now in its 26th year.  She has been teaching world language methods courses at Southern Connecticut State University for 15 years. Jessica has served on the Board of the Northeast Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (NECTFL) and has been President of the National Council of Japanese Language Teachers (NCJLT) and Co-President of the American Association of Teachers of Japanese (AATJ).  She worked with CT COLT to advocate for Seal of Biliteracy legislation in Connecticut and served on the the NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements Revision Committee.  Jessica is ACTFL President-Elect for 2021.   This event is sponsored in part by the East Asian Studies Center and a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant to the East Asian Studies Center at OSU.    Virtual (via online Zoom meeting room) East Asian Studies Center easc@osu.edu America/New_York public

Presented by the Ohio Association of Teachers of Japanese (OATJ):

Keep the Airplane Flying! Advocacy for Japanese Language Programs

Jessica Haxhi, Supervisor of World Language for New Haven Public Schools

TIME: 1:00pm-3:30 pm (EDT - Ohio); 12:00pm-2:30 pm (CDT); 11:00am-1:30pm (MDT); 10:00am-12:30 pm (PDT)

Participant Fee: $10
Registration/Zoom meeting details: Link

OATJ Website: Link

ABSTRACT: In this presentation, we will discuss the essential components to maintaining a Japanese language program in the long-term, from curriculum and instruction to publications and events. The presenter will use examples from a PreK-5 program that she established in 1994, as well as examples from her current role overseeing K-12 language programs for New Haven Public Schools in Connecticut. The second hour will include time for individual program advocacy self-assessment, structured collaboration with other participants, and feedback from the presenter.

SPEAKER: Jessica Haxhi is the Supervisor of World Languages for New Haven Public Schools, a mid-size urban district with 90 world language teachers and six languages taught. Previously, she spent 20 years teaching Japanese in an elementary magnet school in Waterbury, CT in a program that is now in its 26th year. She has been teaching world language methods courses at Southern Connecticut State University for 15 years. Jessica has served on the Board of the Northeast Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (NECTFL) and has been President of the National Council of Japanese Language Teachers (NCJLT) and Co-President of the American Association of Teachers of Japanese (AATJ). She worked with CT COLT to advocate for Seal of Biliteracy legislation in Connecticut and served on the the NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements Revision Committee. Jessica is ACTFL President-Elect for 2021.

This event is sponsored in part by the East Asian Studies Center and a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant to the East Asian Studies Center at OSU.