Post-Conference Workshop: Connecting your Units to the Communities Standard

Post-Conference Workshop:

Connecting your Units to the Communities Standard

This workshop will outline a process for revising your existing units to include essential questions, theme, and summative assessments driven by a Communities-standard focus.  Participants are encouraged to bring a unit that that would like to revise; time will be allotted for individual or group work and feedback from the presenter.

with 

Jessica Haxhi

ACTFL President-Elect

Supervisor of World Languages for New Haven Public Schools

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. 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 Conference 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 and served on the the NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements Revision Committee.  Jessica is ACTFL President-Elect for 2021.