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The Colorado Classics Association is proud to offer two sets of videos as advocacy and outreach tools for educators, students, parents, and friends of Latin. Both sets center on student perspectives about the language and are meant to spread accurate and positive messages about the benefits of studying it. They differ perhaps in how you might use them. The first set are Shorts (six, each <60 seconds in length), and the second is a Compilation (<6 minutes). The Compilation includes all the footage in the Shorts (some in expanded form), with additional clips which enrich the messaging. There are videos and information about them linked on the right, and there is also a set of slides here and a series of sample letters and materials here. Thank you, CCA!
Language Connects Foundation - 5 Questions for a Classicist
Language Connects Foundation - Why Language Learning Matters
In cases of threats to a program – e.g. reduction of faculty lines by attrition or downgrading; elimination of majors or minors; consolidation with other programs; overload teaching -- the Director of the Classics Advisory Service (CAS) is the first point of contact: the Director responds to requests for help from the affected program or from interested parties, and determines if and how the Society might be of help, usually consulting the SCS President and Executive Director, and reaching out to other professional organizations as appropriate. We recommend that affected programs inform the CAS of threats actual or potential: we cannot assist if we are unaware of the threat! We also recommend that you inform the president or appropriate officer of your Regional, State or Local Organizations. The largest of these is CAMWS (Classical Association of the Middle West and South), which covers more than half of the US and Canada.
Every day in the language classroom, we read, we write, we listen, we speak, we cultivate imagination. Doing these things in a language not our own—whether ancient or modern—asks much of our students. It allows them to have the tools for meaningful communication and meaningful interaction with world cultures, to have intercultural competence.
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