Our Fall 2025 Meeting will take place on Saturday, November 8 at the Mt. Lebanon High School Library. 

We will have snacks and conversation from 9:00-9:30am, our business meeting from 9:30-10:00am, then a Mini Conference from 10-12. 

Members are welcome to bring an activity to present that has worked well in their classrooms for the Mini Conference. 

We will have an optional lunch together afterwards. We look forward to seeing everyone!

Spring 2024

The spring chapter meeting was on April 13, 2024 at North Allegheny Intermediate School, immediately followed by a presentation about AI by Kim Kroenke. 

A link to her presentation is below.

Kaffee und Klatschen  9 - 9:30 a.m.

Business Meeting 9:30 - 10:30 a.m.

Workshop 10:30 a.m.-noon 

In Attendance: Hannah Morrison, Francesca Cappetta, Peg Meyers, Chris Squire, Josh Baringer, Viktoria Harms, Kim Kroenke, Erica Kain

President’s Report:

• Report from the 2023 PSMLA Conference

• ACTFL 2024 in Philadelphia 

• Several Grants and Funding for Programs available on the AATG website

• Professional development grants/funding available - check out AATG website

  • Tussing-Mahlkau Scholarship to attend an AP Summer Institute

    • Deadline extended to Apr 30, 2024

• Attend Deutsche Woche Bar Harbor! Info/Application here

• Award nominations: 

• National German Exam Outcomes - 

Nominees: 

• Connor Phillips, The Linsly School, Wheeling WV

• Aanche Libai, Mt. Lebanon High School, Pittsburgh PA

• Annika Schreiber, Mt. Lebanon High School, Pittsburgh PA

                                    Winner: 

• Connor Phillips was selected. Our first winner, I believe, from WV!

• The other two nominees, Aanche and Annika, are listed as finalists, which means they made it to the final round!!!

• Cathy Altmeyer is asking for help next February/March with the Testing Chair duties: 

  • be in charge of communication with the teachers and potential scholarship recipients.  

  • send out email reminders about deadlines  

  • Cathy can do the prizes, certificates, and interviews, but could use help sending email reminders.

• Teachers who volunteered to help with German Day on their registration form will be contacted over the summer.  Thanks to all who volunteered to help with publicity, funding, and setting up contest prompts.

• Summer/Fall Activity Proposals - 

  • Picnic

    • Golden Pig 

  • Party Pedaler 

  • Krampusnacht

  • Pirates Game

  • Duckpin bowling

    • PINS

    • Coop Deville 

  • ECHT Coffeehouse

  • Steeping Leaf

  • Harmony Christkindlmarkt Nov 9-10

• Fall Workshop Suggestions:  Swap Shop at Shadyside?  Or CV?  NA?

  • Send out Google form for presentation ideas/abstract

• Deutsches Wochenende in New Vrindaban oder woanders

Vice President’s Report:

•    Door Prizes for Attendance

Treasurer’s Report: 

WPWV-AATG Chapter Financial Report 2023-2024

Balance as of January 11, 2023 $3208.20

Balance as of January 12, 2024 $5497.25

Deposits since January 11, 2023 $8685.00

$4365.00 (German Day 2023 Funds) 03/15/23

$1000.00 (3 Rivers German Day Chapter Project) 04/19/23

$446.00 (Chapter Dues Refund) 05/19/23

$2874.00 (Klett Publishing) 06/05/23

Expenses since January 11, 2023 $6395.95

$3394.60 (German Day 2023 Reimbursement) 03/23/23

$2856.75 (German Day 2023 Food) 03/23/23

$30.00 (Spring Meeting Starbucks) 05/04/23

$12.60 (Stamps) 06/12/23

$102.00 (Fall Meeting Kaffee und Kuchen Refund) 10/30/23

Workshop: 

Künstliche Intelligenz und das Deutschunterricht

Kim Kroenke

Fall 2023

The fall chapter meeting will be on October 21, 2023 at Seton Hill University

When: Saturday, October 21, 2023

Where: Seton Hill University, Boyle 156, 1 Seton Hill Drive, Greensburg, PA 15601

Parking will be in Lot E, by the Admin Building (see attached PDF Campus Map)

Kaffee und Klatschen  9 - 9:30 a.m.

Business Meeting 9:30 - 10:30 a.m.

Workshop 10:30 a.m.-noon 

Please RSVP to this event by texting 724.496.0096 or filling out this form: https://forms.gle/zqRR1ZR5kqbYaifH8

“Evolution and Eras of an Empress: Mirroring Myth through Media”

Presenter: Kristin Kuhns

A German Studies Adjunct Professor at Seton Hill University in Greensburg, PA, and an 8th-grade writing instructor for the Ligonier Valley School District. She graduated in 2001 from Smith College with a B.A. in German Language and Cultural Studies and holds a Master of Arts in Teaching from the University of Pittsburgh (2007). 

A trailblazer in the academic study of "Sisi" she has studied the Empress Elisabeth of Austria for over 20 years and has lived and traveled throughout Germany, Austria, and Europe. Her honors thesis, "The Origin and Development of Empress Elisabeth's Legend" was quoted in the Introduction to Hametz and Schlipphacke’s 2018 “Sissi’s World.”

Past events:

• Fall 2022 Meeting: October 29, 2022.  "Community and Collaboration: Learning Adventures Beyond the Classroom" with presenter Ingrid Zeller.  

• Spring 2022 Meeting: April 9, 2022.  Chapter Meeting & Workshop "Comprehensible Input for German Instruction" with presenter Doug Philipp

• Fall 2021 Meeting: October 2, 2021. Chapter Meeting & Dinner at Max's Allegheny Tavern.  Pirate's game followed.

• Spring 2021 Meeting: April 10, 2021.  Virtual Meeting & Workshop "Including the Theme of Sustainability at Various Levels of German" with presenter Angelika Becker

• Fall 2020 Meeting:  Joint Virtual Conference with WVFLTA featuring a presentation by keynote speaker Annabelle Allen "La Maestra Loca"

• December 2019 Event: German Christmas Carol Flash Mob in Market Square

• Fall 2019 Meeting:  Meeting at The Linsly School in Wheeling, WV (Barnes Building, 60 Knox Lane) with staff from the Washington, DC Goethe Institute discussing "Lerneraktiverung" and how to use Goethe Institut materials in class. Saturday, October 5, 9am-12pm.  

• Fall 2019 Workshop: Tour of the historic Deutschtown neighborhood in German, Saturday, September 7

• Spring 2019 Workshop:  "Wir basteln"-German Club arts and crafts ideas at Washington and Jefferson College.  March 30.

• October 12-13 2018: PSMLA Conference

• September 27-30 2018: GSA Conference in Pittsburgh

• September 26, 2018: Goethe Institut Careers in German Day at the University of Pittsburgh  Contact vharms@pitt.edu for info.

• Fall 2018 Workshop:  A German-themed bike ride through Pittsburgh.  September 22.

• Spring 2018 Workshop: May 6 at Mt. Lebanon High School: Kinderliteratur im Klassenzimmer

• Fall 2017 Workshop: September 22, 2017 at Obama Academy:  Classroom activities to prepare for German Day and the Einshoch6 concert.

• 16 September 2017: Getvico online conference for German teachers: https://www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/spr/unt/for/gia/vkd.html?wt_sc=usa_getvico

• 18 August 2017: WPWV AATG Picnic @915 Academy Place, Mt. Lebanon 5-9 p.m.

• Spring 2017 Workshop: Saturday, May 6 at Bethel Park High School: Project-based learning: Flüchtlinge

• Fall 2016 PSMLA Conference 

  • • Admin Meeting was 15 07:15 OCT16

    • Read the minutes here.

• September 2016- Fall Fling 2016 at the Hofbräuhaus 

• Spring 2016 Workshop & Meeting, April 23, 2016, Connellsville Senior High School

• Fall 2015 Workshop & Meeting

  • • Best Practices from our Members

• Spring 2015 Workshop & Meeting, April 18, Mt. Lebanon High School

  • • "Give A Gnome A Home" Project (Lauren Jannotta / Rebecca Shertzer) 

• Fall 2014 Meeting & Workshop:  Held at the PSMLA Convention in State College PA, October 17 & 18. 

• Winter Social 2014: Pittsburgh Market Square, December 12, German Night at the Christmas Market.

• Spring 2014 Meeting & Workshop Saturday May 3 Presenter: Jennifer Redmann from Franklin & Marshall College, Improving the Teaching of Writing at all Level with the MPG-Approach

• Fall 2013 Meeting & Workshop: WIR KOCHEN! mit Josef Karst. Saturday November 16, 2013

• Happy Hour! Meet and Connect!  Friday , October 11, 2013 at 4:30 P.M. Penn Brewery, 800 Vinial Street, Pittsburgh, PA

• Spring 2013 Meeting & Workshop: Saturday, April 13, Bringing the €uro Crisis into the Classroom—A simulation of economic proportions.Kristina Wassmann & Elfe Dona

• Fall 2012 Meeting & Workshop: Saturday Nov. 10 GERMAN PROGRAM ADVOCACY LETTER WRITING SESSION

• Spring 2012 Meeting and Workshop: Saturday April 14. Nathan Hammond: "Digigagement: The 10 Best Tech Tools for Daily Engaged Instruction

Past Meeting Topics:

• Sustainability in the German Classroom

• Goethe Institut Programming Presentation

• "Wir basteln" German Arts & Crafts Ideas

• Media in the Classroom

• Cooking in the Classroom

• Märchen und Medien

• German Tour of Pittsburgh

• Teutonia Männerchor/D’Lustigen Isartaler Dancers

• Teaching the Holocaust through Comic Books

• Total Physical Response Storytelling

• German Art at the Carnegie Museum

• Advocacy

• The New AP Exam

Do you have an idea for a workshop? 

Would you like to host a workshop?

Please contact our Chapter President!