Meet the Co-Directors

Christine Lanphere

Member of the state's Curriculum and Supplemental Materials Commission from 2008 to 2010 and the 2007 ACTFL National Language Teacher of the Year, Christine Lanphere has taught French 1-AP Literature at Natomas High School in Sacramento since 1995. She has served as Foreign Language Department Chair and was been a BTSA Support Provider from 2000 to 2006. Christine is the co-director of the Capital World Language Project (CapWLP) and she has presented workshops at the local, state and national levels on a variety of topics. She is active in several professional organizations including FLAGS and CLTA.

Christine served as the Co-Chair of the Standards Advisory Committee that refreshed the California World Languages Content Standards (2019) and was asked by the California Department of Education to be the lead writer of the team of 4 writers that worked on the California World Languages Framework (2020) that provides guidance to districts, schools, and teachers for creating high-quality world languages programs.

Christine has been recognized with several honors. In addition to being the National Language Teacher of the Year, Christine has also been named a Chevalier des Palmes Académiques, an honor bestowed by the French Ministry of Education. In 2003, she was selected as an Outstanding Teacher by FLAGS. In 2004, Christine received a grant from the Quebec government through CLTA which allowed her to study at the Université Laval in Quebec for 5 weeks. In 2005, she was named Outstanding Educator by CLTA and Region 3 Educator of the Year by the California League of High Schools.

Christine served as a member of the Subject Matter Advisory Panel for Languages Other Than English for the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing. Following the completion of work for LOTE, Christine was asked to continue serving as an advisor to the LOTE-American Sign Language panel. This was an exciting opportunity to help create a new credential for teachers of ASL as a Language Other Than English. Christine has studied at the Université de Paris, has led student trips to Europe since 2000. In her spare time, she enjoys travel and singing.

Nicole Naditz

Nicole taught French to grades 3 through 12, including AP French Language from 1993 to 2017. Since 2018, Nicole has served as a district administrator, supporting world languages and instructional technology K-12. 

Nicole is very active in professional organizations, including NADSFL, ACTFL, ACSA, CLTA and FLAGS. Winner of the 2010 Jane Ortner Educating through Music Award and the 2011-2012 San Juan Teacher of the Year, she also serves as webmaster and advocacy chair on the FLAGS board. She is the co-director of the Capital World Language Project and she served on the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages interview committees for the first National Foreign Language Teacher of the Year in 2005 and for the Florence Steiner Leadership in K-12 Education Award in 2007. She has presented on a variety of topics at local and state workshops since 1999, and has been a keynote speaker since 2015. She has also received several grants for study in France and Canada.

She was named an Outstanding Teacher by both the Foreign Language Association of Greater Sacramento and the California Language Teachers' Association and was a finalist for the California League of High Schools Educator of the Year in Region 3. In addition, Nicole achieved National Board Certification in 2003 and earned her M.Ed in 2006. In 2012, she was named San Juan USD Teacher of the Year, Sacramento County Teacher of the Year and was one of 12 finalists for California State Teacher of the Year. That same year, she also became a Google Certified Teacher. In fall of 2013, CLTA selected Nicole to represent California as a candidate for Southwest Conference on Language Teaching's Teacher of the Year.  In April, 2014, she was named SWCOLT Teacher of the Year and became a finalist for National Language Teacher of the Year (ACTFL). At the national conference in November of 2014, she was named ACTFL National Teacher of the Year, 2015.  

In 2016, she was named a PBS LearningMedia Digital Innovator (local) and also appointed to a four-year term on the California Department of Education's Instructional Quality Commission.  In 2021, she received ACSA's Region 3 award for Curriculum Administrator of the Year.

In her spare time, she enjoys figure skating, calligraphy, singing, crocheting, musical theater and travel.