Resources & Professional Development For Teachers
ACTFL is a national membership community of language education professionals passionate about expanding cultural richness and diversity at all levels of education. It provides resources to address challenges to meet the changing needs of language educators and their learners.
ACTFL’s Leadership Initiative for Language Learning - a program to “empower individuals to become agents for change, in order to foster a growth mindset focused on effective teaching and learning, and purposeful nurturing of leadership skills, all in the service of learners.”
The Southwest Conference on Language Teaching is a regional world language teachers' organization that hosts an annual conference in partnership with state world language teacher associations. The participating states in SWCOLT are Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawai‘i, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah.
This organization focuses on advocacy efforts for language learning.
The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) at the University of Minnesota has provided high-quality professional development for language teachers for over 25 years. Launched in 1996, this internationally known program reflects CARLA's commitment to link research and theory with practical applications for the classroom. Each institute is highly interactive and includes discussion, hands-on activities, and networking.
Founded in 1917, the AATSP is among the oldest and largest language-specific professional associations in the US. It hosts an annual conference, houses two academic journals, and offers a wide variety of programs for Spanish and Portuguese language educators and students at all levels.
Centralized location to find proficiency-oriented language instruction resources, research, strategies, and more
Access Hawaiʻi's newest standards and resources for World Language learning and instruction.
The goal of the National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) is to expand the nation’s capacity to teach and learn foreign languages effectively through research and materials development projects, especially the less commonly taught languages of Asia and the Pacific.
Explore our immense array of resources for educators interested in incorporating PBLL into their language classrooms.
Members of CLEAH are teachers of Chinese language in Hawai‘i, or people who support Chinese language education in Hawai‘i. The website contains educational resources, member information, and news regarding previous and upcoming events.
Want to learn more about High Leverage Teaching Practices (HLTPs), Integrated Performance Assessments (IPAs), Universal Design for Learning (UDL), or other hot topics in language pedagogy? You’ve come to the right place!
NFLRC: Open Access Journals
Want to learn more about High Leverage Teaching Practices (HLTPs), Integrated Performance Assessments (IPAs), Universal Design for Learning (UDL), or other hot topics in language pedagogy? You’ve come to the right place!
Promoting the teaching and learning of Spanish and Portuguese in the Aloha State.
The Hawaii Association of Teachers of Japanese is a non-profit professional organization devoted to the education of Japanese language and culture for K-16 and life.
AFH’s goal is to encourage the study of French language and culture in Hawaii . It also encourages and funds programs to enable students and teachers from Hawaii to study in France or French-speaking countries.
Hawai‘i Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) is a local professional organization for ESL professionals. Its goals are to create a community of ESL professionals and provide them with professional development.
8-part monthly webinar series running from September through May. SWCOLT members attend free.
