Illinois Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages

Félicitations, Margot!

ICTFL has several new job postings for a variety of positions.  To view posted teaching opportunities, click JOBS.  To submit a job posting, please email information and contact details to ICTFL Executive Director, Leann Wilcoxen at director@ictfl.org.

Illinois teachers that attended Central States in Chicago will receive an email within the next couple of weeks regarding how to obtain PDs for the conference.  You will need your IEIN, plus the number, name and length of each session you attended.

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Congratulations to Kathleen Priceman, the President-elect for NNELL, the National Network for Early Language Learning, for 2019-2020.  Kathleen is a 4th grade Spanish Immersion teacher at Abraham Lincoln Elementary School, Oak Park, and serves as the FLES Chair for ICTFL. She was ICTFL President  2011-2012, and was the Illinois Foreign Language Teacher of the Year in 2014.

Congratulations to Susan A. Hildebrandt, Illinois State University Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and Spanish, who was recently elected to a four-year term as an  At-Large member of the ACTFL Board of Directors.  Susan has also co-authored the newly published book, Understanding the World Language edTPA, with 2016 ACTFL President Pete Swanson.