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External Conferences and Events of Interest to LARC Patrons

The below items are events of interest to LARC Patrons. LARC sponsored professional development opportunities can be found at http://stonecenter.tulane.edu/html/LARCWorkshopsConferences.htm

If you would like to post information on a conference, workshop or event related to the study of Latin America for K12 educators, please email LARC.

Spring 2009

International Studies Schools Association (ISSA)
January 17-19, 2009
Tampa, Florida

Please visit the website www.du.edu/issa for more information.

Southern Conference on Language Teaching (SCOLT)
March 5-7, 2009
Atlanta, Georgia

More information will be available in September regarding this year's conference, "Empowerment through Collaboration." Please visit the following link for more details http://www.scolt.org/.

Fall 2008

Lagniappe Learning Beyond the Classroom
September 20, 2008
Louisiana State Museum's Cabildo
New Orleans, Louisiana
Informal Educators of New Orleans invites you to an exposition of educational resources outside the classroom. Please view the website for further information: www.informaleducators.org

Louisiana Council for the Social Studies
October 17 & 18, 2008
Kenner, Louisiana

"Teaching the three R's: Rebirth, Renewal, and Revival" for more information visit the LCSS website http://lcss1812.org/

National Council for the Social Studies
November 14-16, 2008
Houston, Texas
Sponsored by the NCSS Conference Program Planning Committee, the 88th NCSS Annual Conference is themed "Embrace the Future ." This Annual Conference will include hundreds of exhibit booths and over 400 professional development sessions, workshops, and clinics. Registration information for NCSS is available at http://www.ncss.org

American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
November 21-23, 2008
Orlando, Florida

Please visit www.actfl.org and click on 'convention & expo' on the top of the screen for the conference information. For more information visit the website http://www.actfl.org

Summer 2008

Annual Professional Development Competition for Gulf South K-12 teachers
Summer 2008
Participating National Resource Centers
The national Latin American Studies Teacher Training Network is a collaborative effort of six Title VI national resource centers hoping to encourage the study of Latin America through our network of resource centers. The Stone Center for Latin American Studies will support the study of Latin America at any one of our six participating national resource centers. The deadline to apply for this summer institute competition is March 31, 2008. Please click here for more information. Click here for all participating National Resource Centers institute offerings this summer.


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Latin American Resource Center
Tulane University
100 Jones Hall
New Orleans LA 70118

ph: (504) 862-3143;  fx:(504) 865-6719; crcrts@tulane.edu

Please report updates to
Denise Woltering


Wednesday, June 11, 2008
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