by Alvin Peters, Director of the Great Plains Plains Center for National Teacher Certification National Board Certification is a symbol of professional teaching excellence granted through the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. National Board Certification complements, but does not replace, a state license. While state licensing systems set entry-level standards for novice teachers, National Board Certification establishes advanced standards for experienced te

Dr. Grant Moss, Pittsburg State University Dr. Tonia Tinsley, Missouri State University While mindsets about and attitudes toward Second Language Acquisition might differ between K-12 and higher education, World Language (WL) professionals at all levels have more in common than we might recognize. In our session at KSWLA, we delineated the challenges faced by the WL field K-20 to illustrate how much common ground we actually share. The session also explored possible collabor

Meet our new Advocacy Chair Amanda Mendoza is a French teacher, World Language Department Chair, and Seal of Biliteracy Coordinator at Emporia High School. She has served previously on the KSWLA board from 2020-2023, is a LILL Advocate, the Kansas and Central States Regional Representative for NNELL, and a session/workshop facilitator locally and nationally. Amanda is looking forward to advocating for all language teachers and their students at the local, state, regional, and