OUR MISSION
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To promote and improve the teaching of world languages and cultures;
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To provide continuing professional development; and
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To encourage the spirit of cooperation among world language educators in Kansas.
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EXECUTIVE COUNCIL OF ELECTED OFFICERS (2019-20)
PRESIDENT
Amanda Benavidez-Williams
(785) 832-6050
Free State High School
4700 Overland Drive
Lawrence, Kansas 66049
VICE PRESIDENT
Marilee Marsal
(316) 686-0152
Circle High School
905 Main St
Towanda, KS 67144
PAST PRESIDENT
Heather Potter
(316) 794-4230
Goddard Middle School
2700 S 199th St W,
Goddard, KS 67052
TREASURER
Nan Bergen
(316) 284-6280
Newton High School
900 W 12th St.
Newton, KS 67114
REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVES
REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES
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Be willing to participate in monthly Executive Council Skype meetings as non-voting members as asked by the acting KSWLA President.
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Be the liaison between the members of KSWLA in the region and the KSWLA Executive Council.
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Serve on ad-hoc committees (such as the Election Committee) per request of the President.
OUR HISTORY
The oldest Bulletin in our archives is for October, 1956. However, the oldest copy of the minutes of the annual meeting is dated November 6, 1931. At that time, we were known as the Kansas Modern Language Association (KMLA). In 1968, our name officially became the Kansas Foreign Language Association (KFLA), in order to include teachers of Greek and Latin and to affiliate with the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL).
Most recently, in October 2004, we voted to change the organization's name to the Kansas World Language Association (KSWLA). This is intended to diminish the 'foreign-ness' of language learning, to extend membership to teachers of North American native languages, and to encourage teachers of English to speakers of other languages in becoming members.
PAST PRESIDENTS
2018-2019 Heather Potter
2017-2018 Sheree Willis
2016-2017 Hollie Timson
2015-2016 Grant Moss
2014-2015 Meagan Meneley
2013-2014 Jan Denning
2012-2013 Mike Flenthrope
2011-2012 Megan Buell
2010-2011 Mary Smith
2009-2010 Leah McKeeman
2008-2009 Melanie Adams
2007-2008 Chuck Thorpe
2006-2007 Jerry Smartt
2005-2006 Karen Tritt
2004-2005 Erin Joyce
2003-2004 Tatiana Sildus
2002-2003 Jane Bodecker
2000-2002 Lois O’Malley
1999-2000 Mary Alice Schroeger
1998-1999 Peggy Bachelor
1997-1998 Penny Armstrong
1996-1997 Carol Swinney
1995-1996 Debbie Withers
1994-1995 Julie Phares
1993-1994 Ruth Firestone
1992-1993 Lyn Bement
1991-1992 Corinne Anderson
1990-1991 Terry Lindberg
1989-1990 Jean Dawson
1988-1989 Mary Rogers
1987-1988 Colleen Gray
1986-1987 Max Klamm