From left, Marcy Zachmeier-Ruh, (MN), Gilda Oran (MD), Elena Farkas (AK), Carol Peterson (NJ), and Sherri Peterson (IA) present their group name as the “MaGECS” which not only stands for the letters of their first names, but for “Multilingual Goals Educate Children Successfully.”

Jessica Haxhi, Japanese children’s class teacher, presents a humorous skit introducing fruit names in Japanese as she pretends to be a fruit stand owner taking an order by phone.

Jessica Haxhi leads a discussion about the content of the Japanese children’s class with institute participants after class.

Institute leader, Carol Ann Dahlberg (MN), addresses identifying planning through backward design.