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Minnesota New Visions: Languages for Life (MnNV) is a group of language teachers who came together initially in July 2002 to identify critical issues within the profession and begin working on plans to address those issues. The group is an outgrowth of the national New Visions in Action process begun in 1998.

At the initial meeting Minnesota teachers from all levels of education and languages worked together to identify a wide range of critical issues in the profession. During the process of prioritizing, the group decided that the focus of the Minnesota New Visions 2002 project would be to:
  • Develop a Website, www.mctlc.org/newvisions, that includes the World Language Promotional Toolkit to support the promotion of world languages within schools and districts and
  • Create general public relations materials to educate parents, students, decision-makers and the larger community regarding the importance of language study.
Minnesota New Visions met again in June 2003. As requested by the MnNV participants from 2002, we began by learning more about the legislative process. Following this the group decided that the most urgent issue for the profession at this time in Minnesota was to promote the inclusion of world languages as a K-12 core subject in the new Minnesota education standards. Action plans were developed to reach this goal. The Information Packet, Resolution, other helpful pages and expanded resources have been added to our Website. Contact information is also on this site.

The Minnesota New Visions group invites other language teachers to contribute to the currently identified priorities and to consider adding their own visions for the improvement of the world language teaching profession. Members of the group will again be sharing information about the Minnesota New Visions initiatives at the annual conference of the Minnesota Council on the Teaching of Languages and Cultures.
Minnesota New Visions works in partnership with the Minnesota Council on theTeaching of Languages and Cultures (MCTLC),and the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA).

 

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