State Foreign Language Standards
Regional Training: Contact a Kansas Standards trainer in your region to request a "Colorful Connections" presentation, either a half-day (3 hour) or full day (6 hour) workshop.
Northwest trainers:
Ann Adams, Hays, (H) 785 623-4678, annadams@eaglecom.net
Peggy Bachelor, Belleville, (H) 785-527-5035, soltera@rocketmail.com
Jennifer Michaud , Clyde, (H) 785-446-3362, (W) 785-446-3362
Mary Porterfield, Goodland, (H) 785-899-2500, mmp@goodland.ixks.com
Evie Toft, Hays, (W) 785-628-5380, etoft@fhsu.edu
Karen Waltner, Hays, (W) 785-628-4100, kwaltner@fhsu.edu
Sudana Wilkins, Salina, (H) 785-823-6756, danniabenaa@hotmail.com
Karen Wilson, Hays, (H) 785-625-8125, kannwilson@yahoo.com
Northeast trainers:
Linda Bankes, Enterprise, (H) 785-263-8481, (W) 785-263-1260
Bianca Elliott, Linwod, (H) 913-301-9680, belliott17@hotmail.com
Phyllis Farrar, Lawrence, (H) 785-841-3418, pfarrar@sunflower.com
Chris Hanks, Lenexa, (H) 913-859-9105, chankson@mail.olathe.k12.ks.us
Terry Lindberg, Olathe, (H) 913-829-4295, tlindberg@bv229.k12.ks.us
Daphne McConnell, Atchison, (H) 913-367-7514, daphnemc@benedictine.edu
Tatiana Sildus, Manhattan, (H) 785-587-8725, sildust@hotmail.com
Chuck Thorpe, Manhattan, (H) 785-776-5138, cthorpe@ksu.edu
Karen Tritt, Lenexa, (H) 913-888-8739, kmtritt@aol.com
Anke Wells, Topeka, (H) 785-863-2863, awells@usd345.com
Southwest trainers: Darlene Adkins, Ulysses, (H) 620-356-3952,
dadkins@ulysses.org
Carrie Montgomery, Sublette, (H) 316-260-9221, cmont@pld.com
Ann Maria Romo, Dodge City, (H) 620-227-3698, amromo@dccc.cc.ks.us
Martha Wade, Pratt, (H) 620-672-6089, martha.wade@usd382.k12.ks.us
Southeast trainers: Edmée Fernández, Pittsburg, (H) 316-231-1295,
efernand@pittstate.edu
Deb Holman, Arkansas City, (H) 620-442-3505, debbyholman@yahoo.com
Sharon Lopez, Wichita, (H) 316-733-2716, sharonl@kscable.com
Marsha Mawhirter, El Dorado, (H) 316-321-6821
Kathleen Mellor, Wichita, (H) 316-686-5017, kmellor@usd259.net
Irene Perazzo, Emporia, (H) 620-342-8371, perazzoi@hotmail.com
Miriam Pruitt, Wichita, (H) 316-682-6162, mpruitt@usd394.com
Jerry Smartt, Wichita, (W) 316-295-5564, jsmartt@friends.edu
KISS-FL Seeks Trainers
The workshop for trainers was first offered in conjunction with the KFLA Conference in Wichita in October 2001. The workshop is titled "Colorful Connections: Practice to Performance in Kansas Foreign Language Classrooms." The next offering of this workshop was Thursday, March 22 at Central States Conference, Downtown Marriott in Kansas City, Missouri. It is hoped that this workshop will also be presented at all the regional service centers, KAMLE, KNCA, KNEA, ASDC, elementary principal's conference, and local district inservice opportunities. Each of the approximately 30 presenters trained in October are expected to conduct this three-hour implementation workshop twice during the coming year. Additional information may be obtained from Lois O-Malley and Mary Alice Schroeger, President and Past-President of KFLA, KISS-FL Co-Chairs Carol Swinney or Diane DeNoon, and Scott Smith, Foreign Language, KSDE . The planning committee for this workshop also includes Sr. Lois O'Malley, KFLA President; Mary Alice Schroeger, KFLA Vice President; master teachers Jane Bodecker, Halstead H.S. and Cherice Montgomery, Wichita Southeast H.S.; and Jeannette Nobo, KSDE. Training has been funded by the Kansas State Department of Education and developed in collaboration with KFLA.
In August 2000, the Kansas Foreign Language Standards were adopted by
the Kansas State Board of Education. They had been written by dedicated
members of Kansas Foreign Language Association, starting in January of
1998, through a project called "Kansas Initiative for State Standards
in Foreign Language" (KISS-FL). Copies of the standards were subsequently
disseminated to all teachers and building principals by the Kansas State
Department of Education. Now that the standards are published and distributed,
the second phase - training - has begun. Since the state standards are
aligned with the national standards, they hold no surprises, yet training
is necessary and helpful. Old paradigms are hard to change and old habits
are hard to break.
