Partnerships

The CEDAR LRC strengthens community and institutional partnerships at both the K-12 and university levels to further increase access to high-quality language curricula. 

Community Partnerships: K-16 Summer Language Institute

The Summer Language Institute supports K-16 language practitioners seeking to employ contemporary, research-supported best practices for world language instruction in their classrooms. Specifically, the Summer Language Institute will focus on equipping pre- and in-service foreign/world language, heritage language, immersion, and ESL/EFL educators with training on how to both modify existing curricula and create new course materials that adhere to ACTFL World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages. The Summer Language Institute runs in person every summer for three days, hosted at the University of Cincinnati. Project Director: Anne Lingwall Odio, Ph.D.; Assistant Director: Ashley Anneken, M.A.  

Faculty Partnership: Lindsay Preseau, Ph.D., Iowa State University

Dr. Lindsay Preseau is working on a project to develop guidelines and best practices for the use of gender inclusive language for Russian, German, French, and Spanish language educators. Dr. Preseau is currently interviewing local language educators who teach languages that have grammatical gender (noun classes) to gain a better understanding of the practical needs and limitations of teachers who want to incorporate inclusive language in their practice.