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Summer 2013 - High School Teacher Workshop: Afghanistan

A three-day summer program for high school teachers, July 29-31, 2013.
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K-12 Workshop: Cities in World History

A three-day institute for 7th grade world history teachers, held July 17-19, 2012.
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Taking language to a new level

High School Summer Language Program offers new online alphabet modules for heritage language learners
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Treasures of the UCLA Library: Near Eastern Manuscripts

While in graduate school at UCLA and working in the Center for Primary Research and Training, Ali Anooshahr brought paleographic training and language proficiency in Persian, Arabic, and Ottoman Turkish to the task of describing and processing the UCLA Library's collection of Near Eastern Manuscripts. He is currently Assistant Professor of History at UC Davis.
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ISLC Summer 2010 K-12 Workshop

Partnering with several centers in the International Institute, this summer's K-12 workshop focuses on Internationalism.
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It's A Matter Of Taste

Summer workshop for K-12 educators explores food in Middle Eastern and North African History and Cultures
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Spring Conference: Challenges and achievements in community language schools

A conference sponsored by the UCLA National Heritage Language Resource Center.

Saturday, April 13, 2013, 9:30am - 4:30pm, Young Research Library Conference Room

Registration is now open, and is free

Seventh Heritage Language Research Institute: Heritage Speakers and the Advantages of Bilingualism

June 17 - 21, 2013

University of Illinois at Chicago

Directed by: Professor Maria Polinsky (Harvard)

More information HERE.

2013 Summer High School Language Program

The Summer High School Language Program is geared toward students who speak one of the offered languages at home and want to improve their writing and reading skills.

2013 Heritage Language Teacher Workshop

The 2013 Heritage Language Teacher Workshop is designed to help language teachers face the challenge of teaching heritage language students. It will prepare them to understand the differences between teaching L2 and HL learners, the issues involved in heritage language teaching, and how to address them.

Outreach World

Outreach World is a comprehensive one-stop resource for teaching international and area studies and foreign languages in the precollegiate classroom.
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Middle East Outreach Council (MEOC)

MEOC is a national network of educators dedicated to disseminating apolitical and nonpartisan information, resources and activities furthering understanding about the Middle East.
MEOC Website

K-12 Articles

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The Center's outreach activities in the area of K-12 education strive to create dynamic and diverse professional development opportunities for Los Angeles-based school teachers.
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In order to promote broader intercultural understanding - both within local Middle Eastern communities and between those communities and the UCLA and greater Los Angeles population - the Center sponsors a wide array of academic and cultural activities each year.
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