Conference

Dates:	Friday, October 31 & Saturday, November 1 Pre-Conference Workshops - Thursday, October 30
Location:	Sturbridge Host Hotel - Directions
Theme:	The Foreign Language Standards: Creating Life-Long Learners
Keynote Speaker:	Dr. Myriam Met, Acting Director of the National Foreign Language Center, University of Maryland MaFLA is pleased to announce that Dr. Myriam Met will be giving the Keynote address at the 2008 Annual Conference. Dr. Met is a Senior Research Associate at the National Foreign Language Center in Washington D.C., responsible for K-12 language policy analysis and dissemination. Prior to that, she served as the Coordinator of Foreign Languages K-12 for Montgomery MD County Public Schools. She also served on the Advisory Council for the National Standards in Foreign Language Education Project. She has extensive publications in the areas of curriculum, assessment, and teacher development for all levels of foreign language instruction. Dr. Met has given over a hundred national and international invited addresses and has been involved with teacher training in most of the United States as well as abroad. Her Keynote Address “Language Teaching and Learning: How Good is Good Enough?” is bound to inspire you and to give you a deeper understanding of the role of the national standards in our profession.
Opening Session:	Dr. Jennifer Eddy, President of the National Association of District Supervisors of Foreign Languages.
Entertainment:	Hummel and Hamm
Exhibitors:	Exhibit hours Thursday, October 30 3PM - 6PM Friday, October 31 9AM - 6:30PM

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