Mara S. Cobe is the K-12 World Languages Specialist for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, where she
supervises World Language programs in eight languages for a school district with over 140,000
students and more than 275 World Language teachers. During her 29 years in public education, she
has served on the board of FLANC, was named as a FLANC Honorary Life Member in 2014, and was the
recipient of the 2020 SCOLT Leadership Award. She has served on the National Association of District
Supervisors of Foreign Language (NADSFL) Executive Board since 2012, as Executive Secretary, Vice
President, and currently the President of NADSFL.
Mara Cobe
Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools (NC)
All Sessions by Mara Cobe
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June 27: Pathways to Planning
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TELL: Planning
Focus in the Midst of Change - Living In a Snow Globe
TELL: PlanningHow to focus on language and intercultural proficiency despite constant change: TELL criteria, in conjunction with the TELL Target Language Use feedback tools, provide focus for supporting teachers and language learners as we navigate through the continued shifts in instructional practices since the pandemic began. The past three school years have been challenging for all of us. Just when we think we know what our schedules will be, or who will be in our classrooms with us in person, or what tools we might be using, it can feel like someone has shaken a snow globe and everything has changed. How can we keep our focus on building students' proficiency so that they are able to engage in relevant intercultural investigations and meaningful and appropriate intercultural interactions in the target language? Participants will learn about resources and scaffolds to support and build students' confidence in using the target language.
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Helping People Understand Each Other and the World Around Them
The National Foreign Language Center (NFLC) is a unit of the University of Maryland. For more than three decades, we have focused on partnerships with educational institutions and organizations, governments agencies, organizations, and individual scholars and policy makers. Our primary means of realizing our mission is through strengthening people’s knowledge of world languages, especially those less commonly taught in the United States.