Professional Growth & Events

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Participants will receive certificates of attendance for 5 hours of Continuing Professional Education.

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We’d like to thank our sponsors VISTA HIGHER LEARNING, EDINUMEN USA and VIRTUOLINGUA for their support at our PD Event at University of Houston.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CO-SPONSORED WITH CLIC AT RICE UNIVERSITY. OCTOBER 21, 2023, 9:30 to 12:30 + MEMBERSHIP MEETING from 1:15 to 2:30 PM.

Professional Development Workshops at Nebrija University in Madrid, Saturday, June 24, 2023

Professional Development Workshops at UH, Sat. February 11, 2023

Please complete THIS FORM to RSVP to this Professional Development Event and please pay following the link below. Your payment will be your registration.

Cost: $35 until 1/31/2023, extended to 2/4/23. (After2/4/23, cost will be $40. Registration deadline is February 8)

Here are some photos of the day of the event

TERTULIA ON ONLINE, BLENDED, AND SUMMER POSTGRADUATE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR SPANISH TEACHERS. 

Compartimos el video de nuestro evento del 3 de noviembre de 2022.

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ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING OF THE CHAPTER MEMBERSHIP PRESENTATION

OCTOBER 15, 2022

“Tertulias” TODOS LOS MESES DESDE AGOSTO 2021 ¡HABLAMOS SOLO ESPAÑOL!

La participación en las Tertulias es gratuita, pero es necesario registrarse en el formulario que enviamos por correo electrónico antes de cada evento.

¿Preguntas?: aatsptxbrazos@aatsptxbrazos.com

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Saturday, May 2, 2020

BRAZOS DIGITAL ONLINE BEST PRACTICES OPEN FORUM-PROGRAM

As per your request, you can access these presentations here:

El Poder de las Canciones, by Beatriz Rojas

AATSP Travel Sandra Delgado

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Saturday, April 19, 2020

Board Meeting to plan on our upcoming BRAZOS DIGITAL BEST PRACTICES OPEN FORUM. 

Upper row: left to right: Patricia Chadwick, Claudia Kechkian, Gabriela Frunza-Tanca       Middle row, left to right: Beatriz Rojas-Martin, Dulce Larsen, Cameron Stephen                   Lower row, left to right: Cheryl Fuentes, Carmen Acevedo

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Saturday, February 29, 2020

Leap into Action! Open Forum Brunch at La Madelaine on Westheimer Rd. in Houston.

In this photo:

First row from left to right: Past President 2017-19 Dulce Larsen, President 2020 Cheryl Fuentes, President Elect 2022 Claudia Kechkian.

Second row from left to right: Brazos member Leticia Marin, Brazos Abroad Sandra Delgado, K-8 Representative and Poster Contest co-chair Patricia Chadwick, Secondary School Representative, public, Carmen Acevedo.

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Saturday, April 21, 2018, at Duchesne Academy of the Sacred Heart, in Houston.
“An integrated approach focusing on World Readiness Standards with Can Do Statements as the tool/goals for driving student proficiency” by Mrs. Parthena Draggett, Chair Department of World Languages N13 Community School of Naples, Florida.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2018: Annual Meeting at Duchesne Academy of the Sacred Heart, Houston

Coffee: 9 :30 -10 :00

Conference 10 :00 – 12 :00 

Teaching Interactional Competence in the L2 classroom: Why and How

                                                          Aymara Boggiano

Annual Meeting: 12 : 00 – 12 :30 PM

Lunch and Awards: 12 :30 – 1 :30

Aymara Boggiano was born in Paris, France and grew up in Venezuela. She received a B.A. in French and a M.A. in Romance Languages and Literatures from The Ohio State University. She has been teaching Foreign Languages for 35 years. She started as her professional career as a Spanish and French teacher at Isidore Newman School in New Orleans and she also taught Spanish at Loyola and Tulane Universities. While living in Venezuela she taught English as a second language at the Universidad José Antonio Paéz, and after moving to Texas she became coordinator of the Spanish Language Program at the University of Houston and later at University of North Texas. While at U of H she worked at The Center for Teaching Excellence as Coordinator of the Division for TA Training.

She works now at the Center for Languages and Intercultural Communication (CLIC) at Rice University where she teaches Spanish and works with the language team to create Authentic Materials and Research based lesson plans to teach Interactional Competence.

Between 2011­ – 2014 Aymara was the Co­PI and recipient of a generous four-year grant from United Engineering Foundation to produce “Invenciones de la Inventiva,” the Spanish version of Dr. J. Lienhard’s NPR series “Engines of our Ingenuity.” Considerable work and effort by many people involved lead up to a web page that contains authentic materials, lesson, and activities created from Lienhard’s episodes. These episodes were broadcasted in Spanish in the series “Invenciones de la Inventiva” on KNTU a radio station based in Denton Tx.

Her recent interests include research­-based learning, language pedagogy, curriculum and course design, second language and heritage language acquisition.

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