World Languages

Local news

• Alaska Hispanic population doubles
  Leyla Santiago - September 19, 2008
  KTUU Channel 2 News

• Interns from Japan broaden immersion program
  By Megan Holland - April 29, 2008
  Published in the Anchorage Daily News

• Spain a world apart from Spanish class
  by Sam Holley-Kline - June 27, 2008
  Published in the Anchorage Daily News

• Textbooks vs. life
  Students tout value of immersion in learning another tongue
  By Colby Bleicher - November 9, 2007
  Published in the Anchorage Daily News

• Buenos dias
  School begins, and kindergartners dive into languages
  By Katie Pesznecker - September 14, 2004
  Published in the Anchorage Daily News

Student news

• Sydney Treuer is a junior at West. She will be going to Kirov, Russia, under an NSLI-Y grant for six months starting in January. Sydney is one of 500 students in the USA to be awarded an NSLI-Y grant. Visit the NSLI for Youth program online for more information about this outstanding program.The American Council for Teachers of Russian administers the Russia program. -By Michele Whaley, West HS Russian teacher

• Chugiak student awarded all-expenses paid semester abroad in Egypt for Fall 2009 semester
  by Sarah Birmanns, Chugiak Spanish teacher

• Welcome Aboard Starship MIR: Mission is Russian (PDF)
  By Janice Gullickson
  Learning Languages: The Professional Journal of the National network for Early Language Learning - Fall 2009

• Ground Zero (PDF)
  Alaskan students use their language and culture skills to raise awareness about the effects of climate change.
  By Carissa Landes and Megan Haller, Students at West High School
  Pacific Northwest Council for Languages newsletter - March 2009

• Rilke Schule - Alaska's new German immersion school (PDF)
  By Susan Reese
  The Language Educator - January 2009

• Motto for Alaskan school: Russian spoken here! (PDF)
  Kids learn tough language under new program
  The Associated Press
  Published Feb. 3, 2005 on MSNBC.com

• Odeen, dva, tri! (PDF)
  By Janice Gullickson
  Pacific Northwest Council for Languages newsletter - October 2004