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

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

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

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

• A Spanish immersion program brings Government Hill Elementary back from the brink
  Story and photos by Judy Blankenship - Fall 2002
  Northwest Education Magazine