PNCFL sponsors the Professional Assistance Workshops (PAWS) to connect member states to the professional talent in the region. Through PAWS, PNCFL provides each member state organization access to a $300 annual stipend to help defray the cost of hosting a PAWS presenter. The state organization must be prepared to provide conference registration for the speaker as well as airfare, lodging, ground transportation, and meals. After the event, state organizations may request the stipend by accessing the  PAWS reimbursement form. For questions about PAWS, please  contact us.

Share your Best Conference Presentation with Other States
PAWS presenters possess a variety of expertise within the second language field. PAWS is designed for teacher-presenters just like you - not for professional presenters who give workshops for a living. Have you given a workshop only to have attendees tell you later how insightful the presentation was? Have you attended a workshop and returned to the presentation handout time and time again? If so, please consider nominating yourself or a colleague to become a PAWS presenter by completing the  pdf nomination form and mailing it to PNCFL, 5290 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-5290 or faxing it to             541-346-6303      . You MUST live in a PNCFL member state in order to be listed in the speaker directory as a PAWS presenter.

Invite a Speaker to your State Conference
PAWS is ideal for state language conferences, language-specific workshops, or in-service or pre-service professional development at the K-12 or postsecondary levels. Customize your PAWS workshop to help teachers prepare students to pass state competency exams, to assist teachers seeking national certification, or to provide guidance on establishing FLES or immersion programs.

ALASKA

Jo Sanders  German Teacher, Rilke Schule German School of Arts & Sciences.   (frausanders@alaska.com):  content-based instruction, methods, techniques, and strategies, National Standards, language for specific purposes, literature, national issues, immersion programs, classroom management, literacy, integrative curriculum, second language acquisition, assessment, cognitive science/brain-based instruction, state/national standards, curriculum/materials, units and scenarios

OREGON
Regina Braker  German Professor, Eastern Oregon University.  (brakerr@eou.edu):  methodology/pedagogy, National Standards, articulation, state/national standards

Robert Davis   Associate Professor of Spanish, University of Oregon.   (rldavis@uoregon.edu):  classroom assessment, curriculum/materials, methodology/pedagogy, standards-based education, content-based instruction

Sandy Garcia   Japanese Instructor, Pacific University   (graysp@pacificu.edu):
Methodology, curriculum/materials, backwards design

Jeff Magoto   Director, Yamada Language Center, University of Oregon.   (jmagoto@uoregon.edu):  technology-based language learning, eLearning and learning center planning and re-design.

Anne Mueller   (anne.august.mueller@gmail.com):  pedagogy, methodology, classroom applications, assessment

WASHINGTON

Rick Beck  German Instructor, West Valley Junior High School.   (beckrick@wvsd208.org):  second language acquisition, methodology/pedagogy, classroom management, video usage in the classroom, logic activities in the classroom, picture readers in the classroom, early TPRS

Lynn Johnston   Spanish and French Teacher, Alderwood Middle School.   (Johnstonl@edmonds.wednet.edu):Assessment, Methodology/Pedagogy,Standards, Common Core, Teacher Prep.

Bridget Yaden   Associate Professor (Spanish), Pacific Lutheran University.   (byaden@plu.edu):Technology, teacher preparation, second language acquisition, language labs, Dual-Immersion, K-16

WYOMING
Ann Tollefson  Steering Committee Co-Chair, New Visions in Action Foreign Language Education.   (tollefson.ann@gmail.com):distance learning