Providing vision, leadership and support for quality teaching and learning of languages, ACTFL is an individual membership organization for language educators and administrators from elementary through graduate education, as well as government and industry. It is where the world’s educators, businesses, and government agencies go to advance the practice of language learning.
Vista Higher Learning focuses on developing world language print and digital materials that get teachers and students as excited about cultural learning as we are.
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Where will world languages take you? Today's students are preparing for a world where inter-cultural communication is a necessary part of everyday life. At Vista Higher Learning, we develop innovative digital and print solutions to connect the world through language and culture.
At Wayside Publishing, we create Spanish, French, Italian, German, and Latin language programs for middle and high school students. Built on the latest language learning pedagogy, our programs include abundant teacher resources, opportunities for cultural exploration, and cutting-edge technology solutions. Wayside helps you inspire and empower your learners as they work towards communicative and cultural competence. Let’s craft world language leaders together.
We deliver the Avant STAMP language assessment in more than 45 languages with comprehensive reports that provide actionable data for test takers and administrators. The Avant STAMP is used to earn certifications such as the State and Global Seals of Biliteracy. Avant MORE Learning offers custom professional development and Avant ADVANCE, our online teacher training tool on the proficiency guidelines.
Driven by the core belief that all students are capable of acquiring language, The Comprehensible Classroom has been at the forefront of the movement toward teaching for acquisition since 2010. TCC publishes curriculum and instructional tools grounded in a solid understanding of language acquisition and the belief that connection is at the heart of the human experience. TCC offers training to groups that seek to implement Comprehension-based, Proficiency-oriented, methods of teaching language.
LTI is the sole authorized administrator of ACTFL language proficiency assessments. ACTFL assessments, widely recognized by academic institutions, corporate entities, and federal government, maintain stringent levels of rigor and reliability required to ensure a valid, true measure of one’s language abilities. LTI is proud to deliver 1 mil+ ACTFL language tests in 120+ languages annually. We also deliver global collaboration courses on a safe, secure platform with our Level Up Village product.
Xperitas is a nonprofit organization that has been providing students with educational language and cultural immersion experiences since 1972.
We are mission-driven, motivated by the desire to transform lives through intercultural learning.
Our philosophy is that giving students an authentic experience outside of the classroom facilitates deeper language learning and provides an opportunity to strengthen cultural competency.
CLTA supports WL education through leadership, powerful WL programs designed to promote multilingualism, multiculturalism, and global readiness as defining features of transformative education; and policies that move our vision to action.
CWLP improves student learning through research-based, sustained professional learning and leadership programs for WL & DLI educators. This network strives to develop teacher content knowledge, pedagogy, leadership, and agency in the WL and DLI community.
Bess Press is a leading educational content producer of Hawaiian and Pacific Island studies curriculum for use in preschool through high school. Our company is comprised of varying divisions focused on educational publishing, trade publishing, online publishing, distribution, and retail. Our work is entirely dedicated toward enhancing the multiple voices, cultures, and shared stories that make up Hawaiʻi and Oceania.
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University of Hawai‘i Press publishes books and journals on the Asia and Pacific regions, covering the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Among its best-selling titles are the authoritative Hawaiian Dictionary and the language textbooks in the Integrated Korean series, which has been widely adopted for courses nationally and internationally. In addition to a growing list of more than 3,000 book titles, we publish or distribute twenty-six scholarly journals.
The Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL) is one of 16 US Department of Education-funded Language Resource Centers. We research the teaching and learning of language, cultural awareness and literacy in second and other languages. We also provide educators with free, high-quality teaching resources and professional development opportunities. We are located at the University of Arizona, with opportunities available locally and online.
Teaching Solved helps teachers help students learn languages. Our product Lesson Magic combines a search engine designed specifically for world languages with evidence-based, high-impact lesson plan templates to make lesson creation a snap. Get your students speaking with input and interaction-based activities without spending hours finding and creating materials.
AATSP (American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese) promotes the study and teaching of the Spanish and Portuguese languages and their corresponding Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian and other related literatures and cultures at all levels of education. AATSP Exams is one of many programs of the AATSP. It is motivational competition offered in Spanish and Portuguese that offers scholarships and travel for all ages and levels.