27.01.2006
FLAP is the Federal Language Assistance Program. It is designed to encourage the teaching of foreign languages to school age children grades K-12. While the grants are therefore not available to university level programs, university level programs might benefit from encouraging local schools to use this program or by simply looking over some the great ideas for starting Russian programs for kids that have been implemented in the US.
Please note: this is only a partial list – only those for Russian related programs are shown. Several awards are typically given each year. Also note that a FLAP award has been given to a Russian program for the last three years. The government does have interest in these programs. For more info on the awards, click here.
For a complete list of winners, available from languagepolicy.org, click here Award for 2005: Montana Office of Public Instruction
PO Box 202501-2501
Helena, MT 59620-2501 Languages: Russian and Hmong Program Title: Early Language Learning: An Innovative Model Program Providing Foreign Language Study for K-8 Students Synopsis: This is a proposal to provide for the development and implementation of a model world language program through the collaboration of the Montana Office of Public Instruction, the SEA, and a consortium of schools in western Montana that serve Hmong and Russian students. Through this proposal, the SEA in consortium with MCPS #1, Frenchtown SD#40, Hellgate SD#4, Lolo SD #7, and Target Range SD #23 shall: Increase Missoula County K-8 students' foreign language proficiency by providing Russian and Hmong foreign language classes in an extended-day and year format. Develop a program of intensive professional in-service training for K-8 educators who teach foreign language classes to broaden their knowledge of language acquisition and instruction and improve the quality of teaching foreign languages, which in turn will help students achieve the Montana Standards for World Languages. Develop an educational partnership with the language minority communities in which we teach to link nonnative English speakers in the community with the schools in order to promote two way learning and the sequential study of a foreign language for students, beginning in elementary schools.
The goals of this proposal are to ensure that the students who participate in the study of a foreign language achieve to high academic standards and improve their foreign language proficiency, that the educators who teach foreign language classes acquire research-based, cutting edge teaching methodologies, and that the students themselves value learning languages as an indispensable part of their lives and a necessary skill to communicate successfully in a pluralistic American society and abroad. Award for 2004: Maine School Administrative District #58
4 Sumner Street
Kingfield, ME 04947
Languages: French, Spanish and Russian
Project Title: MSAD #58 Foreign Language Assistance Program
Synopsis: This grant will expand and improve an existing foreign language program to give geographically and financially challenged children a cutting edge opportunity to acquire a foreign language. The Project Design is two fold: increase K – 12 student interactive contact time in French, Spanish and Russian through the use of laptop languages labs with Rosetta Stone software and provide professional development for improving fluency skills, updating curriculum methodology, and sharpening technology abilities of foreign language teachers. Award for 2003: Turnagain Elementary School
Anchorage School District
4600 DeBarr Ave.
P.O. Box 196614
Anchorage, AK 99519
Contact: Janice Gullickson
Language: Russian
Program Title: Starship MIR: Mission is Russian!
Synopsis: The program purposes to create a school-within-a-school a partial immersion Russian language program beginning in kindergarten and first grade and expanding one grade level each year to eventually span K-6. By year three, all Turnagain elementary students learn Russian, beginning as early as kindergarten and continuing their study via an uninterrupted sequence into the feeder middle and high schools both of which already offer Russian language instruction. Award for 1999: Colorado Department of Education
201 East Colfax Ave.
Denver, CO 80203
(303)866-6631 Contact: Susan P. Schafer Languages: Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Russian, Spanish Title: "Colorado Implements Foreign Language Standards" Synopsis of project: Three main thrusts: 1. Support and expand the study of foreign languages in elementary schools. 2. Create and use an Internet-accessible, electronic media foreign language resource library of instructional/assessment materials for language teachers. This will be done in conjunction with the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. 3. Develop and administer standards-based professional development for language teachers, focusing on methodology for standards implementation, FLES, and the use of technology and will include one- and two-day workshops and summer institutes.
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