LILA is very proud to have another one of France’s great educational minds come spend time with our teachers.  LILA volunteered to host the annual MLF (Mission Laïque Française) training workshop scheduled for the end of this month where directors, coordinators, and program managers from other schools will come together to discuss issues that affect bilingual education programs all over the United States. 

The scheduled speaker is prominent French university professor and researcher Emmanuelle Canut, whose specialty is the development of oral communication skills and the transition for children from oral language to written text.  She will hold a three day conference for the MLF group, with our pedagogical team also in attendance, and then in addition she will spend a couple of days at LILA going in our classrooms to observe our practices.  She will also hold a couple of conferences after school for the benefit of our LILA faculty.

After she leaves, the fun begins as the LILA staff puts into practice what they have learned from this master.