Ashlin and the other students in first through fifth grades are in their first year of Mandarin instruction at the school.
The offering of a… Read More

In May and September 2011, TCLP staff sent all current host schools a survey for distribution to students and parents of students who are being… Read More

In their efforts to continually assess the impact of the Teachers of Critical Languages Program (TCLP) on U.S. K-12 language programs, American… Read More

This question was posed to the 2012-2013 exchange teachers during their Spring Workshop in Washington DC and the responses ranged from being… Read More

As the 2012-2013 school year drew to a close, American Councils staff distributed surveys in an effort to assess the impact that TCLP had made on… Read More

Since his year of teaching Arabic language and culture at Renaissance Magnet High School in Meridian, Idaho, Ahmed Mohamed has been busy… Read More

“Peter” Meng Qiang taught Chinese at Brownsburg East Middle School with one of the very first cohorts of TCLP teachers in 2007, and six years… Read More

The Bedouin Fair included booths for participants to learn common Arabic phrases, taste traditional food, watch indoor camel racing, make bread… Read More

TCLP Arabic Teacher Hanan Gawdat received a Critical Language Project Grant for a cross-curricular project to give Southern Lehigh Arabic students… Read More

On May 3, 2013, twenty three teachers from China and Egypt were honored at a Closing Ceremony for the Teachers of Critical Languages Program (TCLP… Read More

The Teachers of Critical Languages Program (TCLP) exchange teachers were in Washington, D.C. for a 10-day orientation program designed to prepare… Read More

Ms. Gao’s presentation addressed the importance of effective teacher trainings and orientations, and she called upon her experience as a… Read More

This past summer, Liu Xin (2012-2013) became the most recent TCLP teacher to help facilitate a formal sister school relationship between her host… Read More

The April 2013 delegation of Hopkinton visitors on an education tour from Massachusetts included 27 students and three teachers, who spent two… Read More

The goal of this workshop was to help teachers incorporate American culture in their English classes, and also to improve their ability to do peer… Read More