Marleny Perdomo Arlington Public Schools Workshop Title: "Score Big with Strong Language Goals" Workshop Description: Writing language objectives is an essential component of effective instruction, yet many times this step is not fully addressed in lesson planning and development to ensure the best language experience for the students. This hands-on workshop will focus on developing language outcomes for listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The participants will develop their own goals that they can use in instruction the next day. Workshop Leader Bio: Marleny Perdomo is the World Languages Supervisor for the Arlington Public Schools in Arlington, Virginia. Prior to this assignment, Ms. Perdomo worked as the Foreign Language Specialist for Arlington County Public Schools. Ms. Perdomo has spent over 19 years in the field of foreign language and Immersion education. Ms. Perdomo is a native Spanish speaker, also speaks French and has studied German and Japanese. Ms. Perdomo holds master’s degrees both in education and international relations, an endorsement in administration and supervision in Virginia, and 15 years of teaching experience elementary through college. Ms. Perdomo holds Virginia state teaching certifications as elementary classroom teacher (grades 3-6), English as a Second Language (PreK-12), Spanish (PreK-12) and administrative certification for school principal and curriculum supervisor (PreK-12). As the Supervisor for World Languages in the Arlington Public Schools for four years she is responsible for programs K-12 in dual language immersion, elementary and secondary world language instruction, and summer programs such as STARTALK. She supervises the central staff in the department, advises principals and world language teachers regarding world language programs and their effectiveness, conducts numerous professional development sessions during the year and summer, and manages the implementation of summer and FLES programs. She collaborates with principals, collects and analyzes data for program evaluation, recruits teachers, and leads the preparation of curriculum materials. Ms. Perdomo is a 2009 graduate of the Education Policy Fellowship Program, a leadership-building program offered by the Institute for Educational Policy in Washington, DC. She was sponsored by the Confucius Institute of George Mason University and Han Ban (Chinese Ministry of Education) for ten days in China in the summer of 2011. Ms. Perdomo has collaborated with the Center for Applied Linguistics in the development of the National Guidelines for Dual Language Education. She contributed to the development of the Two-Way Toolkit, a resource for teachers in two-way programs, developed by the Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) and The Education Alliance at Brown University. More recently, Ms. Perdomo was selected to take part in the review committee for the Virginia Standards of Learning for Spanish.