MAATJ May Newsletter

In this May MAATJ Newsletter, there are several time sensitive items. Please see the headlines below
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MAATJ Haiku Contest Results

2015 Sakura Grant (6/30)
Summer Course at University of Virginia
Professional Development Opportunities
News from the member schools

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------MAATJ Haiku Contest Results

See attached.
2015 Sakura Grant (Deadline 6/30)
The purpose of the Sakura Grant Program is to support public, private, and charter/magnet schools that
provide Japanese language and/or Japanese cultural education to students at the K-12 level in Connecticut,
the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Delaware, and Virginia.
Applications must be received at the JCAW Foundation office no later than June 30, 2015.
This year, Schools which have received the grant for a total of three years are not eligible to apply for
2015 Sakura Grant.
For further information about the Sakura Grant program, please visit our website at:
http://www.jcawf.org/english/cherry_blossom_centennial/education/sakura-grant-program/
Summer Course at University of Virginia
See the attached file.
Professional Development Opportunities

Professional Development at Univ. of Hawaii (Online Institute)

The National Foreign Language Resource Center at the University of Hawaiii at Manoa offers a
professional development opportunity focused on project-based language learning (PBLL).
Registration Deadline: May 31, 2015 (March 1, 2015 for Intensive Summer Institute applicants)

CARLA summer institutes 2015

http://www.carla.umn.edu/institutes/

NEWS FROM MEMBER SCHOOLS:

White House Ceremony and Blair House Meeting (Moorman-sensei, Otani-sensei)
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Thomas
Jefferson Walt Whitman

18Executive Building
Townhouse

MCPSPTA, Special Education Committee Year of the Teach Award Students

with special needs
Superintendent 3

White House Visit: President Obama and Mrs. Obama Welcoming Prime Minister Abe and Mrs. Abe
(Zoll-sensei)
On April 28, 21 Blair students and 21 Paint Branch students who are currently studying Japanese
language had the opportunity to attend President Obama and Mrs. Obama's Welcome Ceremony of the
Japanese Prime Minister Abe and Mrs. Abe at the White House.
We arrived at the White House at 6:30am and attended the ceremony on the South Lawn at 9:00am. It
was a little chilly in the morning but all of us enjoyed the visit to the White House. A few Blair students
and a few Paint Branch tudents were able to shake hands with both President Obama and Japanese Prime
Minister Abe, and one student even got Prime Minister Abe's signature.
Here is a clip of students shaking hands with President Obama and Prime Minister Abe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=830QHYu_gO0
The entire ceremony from C-Span (You can see both President Obama's speech and Prime Minister Abe's
speech).
http://www.c-span.org/video/?325638-2/japanese-prime-minister-shinzo-abe-white-house-arrivalceremony
It was fun!