Alissa Farias

K-12 World Languages Curriculum Specialist, NADSFL Vice President

Alissa Farias is an educator in Tacoma, WA. She began teaching in 2007, thinking it would be a transitional career, and found too much passion in working with kids and made education her profession. She taught all levels of Spanish from first year to AP to Heritage for 10 years in a urban high school. She is a National Board Certified Teacher and actively involved in several world language organizations such as WAFLT and AATSP Juan de Fuca and a member for ACTFL. She is also an ASCD Emerging Leader, an ACTFL LILL Participant, winner of the WAFLT Inspirational Leadership Award and the 2019 World Language Teacher of the Year for WA State. She was also the 2017 WA ASCD OYEA award winner. ​

Alissa facilitates world language professional development in her area and loves collaborating with her colleagues. She has led curriculum alignment and development creating a World Language Framework and Units and Pacing Guides for five different languages. She has presented nationally and is a published author

SEL: Creating Culturally Responsive Safe Spaces Virtually

More than ever we need to meet the social and emotional needs of our students while also ensuring their language proficiency continues to grow, even virtually. In this session, we will cover culturally responsive ways to build safe spaces virtually that focus on students’ social emotional needs and encourage the use of the target language. Different activities that will be highlighted are mindfulness strategies, brain breaks, collaborative spaces and unintentional moment creators for synchronous and asynchronous learning environments. Together, we can continue to build community in our classrooms, even remotely that is also culturally responsive to meet the needs of all our students.

This presentation will be available for on-demand viewing on December 2nd during Global CRED. Register for Global CRED below, it’s quick easy and free!