Member of the state's Curriculum and Supplemental Materials Commission and 2007 National Language Teacher of the Year, Christine Lanphere has taught French 1-AP Literature at Natomas High School in Sacramento since 1995. She has served as Foreign Language Department Chair and has been a BTSA Support Provider since 2000. She is a member of the Capital Foreign Language Project Leadership team. Christine has presented workshops at the local and state level on a variety of topics. She is active in several professional organizations including FLAGS and CLTA. Christine serves as Treasurer and Membership Chair for FLAGS. In 2003, she was selected as an Outstanding Teacher by FLAGS. In 2004, Christine received a grant from the Quebec government through CLTA which allowed her to study at the Université Laval in Quebec for 5 weeks. In 2005, she was named Outstanding Educator by CLTA and Region 3 Educator of the Year by the California League of High Schools. Christine served as a member of the Subject Matter Advisory Panel for Languages Other Than English for the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing. Following the completion of work for LOTE, Christine was asked to continue serving as an advisor to the LOTE-American Sign Language panel. This is an exciting opportunity to help create a new credential for teachers of ASL as a Language Other Than English. Christine has studied at the Université de Paris and led student trips to Europe for the past 5 years. She has also coached the Mock Trial team at Natomas High School for 10 years.
Active in many professional organizations, Carol is a member of MLA, ACTFL, CLTA, FLAGS and
AATSP. She currently serves as the Director of the Capital Foreign Language Project. She has presented workshops locally, regionally and at the state level on the National Standards, Foreign Language Advocacy, and National Board Certification. In 2000 the College of Arts and Letters of CSU Sacramento selected her as their Outstanding Alumnus , and in 2003 she was awarded the Glencoe/McGraw-Hill Outstanding Teacher Leader Award for the state ofCalifornia .
Carol's interest in making authentic culture accessible to everyone has taken many forms. In 2001 she led a student language and cultural study group through southern Peru . Points of interest included Cusco , Macho Picchu , Lake Titicaca , and the Amazon Basin . More recently, she spearheaded a mobile exhibit of Diego Rivera's mural, Latin American Unity , which was displayed at the 2003 CLTA Conference in Sacramento, and then at the CSU Sacramento Library Special Collections and Archives for an additional six weeks.
