Lisa Dorner rocks!

Lisa Dorner, French/Spanish School Project Group member, UM-SL College of Education Faculty, and SLLIS advocate extraordinaire is presenting a session at the conference tomorrow. Today at lunch we’re chatting up practitioners from MN, KY, CA and NY about special education inclusion, early literacy, school models, you know, regular conference goodness. Who then just happens to sit next to Lisa Dorner– Helena Curtain! Dr. Curtain was charged with implementing Milwaukee’s German Immersion School in 1978, is author of Languages and Children: Making the Match, and is retired professor of K-12 Foreign Language Teacher Certification at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Because Lisa Dorner is exceptionally Lisa Dorner, she chatted her up, learned that Dr. Curtain currently serves on the board of two other language immersion charter schools and elicited an offer for Dr. Curtain to provide us some consultation/advice on our school development. Go Lisa Go!