mission & vision
Vision
Our vision is to expand access to high quality language education for all learners.
Mission
As a locally grounded and nationally focused hub for language education, our mission is to empower language educators and enhance language learning and teaching practices. We do so by
- Training and nurturing pre- and in-service language educators through our fully online Masters and certificate programs
- Supporting and advocating for Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs) in Michigan and the U.S.
- Leading collaborative grant-supported language education initiatives
- Generating and amplifying research projects aligned with our values and priorities
- Fostering partnerships at MSU and across the U.S. K-16 landscape
- Advising language departments across the U.S. to cultivate thriving programs
- Coordinating and building targeted professional development on a national scale in a variety of formats and modalities
Values
Access and Equity
Collaboration and Connection
Openness and Sharing
our partners
location & hours
CeLTA operates remotely during the summer.
CeLTA’s core hours of operation in Fall 2023 are expected to be Monday-Thursday 10:00 AM-3:00 PM.
Center for Language Teaching Advancement
Michigan State University
619 Red Cedar Road
B135 Wells Hall
East Lansing, MI 48824
517-884-4310
celta@msu.edu
CeLTA Work Philosophy Statement
We recognize personnel as whole people and therefore value
both work and personal lives of all CeLTA colleagues and strive to create a
friendly and flexible working environment. This includes flexible, realistic,
creative, comfortable, and compassionate options within this work statement.
CeLTA operates on an open dialogue and trust-based, compassionate dynamic, and
thus we strive to maintain an open space for discussing adaptive work
conditions that suit employees’ most current needs in a rapidly changing world.
We strive to be respectful of other people’s work styles and trust them to make
autonomous, dynamic, proactive, reflective, and responsive decisions about how
they are most effective and efficient given situational circumstances and needs and continue to explore ways of continuously
balancing collective needs with individual and personal needs. We utilize
collectively agreed upon processes, tools, and technologies that enable us to
achieve that balance. We acknowledge that our work is varied and diverse. For
example, some work needs to be synchronous, may be time-bound, and/or performed
collectively, while other work needs to be uninterrupted, takes time, and may
be done individually. We also acknowledge that working in the field of language
education and innovation there is inherent value in being abroad for periods of
time, and will support this if possible.
We believe that this leads to more creative and innovative
outcomes, more efficient processes, and more connections, which aligns with
CeLTA’s values: to connect, to innovate, and to transform.
This aspirational statement was co-written by all staff and faculty in CeLTA and we will revisit it regularly.