The Colorado Congress for Language Teachers
Applications for fall awards are not currently being accepted. Please check back over the summer for more information.
The Colorado Language Excellence and Achievement Recognition Award
(CLEAR)
The Colorado Language Excellence and Achievement Recognition Award, or CLEAR Award, is a distinction intended to honor excellence within world language departments across Colorado, including middle and elementary schools. Just as it thrills CCFLT to honor our remarkable world language teachers, we are also proud to recognize the extraordinary efforts required to build, nourish, and expand world language departments at all levels. This distinction honors any and all world language departments, granting up to five stars for those that feature the ten indicators for high schools or middle schools that we believe to be the defining characteristics of excellence in language instruction.
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Awarded schools are invited to register for the Fall Conference to receive their recognitions.
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Application and supporting documents are due September 1, 2025
Welcome Package Award
Our most precious resource as world language teachers is a healthy and robust corpus of new educators within our communities. The strength and durability of our profession relies upon the ingenuity, energy, and perspective that new colleagues bring to their classrooms, departments, and schools, and one of our greatest wishes at the CCFLT is to support these newcomers in their every professional endeavor. To that end, we announce the CCFLT Welcome to World Languages Package as a means of extending such scaffolding. The CCFLT Welcome to World Languages Package winner will be provided complimentary registration to the 2025 CCFLT Fall Conference, as well as the 2026 SWCOLT Conference; will earn a year of free CCFLT membership; and will receive a copy of Julia G. Thompson’s text, The First-Year Teacher's Survival Guide: Ready-to-Use Strategies, Tools & Activities for Meeting the Challenges of Each School Day.
We seek applicants who teach at any level of world language within their first three years of teaching; two winners will be selected. The application deadline is September 1, 2025.
Winners are asked to submit a 600-word entry to the CCFLT spring newsletter that describes how they may have benefited from the CCFLT Welcome to World Languages Package.
Applicants should submit the following supporting documents:
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a current curriculum vitae
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a response, not to exceed 300 words, that addresses these questions: Which tools and resources, as a new world language educator, will best support you as you continue your work in the classroom? Where and how will you acquire these tools?
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one letter of recommendation from a figure familiar with the applicant’s work as an educator.
Applicant dossiers will be measured using this rubric. Application and supporting documents are due September 1, 2025.