Leveraging Language as an Employability Asset in Career and Technical Education

The Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE) announced February is CTE Month (https://www.acteonline.org/why-cte/cte-awareness/cte-month/), and one technical school in Pennsylvania is launching an innovative credentialing initiative to kick the month off with style.  

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Meet a Language Superhero: Katie Hedrick

Katie Hedrick is the Community Inclusion Coordinator of the City of Roanoke’s Community Engagement department in Virginia. One of her responsibilities is to run a Bilingual Incentive Pay Program to address the concerns and needs of Roanoke’s diverse 100,000 residents. Katie successfully implemented the program across all departments, and to date, many of the city […]

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Meet a Language Superhero: Jacqueline DiCanio

Jacqueline DiCanio is a multilingual professional who currently teaches Spanish in a public school. She realizes the importance of multilingualism and how it helps her be a better teacher and a better individual: “While teaching in a school with a diverse student body, I can connect with more kids,” she said. Jacqueline commands English, Spanish, […]

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Meet a Language Superhero: Miya Alcivar

This month’s Language Superhero is Miya Alcivar. Miya is an office manager and bookkeeper, and she’s pursuing the opportunity to become an interpreter thanks to her language skills. She can fluently speak English, Spanish, and French, and is learning Korean. “Being an immigrant myself, I think the ability to connect with people in a language […]

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Meet a Language Superhero: Madeline Martinez

Madeline Martinez, a bilingual writer and marketer, grew up in Puerto Rico and moved to mainland United States twenty years ago. She is our October Language Superhero. In the story she shared with her, she talks about her experience learning English and starting a career as a writer and interpreter. She also shares her experience […]

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Meet a Language Superhero: Jeff Page

In this month’s “Language Proficiency Is Your Superpower” feature, we spotlight Jeff Page, a bilingual professional, a K12 paraprofessional, English-Spanish interpreter, and a tennis coach. Jeff recognizes the power of multilingualism and dedicates himself to supporting multilingual students and their parents in his school district. Jeff also also produces an audiobook narration podcast called “English […]

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Mastery of Another Language Makes You an Ideal Candidate for the Hospitality Sector

Currently, more companies in the United States and around the world are expanding their businesses to international markets due to the diverse and changing economy worldwide. This tendency leads to a growing need for the recruitment of qualified bilingual and multilingual employees to meet the language preferences of non-English speaking customers and thus avoid the […]

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Meet a Language Superhero: Jackson Wolf

This month’s Language Superhero, Jackson Wolf, is passionate about language. He is pursuing his master’s degree in linguistics, focusing on morphology and phonology as well as French literature. He also works at the Wayne State’s Writing Center where he helps other students with their writing assignments. Read his full story: Language-Superpower-Magazine-Jackson-Wolf

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How to Highlight Your Language Skills to Get Noticed

If you are proficient in more than one language, you possess a highly marketable skill. Do you know which languages are most marketable? According to Preply, the three most frequently requested languages in job postings are Spanish, Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese), and French. Consider this: As of May 15, 2022, Indeed has posted over 900 […]

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