Requirements: Items 3-7 need to be ready to upload when filling out the online form. Items 2, 8 & 9 are provided in the online form.

Current & previous year’s CLTA membership will be verified by the Membership Chair (send email to membership@clta.net to verify eligibility before completing the online form)

Applicant lives in California or teaches in California (email confirmation from membership@clta.net)

Letter written by applicant describing: 1) motivation for applying for this scholarship, 2) how the scholarship will help the applicant to improve his/her teaching skills, and 3) projected impact on the applicants’s students and classroom activities

Brief professional résumé/CV

Evidence that the applicant is currently employed as a high school or University teacher of world language other than English

A recent photograph of applicant (one copy suitable for display)

Three letters of recommendation (give a copy of the check list and rubric to those writing recommendation letters)

Willing to submit a written report for the CLTA newsletter or present a session at CLTA’s Annual Conference next year

Have not been a recipient of this grant in the previous four years