Speakers

Gregg Roberts-Aguirre is the Director of the Dual Language Immersion Alliance. Before working for the DLIA, he was the Dual Language Innovation Coordinator for Avant Assessment,
the Director of Dual Language Studies for American Councils of International Education and the World Language & Dual Language Immersion Specialist for the Utah State Board of Education.
He was also the co-project director of the Flagship Language Acquisition Network (F-LAN), a national consortium of 20 states led by Utah and funded by the National Language Flagship program (US Department of Defense). The F-LAN consortium worked to develop and implement K-16 programs that would produce advanced-level speakers of Chinese and Portuguese upon high school graduation and professionally competent superior-level speakers upon university graduation.

His work with the Utah Legislature and Governor’s office led to groundbreaking changes in the way world languages are viewed and funded within the state’s K-16 schools. The K-16 program he designed with his team is being used as a model of innovative world-language education nationally. As part of this program, he gathered and lead a group of K-12 educators, in collaboration with the state’s institutions of higher education, in the design and implementation of Utah’s highly successful Critical Language, Dual Language Immersion (DLI) and Bridge programs in Chinese, French, German, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. In the process, he directed the development of K-12 immersion curricula, the establishment of proficiency targets for all grade levels and DLI languages, a comprehensive assessment program comprised of
internal and external assessments, and a job-embedded professional learning program for teachers and administrators, and an instruction support system in DLI languages. He was also instrumental in the implementation of international teacher recruitment as well as alternative certification and professional learning programs that are serving as models for other states.
Gregg has taught at both the secondary and university levels. He also served as the Granite School District’s World Language Specialist. He was named the 2009 National Council of State Supervisors of Foreign Language State Supervisor of the Year, the 2015 ACTFL Leo Benardo Award for Innovation in K-12 Language Education, and he is a recipient of two, (Knight and Officer), Palms Académiques from the French Government.