St. Francis Xavier School, the first Catholic school in Southwest Florida, will hold its End of the Year Celebration on Friday, May 1, from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. at the school. Tickets and a range of sponsorships and donation opportunities are available for the event. Admission is $50 each or $90 for two guests.   Attendees will enjoy music by L...

The Boardman High School chapter of the Societ Onoraria Italica, the Italian National Honor Society, the Maria Montessori chapter, recently had its annual induction ceremony on May 15. Sixteen juniors were inducted in the event, as well as one honorary member, Mr. Eric Simione, a social studies teacher at Boardman.   The ceremony featur...

Calling all teachers of Italian language and culture! "Teaching Italian Symposium/Workshop: Meeting VIII" is right around the proverbial corner. This year's theme is "Imparando giocando"--Play and Games in the FL Classroom. To register and select your workshops--first come, first served--please go to: http://tiny.cc/TI8-giocare. Or feel free to con...

When young people are in middle school, they are thought to be at the peak of self-doubt. They're restless, can lack direction and don't always have confidence, even as they are trying to find out who they are. "Everyone is so afraid of the middle school years," said Staci Eddleman, principal of Westport Middle School. "It's a tough time for k...

The West Virginia Division of Culture and History's Culinary Cultures program will be held from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Monday.The program features sessions with chefs and food specialists from around the state. Monday's session is "That's Italian" with Jeremy Still of Edgewood Country Club.The sessions each include three classes and cost $60 per person. Th...

Dreams really do come true. "We're halfway there!" exclaimed Dominic Candeloro, co-chair of the Campaign to Create an Endowed Professorship of Italian American Studies at Loyola University Chicago.   "We started formally about a year ago and the first nine months were really challenging, but year-end donations in 2013 brought us within strik...

  WTI Magazine #34    2014 June, 11Author : Manuela Bianchi for learnitalygroup.com      Translation by:   Our dear Italian language. Who among us has never faced a word of Italian language? Surely spaghetti, opera, amore, pizza are among the most popular words ... and yet the lexicographic material of our beautiful language contains a huge trea...

By Steven Litt   A $1.6 million renovation has brought the historic but underused Alta House in Little Italy back to luminous vitality as the new home ofCleveland Montessori School, previously housed at nearby Holy Rosary Church.   On a gray Wednesday morning, the school's second day in its new home, parents pulled up at the East 125t...

Program Overview Through the Sons of Italy Foundation® (SIF) with hundreds of thousands of family members located in all fifty states and the District of Columbia, the Order Sons of Italy in America (OSIA) has awarded nearly $59 million in scholarships to date. In past years, the SIF has offered 10 to 12 merit-based scholarships (National Leaders...

A partire da domani, venerdì 30 gennaio, il chapter di Mantova di Filitalia International, organizzazione internazionale impegnata nella diffusione della lingua e della cultura italiana nel mondo e nel rafforzamento dei rapporti tra Italia e Stati Uniti, avvia corsi di lingua angloamericana.   Pasquale Nestico, fondatore e presidente emerito...