Who we are:

The Southern Alberta Heritage Language Association (SAHLA) is a non-profit educational organization whose mission is to lead, promote and provide resources for the promotion of international languages and cultural education. SAHLA represents community-based language schools teaching over 40 languages, including high-school credit courses to over 7,500 students, both children and adults. Our schools represent over 500 language instructors and principals.

Services

Services we offer:

SAHLA provides services to anyone interested in learning an International Language. Our members include community-based language schools, educational institutions, government, business, service agencies and individuals from the community-at-large. Some of our partners include The Canadian Languages Association, Alberta Education, the Calgary Board of Education, The Calgary Catholic School District, The Calgary Public Library and the University of Calgary.

Programs and resources we offer include:

• Info about languages taught in Calgary and region community-language schools
• SAHLA Resource Centre, Staff & Library
• Language learning development, enhancement and promotion
• Conferences, Workshops and Special Events for Language Instructors & Principals
• SAHLA / U of C Teaching Second Languages Professional Development Program for Community-Based Language Instructors
• Curriculum Development & Teaching Resource Support for Language Schools