She is also the editor of the Foreign Language Association of Virginia (FLAVA) Bulletin. This article is based on a training session the author presented at a workshop jointly sponsored by the Virginia Department of Education and FLAVA in August 2000. The author based the presentation on the Standards for Foreign Language Learning in the 21st Century, published by the National Standards in Foreign Language Education Project, and on the 2000 Foreign Language Standards of Learning for Virginia Public Schools.