Francesco Fratto
President
Director of World Languages, Language Immersion, & English as a New Language/ESL
Herricks UFSD
Francesco L. Fratto was a Spanish teacher with over thirteen years of teaching experience at the middle school, high school and college level; he has served as a district K-12 administrator for over ten years. He served as local committee co-chair for both ACTFL and NECTFL. He was a director for the NECTFL. He was the Public Relations person for FLACS; numerous articles appeared in Long Island newspapers when the NYSED eliminated the LOTE assessments. He has worked and continues to work with the Office of OBE & WL; most recently, he presented The Seal of Biliteracy to the Board of Regents in Albany. He is the Immediate Past-President of NYSAFLT. He has presented at numerous conferences and is asked to keynote local and regional conferences. Advocacy is at the heart of everything he does.
Vincenza Graham
1st Vice President
Director of World Languages, English as a New Language, and Library Media Specialist for the Smithtown Central School District
Vincenza Graham currently serves as the Director of World Languages, English as a New Language, and Library Media Specialist for the Smithtown Central School District. She graduated from Long Island University/C.W. Post with a B.A. in Italian, earned an M.A. in Spanish Education and the Advanced Certificate in School Administration and Supervision from Queens College. She has spent over fifteen years teaching Italian and Spanish and has supervised teachers for over 11 years. She was a member of the FLACS Executive Board as the Asst to the First Vice President in 2016-17 and helped manage all communication with individual districts regarding FLACS membership and the consortium. Ms. Vincenza Graham is a member of FLACS, LILT, ACTFL and ASCD.
Denise Hannaoui
Secretary/Treasurer
Director of ENL and World Languages
Connetquot Central School District
Denise Hannaoui graduated from SUNY Stony Brook with a BA in Linguistics and an MA in TESOL. She also holds an MS in Instructional Technology from New York Institute of Technology. Denise has been in the field of education for 25 years, first as an ESL teacher in Lawrence Public Schools and then as an administrator as her interest in “the bigger picture” emerged. She has over 5 years’ experience as a Director of English as a Second/New Language and World Languages and is currently the Director of ENL/World Languages at Connetquot Central School District.