2025 CLTA Conference San Diego: Full Schedule

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A01 (3-hr) CREATING EXCITING ENROLLMENT PATHWAYS FROM SECONDARY TO HIGHER ED AND BEYOND (ticket required)

Thursday March 6, 2025 8:00am - 11:00am PST

Create pathways to connect high school & college students with opportunities to use and grow language skills. Despite rising demand for bilinguals, language program enrollment has declined. Learn proven strategies to attract, excite, and retain 1000s of students with State & Global Seals of Biliteracy and documented proficiency. CTE & LSP included.

Presenters

Linda Egnatz

Executive Director, Global Seal of Biliteracy

Linda Egnatz is the Executive Director of the Global Seal of Biliteracy, a free international language credential program designed to fill the opportunity gap for bilinguals of any age who want to celebrate and certify their language skills. In 2013, she was awarded the Golden Apple... Read More →

Thursday March 6, 2025 8:00am - 11:00am PST
Shutters West 1

Workshop, 3-hour

Major Focus Global Competence
Appropriate Level Secondary (9-12) & College/University
Language Focus All languages
Session conducted in: English

8:00am PST

A02 (6-hr) 7 Steps to a Language-Rich, Interactive World Language Classroom (ticket required)

Thursday March 6, 2025 8:00am - 3:30pm PST

Courtyard 2

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In this session, participants will learn 7 effective, low-prep strategies to create a language-rich, interactive classroom. Participants will walk away with a bank of strategies that target all modes of communication as well as tools to increase motivation, lower the affective filter, provide access to language at every level, and create community and connectedness within their classroom.

Presenters

Sally Barnes

Thursday March 6, 2025 8:00am - 3:30pm PST
Courtyard 2

Workshop, 3-hour

Major Focus Framework, Communication Standards
Appropriate Level All Levels
Language Focus All languages
Session conducted in: English

8:00am PST

CALLI--THURSDAY and FRIDAY ALL DAY (by invitation only)

Thursday March 6, 2025 8:00am - Friday March 7, 2025 3:30pm PST

Loft 1

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This workshop is for CLTA members who are interested in developing their leadership capacity and teaching practice and who are committed to furthering the mission of the California Language Teachers’ Association.

Presenters

Ángela Martínez

Susan Watson

Japanese teacher, Long Beach Polytechnic High School

Thursday March 6, 2025 8:00am - Friday March 7, 2025 3:30pm PST
Loft 1

Workshop, 2-day

Major Focus Framework, Global Competence
Appropriate Level All Levels
Language Focus All languages
Session conducted in: English

12:30pm PST

B02 (6-hr) Standards-Based Grading and Integrated Performance Assessment: A Comprehensive Approach (ticket required)

Thursday March 6, 2025 12:30pm - 6:45pm PST

Shutters East 1

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This workshop equips educators with an understanding of standards-based grading (SBG) and integrated performance assessments (IPAs). Participants will explore SBG principles and benefits, emphasizing improved student outcomes through clear feedback. The session includes hands-on activities to create an IPA that integrates with SBG practices for cohesive assessment.

Presenters

Cecile Nedellec

Coordinator, SAILN

Thursday March 6, 2025 12:30pm - 6:45pm PST
Shutters East 1

Workshop, 3-hour

Major Focus Framework, Communication Standards
Appropriate Level Secondary (9-12)
Language Focus All languages
Session conducted in: English

3:45pm PST

C01 (3-hr) World Language “Trade Secrets” - Top 12 Strategies to Engage Today’s Language Learners (ticket required)

Thursday March 6, 2025 3:45pm - 6:45pm PST

Courtyard 2

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Want to know the secret for teaching today’s Gen Z & Gen Alpha students? Spoiler alert: it’s students having fun! In this session, you will learn how to invigorate your curriculum as you participate in new (and improved!) engaging WL activities that reflect today’s students. Whether you follow a textbook or create your own curriculum, these activities will work in every level & language.

Presenters

Amy Kingsley

French Teacher, Menlo Park City School District

I’ve taught French for 26 years at middle and high school levels, public and private, and to all-boys, all-girls, and co-ed classes. I am passionate about edtech, Standards Based Grading, and presenting. Ask me about: how I use ChatGPT, being a softball mom, and my labradoodle... Read More →

Thursday March 6, 2025 3:45pm - 6:45pm PST
Courtyard 2

Workshop, 3-hour

Major Focus Framework, Communication Standards
Appropriate Level Elementary (K-8) & Secondary (9-12)
Language Focus All languages
Session conducted in: English

3:45pm PST

C02 (3-hr) Story-Listening for CI, connection, and engagement (ticket required)

Thursday March 6, 2025 3:45pm - 6:45pm PST

Shutters West 1

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Remember the last time you heard a great story? Our language-learners enjoy hearing stories in class. In fact they enjoy it so much they will forget that they are listening in a different language, they will be so focused on the story, the characters and the action. This is how Comprehensible Input works. Story- Listening was researched and developed by Dr. Stephen Krashen and Dr. Beniko Mason.

Presenters

Beth Wasserzieher

French teacher, World Language Dept Chair, CLTA Advocacy committee, Foothill High School

I teach French at Foothill High School in Bakersfield, CA.

Thursday March 6, 2025 3:45pm - 6:45pm PST
Shutters West 1

Workshop, 3-hour

Major Focus Communication Standards
Appropriate Level All Levels
Language Focus All languages
Session conducted in: English