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8:00am PST

D01 Teaching for Acquisition

Friday March 7, 2025 8:00am - 11:00am PST

The transition away from teaching language courses based on a traditional grammar syllabus requires a shift in thinking as well as a shift in instruction. In this workshop, attendees will consider both the theoretical basis for Acquisition Driven, Comprehension Based™ teaching and its practical application. Attendees will explore these concepts through interactive demonstrations.
Session handouts will be made available during the session!

Presenters

Elicia Cárdenas

Director of Training, The Comprehensible Classroom

Driven by the core belief that all students are capable of acquiring language, The Comprehensible Classroom has been at the forefront of the movement toward teaching for acquisition since 2010. TCC publishes curriculum and instructional tools grounded in a solid understanding of language... Read More →

Friday March 7, 2025 8:00am - 11:00am PST
Courtyard 2

Workshop, 3-hour

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

8:00am PST

D03 Let's Celebrate! Mark your calendars for a year of holiday activities. (ticket required)

Friday March 7, 2025 8:00am - 11:00am PST

Brickstones

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Through the lens of celebrations, guide students to recognize the diversity and commonalities of the world cultures they are studying. This is a hands-on workshop with activities in all three modes to use at various holidays. Included will be letters, greeting cards, decorations, poetry, partner and group activities, and suggestions on how to adapt them to various proficiency levels and languages.

Presenters

Sally Mearns

Team Leader, Stanford World Language Project

I am a retired French and Spanish teacher and have retired for the second time form my posiition as the Site Director of the Stanford World Language Project.

Hélène Chan

Retired-SWLP

Friday March 7, 2025 8:00am - 11:00am PST
Brickstones

Workshop, 3-hour

Major Focus Cultures Standards, Connections Standards
Appropriate Level All Levels
Language Focus All languages
Session conducted in: English

8:00am PST

D05 Integrating Project-Based Learning: Language, Content, and Technology in Multilingual Classrooms (ticket required)

Friday March 7, 2025 8:00am - 11:00am PST

Shutters West 2

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This workshop explores how Project-Based Learning (PBL) can be used to integrate language instruction with social studies, science, and other content areas, fostering both content knowledge and language proficiency in multilingual classrooms. Participants will learn how to design interdisciplinary PBL units that promote comprehensible input and output through authentic, inquiry-based tasks.

Presenters

Yiyuan (Tiffany) Zhang

Friday March 7, 2025 8:00am - 11:00am PST
Shutters West 2

Workshop, 3-hour

Major Focus Framework
Appropriate Level All Levels
Language Focus Mandarin
Session conducted in: English

8:00am PST

D06 (6-hr) Generation AI (ticket required)

Friday March 7, 2025 8:00am - 3:45pm PST

Shutters West 1

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How is AI changing education? In this hands-on workshop, teachers will explore how generative AI can impact workload, lesson creation, and student outcomes. Dive into AI's privacy concerns and discuss its current limitations while discovering tools and prompts that can support vocabulary, stories and comprehension. We’ll also review student-friendly AI resources for future classroom integration.

Presenters

Bethany Thompson

Digital Learning Coordinator, Vanguard Preparatory

Technology, French, eSports, Turkey Farms

Friday March 7, 2025 8:00am - 3:45pm PST
Shutters West 1

Workshop, 6-hour

Major Focus Virtual Learning, Global Competence, Communication Standards, Cultures Standards, Artificial Intelligence
Appropriate Level All Levels
Language Focus All languages
Session conducted in: English

12:45pm PST

E02 Let's PLAY! 讓我們玩 ¡VAMOS A JUGAR! هيّا بنا لنلعب JOUONS! בואו נשחק GIOCHIAMO! 遊ぼう LASS UNS SPIELEN! (ticket required)

Friday March 7, 2025 12:45pm - 3:45pm PST

Brickstones

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Games can provide context for purposeful target-language communication in the classroom & promote SLA, literacy & interculturality. As we play we build community, an essential ingredient of the ACTFL Core Practices & CA WL Framework. We will play each game & take turns setting it up in groups. Slide decks, templates and instructions will be provided & are adaptable to any language & level.

Presenters

Jason Fritze

Friday March 7, 2025 12:45pm - 3:45pm PST
Brickstones

Workshop, 3-hour

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

5:00pm PST

F03 (2-hr) La cultura en el aula de español:el deporte (ticket required)

Friday March 7, 2025 5:00pm - 7:00pm PST

Courtyard 1

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How do sports create a reality to hispanic culture in the Spanish classroom? Explore the origins of the Olympic games, the role of women in sports and celebrate hispanic champions and sports heroes. This session includes interactive activities that enrich cultural competence via sports.

Presenters

Ines Garcia Sal

Education advisor, Spanish Embassy Education Office

I work for the Spanish Embassy education office in Los Angeles. We promote and support the teaching and learning of Spanish through different programs such asSummer courses in Spain 2022: deadline April 1st 2022 North American Language & Culture Assistants (NALCAP) Application pe... Read More →

Friday March 7, 2025 5:00pm - 7:00pm PST
Courtyard 1

Workshop, 2-hour

Major Focus Cultures Standards, Connections Standards
Appropriate Level All Levels
Language Focus Spanish
Session conducted in: Target Language

5:00pm PST

F07 (2-hr) Planning Hacks (ticket required)

Friday March 7, 2025 5:00pm - 7:00pm PST

Shutters East 1

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Stop spending long evenings and weekends planning. Learn a series of high impact activities for language acquisition to structure or complement any lesson. Familiar activities with new content allow your students to focus on the language by becoming experts at the task.

Presenters

Jenee Fawson

Westmont

Friday March 7, 2025 5:00pm - 7:00pm PST
Shutters East 1

Workshop, 2-hour

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