2025 CLTA Conference San Diego: Full Schedule

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8:00am PDT

L11 Express, Embrace, and Inspire: Build Students’ Connectedness Through Creative Writing

Sunday March 9, 2025 8:00am - 8:45am PDT

Do your students have opportunities to express themselves and share their interests in class? Through creative writing in the target language, they can showcase their strengths, interests, and cultural backgrounds. Strategies for writing and reading will be shared to enhance learning. Let’s express and embrace distinct ideas and values while building connectedness through students’ written works!

Presenters

Junko Tokuda Simpson

Kayoko Ross

Sunday March 9, 2025 8:00am - 8:45am PDT
Great Room 6

Interest Session

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

10:00am PDT

M07 Interactive Tools and Cultural Connections: Transforming the Dual and World Language Classroom

Sunday March 9, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am PDT

Great Room 6

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In this interactive session, participants will explore strategies to engage students while using technology, real-life cultural contexts, and small-group activities. By examining students' work samples and participating in some engaging activities, attendees will discover the power of students engaging and its positive impact on their learning outcomes.

Presenters

Layla Bahar Al-Aloom

Maria Kouli

Sunday March 9, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am PDT
Great Room 6

Interest Session

Major Focus Communication Standards, Cultures Standards
Appropriate Level All Levels
Language Focus Arabic
Session conducted in: English

10:00am PDT

M09 Enhance Your Playlist and Liven up Your Classroom with Songs that Reinforce Spanish Language Structures: Let’s Share Our Playlists!

Sunday March 9, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am PDT

Shutters West 2

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Want to enhance your classroom playlist? Come see how you can post songs and create activities in your LMS that are centered in music from around the Spanish-speaking world. Participate in an interactive session that highlights songs that showcase culture and all the tenses we teach. Let’s share the songs we use to enhance our upbeat classrooms while promoting cultural understanding for students.

Presenters

Ann Sitig

Sunday March 9, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am PDT
Shutters West 2

Interest Session

Major Focus Global Competence, Cultures Standards
Appropriate Level Secondary (9-12) & College/University
Language Focus Spanish
Session conducted in: English

10:00am PDT

M11 A Day at The Museum: Using PBLL to Design Engaging Language Experiences (Part 1)

Sunday March 9, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am PDT

Courtyard 1

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Project-based language learning (PBLL) has been shown to motivate students, but designing projects can be an arduous process. This session uses a museum project inspired by PBLL to provide a template for designing engaging projects that extend beyond the classroom and foster global connectedness even when it is not feasible to include all elements of traditional PBLL.

Presenters

Shandy Lemperle

Franck Lemperle

Sunday March 9, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am PDT
Courtyard 1

Interest Session

Major Focus Communication Standards, Cultures Standards
Appropriate Level All Levels
Language Focus French
Session conducted in: English

11:00am PDT

N03 Incorporating AI into Chinese Language and Culture Learning

Sunday March 9, 2025 11:00am - 11:45am PDT

Loft 1

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The use of AI in language teaching and learning has become a popular topic of discussion among educators. In this presentation, the presenter will introduce how she uses ChatGPT to design prompts that enhances a variety of class activities, discussions, projects, and assessments. The presenter will also introduce other functions of ChatGPT in her use of various class tasks.

Presenters

Yujie Ge

Santa Clara University

Sunday March 9, 2025 11:00am - 11:45am PDT
Loft 1

Interest Session

Major Focus Global Competence, Cultures Standards
Appropriate Level College/University
Language Focus Mandarin
Session conducted in: English

11:00am PDT

N04 Culturally Connecting the Classroom with the School, Familes and Communities

Sunday March 9, 2025 11:00am - 11:45am PDT

Great Room 8

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What are ways to connect classroom content with the rest of the school, families, and local communities? Interactively learn to create "culture connect" activities for any language, at any level.

Presenters

Mari Takahashi

Teacher, South High School

Sunday March 9, 2025 11:00am - 11:45am PDT
Great Room 8

Interest Session

Major Focus Cultures Standards, Connections Standards
Appropriate Level Elementary (K-8) & Secondary (9-12)
Language Focus Japanese
Session conducted in: English

11:00am PDT

N09 Decolonizing our classrooms

Sunday March 9, 2025 11:00am - 11:45am PDT

Brickstones

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Have you seen the word "decolonize" used to refer to various school subjects and curriculums? Does this seem daunting, confusing, and/or too political to you? No need to wonder anymore! In this session, the presenter will show four ways to begin the process of decolonizing your classroom, providing guidance along the way. There will be plenty of opportunities for collaboration and questions.

Presenters

Edward Stanko

Spanish teacher and Department Chair, World Languages, Patrick Henry High School

17th year Language educator; grew up surrounded by the Spanish language and Mexican culture; coffee addict and book nerd; obsessed with all things SLA

Sunday March 9, 2025 11:00am - 11:45am PDT
Brickstones

Interest Session

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

11:00am PDT

N11 A Day at The Museum: Using PBLL to Design Engaging Language Experiences (Part 2)

Sunday March 9, 2025 11:00am - 11:45am PDT

Courtyard 1

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Presenters

Shandy Lemperle

Franck Lemperle

Sunday March 9, 2025 11:00am - 11:45am PDT
Courtyard 1

Interest Session

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