2025 CLTA Conference San Diego: Full Schedule

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L02 What’s Trending in Language Learning?: Table Visits with the California Teachers of the Year

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

What's trending in language learning for California’s ACTFL Teachers of the Year and SWCOLT Finalists? Come participate in an interactive session where the TOYs will discuss topics of personal interest related to language learning with small groups, giving you the opportunity to visit several stations during the session. Leave with new ideas for instruction, advocacy, and professional engagement.

Presenters

Nicole Naditz

Prog. Specialist - Inst. Tech & World Lang., San Juan Unified School

Passionate about planning for learning rather than for teaching, Nicole taught French to grades 3 through 12, including AP French Language for more than 24 years before transitioning to her current role as the Program Specialist for World Languages and Instructional Technology K-12... Read More →

Christine Lanphere

Liz Matchett

Executive Director, CLTA

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

Interest Session

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

8:00am PDT

L03 Designing engaging and meaningful Tasks in the World Language classroom

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

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Want to engage learners in meaningful tasks that motivate their learning while guiding them toward higher proficiency? Come see how you can create fun and engaging real-world tasks that get students excited about learning while incorporating World-Readiness standards and proficiency guidelines.

Presenters

Oraib Mango

Professor, CSUSB

Sunday March 9, 2025 8:00am - 8:45am PDT
Loft 1

Interest Session

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

8:00am PDT

L04 Cultivating Global Perspectives: Inclusive Approaches to Language Education

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

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How can we build global competencies while fostering equity, diversity, and inclusion in language classrooms? Discover practical strategies using the Global Competence Framework to design meaningful, student-centered lessons. Leave with actionable ideas to engage students and connect language learning to real-world contexts

Presenters

Iman Hashem

Director, Loyola Marymount World Language Project

Iman Arabi-Katbi Hashem, MADirector, Loyola Marymount World Language Project (LMWLP)Director, Southern CA Arabic Teacher Council (SCATC)Arabic Language Instructor, CSULBIndependent ConsultantIman Arabi-Katbi Hashem is the 2019 California World Language Teacher of the Year and the... Read More →

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

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

8:00am PDT

L05 Building Global Citizens: Integrating World Language and Other Content Areas for Immersive Cultural Learning

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

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This presentation explores an innovative cross-curricular approach that bridges World Language instruction with history and digital game design to create immersive society-building experiences. By combining language acquisition with understanding of other content areas, students engage in deeper cultural understanding while developing practical language skills in authentic contexts.

Presenters

Nicole Bradford

Teacher, Taft Charter High School

Katie Ingram

Taft Charter High School

Sunday March 9, 2025 8:00am - 8:45am PDT
Shutters East 2

Interest Session

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

8:00am PDT

L09 Experiencing a Sustainable Development Goal Mini-Unit

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

Great Room 7

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Do you want to see how you can have mini-units involving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs) at the upper levels of your program? Create opportunities for students to have dialogue on problems locally and globally while also considering the impact they can have themselves.

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Presenters

Stuart Jones

Japanese Teacher, Torrance High School

Sawako Watanabe

Sunday March 9, 2025 8:00am - 8:45am PDT
Great Room 7

Interest Session

Major Focus Global Competence, Artificial Intelligence
Appropriate Level Secondary (9-12)
Language Focus Japanese
Session conducted in: English

8:00am PDT

L10 Going Global in the World Language Classroom

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

Great Room 8

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Traditionally, we teach ABOUT the world; Global Education asserts that teaching WITH the world increases global readiness and more thoroughly supports a rigorous 21st century curriculum. Global connection plans re-imagine classrooms in exciting ways! Participants will leave with concrete ideas, strategies, and resources to make small shifts that yield big (and more equitable) results for students.

Presenters

Erin Austin

teacher, Poudre High School

Bonjour! I'm the Colorado Congress of Foreign Language Teachers 2023 Teacher of the Year, and I'm stoked to be at CLTA! I am the author of "The Ultimate Guide to Selling Your Original World Language Resources" and "Going Global in the World Language Classroom". I also do contract... Read More →

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

Interest Session

Major Focus Global Competence
Appropriate Level Elementary (K-8) & Secondary (9-12)
Language Focus All languages
Session conducted in: English

10:00am PDT

M02 Advocacy for All: Let's Connect!

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

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World Language programs face challenges at every level across California today. How can we be stronger together? Come connect with the members of the CLTA Advocacy Committee and like minded educators who can support you to get the message across to the people who need to hear it: ALL languages matter and ALL of us need to work together to support them. We'd love to get to know you!

Presenters

Ann Jordan

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

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

10:00am PDT

M04 Questions, questions, and more questions!

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

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In this presentation, participants will gain an enhanced understanding of different types of questions that guide our instruction as world language teachers, such as unit essential questions, focus questions for lessons/activities and how to lead a discussion. They'll also examine different levels of rigor in questions and practice creating high-rigor questions.

Presenters

Maylen Sullivan

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

Interest Session

Major Focus Global Competence, DEI
Appropriate Level Secondary (9-12)
Language Focus Spanish
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

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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
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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

M10 Centro Mundo Lengua: AP Training and Study Abroad

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

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This summer as the recipient of the 2023-24 Centro MundoLengua travel grant, I was fortunate enough to travel to Madrid, Spain for a week for Advanced Placement training and immersive cultural experiences. In this session, the participants will be introduced to Centro MundoLengua. After discussing the immersive cultural experiences, have attendees brainstorm how they could adapt similar activities in their classrooms. If you are curious about professional development opportunities abroad and cultural enrichment, join me!

Presenters

Karla Perez

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

Major Focus Global Competence
Appropriate Level Secondary (9-12)
Language Focus Spanish
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

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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
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Interest Session

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

11:00am PDT

N10 Become a Language Friendly School that Fosters Inclusive and Culturally Responsive Learning

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

Shutters West 2

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This session will provide an overview of the Language Friendly School's initiative and outline the steps that your school can pursue to become a member of its international network. The network supports schools to create language friendly environments that integrate students' home language into the school's curricula and leverage its language program offerings to create multilingual citizens.

Presenters

Duarte Silva

Executive Director Emeritus, Stanford University

The California World Language Project (CWLP) is a collaborative, statewide network that sponsors year-round professional development programs for World Language educators intended to strengthen the teaching of languages and cultures in California. The project aims to involve every... Read More →

Nancy Pérez

CCWLP Site Director, CLTA Past President

-CCWLP Site Director CLTA: Executive Board Member since 2011 Spanish Retired Teacher Visalia, CA

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

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