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8:00am PDT

L01 Harnessing AI for Student Multimedia Projects: Enhancing Creativity and Efficiency
Sunday March 9, 2025 8:00am - 8:45am PDT
Explore how genAI can streamline multimedia projects in language classrooms, saving time while maintaining engagement and creativity. This session covers AI applications for creating music, videos, and images, with guided hands-on practice and examples of classroom activities and student work.
Presenters
avatar for Emily Xu

Emily Xu

Chinese Instructor, SDSU LARC
I am a Chinese language instructor at San Diego State University’s Language Acquisition Resource Center (SDSU LARC). I am passionate about helping students develop their proficiency in Mandarin through engaging, immersive, and interactive learning experiences. My teaching approach... Read More →
Sunday March 9, 2025 8:00am - 8:45am PDT
Courtyard 2
  Interest Session

8:00am PDT

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
avatar for Nicole Naditz

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 →
avatar for Liz Matchett

Liz Matchett

Executive Director, CLTA
Sunday March 9, 2025 8:00am - 8:45am PDT
Brickstones
  Interest Session

8:00am PDT

L03 Designing engaging and meaningful Tasks in the World Language classroom
Sunday March 9, 2025 8:00am - 8:45am PDT
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
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Oraib Mango

Professor, CSUSB
Sunday March 9, 2025 8:00am - 8:45am PDT
Loft 1
  Interest Session

8:00am PDT

L04 Cultivating Global Perspectives: Inclusive Approaches to Language Education
Sunday March 9, 2025 8:00am - 8:45am PDT
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
avatar for Iman Hashem

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
Shutters West 1
  Interest Session

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
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
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Nicole Bradford

Teacher, Taft Charter High School
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Katie Ingram

Taft Charter High School
Sunday March 9, 2025 8:00am - 8:45am PDT
Shutters East 2
  Interest Session

8:00am PDT

L06 Build Communication Using Creativity and Collaboration
Sunday March 9, 2025 8:00am - 8:45am PDT
This session explores how to engage students in the Spanish classroom to help them build communicative proficiency. Participants will take part in instructional strategies and practices that are at the heart many programs. Using creativity and collaboration, they will determine how to utilize these successfully in their own classrooms to motivate their students to communicate.
Presenters
Sunday March 9, 2025 8:00am - 8:45am PDT
Shutters East 1
  Interest Session

8:00am PDT

L07 Unlocking the Power of Reading: Strategies for Pre-Reading, Reading, and Post-Reading Success
Sunday March 9, 2025 8:00am - 8:45am PDT
Empower language teachers with effective strategies for boosting student reading comprehension. This session covers pre-reading, reading, and post-reading techniques to activate prior knowledge, set reading purposes, and encourage reflection. Gain practical tools to help students become confident, skilled second-language readers.
Presenters
avatar for Dahiana Castro

Dahiana Castro

French /Spanish teacherCI practitioner who loves learning new strategies that promote litercy and increase target language use in the classroom.
Sunday March 9, 2025 8:00am - 8:45am PDT
Shutters West 2
  Interest Session

8:00am PDT

L08 Socratic Seminar in the world language classroom
Sunday March 9, 2025 8:00am - 8:45am PDT
We will explore how to scaffold and structure classroom discussions through Socratic Seminar. It is a way to have authentic student led, student to student, interpersonal practice. Socratic Seminar incorporates the interpretive and interpersonal modes of communication and allows students to make meaning of texts and use the target language to deepen their understanding.
Presenters
avatar for Leigh Murrell

Leigh Murrell

Spanish Teacher, Del Norte High School
Leigh Murrell is an AP Spanish teacher at Del Norte High School  in Poway USD. She graduated from SDSU with her Masters Degree in Educational Technology and is a fellow of SAILN. Leigh has over 20 years of experience in education as a teacher, technology integrationist and instructional... Read More →
Sunday March 9, 2025 8:00am - 8:45am PDT
Courtyard 1
  Interest Session

8:00am PDT

L09 Experiencing a Sustainable Development Goal Mini-Unit
Sunday March 9, 2025 8:00am - 8:45am PDT
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
avatar for Stuart Jones

Stuart Jones

Japanese Teacher, Torrance High School
Sunday March 9, 2025 8:00am - 8:45am PDT
Great Room 7
  Interest Session

8:00am PDT

L10 Going Global in the World Language Classroom
Sunday March 9, 2025 8:00am - 8:45am PDT
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
avatar for Erin Austin

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

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

10:00am PDT

M01 LASER-focused AI Use in the Language Classroom
Sunday March 9, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am PDT
TThe biggest obstacles to teachers embracing the use of artificial intelligence are fear and the need for specific training on how to use the technology quickly and effectively. This session is the first step to removing both of those obstacles.
Sunday March 9, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am PDT
Courtyard 2
  Interest Session

10:00am PDT

M02 Advocacy for All: Let's Connect!
Sunday March 9, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am PDT
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
Sunday March 9, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am PDT
Shutters West 1
  Interest Session

10:00am PDT

M03 Sparking Academic Talk to Build Bridges and Unlock Minds
Sunday March 9, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am PDT
This session equips educators with strategies to facilitate academic conversations that enhance critical thinking, problem-solving, social-emotional growth, and communication skills. It emphasizes scaffolding and real-life connections to foster engagement, collaboration, and a language-rich environment in dual language immersion settings. Participants will gain practical tools to lead impactful classroom discussions.
Presenters
avatar for Yongzhen (Jennifer) Wu

Yongzhen (Jennifer) Wu

Mandarin Instructional Coach, Guy Emanuele Elementary School
Hello, I'm Jennifer Wu, an enthusiastic and dedicated educator with a passion for fostering professional growth and creating impactful learning experiences.With over 18 years of teaching experience in both elementary and secondary education in China and the USA, I've had the privilege... Read More →
Sunday March 9, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am PDT
Brickstones
  Interest Session

10:00am PDT

M04 Questions, questions, and more questions!
Sunday March 9, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am PDT
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
Sunday March 9, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am PDT
Shutters East 2
  Interest Session

10:00am PDT

M05 Mastering Interactive Self-Paced Lesson Design: Practical Tools and Techniques for Learner-Controlled Instruction
Sunday March 9, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am PDT
Research has shown that giving learners control over their instruction can significantly enhance self-regulated learning and increase information retention (Milheim, 1990; Scheiter, 2005). In this session, attendees will learn how to create interactive lessons. These lessons allow students to control the pacing and sequence of their learning.
Presenters
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Mustafa Abid

Defense language Institute, DLI
Sunday March 9, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am PDT
Great Room 7
  Interest Session

10:00am PDT

M06 Why do some learners benefit from feedback while others do not? Insights from a feedback literacy perspective.
Sunday March 9, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am PDT
Why do some students benefit from teacher feedback on written texts for learning, while others do not? This session will introduce the concept of feedback literacy to explore the multifaceted nature of students’ responses to feedback. Participants will discuss and share strategies to enhance student learning through written feedback.
Presenters
avatar for Jun Takahashi

Jun Takahashi

Assistant professor, San Diego State University
Sunday March 9, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am PDT
Great Room 8
  Interest Session

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

10:00am PDT

M08 Enhancing Reading Comprehension in World Language Classroom Using Authentic Resources
Sunday March 9, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am PDT
Discover the power of connecting subject matter to enhance reading comprehension in world languages! Learn practical strategies from our experiences in university immersion language classes and explore activities that foster literacy skills, broaden perspectives, and promote academic success. Leave with a toolkit of techniques to enrich your world language instruction.
Sunday March 9, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am PDT
Shutters East 1
  Interest Session

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

10:00am PDT

M10 Centro Mundo Lengua: AP Training and Study Abroad
Sunday March 9, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am PDT
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
Sunday March 9, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am PDT
Loft 1
  Interest Session

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

11:00am PDT

N01 What is so new about AI and why should I care?
Sunday March 9, 2025 11:00am - 11:45am PDT
This presentation will look under the hood of generative AI to clearly define its power and its applicability in language education. How does this new technology impact our lesson planning, student motivation, activity design and assessment patterns?
Presenters
avatar for Mathias Schulze

Mathias Schulze

Director / Professor, San Diego State University
proficiency development, online language learning, testing, language teaching pedagogy, applied linguistics
Sunday March 9, 2025 11:00am - 11:45am PDT
Courtyard 2
  Interest Session

11:00am PDT

N02 Culturally Responsive Leadership: A Primer for Department Heads and Other WL Leaders
Sunday March 9, 2025 11:00am - 11:45am PDT
Are you a department head? Come get ideas for how to successfully navigate all the tasks, personalities, and obligations that come with this very important work, while at the same time taking care of yourself.
Presenters
avatar for Liz Matchett

Liz Matchett

Executive Director, CLTA
Sunday March 9, 2025 11:00am - 11:45am PDT
Shutters West 1
  Interest Session

11:00am PDT

N03 Incorporating AI into Chinese Language and Culture Learning
Sunday March 9, 2025 11:00am - 11:45am PDT
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
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Yujie Ge

Santa Clara University
Sunday March 9, 2025 11:00am - 11:45am PDT
Loft 1
  Interest Session

11:00am PDT

N04 Culturally Connecting the Classroom with the School, Familes and Communities
Sunday March 9, 2025 11:00am - 11:45am PDT
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
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Mari Takahashi

Teacher, South High School
Sunday March 9, 2025 11:00am - 11:45am PDT
Great Room 8
  Interest Session

11:00am PDT

N05 Meet the Underrepresented Languages SIG and Join the World Languages Reading Challenge!
Sunday March 9, 2025 11:00am - 11:45am PDT
Learn about the WL Reading Challenge, a successful initiative between CLTA and the California Dept of Education, and how teachers can easily implement it in their schools. You will hear from past participats and the benefits it has brought their students, language programs, and school communities. You will be provided with resources and strategies to implement the Challenge in your own classroom!
Presenters
avatar for Amelia Nevis

Amelia Nevis

Adjunct Professor, Italian, Modesto Junior College
Sunday March 9, 2025 11:00am - 11:45am PDT
Great Room 6
  Interest Session

11:00am PDT

N06 Antiracism, Inclusion and Identity in the Spanish classroom: Activities for elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels
Sunday March 9, 2025 11:00am - 11:45am PDT
Are you interested in antiracist pedagogy in the Spanish classroom but don’t know where to start? Join this session to see how you can scaffold assignments in a way that guides students through the use of language and culture from vocabulary building to learning about culture and leads them to deeper reflection about questions of identity and race.
Presenters
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Jacqueline Mitchell

Point Loma Nazarene University
avatar for Paula Cronovich

Paula Cronovich

Professor of Spanish, Point Loma Nazarene University
Full time university Spanish professor, implementing antiracist pedagogy into all levels of language instruction. I specialize in contemporary Latin American literature, art and culture, as well as film, politics and human rights movements.
Sunday March 9, 2025 11:00am - 11:45am PDT
Great Room 7
  Interest Session

11:00am PDT

N07 But How Do I Test This? Efficiently Assessing for Proficiency
Sunday March 9, 2025 11:00am - 11:45am PDT
EXHIBITOR SESSION: We often struggle with how to assess students’ proficiency outcomes—without taking too much time to grade. Strategies such as project-based learning and integrated skills will be provided to help you teach and assess for proficiency even with the constraints that you may have, such as getting students ready for standardized tests. Lesson Magic by Teaching Solved will be demonstrated to help support you in this in Spanish, French, or English, but the strategies are also applicable more broadly.
Presenters
avatar for Hope Anderson

Hope Anderson

Founder & CEO, Teaching Solved LLC
Helping teachers help students learn languages. Come see our supplemental print and digital materials for Spanish, French, and Portuguese classes, including a huge resource site and ready-made lessons for your classes, as well as books, teacher t-shirts, and other swag! We want to... Read More →
Sunday March 9, 2025 11:00am - 11:45am PDT
Shutters East 2

11:00am PDT

N08 Enhancing Reading Comprehension in World Language Classroom Using Authentic Resources
Sunday March 9, 2025 11:00am - 11:45am PDT
Discover the power of connecting subject matter to enhance reading comprehension in world languages! Learn practical strategies from our experiences in university immersion language classes and explore activities that foster literacy skills, broaden perspectives, and promote academic success. Leave with a toolkit of techniques to enrich your world language instruction.
Sunday March 9, 2025 11:00am - 11:45am PDT
Shutters East 1
  Interest Session

11:00am PDT

N09 Decolonizing our classrooms
Sunday March 9, 2025 11:00am - 11:45am PDT
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
avatar for Edward Stanko

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

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
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
avatar for Duarte Silva

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 →
avatar for Nancy Pérez

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
Shutters West 2
  Interest Session

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