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Thursday, March 6
 

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
avatar for Cecile Nedellec

Cecile Nedellec

Coordinator, SAILN
Thursday March 6, 2025 12:30pm - 6:45pm PST
Shutters East 1
  Workshop, 3-hour
 
Friday, March 7
 

8:00am PST

D04 Building Classroom Communities: Empowering Teachers with Strategies for Culturally Cohesive and Connected Learning (ticket required)
Friday March 7, 2025 8:00am - 11:00am PST
Courtyard 1
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This workshop is designed to help world language teachers develop essential skills to foster strong classroom communities centered on culture. Participants will explore practical strategies for creating positive, culturally responsive learning environments, using high-leverage instructional methods, and integrating technology to engage students in meaningful cultural connections.
Presenters
VB
avatar for Ana Mendoza
Friday March 7, 2025 8:00am - 11:00am PST
Courtyard 1
  Workshop, 3-hour

12:45pm PST

E04 Learning Can and Should be Fun- Projects for Proficiency to Step up Your Game (ticket required)
Friday March 7, 2025 12:45pm - 3:45pm PST
Courtyard 1
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Are you struggling to design or implement a project that will showcase your students’ abilities and grasp of the material? It is time to look at how project-based learning can revitalize teaching and learning!
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YT
DL
Friday March 7, 2025 12:45pm - 3:45pm PST
Courtyard 1
  Workshop, 3-hour

12:45pm PST

E05 Puentes entre Culturas y Comunidades a través de las 3 C's - Bridging Cultures and Communities: Through the 3 C's (ticket required)
Friday March 7, 2025 12:45pm - 3:45pm PST
Shutters West 2
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This workshop explores how language teaching can foster global connectedness through the 3 C’s—Communication, Cultures, and Connections. Participants will engage in interactive activities and strategies that build culturally responsive classrooms, empowering students to communicate across borders and deepen their global awareness.
Presenters
VB
avatar for Ana Mendoza
Friday March 7, 2025 12:45pm - 3:45pm PST
Shutters West 2
  Workshop, 3-hour

5:00pm PST

F04 (2-hr) AI-Powered Differentiation for Enhanced Global Connectedness in Language Education (ticket required)
Friday March 7, 2025 5:00pm - 7:00pm PST
Shutters West 2
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This presentation explores the transformative potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in creating personalized, adaptive learning experiences in World Language classrooms. By leveraging AI technologies, educators can break down barriers to language acquisition, fostering a more inclusive and effective learning environment that truly embodies the spirit of global connectedness.
Presenters
NB

Nicole Bradford

Teacher, Taft Charter High School
Friday March 7, 2025 5:00pm - 7:00pm PST
Shutters West 2
  Workshop, 2-hour

5:00pm PST

F05 (2-hr) Nuestra Lotería: Uplifting Student Voices (ticket required)
Friday March 7, 2025 5:00pm - 7:00pm PST
Courtyard 2
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In collaboration with the SMJUHSD, Corazón del Pueblo worked with Ethnic & Gender Studies teachers and local artists to develop and implement a rigorous artism project. Students examined and reconstructed the traditional lotería game. They collectively created a new and uniquely youth-centered version of the lotería game anchored on the notions of student voices and empowerment.
Presenters
avatar for Patricia Villalobos
Friday March 7, 2025 5:00pm - 7:00pm PST
Courtyard 2
  Workshop, 2-hour
 
Saturday, March 8
 

11:15am PST

G09 Rising to the Occasion: Growth Mindset in the World Language Classroom
Saturday March 8, 2025 11:15am - 12:00pm PST
Loft 2
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EXHIBITOR SESSION: Studies show that a growth mindset in students leads to increased motivation and achievement. As a result of transparent and realistic goal setting, students are more likely to take the risks that are so vital to language acquisition. Participants will discuss and engage in practical ways to incorporate growth mindset in their classrooms.
Growth mindset skills transcend content areas and elevate life and languages by carrying these skills beyond the classroom and into a dynamic and interconnected world.
Saturday March 8, 2025 11:15am - 12:00pm PST
Loft 2
  Interest Session

11:15am PST

G10 Prepared for a Natural Disaster? Insights from Japanese Practices for Novice Learners
Saturday March 8, 2025 11:15am - 12:00pm PST
Loft 1
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Are you prepared for a natural disaster? Explore how novice learners can gain valuable insights from Japanese approaches to disaster preparedness. This interactive session provides comprehensive scaffolding and engaging activities designed to encourage adolescents to think critically about this timely and practical topic.
Presenters
KK

Kumi Kobayashi

Los Gatos High School
YT
Saturday March 8, 2025 11:15am - 12:00pm PST
Loft 1
  Interest Session

3:00pm PST

I04 ¡Viva Fuera del Libro!
Saturday March 8, 2025 3:00pm - 3:45pm PST
Shutters East 2
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EXHIBITOR SESSION: Let's explore the latest, authentic resources for novice, intermediate and heritage learners! Learn proficiency-driven practices that foster language and cultural competencies. Take away engaging strategies to integrate the modes and empower your learners. We will share up-to-date, digital content and scaffolding approaches for group, whole class instruction and individual guided practice.
Presenters
avatar for Ken Stewart

Ken Stewart

Duke University, Lingco
Duke University Spanish Instructor; world language consultant, avid traveler, global citizenLingco is an adaptive language learning platform for schools. It provides a library of up to date, proficiency-based content, and all of the tools to build, assign, and grade tasks and track... Read More →
Saturday March 8, 2025 3:00pm - 3:45pm PST
Shutters East 2
  Interest Session

4:45pm PST

J07 Cultivating a Global Mindset for a Connected World (Part 1)
Saturday March 8, 2025 4:45pm - 5:30pm PST
Shutters West 2
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What does it mean to be globally competent in a world language classroom and beyond? Through two domains of the Global Competence framework, this interactive session will explore how to investigate the world and recognize perspectives and help educators integrate these concepts into classroom practices to enhance students' cultural understanding.
Presenters
SF

Stefanie Fan

Cupertino High School
JB

Jie Bai

Cupertino High School
Saturday March 8, 2025 4:45pm - 5:30pm PST
Shutters West 2
  Interest Session

4:45pm PST

J10 Back to the basics: get your students moving with Total Physical Response (TPR).
Saturday March 8, 2025 4:45pm - 5:30pm PST
Loft 2
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Have you ever wondered how to use TPR for more than just 10 minutes of class? In this interactive session you will learn and experience the many different ways to use TPR in an acquisition driven classroom and how to get your students excited about language learning from day one. Examples will be given in German, but strategies are applicable for all languages.
Presenters
avatar for Antje Peterie

Antje Peterie

German Teacher, Millikan High School
I am a very passionate Comprehensible-Input-German teacher.
Saturday March 8, 2025 4:45pm - 5:30pm PST
Loft 2
  Interest Session
 
Sunday, March 9
 

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
Shutters East 2
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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
NB

Nicole Bradford

Teacher, Taft Charter High School
KI

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
Shutters East 1
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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
RS
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
Shutters West 2
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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

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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The 17 SDGs Mini-Unit Template: https://www.canva.com/design/DAGhNWrKR7A/ziUxLNxAj1pZKfH2WGC9Kw/edit?utm_content=DAGhNWrKR7A&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton
Presenters
avatar for Stuart Jones

Stuart Jones

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

10:00am PDT

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

10:00am PDT

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