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Thursday, March 6
 

8:00am PST

A01 (3-hr) CREATING EXCITING ENROLLMENT PATHWAYS FROM SECONDARY TO HIGHER ED AND BEYOND (ticket required)
Thursday March 6, 2025 8:00am - 11:00am PST
Shutters West 1
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Create pathways to connect high school & college students with opportunities to use and grow language skills. Despite rising demand for bilinguals, language program enrollment has declined. Learn proven strategies to attract, excite, and retain 1000s of students with State & Global Seals of Biliteracy and documented proficiency. CTE & LSP included.
Presenters
avatar for Linda Egnatz

Linda Egnatz

Executive Director, Global Seal of Biliteracy
Linda Egnatz is the Executive Director of the Global Seal of Biliteracy, a free international language credential program designed to fill the opportunity gap for bilinguals of any age who want to celebrate and certify their language skills. In 2013, she was awarded the Golden Apple... Read More →
Thursday March 6, 2025 8:00am - 11:00am PST
Shutters West 1
  Workshop, 3-hour
 
Friday, March 7
 

8:00am PST

D02 Corridos as Cultural Narratives (ticket required)
Friday March 7, 2025 8:00am - 11:00am PST
Shutters East 2
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This session explores corridos as cultural and literary narratives, offering Spanish teachers tools to analyze themes, historical contexts, and literary devices. Participants will discover strategies to engage students with these songs, fostering global connectedness through music, language, and culture, while challenging the view that corridos are solely a negative part of society.
Friday March 7, 2025 8:00am - 11:00am PST
Shutters East 2
  Workshop, 3-hour

8:00am PST

D07 (6-hr) Curriculum Ideas for the Spanish for Heritage Learners Classroom (ticket required)
Friday March 7, 2025 8:00am - 3:45pm PST
Shutters East 1
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See a sample scope and sequence with units for a Spanish as a Heritage Language course, including: Growth Mindset; Value of Bilingualism; History & Cultural Identity; Power of Language, Literature & Arts. We’ll also explore strategies for a Spanish-only class, process-writing, a course-wide rubric menu and more. Participants will be given digital access to course materials, and the workshop will include built-in time for participants to adapt concepts into their own course, as well as share ideas with each other.
Presenters
avatar for Michael Silva

Michael Silva

Hillsdale High School
Michael Silva is a teacher of Spanish at Hillsdale High School in San Mateo, California where he has served as department chair and WL coordinator for the district. He previously taught the WL teaching methods course at the Stanford Teacher Education Program for nearly 10 years, served... Read More →
Friday March 7, 2025 8:00am - 3:45pm PST
Shutters East 1
  Workshop, 6-hour

12:45pm PST

E03 Effective Strategies and Activities for Interpersonal Communication (ticket required)
Friday March 7, 2025 12:45pm - 3:45pm PST
Shutters East 2
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Interpersonal communication shapes individuals' hearts, minds, and actions in daily social interactions (Braithwaite, Schrodt 2015). This workshop focuses on strategies and activities to enhance instructional practices. Participants will explore and practice techniques that boost student engagement and develop their interpersonal speaking skills.
Presenters
avatar for Cecile Nedellec

Cecile Nedellec

Coordinator, SAILN
Friday March 7, 2025 12:45pm - 3:45pm PST
Shutters East 2
  Workshop, 3-hour

5:00pm PST

F06 (2-hr) Exploring Global Connections Through Technology: Enhancing Language Learning with Social Reading and Conversational Platforms (ticket required)
Friday March 7, 2025 5:00pm - 7:00pm PST
Shutters West 1
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This workshop explores how digital platforms enhance language learning through student collaboration and real-world connections. Tools like Perusall, Hypothesis, and TalkAbroad enable students to collaborate on authentic texts and engage with native speakers. The session will demonstrate how to integrate these platforms into curricula to enrich classroom learning and foster deeper engagement.
Presenters
avatar for Elyse Petit

Elyse Petit

French Faculty & Program Language Coordinator, Santa Rosa Junior College
I teach French and coordinate the French Language Program at Santa Rosa Junior College, CA. My research interests focus on implementing innovative pedagogical frameworks that reinforce students' 21st-century skills, foster new literacies, including media productions and digital narratives... Read More →
Friday March 7, 2025 5:00pm - 7:00pm PST
Shutters West 1
  Workshop, 2-hour
 
Saturday, March 8
 

3:00pm PST

I02 AI as a Tool in the Language Classroom
Saturday March 8, 2025 3:00pm - 3:45pm PST
Shutters West 2
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Learn about ChatGPT and other AI platforms. This session will review how AI can assist language teachers with lesson planning, assessment, and provide better feedback to students. We will learn what this tool is, its capabilities, and how it can make our teaching tasks more efficient.
Presenters
avatar for Elizabeth Cisneros
Saturday March 8, 2025 3:00pm - 3:45pm PST
Shutters West 2
  Interest Session

3:00pm PST

I10 A Few of My Favorite Things: Winning Activities That Encourage Speaking
Saturday March 8, 2025 3:00pm - 3:45pm PST
Courtyard 1
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These activities have been consistent winners in my classroom for the last eight years. They're simple, low prep, they work across all levels in all languages, and my students love them. Make them into a warm up, a review, an introduction, I've used them in all capacities. Please join me, especially if you are new to teaching and are looking for ways to get your students to talk!
Presenters
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Brian Bernhards

Windward School
Saturday March 8, 2025 3:00pm - 3:45pm PST
Courtyard 1
  Interest Session

4:45pm PST

J01 Unlocking the Power of AI in L2 Learning: Enhancing Student Engagement and Writing Skills in High School Spanish Classrooms
Saturday March 8, 2025 4:45pm - 5:30pm PST
Courtyard 2
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This session presents case studies from low-intermediate to advanced high school Spanish classes, showing how students improved their presentational and interpersonal writing skills using a trained AI tutor. Learn how AI reinforces learning outcomes through real-time, personalized feedback, enhancing engagement and supporting differentiated learning.
Presenters
avatar for Jenny Nadaner

Jenny Nadaner

Spanish Instructor & Director of Global Scholars Program, York School
Saturday March 8, 2025 4:45pm - 5:30pm PST
Courtyard 2
  Interest Session

4:45pm PST

J04 Global Connections in the French Classroom: Including Haitian Voices to Break Stereotypes
Saturday March 8, 2025 4:45pm - 5:30pm PST
Loft 1
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Are you interested in broadening your French curriculum by including Haitian culture and helping students break stereotypes? Haiti’s history has often been erased, and the media have mainly reduced Haiti to a country plagued by poverty and chaos, but the French classroom is the ideal place to change this narrative by including Haitian voices.
Presenters
LC
Saturday March 8, 2025 4:45pm - 5:30pm PST
Loft 1
  Interest Session

4:45pm PST

J05 Mythical and Historical Mexican Women
Saturday March 8, 2025 4:45pm - 5:30pm PST
Shutters East 2
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In this session, participants will explore the integration of influential historical and mythical Mexican women into their lessons. We’ll examine the cultural, social, and historical contexts that shaped these women’s lives and explore their lasting impact on Mexican culture. This session celebrates the resilience, creativity, and empowerment embodied by these legendary figures.
Presenters
avatar for Elizabeth Cisneros
Saturday March 8, 2025 4:45pm - 5:30pm PST
Shutters East 2
  Interest Session

4:45pm PST

J08 Debates: In this corner, the interpersonal mode!
Saturday March 8, 2025 4:45pm - 5:30pm PST
Shutters East 1
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Want better interpersonal interaction? Participate in an interactive session to prepare students to debate globally minded topics. With the right input and enough thematic understanding, interpersonal interaction is enjoyable and doesn’t require laboring over grading for hours. This interactive session that will keep everyone on their toes through the final portion of the session: the debate!
Presenters
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Andrea Ford

Westview High School
Saturday March 8, 2025 4:45pm - 5:30pm PST
Shutters East 1
  Interest Session

5:45pm PST

K05 Aligning Your Curriculum: The “How To” Manual for Developing a Systemic Localized Curriculum and Getting Everyone on Board
Saturday March 8, 2025 5:45pm - 6:30pm PST
Shutters East 1
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Looking to develop a systemic curriculum and align your program’s goals? This session explores integrating basic and advanced Chinese curricula through a year-long university project. Engage in brainstorming and group discussions to create a localized curriculum suited to your institution. Share strategies to align curricula and enhance program design for effective language instruction.
Presenters
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Hsiao Yun Liao

University of Southern Cailfornia
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Saturday March 8, 2025 5:45pm - 6:30pm PST
Shutters East 1
  Interest Session
 
Sunday, March 9
 

8:00am PDT

L01 Harnessing AI for Student Multimedia Projects: Enhancing Creativity and Efficiency
Sunday March 9, 2025 8:00am - 8:45am PDT
Courtyard 2
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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.
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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

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.
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AS
Sunday March 9, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am PDT
Shutters West 2
  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
Courtyard 2
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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?
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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

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
Great Room 7
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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.
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Jacqueline Mitchell

Point Loma Nazarene University
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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
 
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