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SWCOLT 2025

Welcome to SWCOLT-AZLA 2025 at Gila River Resort & Casino - Wild Horse Pass.

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9:00am MST

Best of Utah: Oral Assessment - Providing a Powerful Data-Based Assessment for Successful Interventions in DLI Classrooms AgaveLina Figueiredo HyFlex Classes: Say Goodbye to Low Enrollment and Scheduling Woes Ocotillo CCurtis Kleinman Incorporating a Challenge Analysis Approach in World Languages Ocotillo AAndrew White Interactive AI Reading and Writing Activities ChollaBreAnn Busboom Real-Life Tasks: Authentic Activities in the Classroom YuccaDustin J. Hemsath Social Emotional Wellbeing of Teachers: Going Deeper and Centering Rest Palo Verde BChristine Lanphere - CWLP/CLTA • Liz Matchett Student Test Scores in DLI and Non-DLI Programs: Telling the Story and What We Can Learn WillowJennifer Quinlan - Associate Director of Product Management - Language Testing International • Karl H. Bowman Teaching Viennese Culture Using the IMAGE Model Ocotillo BElli Remund • Kathy Barnard Unlocking Potential: 9 Ways We Use Proficiency Data to Innovate and Improve World Language Instruction (Exhibitor Session) Palo Verde AMaylén R. R. Sullivan - Avant Assessment

10:45am MST

Best of Oklahoma: Building Bridges: Maximizing Mutual Impact between Cooperating Teacher and Student Intern AgaveTaylor Niehoff • Madison Rubino Bruh, It’s Not the Same YuccaAshli Sambaluk But How Do I Test This? Efficiently Assessing for Proficiency (Exhibitor Session) Ocotillo CHope Anderson - Founder & CEO - Teaching Solved LLC Do Your Students Only Care about the Grade? - Get Them to Jump out of the Gym and onto the Playing Field (Exhibitor Session) Ocotillo BChris Gerding - Boomalang Grading for Growth: Rethinking Assessment in Language Learning Palo Verde BTroy Cox Increasing World Language Proficiency Across the Communicative Modes with Extempore WillowJames Yoder Milking Your Authentic resource for All Its Worth Palo Verde AWhitney Stafford-Najibi Movies Make Meaning Ocotillo AJennifer Newman-Cornell • Margarita De León Viera Upping Your Interculturality Game with AI ChollaJillian Lykens

1:30pm MST

AI: Friend, Not Foe! WillowRachel Tillotson Awarding and Motivating Students with AATSP (Exhibitor Session) Ocotillo CClaudia Kechkian - AATSP Best of Texas: Gaming The System 2.0 - No-Tech Gaming Strategies To Boost Language Engagement AgaveKimberly Church It’s Like You’re a Detective: Immersive Spanish Inquiries Grades 3-12 (Exhibitor Session) Ocotillo APaige Adams - The DBQ Project Revamping Instruction with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Palo Verde AYing Jin Sociedad Honoraria Hispanica: Let's Get Kids in the Program ChollaLacey Chavez • Carla Whitehead • Laura Zinke - Vista Higher Learning The Linguistic Landscape As a Tool for Language Learning: Austria and France Palo Verde B Turn Up the Heat! Master the Hot Pepper Method! YuccaBrandee Mau • Silvia Juhas ¡Me duelen los pies!: Proficiency-Based Activities for the Medical Spanish Classroom Ocotillo BElectra Gamón Fielding

2:45pm MST

Achieving Intermediate Fluency in 60 Hours with Storytelling (Exhibitor Session) Palo Verde BTPRS Books Best of Colorado: This Is Why We Do What We Do in Our Class AgaveAnnick Chen Go Beyond Your Classroom Walls with a Free Virtual Exchange Ocotillo BJill Woerner - AFS Intercultural Programs USA Integrating AI and Language Learning into Project-Based Learning for Inclusive Education YuccaRolla Elsaiary Integrating Mindfulness with Proficiency in the Language Classroom WillowTroy Cox K-16 Dual Language Student Pathways to the Future (Exhibitor Session) Ocotillo CRoger Burt - Avant Assessment Leveraging Reading to Grow Learners' Proficiency ChollaGreta Lundgaard Reading across the Levels: Browsing through Some Ideas Ocotillo AJennifer Newman-Cornell Unlocking Language: Escape the Room, Not the Learning! Palo Verde AAshley Eberhart

4:00pm MST

Are Students Receiving Enough Speaking Practice? Leveraging AI for Individualized Practice and Personalized Feedback - EXHIBITOR SESSION AgaveBen Altschuler - Speakology AI College and Grade Students Learning Together: A Case Study in Collaborative Projects Ocotillo BFabiana Hansen Creating a Future-Ready Language Classroom with Virtual Exchanges (Exhibitor Session) WillowLeonardo Islas Data-Driven Language Teaching YuccaJennifer Quinlan - Associate Director of Product Management - Language Testing International • Jody Lindsay Enrich Teaching and Learning with D I E - Based Writing Activities ChollaAbigail R. Harootian Eres bilingüe ¿y ahora qué? The Power of Bilingualism in Multilingual Spaces (Exhibitor Session) Ocotillo AKarla A. Estrada - Carnegie Learning Language Advocacy – Pathway to Sustainable Language Learning - SESSION CANCELLED BY PRESENTER Palo Verde BKathleen Stein-Smith Sounding Like a Real German: Best Practices for Pronunciation Ocotillo CMelanie Mello • Sara Lee Talk Is Cheap. Speak More! Palo Verde ARachel Tillotson Technology Based Assessments in World Language Classrooms Palo Verde CNatalie Cooney