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SWCOLT 2025

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

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Jorge Leonardo Pérez

Tolleson Union High School

7:00am MST

Registration Main Hallway

8:00am MST

Keeping It Collaborative - Building Communication at Every Level Palo Verde CSally Barnes Enhancing Foreign Language Speaking Skills by Using Interagency Language Roundtable WillowBozo Dzakula Talking Pictures Palo Verde BAl Martino

9:00am MST

Exhibit Break Exhibit Corridor

10:00am MST

SWCOLT Plenary - Keynote Address: Dr. Sheilah Nicholas.; SWCOLT Regional Teacher of the Year Announcement Palo Verde B

11:30am MST

Lunch Break (On Your Own) n/a

1:00pm MST

Extensive or Pleasure Reading and How to Build an Extensive Reading Collection Palo Verde CDr. Jeff Peterson 7 Steps to a Language-Rich, Interactive World Language Classroom Ocotillo CSally Barnes Has Language Teaching Gone Flat? (Exhibitor Session) Palo Verde BKen Stewart - Lingco How to Adapt Classroom Conversations into Accessible Texts ChollaMira Canion Where Language Learning Meets Neuroscience (Exhibitor Session) Ocotillo BJJ Morgan - Voces Digital

2:15pm MST

Timed Repeated Readings in French DLI Palo Verde CRosie Baldwin Vocabulary Acquisition in the L2 Classroom: Strategies for Building and Retention Palo Verde CTim Cannon Where Language Skills Meet Student Leadership: Unlocking the Power of Language Clubs Palo Verde CAmanda Oliveira Hoffmann Best of New Mexico: Gamifying Teaching, Learning, and Speaking AgaveKayla Scheer Character & Communication: Enhancing Language Learning via Character Growth (Exhibitor Session) Ocotillo CBrooke Campbell Quench their Thirst for Belonging: Warm-up Routines That Build Community YuccaLiz Matchett Reading: Why, What, and How (Exhibitor Session) Palo Verde AElicia Cárdenas - The Comprehensible Classroom

4:00pm MST

Level Up Your Language Teaching: Free Resources and Opportunities from the NFLRC Palo Verde CRachel Mamiya Hernandez On Making the Online Asynchronous Language Class Communicative and Interactive Palo Verde CChristopher G. Botero Best of California: Effective Strategies and Activities for Interpersonal Communication AgaveDr. Cecile Nedellec It’s Show Time: Putting Proficiency Center Stage When Assessing (Exhibitor Session) Palo Verde ACristin Bleess - Wayside Publishing Mining for Proficiency: Creating a Proficiency-Based Classroom Ocotillo CTzeitel Borbon • Jana Arnold • Jennifer Newman-Cornell Student Engagement across Tasks, Modes, and Time Palo Verde BClaudia Kunschak

5:15pm MST

Fun Input for Fruitful Output: Useful Ways to Use Short Clips in the Language Classroom Palo Verde CJuliana Suby A Simple and Powerful Daily Writing Practice to Improve Language Skills Learning YuccaLeine Moratelli Promoting Student Engagement with Constructive Feedback in Formative Assessment Ocotillo BDr. Maida Dzakula • Bozo Dzakula Revitalize Your Classroom: Strategies for Creating an Oasis of Learning and Growth (Exhibitor Session) Ocotillo CLaura Zinke - Vista Higher Learning Unmasking Vienna: Language Learning through Crime Stories Ocotillo AMelanie Mello

9:00am MST

Incorporating a Challenge Analysis Approach in World Languages Ocotillo AAndrew White Real-Life Tasks: Authentic Activities in the Classroom YuccaDustin J. Hemsath

10:45am MST

Bruh, It’s Not the Same YuccaAshli Sambaluk 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

1:30pm MST

Best of Texas: Gaming The System 2.0 - No-Tech Gaming Strategies To Boost Language Engagement AgaveKimberly Church The Linguistic Landscape As a Tool for Language Learning: Austria and France Palo Verde B

2:45pm MST

Breaking the Ice: Games to Get Students Talking Palo Verde CCaroline Pardo Global Classroom Exchanges - How I've Made it Happen! Palo Verde CCarina Plett NEW PRESENTATION: Reignite Your Teaching Passion through Deep Dives into Cultural Practices and Products (Former Title: The Systematization of an Open and Spontaneous Language Learning Community - Barnett/Rodriguez/O'Neill... Palo Verde CStephen Van Orden Strategies for Building Engagement & Community at the Novice Level Palo Verde CRachel Mamiya Hernandez 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 Mindfulness with Proficiency in the Language Classroom WillowTroy Cox Unlocking Language: Escape the Room, Not the Learning! Palo Verde AAshley Eberhart

4:00pm MST

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