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SWCOLT 2025

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

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Laura Boss

Mountain Pointe High School

French Teacher

Tempe Union

4:30pm MST

World Language "Trade Secrets" - Top 12 Strategies to Engage Today's Language Learners Ocotillo AMarina Barcelona • Amy Kingsley

7:00am MST

Registration Main Hallway

8:00am MST

Enhancing Foreign Language Speaking Skills by Using Interagency Language Roundtable WillowBozo Dzakula

10:00am MST

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

1:00pm MST

Play as a Language Learning Oasis: 12 Activities to Sharpen Students’ Speaking, Listening, and Writing Skills Palo Verde CSharon Lyman Has Language Teaching Gone Flat? (Exhibitor Session) Palo Verde BKen Stewart - Lingco

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 Empowering Diverse Learners: Student Agency in the Language Classroom ChollaLeslie Grahn Quench their Thirst for Belonging: Warm-up Routines That Build Community YuccaLiz Matchett

4:00pm MST

On Making the Online Asynchronous Language Class Communicative and Interactive Palo Verde CChristopher G. Botero Developing Global Citizenship through School Exchanges (Exhibitor Session) Ocotillo APatricia Roque • Prometour USA Inc Envisioning and Realizing Improved Teaching: Action Research Fundamentals with Examples Ocotillo BWalter Fernando Trejo Rios • Julie Monty

5:15pm MST

Fun Input for Fruitful Output: Useful Ways to Use Short Clips in the Language Classroom Palo Verde CJuliana Suby ACTFL Teacher of the Year: Marigolds and Mindsets: Choosing Sustainable Optimism AgaveKei Tsukamaki - ACTFL

9:00am MST

Social Emotional Wellbeing of Teachers: Going Deeper and Centering Rest Palo Verde BChristine Lanphere - CWLP/CLTA • Liz Matchett

10:45am MST

Grading for Growth: Rethinking Assessment in Language Learning Palo Verde BTroy Cox Movies Make Meaning Ocotillo AJennifer Newman-Cornell • Margarita De León Viera

1:30pm MST

AI: Friend, Not Foe! WillowRachel Tillotson Revamping Instruction with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Palo Verde AYing Jin Turn Up the Heat! Master the Hot Pepper Method! YuccaBrandee Mau • Silvia Juhas

2:45pm MST

Leveraging Reading to Grow Learners' Proficiency ChollaGreta Lundgaard