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SWCOLT 2025

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

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Amy Kingsley

Hillview Middle School

French Teacher

Menlo Park

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About me

2024 CLTA Outstanding Language Teacher award
2017 Krause Center for Innovation Merit Scholar (Making Education Relevant and Interactive through Technology)
2014 PBS Learning Media Digital Innovator award
Ask me about: how I use ChatGPT, being a softball mom, and my labradoodle

9:00am MST

Building Bridges; Enhancing Interpersonal Communication in the World Language Classroom Ocotillo BDr. Cecile Nedellec

4:30pm MST

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

8:00am MST

Best of Hawai‘i: Fostering Engagement: Fun Classroom Routines for Novice & Intermediate Learners AgaveJennifer Stevens Talking Pictures Palo Verde BAl Martino

1:00pm MST

7 Steps to a Language-Rich, Interactive World Language Classroom Ocotillo CSally Barnes Interactive Intercultural Learning for the Language Classroom YuccaJill Woerner - AFS Intercultural Programs USA

2:15pm MST

Best of New Mexico: Gamifying Teaching, Learning, and Speaking AgaveKayla Scheer Quench their Thirst for Belonging: Warm-up Routines That Build Community YuccaLiz Matchett

10:45am MST

Milking Your Authentic resource for All Its Worth Palo Verde AWhitney Stafford-Najibi

12:00pm MST

SWCOLT Awards & Scholarship Luncheon (ticketed event) Palo Verde C

1:30pm MST

Best of Texas: Gaming The System 2.0 - No-Tech Gaming Strategies To Boost Language Engagement AgaveKimberly Church

2:45pm MST

Best of Colorado: This Is Why We Do What We Do in Our Class AgaveAnnick Chen Unlocking Language: Escape the Room, Not the Learning! Palo Verde AAshley Eberhart

3:45pm MST

Beverage/Snack Break Exhibit Corridor

4:00pm MST

Data-Driven Language Teaching YuccaJennifer Quinlan - Associate Director of Product Management - Language Testing International • Jody Lindsay