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SWCOLT 2025

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

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Rachel Mamiya Hernandez

University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

Language Technology Specialist

8:00am MST

Best of Hawai‘i: Fostering Engagement: Fun Classroom Routines for Novice & Intermediate Learners AgaveJennifer Stevens

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

1:00pm MST

How to Adapt Classroom Conversations into Accessible Texts ChollaMira Canion

2:15pm MST

Best of New Mexico: Gamifying Teaching, Learning, and Speaking AgaveKayla Scheer The Linguistic and Cultural Value of Authentic Materials in the L2 Classroom Ocotillo BClaudia Kechkian - AATSP

4:00pm MST

Level Up Your Language Teaching: Free Resources and Opportunities from the NFLRC Palo Verde CRachel Mamiya Hernandez Cultivating Cultural Competence in Dual Immersion Secondary Education YuccaPriscila Prestes

5:15pm MST

ACTFL Teacher of the Year: Marigolds and Mindsets: Choosing Sustainable Optimism AgaveKei Tsukamaki - ACTFL

6:30pm MST

SWCOLT Member Reception Event Lawn

7:30am MST

SWCOLT State Leadership Breakfast Meeting (By Invitation) Palo Verde C

9:00am MST

Best of Utah: Oral Assessment - Providing a Powerful Data-Based Assessment for Successful Interventions in DLI Classrooms AgaveLina Figueiredo

10:45am MST

Upping Your Interculturality Game with AI ChollaJillian Lykens

12:00pm MST

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

1:30pm MST

Turn Up the Heat! Master the Hot Pepper Method! YuccaBrandee Mau • Silvia Juhas

2:45pm MST

Strategies for Building Engagement & Community at the Novice Level Palo Verde CRachel Mamiya Hernandez

4:00pm MST

Talk Is Cheap. Speak More! Palo Verde ARachel Tillotson