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SWCOLT 2025
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Thursday
, January 23
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12:45pm •
Vista Higher Learning
Hotel Lobby
8:15am •
DLI Site Visits
Main Hallway
7:30am •
Registration
Ocotillo A
9:00am •
Tiering Tasks and Text to Challenge All Learners
1:00pm •
Enhance Students' Language Competence through a Well-Planned Articulation across Levels
4:30pm •
World Language "Trade Secrets" - Top 12 Strategies to Engage Today's Language Learners
Ocotillo B
9:00am •
Building Bridges; Enhancing Interpersonal Communication in the World Language Classroom
1:00pm •
Teaching Strategies for Engagement
Ocotillo C
1:00pm •
SWCOLT Teacher of the Year Interviews
Friday
, January 24
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9:45am •
ACTFL
12:45pm •
CIEE
3:15pm •
Lingco
Agave
8:00am •
Best of Hawai‘i: Fostering Engagement: Fun Classroom Routines for Novice & Intermediate Learners
1:00pm •
Best of Nevada: Conectando con confianza: Fortaleciendo la identidad y la cultura en hispanohablantes a través de la literatura
2:15pm •
Best of New Mexico: Gamifying Teaching, Learning, and Speaking
4:00pm •
Best of California: Effective Strategies and Activities for Interpersonal Communication
5:15pm •
ACTFL Teacher of the Year: Marigolds and Mindsets: Choosing Sustainable Optimism
Cholla
8:00am •
Reflecting, Innovating, and Designing Action Research
1:00pm •
How to Adapt Classroom Conversations into Accessible Texts
2:15pm •
Empowering Diverse Learners: Student Agency in the Language Classroom
4:00pm •
K-16 Pathways to the Future!
5:15pm •
Outfitting Your Tech Toolbox: OER, Avatars, and Music Videos in Today’s Classroom
Event Lawn
6:30pm •
SWCOLT Member Reception
Exhibit Corridor
8:00am •
Exhibit Hall Open
9:00am •
Exhibit Break
3:15pm •
Exhibit Break
Main Hallway
7:00am •
Registration
n/a
11:30am •
Lunch Break (On Your Own)
Ocotillo A
8:00am •
The Looming "Enrollment Cliff" and Language Learning
1:00pm •
Switch to Spanish: Warm-up Routines in the Language Classroom
2:15pm •
Promoting Higher Levels of Proficiency Using Current Event Panels - SESSION CANCELLED BY PRESENTER
4:00pm •
Developing Global Citizenship through School Exchanges (Exhibitor Session)
5:15pm •
Unmasking Vienna: Language Learning through Crime Stories
Ocotillo B
8:00am •
Using Authentic Resources for Communication and Culture (Exhibitor Session)
1:00pm •
Where Language Learning Meets Neuroscience (Exhibitor Session)
2:15pm •
The Linguistic and Cultural Value of Authentic Materials in the L2 Classroom
4:00pm •
Envisioning and Realizing Improved Teaching: Action Research Fundamentals with Examples
5:15pm •
Promoting Student Engagement with Constructive Feedback in Formative Assessment
Ocotillo C
8:00am •
Game on! Mit spielerischen Aktivitäten zum Lernerfolg (Exhibitor Session)
1:00pm •
7 Steps to a Language-Rich, Interactive World Language Classroom
2:15pm •
Character & Communication: Enhancing Language Learning via Character Growth (Exhibitor Session)
4:00pm •
Mining for Proficiency: Creating a Proficiency-Based Classroom
5:15pm •
Revitalize Your Classroom: Strategies for Creating an Oasis of Learning and Growth (Exhibitor Session)
Palo Verde A
8:00am •
Ditch the Textbook! Heritage Spanish Curriculum Design Using Only Authentic Resources
1:00pm •
Silly and Spontaneous Conversation Starters
2:15pm •
Reading: Why, What, and How (Exhibitor Session)
4:00pm •
It’s Show Time: Putting Proficiency Center Stage When Assessing (Exhibitor Session)
5:15pm •
Leveraging ACTFL Assessments for College and Career Readiness (Exhibitor Session)
Palo Verde B
8:00am •
Talking Pictures
10:00am •
SWCOLT Plenary - Keynote Address: Dr. Sheilah Nicholas.; SWCOLT Regional Teacher of the Year Announcement
1:00pm •
Has Language Teaching Gone Flat? (Exhibitor Session)
2:15pm •
Now I See! Fostering L2 Digital Multimodal Literacies through Infographics
4:00pm •
Student Engagement across Tasks, Modes, and Time
5:15pm •
Innovative Vocabulary Acquisition through Project-Based Learning in Professional Language Courses
Palo Verde C
8:00am •
Keeping It Collaborative - Building Communication at Every Level
8:00am •
Art for Language’s Sake - Integrating Art into World Language Programs
8:00am •
Reignite Your Teaching Passion through Deep Dives into Cultural Practices and Products
8:00am •
Meet Your Arizona AATSP Chapter!
8:00am •
Back to the Future, an Adventure into the AP Unit of Science and Technology
1:00pm •
Using 'Mitwachsende Karten' in the Foreign Language Classroom - CANCELLED BY PRESENTER
1:00pm •
How Valuable is Grice's Cooperative Principle to All Languages?
1:00pm •
Extensive or Pleasure Reading and How to Build an Extensive Reading Collection
1:00pm •
Conversation Connections: Micro-Immersion through Conversation Groups
1:00pm •
Play as a Language Learning Oasis: 12 Activities to Sharpen Students’ Speaking, Listening, and Writing Skills
2:15pm •
Cultivating Creativity and Confidence: Enhancing Impromptu Writing Skills in Japanese through Timed Exercises in the Classroom
2:15pm •
Timed Repeated Readings in French DLI
2:15pm •
Vocabulary Acquisition in the L2 Classroom: Strategies for Building and Retention
2:15pm •
Where Language Skills Meet Student Leadership: Unlocking the Power of Language Clubs
4:00pm •
Mythical and Historical Mexican Women
4:00pm •
Level Up Your Language Teaching: Free Resources and Opportunities from the NFLRC
4:00pm •
On Making the Online Asynchronous Language Class Communicative and Interactive
4:00pm •
Navigating New Horizons: Reflections on the Summer 2024 NAU Faculty-Led Program in Chongqing, China
5:15pm •
What is the Role of Elementary Schools in World Language Education?
5:15pm •
Quick Assessments for Today's Teachers: What Can I Do in 90 Seconds?
5:15pm •
Cultural Competence in Spanish Classes
5:15pm •
Fun Input for Fruitful Output: Useful Ways to Use Short Clips in the Language Classroom
Willow
8:00am •
Enhancing Foreign Language Speaking Skills by Using Interagency Language Roundtable
1:00pm •
Meaning-Based Strategies to Refine Accuracy in Middle School DLI Courses
2:15pm •
Weaving Language and Culture: Mastering Mandarin Summer Camp Design and Implementation
4:00pm •
Enhancing Cultural Competence through Virtual Reality in Language Learning
5:15pm •
Chatbot Activities in the Spanish Classroom: Possibilities and Challenges
Yucca
8:00am •
AI As a Tool in the Language Classroom
1:00pm •
Interactive Intercultural Learning for the Language Classroom
2:15pm •
Quench their Thirst for Belonging: Warm-up Routines That Build Community
4:00pm •
Cultivating Cultural Competence in Dual Immersion Secondary Education
5:15pm •
A Simple and Powerful Daily Writing Practice to Improve Language Skills Learning
Saturday
, January 25
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8:45am •
CIEE
11:45am •
Lingco
Agave
9:00am •
Best of Utah: Oral Assessment - Providing a Powerful Data-Based Assessment for Successful Interventions in DLI Classrooms
10:45am •
Best of Oklahoma: Building Bridges: Maximizing Mutual Impact between Cooperating Teacher and Student Intern
1:30pm •
Best of Texas: Gaming The System 2.0 - No-Tech Gaming Strategies To Boost Language Engagement
2:45pm •
Best of Colorado: This Is Why We Do What We Do in Our Class
4:00pm •
Are Students Receiving Enough Speaking Practice? Leveraging AI for Individualized Practice and Personalized Feedback - EXHIBITOR SESSION
Cholla
9:00am •
Interactive AI Reading and Writing Activities
10:45am •
Upping Your Interculturality Game with AI
1:30pm •
Sociedad Honoraria Hispanica: Let's Get Kids in the Program
2:45pm •
Leveraging Reading to Grow Learners' Proficiency
4:00pm •
Enrich Teaching and Learning with D I E - Based Writing Activities
Exhibit Corridor
9:00am •
Exhibit Hall Open
10:00am •
Exhibit Break
3:45pm •
Beverage/Snack Break
Main Hallway
7:30am •
Registration
Ocotillo A
9:00am •
Incorporating a Challenge Analysis Approach in World Languages
10:45am •
Movies Make Meaning
1:30pm •
It’s Like You’re a Detective: Immersive Spanish Inquiries Grades 3-12 (Exhibitor Session)
2:45pm •
Reading across the Levels: Browsing through Some Ideas
4:00pm •
Eres bilingüe ¿y ahora qué? The Power of Bilingualism in Multilingual Spaces (Exhibitor Session)
Ocotillo B
9:00am •
Teaching Viennese Culture Using the IMAGE Model
10:45am •
Do Your Students Only Care about the Grade? - Get Them to Jump out of the Gym and onto the Playing Field (Exhibitor Session)
1:30pm •
¡Me duelen los pies!: Proficiency-Based Activities for the Medical Spanish Classroom
2:45pm •
Go Beyond Your Classroom Walls with a Free Virtual Exchange
4:00pm •
College and Grade Students Learning Together: A Case Study in Collaborative Projects
Ocotillo C
9:00am •
HyFlex Classes: Say Goodbye to Low Enrollment and Scheduling Woes
10:45am •
But How Do I Test This? Efficiently Assessing for Proficiency (Exhibitor Session)
1:30pm •
Awarding and Motivating Students with AATSP (Exhibitor Session)
2:45pm •
K-16 Dual Language Student Pathways to the Future (Exhibitor Session)
4:00pm •
Sounding Like a Real German: Best Practices for Pronunciation
Palo Verde A
9:00am •
Unlocking Potential: 9 Ways We Use Proficiency Data to Innovate and Improve World Language Instruction (Exhibitor Session)
10:45am •
Milking Your Authentic resource for All Its Worth
1:30pm •
Revamping Instruction with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
2:45pm •
Unlocking Language: Escape the Room, Not the Learning!
4:00pm •
Talk Is Cheap. Speak More!
Palo Verde B
9:00am •
Social Emotional Wellbeing of Teachers: Going Deeper and Centering Rest
10:45am •
Grading for Growth: Rethinking Assessment in Language Learning
1:30pm •
The Linguistic Landscape As a Tool for Language Learning: Austria and France
2:45pm •
Achieving Intermediate Fluency in 60 Hours with Storytelling (Exhibitor Session)
4:00pm •
Language Advocacy – Pathway to Sustainable Language Learning - SESSION CANCELLED BY PRESENTER
Palo Verde C
7:30am •
SWCOLT State Leadership Breakfast Meeting (By Invitation)
12:00pm •
SWCOLT Awards & Scholarship Luncheon (ticketed event)
2:45pm •
Global Classroom Exchanges - How I've Made it Happen!
2:45pm •
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 - Cancelled by presenters)
2:45pm •
Breaking the Ice: Games to Get Students Talking
2:45pm •
Strategies for Building Engagement & Community at the Novice Level
4:00pm •
Technology Based Assessments in World Language Classrooms
Willow
9:00am •
Student Test Scores in DLI and Non-DLI Programs: Telling the Story and What We Can Learn
10:45am •
Increasing World Language Proficiency Across the Communicative Modes with Extempore
1:30pm •
AI: Friend, Not Foe!
2:45pm •
Integrating Mindfulness with Proficiency in the Language Classroom
4:00pm •
Creating a Future-Ready Language Classroom with Virtual Exchanges (Exhibitor Session)
Yucca
9:00am •
Real-Life Tasks: Authentic Activities in the Classroom
10:45am •
Bruh, It’s Not the Same
1:30pm •
Turn Up the Heat! Master the Hot Pepper Method!
2:45pm •
Integrating AI and Language Learning into Project-Based Learning for Inclusive Education
4:00pm •
Data-Driven Language Teaching
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