Session 1
10:00am-10:45am

Session 2
11:00am-11:45am

Lunch & Meetings

1200pm-12:45pm

▮▮▮ Balanced Literacy for Newcomers: When Your District Didn't Give You a Curriculum

Darcy Scott

▮▮▮ Student-Made Video Public Service Announcements to Teach the 4 C’s and Persuasive Writing Skills

Tracy M. Mannon

Grab a lunch box from O'Connor then go to one of these meetings:

K12 SIG

Adult Ed SIG

Higher Ed SIG

NNEST Caucus

Advocacy Committee

▮▮▮ Metaphors Used to Teach Academic Writing to International Graduate Students

Deborah M. Sanchez

▮▮▮ More Than a Single Word: Improving Coherence With More Sophisticated Use of Transitional Devices

Heather Gregg Zitlau, Heather Weger

▮▮▮ Accelerating Access to Careers Through Contextualized Instruction

Rosemary Downing, Heather Tatton-Harris, Kaylin Wainwright

▮▮▮ Burlington Basics for Your ESOL Beginners

 ▮▮▮ National Geographic Learning: Your Pathway to Academic Readiness!

▮▮▮ [Invited Speaker] Roundtable Discussion: Reimagine English Competence

Lourdes Ortega

▮▮▮ Organizational Hiring Practices and Benefits that NNESTs Bring

▮▮▮ [Invited Speaker] Understanding Immigration Today for the ESL Classroom

▮▮▮ Activating Foreign Language Learning Through Learner-Generated Mini Scenes

Leslie Sapp

▮▮▮ Challenges and Advantages of Teaching EAP Online: A Case Study

Dmitri Stanchevici, Natalia Dolgova, Megan M. Siczek

▮▮▮ Engaging Students with Color-Coded Feedback in Traditional and Online Composition and Reading Classes

Nataliya V. Schetchikova

▮▮▮ Getting Past “It’s Good!”: Meaningful Self- and Peer Evaluation of Academic Speaking Skills

Betsy Lindeman Wong

▮▮▮ Stress & the Zone of Proximal Development: Mitigating the Affective Filter in ESOL Students

Maria Keffler

▮▮▮ Supporting the Emotional Challenges of Students with Interrupted Formal Education (SIFE)

Greer P. Mancuso

Session 3
1:15pm-2:00pm

Session 4
2:15pm-3:00pm

Session 5
3:15pm-4:00pm

Session 6
4:15pm-5:00pm

▮▮▮ Strategies for Teaching ELLs with Award Winning Picture Books about Science

Ana Lado, Valerie Sheridan Comer

▮▮▮ Strategies to Support English Language Learners in Science

Dana Frye

▮▮▮ Using an Online Collaboration Tool to Engage Adolescent ELLs in Meaningful Peer-to-Peer Feedback

Kathleen Ann Ramos, Elisa Wolf-Lloyd

▮▮▮ [Invited Speaker] Innovations in Teaching Listening: Promising Approaches and Lingering Challenges

Marnie Reed

▮▮▮ Establishing a Successful Peer Mentoring Program

Stephanie Gallop, Sigrun Biesenbach-Lucas, Andrew Screen

▮▮▮ A Paradoxical Project: Encouraging Students to Seek Rejection to Foster Engagement and Culturally-Situated Competence

Suzanne Meyer

▮▮▮ Numeracy: Effectively Using Math to Meet the Everyday Demands of Life

Kristy Stoesz, Jalaika Hasan, Chauncy Butcher

▮▮▮ Sounds Before Letters: Using Pronunciation to Teach Basic Literacy

Robin C. Barr, Emilie Schmeidler, Mary Spanarkel

▮▮▮ Five Ways to Help Adults Speak Clearly – Even if You’ve Never Taken a Pronunciation Course
Megan Calvert, Shirley Thompson

▮▮▮ US Department of State’s Worldwide English Language Programs

 ▮▮▮ Critical Thinking with Prism from Cambridge University Press

▮▮▮ Beyond Flashcards: Quizlet as a Template for Collaborative Activities

Darlene Fahrenkrug

▮▮▮ Trauma-Sensitive Teaching Tip #1: Pay Attention to the Body

Michael Medley

▮▮▮ Engaging in a Translingually Responsive Pedagogy: 21st Century TESOL for 21st Century Realities

Rashi Jain

▮▮▮ Designated Survivor: Grammar Rules to Save (and Get Rid Of)

Celia Leckey

 ▮▮▮ Professional Development for International Teachers: An Implementation Study of American University's Panama Bilingüe Program

Rebecca Wilner

▮▮▮ Bridging the Gap: Research-Based Approaches to Integrating Heritage and L1-English Learners in the L2 Classroom

Anne Calderon

▮▮▮ Making Curricular Connections While Advocating for Undocumented Students

Anne Marie Foerster Luu, Lori Dodson, Shelley Wong, Sandra Duval

▮▮▮ [Invited Speaker] National Education Policy & TESOL: The Outlook Ahead

John Segota

▮▮▮ Using Community Resources to Advocate for English Language Learners and their Families

Ann Marie Foerster Luu, Lori Dodson, Maryam Saroughi

▮▮▮ Creating Thematic, Project-Based Units for English Language Learners: What Works?

Sarah Knowles, Kinza Cooper, Jessie Ebersole, Margaret Johnson, Yulia Khoruzhaya, Connie Patsalos, Katie Pettet

▮▮▮ An Evidence-Based Model for Classroom Assessment Development

Elizabeth Miller-Cannon, Caitlin Gdowski, Claire Gellner, Justin Kelly

▮▮▮ Ensuring Fairness and Accuracy in High-Stakes Composition Rating

Ray Smith, Jon Malone

▮▮▮ Making the Most of Rubrics: Teaching Students to Use Them, Too

Andrew Screen, Heather Gregg Zitlau

▮▮▮ Theory, Practice and Perceptions: Individual and Group ESL Writing Conferences

Eva Miszoglad

▮▮▮ Let’s Talk!: Discussion Strategies and Activities Using TED Talks

Claire Gimble, Marietta Bradinova

▮▮▮ Facebook Live as a Tool for Engagement

Kate Bain