PreK-8 Oral Proficiency Assessment: Free Tools and Training for Education Date & Time: April 5, 2025 | 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. PDT Location: LARC, Fullerton, CA Presenter(s): Elyssa Sun Jamie Morgan Leslie Fink Rachel Myers Jenna Bushton Description: Interest in PK-8 world language (WL) programs has increased in recent years, and there is a growing need ... Read more
Examining Alternate-Form Reliability in Adult ESL Literacy Assessments: A Case Study Date & Time: April 5, 2025 | 04:00–04:30 p.m. PDT Location: California State University, Fullerton Presenter(s): Leah Guo (Center for Applied Linguistics) Aubrey Sahouria (Center for Applied Linguistics) Leslie Fink(Center for Applied Linguistics) Description: One essential quality of any good assessment is reliability, which ... Read more
The Lapdog Syndrome: Polyethnographies of Asian Women Navigating Power and Identity Date & Time: April 19, 2025 | 2:45 – 4:15 p.m ET Location: Alcott Room, The Westin Boston Seaport District, Boston, MA Presenter(s): Christine Montecillo Leider, University of Massachusetts, Lowell Minh Nghia Nguyen, University of Massachusetts, Boston Alisha Nguyen, Lesley University Diep Nguyen, Center ... Read more
A Graduate Student Perspective on ELT Preparation to Advance the Decolonization/Decolonial Project in TESOL/Applied Linguistics Date & Time: April 24, 2025 | 09:50–11:20 a.m. MT Location: The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Terrace Level, Bluebird Ballroom Room 3G Presenter(s): Sarah Howard Description: Fostering critical dispositions (McClure & Vasconcelos, 2011) and equipping future language educators with the ... Read more
Instructional Quality in Collaborative Teaching: What Factors Support or Impede It? Date & Time: April 24, 2025 | 1:45–3:15 p.m MT Location: The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 711 Presenter(s): Sarah Howard Description: Co-teaching is a prominent instructional model used to provide integrated language and content learning for EL-designated multilingual learners (Kibler ... Read more
Teachers' Development of Critical Consciousness Around Multilingual Families Date & Time: April 25, 2025 | 9:50–11:20 0.m MT Location: The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 711 Presenter(s): Sarah Howard Description: Fundamental to teachers’ culturally relevant instructional practices is their knowledge of students and families (Gay, 2010; Ladson-Billings, 2014), but teachers typically receive ... Read more
Developing a Classroom Assessment System in Science: Centering Educators’ and Multilingual Students’ Voices Date & Time: April 25, 2025 | 1:30 – 3:00 p.m MT Location: The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 403 Presenter(s): Keira Ballantyne, Brittany York, Amy Burden, Ivanna Anderson Description: The Multilingual Multimodal Science Inventory (M2-Si) is a classroom ... Read more
Design Principles for Opportunity and Thriving: Centering Multilingual Learners in Formative Assessment Date & Time: April 26, 2025 | 11:40 a.m. – 1:25 p.m MT Location: The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 403 Presenter(s): Amy Burden, Ivanna Anderson, Keira Ballantyne, Brittany York Description: We present the process for selecting design principles that ... Read more
Guiding Principles for Dual Language Education: Biliteracy through Authenticity Date & Time: July 1, 2025 | 10:40 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. PST Location: Lotus A Presenter(s): Analleli Hernandez Description: How can the Guiding Principles of Dual Language Education inform classroom instruction? Biliteracy for today and the future depends on our ability to embrace the authentic ... Read more
The New WIDA ACCESS Writing Scoring Rubric for Grades 1-12 Date & Time: October 28, 2025 | 1:15 p.m. PT Presenter(s): Tanya Bitterman Description: Do you want a better understanding of how the WIDA ACCESS Writing test is scored? Come to this workshop to hear about the new WIDA Writing Scoring Rubric for grades 1-12, ... Read more
“A Peek Behind the New Kindergarten ACCESS" Event: WIDA Conference 2025 Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2025   Location: Room B Time: 2:45 p.m. Session Format: Workshop Presenters: Regina DiBella (CAL) Christy Shepherd (CAL) Beth DeVito (WIDA) Marcy Olson (WIDA) Description: Curious about the new WIDA ACCESS for Kindergarten (K ACCESS) test? Join this session to preview ... Read more
“Multilingual Multimodal Activities, Aplifying Voices" Event: Carolina TESOL 2025 Date: Thursday, November 6, 2025 Session Format: Presentation Presenter: Amy Simpson-Burden Join us to explore multilingual, multimodal activity creation, amplifying student voices and stories. This interactive session shares building blocks for these assessments, developed with NC educators and piloted in NC classrooms, empowering elementary teachers to ... Read more
