Full Schedule

Conference Agenda

Morning Agenda

8:00 - 9:30

Registration & Networking

Inside the Atrium of the Frank & Marisa Martire Center for the Liberal Arts with a light breakfast

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9:30 - 10:00

Welcome & Awards

Messages from ConnTESOL CoChairs

A Video Message from a Special Guest Dr. Miguel Cardona, US Secretary of Education

Megan Alubicki Flick, Multilingual Learner Consultant, CT Department of Education

Presentation of Awards

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10:00 - 11:00

Keynote Address

Dr. Elizabeth Howard, College of Education, University of Connecticut

“Celebrating the Languages, Knowledge, and Stories of Multilingual Learners through a Focus on Sociocultural Competence” 

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For full session description - please visit Session Info page on this website. 

11:10 - 12:00

Concurrent Sessions I

❖ Dual Identified Learners Room 149 Cancelled

❖ Continuation of the Keynote Address and Q&A Room 149

Play a Game with Me: Games for the ESL Classroom Room 148 

❖ Making the Push-in Model Effective by Truly Co-teaching Room 153

❖ CT DOE Policy Updates Theatre E-145

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Afternoon Agenda

12:00 - 1:10

Lunch and Vendor Tables - Don't forget to visit the silent auction table next to registration! 

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1:10 - 2:00

Concurrent Sessions II

❖ Using SIOP for Effective Instruction Room 149

❖ How Teachers Learn Community-based Knowledge through Ethnographic Case Studies  Room 153

❖ Linking the School and the Community in the 21st Century Room 253

❖ Translanguaging: Leveraging Multilingual Students' Home Languages  Room 148

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2:10 - 3:00

Concurrent Sessions III

❖ Prompt Power: Leveraging AI for Streamlined Teacher Admin Tasks and Dynamic Instruction Room 148

❖ The Interconnectness of the translanguaging pedagogy with social and ethical frameworks  Room 149

❖ Leveraging Community Assets in Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy Room 253

❖ Advocacy in Action: Transforming Education for Multilingual Success Room 153

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3:10 - 4:00

ConnTESOL Business Meeting - All Attendees Welcome!