waflt

2025 WAFLT Fall Conference

11/7/2025 - 11/8/2025

Conference Timetable

Thursday, November 6, 2025
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Conference Kickoff Reception
Friday, November 7, 2025
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
A01: Creating Moments of Wonder and Awe for All
A02: Tailor-Made Teaching: Customizing Language Instruction for Every Learner
A03: Mon Maroc à moi
A04: No Cap! My Language Learning Breakthroughs
A05: Less Stress, More Joy
A06: Fun at Work: The Key to Effective Collaboration
A07: There's No Place Like Ai for the Holidays
A08: Bilingual Mentorship Literacy Project: Supporting Language Acquisition in Rural Schools
A09: Teaching with the End in Mind: Building DP Language B Units Aligned with IB Assessments
A10: From High School to Germany: Exchange and Career Pathways for Your Students
11:00 AM - 11:20 AM
P01: National Board Certification: Is it right for you?
P02: How I Build SDGs into Spanish Courses for Dual (College) Credit
P03: Why WAFLT?
P04: Integrating Language Learning and Game Design in a Camp Setting
P05: Facilitated Language Study: An Innovative Approach to Language Learning
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
B01: Language Connects: Critical, Humanizing Perspectives on “Connections”
B02: Disco Révolution: Exploring Francophone Influence in Global Dance Culture
B03: Teacher Fellowships
B04: BrAInstorming Technology Use in the Language Classroom
B05: Feedback That Builds Language and Relationships
B06: Speaking Up: Developing Interpersonal Proficiency
B07: Making Culture Stick: Bite-Sized Cultural Connections for the Busy Teacher
B08: Sharing Strategies for Designing and Organizing Students' Cultural Immersion Trips to China
B09: Planning with Content and Culture at the Heart
B10: Las Medias de los Flamencos por Horacio Quiroga
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
W01: Authentic Resources & Communicative Language Teaching: A Practical Framework for Intermediate Learners
W02: The Heart of Agency: Voice and Choice in the Language Classroom
W03: Fostering Empathy through German-language Graphic Novels
W04: No More Half-Baked Assessments: The Recipe for Successful IPAs
W05: AI & UDL: Building Bridges, Not Barriers
W06: Authentic Resources and implementing the UN sustainable development goals in your classroom next week.
5:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Wine & Cheese Social
Saturday, November 8, 2025
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
C01: Engage, Empower, Elevate: Low-Prep but High-Impact Strategies
C02: COIL/Virtual Exchanges
C03: Picking the Perfect Protocol
C04: “Intermediate”? Says Who? Rethinking Language Skills for employment
C05: Flipping the Script: Are US Americans Really Monolingual?
C06: Explora! Building a Meaningful Middle School Exploratory Spanish Class
C07: Engage, Explore, Excel: Creative Literacy in French and Spanish
C08: AATF-WI Concours Oral: mode d'emploi
C09: Transform Teaching and Learning through Evidence Based Grading
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
D01: Help, I need a highschooler!
D02: Embracing Accessibility and Fostering Engagement through an OER Language Textbook
D03: Engaging Digital Games for the World Language Classroom
D04: Reading with a Pencil: Annotations in the WL Classroom
D05: Intercultural Competence: Integrating Culture, Content, and Language
D06: Powerful Mandarin Language Teaching
D07: From Uncertainty to Clarity: Simple Steps for Standards-Based Grading
D08: High School Visitors Program: Colleagues of the Future
10:30 AM - 11:50 AM
Saturday Brunch
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
LM-01: AATF-WI Business Meeting & Share Session
LM-02: AATJ
LM-03: AATSP-WI Business Meeting
LM-04: WACLT
LM-05: WI-AATG Networking Event and Idea Share
LM-06: WI-NELL Networking Session
LM-07: WLTA Business Meeting
1:10 PM - 2:10 PM
E01: Simplified, Time-Saving, Strategic Assessment
E02: A Communicative Approach to Teaching the Past Tenses in Spanish
E03: Practical Strategies for Intercultural Learning in Language Education
E04: 15 whole minutes? Free Voluntary Reading in WL Classrooms
E05: Getting Started with Comprehensible Input
E06: Impactful Results: Experiential Learning in a Language Program
E07: Bridging AI and Human Interaction to Build Confidence and Proficiency in Language Learning
E08: Civilization & Wilderness: Ancient to Modern Perspectives
E09: Routine, Rapport, and Results: Recurring Class Activities that Transform Language Learning
E10: Empowering Multilingual Scholars: Effective Strategies for Implementing the Seal of Biliteracy
2:20 PM - 3:20 PM
F01: More Drop-in Units for Spanish Class
F02: From Fairytales to Service Learning
F03: Bridging the Enrollment Gap of World Language Education Across the UWs
F04: Intercultural Competency: Why using a critical, social justice-oriented lens is needed
F05: This Time, it’s Interpersonal.
F06: Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing: Stategies to Increase Communication
F07: Past, Present, Future: Learning Language and Culture Through Authentic Materials
F08: You should do this next year. Yes, YOU.
F09: ¡Auténtico! Making Assessments Real and Relevant