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Our 2024 Speakers:
Practical & Comprehensible: CELEBRATE!
July 29-31
A Virtual Event for World Language Teachers New to CI/Proficiency
25+ FREE presentations for all topics, languages, and levels of experience with communicative language teaching
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A peek at the 2024 conference:
(We will host again next summer 2025: JULY 8-11)
WHAT MAKES PRACTICAL & COMPREHENSIBLE DIFFERENT?
So much more than a free world language conference
Here's what other teachers are saying!
LAST YEAR'S SPEAKERS & PRESENTATIONS
What to expect:
Day 1 - Celebrate YOU!
We're celebrating you as the teacher. You're the hear t of the classroom experience. Time to pour into your cup ❤️
July 29th 2024
Jennifer Degenhardt & Theresa Marrama of Digilangua
Lessen Your Planning: Getting the Most out of the Comprehensible Novel
Sophia Forker
Building a thematic unit from the ground up!
Allison Perryman
Language Learners to Global Citizens: How YOU Can Make a Difference Using Social Justice in YOUR Class
Pav from FLE avec MmeD
Surviving the Storm: Insider Strategies for Teaching Without Prep and Dodging Burnout
Connie J Navarro
Rock Your Evaluation: Teachers' Guide to Success
Bryce Hedstrom
What I've Learned About Teaching by Learning and Teaching a New Language
Tia Parnell
From Chaos to Control: A Teacher's Guide to Effective Classroom Management
Amy Marshall
Work Smarter Not Harder
Day 1 LIVE - Available with All-Access Pass
JULY 29TH
LIVE: Devon Gunning - La Libre Language Learning
LIVE: Get Started Tomorrow: 10 Things You NEED for a Proficiency-Oriented Classroom
Day 2 -Celebrate Our Students
July 30th 2024
We're learning how to better celebrate EVERY student by understanding them, empowering them, and turning up the volume on the conversation around equity and marginalized voices
Kia D. London
Celebrating the Middle: Middle School Activities to Maintain Joy
Devon Gunning - La Libre Language Learning
That's so Mid. (Novice Mid!) Demystify Proficiency Levels & Craft Curriculum Like a Boss
Grace V. Sotomayor Mantri
How I Turned a Generational Insecurity Into a CI Story that Celebrates Both My Students And Me
Jocelynn Hubbard
Communication Redefined: The Key Role of Equity
Courtney Nygaard
Celebrating Identity and Dialects in Heritage Spanish Class
Erin - The Engaged Spanish Classroom
Hexagonal Grouping in World Language Classrooms: Enhance student confidence and critical thinking!
Jenniffer Whyte
Celebrating Afro-Descendants from Panama
Claudia Elliott
Starting Strong: Embracing an Asset-Based Approach from Day One
Day 2 LIVE - Available with All-Access Pass
July 30th
LIVE: ALLISON PERRYMAN
Celebrating ALL Students - Special Live Workshop
Day 3 - Celebrate Communication!
July 31st 2024
We're putting everything together on the final day by honing in on activities, perspectives, and input & output!
Allison Wienhold
Supportive Speaking Activities
Timothy Chávez
Languages as Lenses: Designing Thematic Units for Cultural Insights and Social Justice
Ben Tinsley
Cultivating Global Literacy: Comprehensible Folktales in the Modern Language Classroom
Courtney Bonino
ARTful Lesson Planning: 12 Simple Lessons for Any Art Unit
John Sifert
Calendar Talk is WAY More Than Just Calendars!
Joshua Cabral
Sorry (not sorry), But Your Students WILL Keep Asking to Do These Activities
Profesora Delgadillo
CELEBRATE Output with Hexagonal Thinking!
Day 3 LIVE - Available with All-Access Pass
July 31
Sherry Sebesta | World Language Café
Ideas to Get Students Speaking More Target Language in Class
Amy Marshall
Story Listening Masterclass
Here's what other teachers are saying!
You're not supposed to figure out proficiency on your own.
CELEBRATE the power of community with us & find your people!
Get inspired and reignite your spark with a supportive community that's eager to nerd out on SLA and all things language teacher with you!
MEET YOUR HOST -
Devon Gunning | La Libre Language Learning
Hi! I'm a curriculum designer, consultant, and instructional coach for proficiency-style world language teachers.
My specialty is making your curriculum a USEFUL tool that drives your proficiency goals instead of something you're embarrassed to still be using.
In my program Practical Proficiency, I help teachers who want to do more CI/ADI/Proficiency teach what matters, in a way that works, and still have a life.
This summit was born in 2020 for busy, like-minded teachers to start using CI as a way to streamline your classroom instead of adding to your workload.
Covid was all up in our business, and teachers needed community to get through it all.
5 conferences later, Practical & Comprehensible isa highly anticipated yearly event in the proficiency community.
It's a place where many teachers learn about CI for the first time, and where others remember that they're not alone in their struggle to advocate for proficiency.
I can't wait for you to join us this year in the anniversary celebration!
Thanks for making 5 conferences possible!
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