Last week I asked for those in the group who have presented recently on behalf of our work to send in details about when and where they presented. I asked for this information not just to acknowledge those in our group who have been willing to do that, which is no small thing, but also to remind us that we are a group that is forcing change and not waiting for it to come to us. If the goal is to help kids, and if we have something that does that, we should share it. By becoming aware of what other group members have been doing in the fray of the past year – and it has been quite a year for comprehensible input instruction – we can perhaps encourage some of the other top guns in our PLC start moving out into the public eye a bit more. If Susan Gross had not given a workshop in 2001 in Colorado Springs, I am sure that my own career would have played out much differently, for the worse, or, more likely, I would have just quit the profession.
Here is the list I have so far. Please add to it:
Ben Slavic –
iFLT – Denver, CO – July 2014
NTPRS – Chicago, IL – July 2014
Valor Christian High School, Denver, CO – Sept 2014
Swedish School of Colorado, Denver, CO – October 2014
Brigitte Kahn –
LILT (Long Island Language Teachers) Conference, Comsewogue High School, Port Jefferson Station, NY – October 2013
LILT Workshop, Massapequa, NY – February 2014
FLACS (Foreign Language Association of Chairpeople and Supervisors) Conference, Queens, NY – April 2014
Chris Stolz –
Simon Fraser University second languages module, Burnaby, BC – October 2014
COTA conference, Kelowna, BC – October 2014
Vancouver Island Pro-D (many districts collaborating) Victoria, BC – February 2015
Surrey Teachers’ Association conference, Surrey, BC (with Adriana Ramírez and Marie Luce Arsenault) May 2015
Robert Harrell –
COACH workshop – Los Alamitos, CA – February 2014
CLTA (California Language Teachers Association) – San Diego, CA – March 2014
AATG-SoCal – Irvine, CA – April 2014
COACH Kick-off – Los Alamitos, CA – August 2014
GGUSD Super Week workshops – Garden Grove, CA – August 2014
COACH student teacher workshop – Los Alamitos, CA – September 2014
CLTA/FLAOC Jamboree (mini-conference) – Anaheim, CA – October 2014
Grant Boulanger –
NTPRS – Chicago, IL – July 2014
Mahtomedi Public Schools World Languages Teachers, Mahtomedi, MN – October 2014
MN Council on the Teaching of Languages and Cultures – October 2014
Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages – March 2015
Bob Patrick –
Foreign Language Association of GA – February 2014
SCOLT – March 2014
GCPS CI Training 2014
GCPS CI Training follow up – Sept 2014
GCPS CI Training follow up – Oct. 2014
ACTFL – Nov. 2014
Judy Dubois –
TESOL Strasbourg – January 2014 (with Teri Wiechart)
University of Grenoble – January 2014 (with Teri Wiechart)
Besançon -January 2014 (with Teri Wiechart)
Collège in Agen – June 2014 (with Teri Wiechart)
Agen Workshop July 2014 (with Teri Wiechart)
Tea and Cakes September and October 2014
TESOL Colloquium in Paris (with Stephen Krashen) November 2014
