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Our schedule is in development, but check out some of the exciting things we have in store for you below!
Can't wait to see you in Wisconsin!
Can't wait to see you in Wisconsin!
The Comprehensible Midwest Conference empowers teachers to create joyful, personalized, effective and equitable language acquisition through instruction based on comprehensible input. As a collaborative community, we safely support teachers to connect with each other and to teach in ways that respond to students' cultural and linguistic identities. Every year we bring in some of the nation’s foremost trainers in teaching with comprehensible input while simultaneously lifting up and supporting the voices of local and regional teachers who are striving to make their language instruction more personalized, inclusive and equitable.
Any teacher of a world language, regardless of context, who wishes to increase engagement, joy and effectiveness of their teaching environment could benefit from attending Comprehensible Midwest. If you believe that each of your students can acquire language and want to learn how to increase retention over time and overall achievement, developing real and measurable fluency, then this conference is for you.
Any teacher of a world language, regardless of context, who wishes to increase engagement, joy and effectiveness of their teaching environment could benefit from attending Comprehensible Midwest. If you believe that each of your students can acquire language and want to learn how to increase retention over time and overall achievement, developing real and measurable fluency, then this conference is for you.
Friday 6 hour workshop details
Attendees will select ONE 6 hour Pre-Conference Workshop to go in depth with one of our amazing featured presenters (workshop descriptions below)
Attendees will select ONE 6 hour Pre-Conference Workshop to go in depth with one of our amazing featured presenters (workshop descriptions below)
- Foundational Skills of Teaching with Comprehensible Input
- Presenter: Carol Gaab
- Nuts and Bolts Management with Kindness and Equity
- Presenter: Bryce Hedstrom
- Rewriting the Story: Upending Bias through a Focus on Understanding
- Presenters: Dr. Anna Gilcher and Rachelle Adams, Elevate Education Consulting
- Building Community, Creativity, and Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills in the Target Language
- Presenter: Tina Hargaden
- Engagement in an Inclusive, Comprehensible Input-based Classroom
- Presenter: Laurie Clarcq
- Spark the Brain, Ignite Acquisition and Happy Circling
- Presenter: Haiyun Lu
Saturday conference schedule overview
7:45 - 8:30 Registration
8:30 - 9:20 Welcome and Keynote by Jason Fritze
9:30 - 12:30 Pre-selected Morning Workshop
12:30 - 1:40 Lunch, Exhibits, Networking
1:40 - 2:40 Breakout Session
2:50 - 3:50 Breakout Session
3:50 - 4:20 Exhibitor Break
4:20 - 5:20 Breakout Session
5:30 - 6:00 Closing Message from Mr. Jeff Wang from Asia Society
Breakout sessions will be organized in strands to optimize the experience for attendees who teach in specific contexts or want to dive deep into a particular topic. Strands will include, but are not limited to
Saturday workshop details
Built in to Saturday's schedule, attendees will select and participate in ONE 3 hour morning workshop (Detailed descriptions available when you click the 'register' button above )!
7:45 - 8:30 Registration
8:30 - 9:20 Welcome and Keynote by Jason Fritze
9:30 - 12:30 Pre-selected Morning Workshop
12:30 - 1:40 Lunch, Exhibits, Networking
1:40 - 2:40 Breakout Session
2:50 - 3:50 Breakout Session
3:50 - 4:20 Exhibitor Break
4:20 - 5:20 Breakout Session
5:30 - 6:00 Closing Message from Mr. Jeff Wang from Asia Society
Breakout sessions will be organized in strands to optimize the experience for attendees who teach in specific contexts or want to dive deep into a particular topic. Strands will include, but are not limited to
- CI/TPRS in the Elementary
- Mindfulness in the CI classroom
- CI/TPRS for Chinese teachers
Saturday workshop details
Built in to Saturday's schedule, attendees will select and participate in ONE 3 hour morning workshop (Detailed descriptions available when you click the 'register' button above )!
- Language Acquisition? It's ELEMENTARY!?!
- Presenter: Jason Fritze
- Mindfulness in the TL, and the Little Things that make the Big Things Better
- Presenter: Justin Slocum-Bailey
- CI with our Little Learners
- Presenter: Annabelle Allen “La Maestra Loca”
- Level Up Literacy with Embedded Reading
- Presenter: Laurie Clarcq
- Reading Your Way to Fluency
- Presenter: Carol Gaab
- Rewriting the Story: Upending Bias through a Focus on Understanding
- Presenters: Dr. Anna Gilcher and Rachelle Adams, Elevate Education Consulting
- 90% or More Starting in Beginning Level Classes and Creating a Classroom Reading Program for ALL (SSR/FVR)
- Presenter: Alina Filipescu
- A New Way to Do Classroom Management
- Presenter: Bryce Hedstrom
Sunday workshop details
Attendees will select ONE 6 hour Post-Conference Workshop to go in depth with one of our amazing featured presenters (workshop descriptions below)
Attendees will select ONE 6 hour Post-Conference Workshop to go in depth with one of our amazing featured presenters (workshop descriptions below)
- Engagement Hacks and a Year of Novelty
- Presenter: Annabelle Allen - La Maestra Loca
- Building Community, Creativity, and Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills in the Target Language
- Presenter: Tina Hargaden
- Hos Successus Alit: Joy and Success in the Latin Classroom
- Presenter: Justin Slocum-Bailey
- Nuts and Bolts Management with Kindness and Equity
- Presenter: Bryce Hedstrom
Asia Society Partial Scholarship
Asia Society China Learning Initiative is offering partial scholarship to 40 Chinese teachers who are paying their own registration fees.
Thanks to a generous grant from Asia Society, 40 Chinese teachers who register for Comprehensible Midwest Conference will be eligible to receive a partial scholarship of $99 after attending.
Teachers are highly encouraged to attend pre or post conference workshops. The ticket package purchased must include the full day conference on Saturday, Oct. 6. For example, a teacher who attends Friday and Saturday OR Saturday and Sunday OR Friday, Saturday and Sunday will be eligible. A teacher who only attends on Friday OR only attends on Sunday will not be eligible.
Asia Society China Learning Initiative is offering partial scholarship to 40 Chinese teachers who are paying their own registration fees.
Thanks to a generous grant from Asia Society, 40 Chinese teachers who register for Comprehensible Midwest Conference will be eligible to receive a partial scholarship of $99 after attending.
Teachers are highly encouraged to attend pre or post conference workshops. The ticket package purchased must include the full day conference on Saturday, Oct. 6. For example, a teacher who attends Friday and Saturday OR Saturday and Sunday OR Friday, Saturday and Sunday will be eligible. A teacher who only attends on Friday OR only attends on Sunday will not be eligible.
Locations & Food
Lodging:
A small room block has been placed at Hilton Downtown. Conference rate of $109 per room. Call 414.935.5940 to reserve your room before August 31, 2018.
Food: Pre-Conference Workshops Friday, Oct. 5, 2018: Lunch on your own.
Conference on Saturday, Oct. 6, 2018: Coffee and tea, lunch provided.
Post-Conference Workshop Sunday, Oct.7 2018: Lunch on your own.
Lodging:
A small room block has been placed at Hilton Downtown. Conference rate of $109 per room. Call 414.935.5940 to reserve your room before August 31, 2018.
Food: Pre-Conference Workshops Friday, Oct. 5, 2018: Lunch on your own.
Conference on Saturday, Oct. 6, 2018: Coffee and tea, lunch provided.
Post-Conference Workshop Sunday, Oct.7 2018: Lunch on your own.
Pre and Post Conference Workshops on Friday, Oct 5 and Sunday, Oct 7 will be held at the Hilton Downtown in Milwaukee.
The Conference on Saturday, Oct. 6 will be held at University School of Milwaukee.