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44th Annual Conference - "Teaching and Advocating for English Learners: Using funds of knowledge to foster community, action and agency in TESOL professionals"

  • November 02, 2024
  • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
  • Towson University
  • 567

Registration

  • Choose this option if registering for the conference before October 1st if you are a member who plans to attend VIRTUALLY. Group rate with membership bundle. $75 per person, $375 total.
  • Choose this option if registering for the conference before October 1st if you are NOT a member who plans to attend the conference VIRTUALLY.
  • Choose this option if registering for the conference before October 1st if you are NOT a member who plans to attend VIRTUALLY. Group rate for 5 people total. $60 per person
  • Choose this option if registering for the conference before October 1st if you are a STUDENT member who plans to attend the conference VIRTUALLY.
  • Choose this option if registering for the conference before October 1st if you are a member who plans to attend in-person at Towson University.
  • Choose this option if registering for the conference as a group of 5 before October 1st and if you are a member who plans to attend in-person at Towson University. One person completes the registration form on behalf of the group and add 4 other people as "guests". Full registration of members registered as guests is also needed.
  • Choose this option if registering for the conference as a group of 5 before October 1st and if all plan to attend in-person at Towson University. One person completes the registration form on behalf of themselves and the other 4 people in the group. 4 people should be registered as "guests" in the form. Full registration information of guests is also needed. This bundle includes 1-year Maryland TESOL membership. Choose this option if everybody in the group wants to get or renew membership.
  • Choose this option if registering for the conference before October 1st if you are NOT a member who plans to attend in-person at Towson University.
  • Choose this option if registering for the conference before October 1st if you are NOT a member who plans to attend in-person at Towson University. Group rate for 5 people total. $110 per person.
  • Choose this option if registering for the conference before October 1st if you are a STUDENT member who plans to attend in-person at Towson University.
  • Choose this option if you are a student member who plans to attend the conference in-person AND you want to bundle a membership with the registration price.
  • Choose this option if registering for the conference before October 1st if you are a member who plans to attend VIRTUALLY.
  • Choose this option if you are one of our invited guest speakers, guest panels, or our keynote speaker.

Register

   

 MD TESOL welcomes you to our

44th Annual Conference

where you will

share your funds of knowledge to foster

community, action, and agency

Hosted by: Towson University

on Saturday, November 2nd, 2024

8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Keynote Speach by Dr. Heather Linville

"Advocating for Multilingual Learners:

Where We've Been and Where We Are Going" 

        

 In her keynote presentation, Dr. Heather Linville will first highlight the several advances we have made in multilingual learner (ML) education due to advocacy efforts over the past few decades. Tracing historical and current approaches to advocacy, she will then explain the multiple ways teachers are and can be advocates for MLs. She will finally focus on the work that remains to be done, highlighting how we can and should work with other groups that are fighting for linguistic diversity and linguistic justice.

     Heather A. Linville, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair of Educational Studies at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse. Her research interests include teacher advocacy multilingual learners, digital storytelling, and translanguaging. Heather has taught around the world, including Indonesia, Mexico, and Panama. Her most recent publication, with Polina Vinogradova, is the book Digital Storytelling as Translanguaging: A Practical Guide for Language Educators (Routledge, 2024). She also edited Advocacy in English Language Teaching and Learning (Routledge, 2019) and wrote Advocating for English Learners—Zip Guide (TESOL Press) with James Whiting. Heather is also President of her local TESOL affiliate, WITESOL.

        

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Our invited guest speakers include:  Dr. Gilda Martinez-Alba & Dr. Javier Luis Pentón Herrera (virtual only), Dr. Polina Vinogradova, Dr. Luciana de Oliveira, Dr. Christa de Kleine, and Dr. Debra Suarez 

Dr. Luciana de Oliveira