WABE 2025 Annual Conference

WABE 2025 Annual Conference

1:45pm PDT

Amplifying Student Voices: Supporting Language, Culture, and Equity through Technology and Advocacy Evergreen C (1st Floor, Olympic Tower)Beth Jimerson • Arie Werder Characteristics of Successful Dual Language Bilingual Education Programming Evergreen B (1st Floor, Olympic Tower)Loretta Booker MTSS and Multilingual Learners; A Systemic Approach to Equitable Support Regency A-D, (2nd Floor, Cascade Tower)Jennifer Johnson Sponsored Session - Fueling Linguistic Brilliance: GLAD Strategies to Ignite Multilingual Learners’ Voices Evergreen E (1st Floor, Olympic Tower)Tabitha Aragon • Jennifer Chaves

3:00pm PDT

Developing an Action Plan for Serving Multilingual Learners Effectively Evergreen G/H (1st Floor, Olympic Tower)Virginia Morales • Kristin Percy Calaff • Kadriye El-Atwani English Learners for a Transformed World (2nd Edition): A Guide for Collaborative Professional Learning Cedar Ballroom (2nd Floor, Olympic Tower)Michael Rodriguez • Dr. Joan Lachance Examining Key Language Uses in Bilingual Writing Evergreen A (1st Floor, Olympic Tower)Maya A. Martinez-Hart Intentional Mentoring: Shifting the culture of how multilingual teachers are trained, supported and valued Evergreen I (1st Floor, Olympic Tower)Richard Dunn • Christie McLean Special Education Pre-Referral Process for Multilingual Learners Regency A-D, (2nd Floor, Cascade Tower)Julián Cortés Sponsored Session - Right From the Start: Oracy, Writing, and Knowledge Building for Multilingual Learner Success Evergreen F (1st Floor, Olympic Tower)Amelia Larson Sponsored Session - Unlocking Potential: Tailored Strategies for Newcomers and Long-Term English Learners Evergreen B (1st Floor, Olympic Tower)Jeannette (Gina) Long

4:15pm PDT

How one school united to ignite students’ linguistic power: Every teacher a language teacher Evergreen F (1st Floor, Olympic Tower)Dr. Jennifer Cowgill • Janae Bell • Pam Kinne • Amy McLaughlin Translanguaging in Action: Strategies for Biliteracy and Beyond Regency E-G (2nd Floor, Cascade Tower)Yvonne Williams

8:00am PDT

From Scores to Success: Using the WIDA Language Charts for Classroom Assessment Regency A-D, (2nd Floor, Cascade Tower)Virginia Morales • Cheyen Herseth Improve Accurate Identification of Multilingual Learners with Disabilities Evergreen G/H (1st Floor, Olympic Tower)Lily Martin • Amber Snapke • Jill Suresh Planificación de Objectos Lingüísticos con el Marco DALE WIDA Evergreen I (1st Floor, Olympic Tower)Dr. Patricia Venegas-Weber Welcoming Newcomers: Thriving in K-12 Schools Evergreen B (1st Floor, Olympic Tower)Maria Ceja • MEGAN ANDERSON REILLY Sponsored Session - Unlocking the power of Biliteracy Trajectories with Renaissance Learning Evergreen C (1st Floor, Olympic Tower)Dr. Carol Johnson

11:15am PDT

Moving students’ linguistic power forward one sentence at a time: Language objectives and sentence deconstruction Evergreen E (1st Floor, Olympic Tower)Dr. Jennifer Cowgill • Janae Bell Rolling out the WIDA Standards Framework with Coaching and Collaboration Evergreen G/H (1st Floor, Olympic Tower)Danielle Fortner Supporting Mathematical Sensemaking in Word Problems Evergreen A (1st Floor, Olympic Tower)Dr. Beth Dillard • Saraswati Noel