Join us for the CIMA World Languages Institute on January 30, 2027! This event brings together World Language educators across Texas for a day of innovative learning, networking, and inspiration. Mark your calendar, bookmark this page, and stay tuned for more details!
Present at CIMA World Languages Institute
Do you have a groundbreaking idea, an effective teaching strategy, or an innovative project? If so, we want to hear from you! Share this opportunity with colleagues interested in presenting at the conference. The deadline for submissions is December 10, 2024.
Keynote: Empowering All Learners- Student Agency in the Language Classroom
A language classroom where learners have agency is one that includes opportunities for student voice, choice, and ownership of learning. During this interactive keynote, participants will reflect on the role student agency currently plays in their practice and will set goals for increasing the level of student voice, choice and ownership in their classrooms.
Workshop: Responding to Language Learner Data
Participants will examine their current practices for collecting formative and summative student performance data and set goals for enhancing those practices. Participants will receive a menu of strategies for responding to student data and will become familiar with protocols for analyzing student data.
Leslie Grahn has twenty-seven years of language teaching experience at the middle and high school levels and twelve years of experience at the central office level, most recently as Coordinator of World Languages for the Howard County Public School System in Maryland. Leslie is a frequent presenter at state, regional, and national conferences, specializing in best practices. She curates and creates resources to support language
