NJTESOL/NJBE 2025 Annual Spring Conference

May 20, 21, & 22, 2025

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Suggested Proposal Topics

For our annual NJTESOL/NJBE Spring Conference, we invite proposals that explore how intersectionality shapes experiences and creates opportunities for students, their families, educators, support staff, and the communities in which we work and live. Presentations should be current and appropriate as related to the teaching of English to speakers of other languages, Bilingual Education, and Dual language programs including students who are U.S. born bilinguals, ethnically and/or racially diverse multilingual speakers, “generation 1.5”, immigrants, and international students. To promote all voices in our organization and in support of our Spring Conference theme of Intersectionality: Shaping Experiences & Creating Opportunities, we encourage submission of proposals from Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) members and/or topics that focus on race and power within language instruction, or linguistic justice more broadly. Presentations may focus on any educational level, from Preschool to university, as well as on adult school and workplace literacy settings.

We invite proposals that particularly explore intersectionality such as (but not limited to):

• How intersectionality shapes experiences and creates opportunities:
  • from supporting content area teachers
  • from special education teachers
  • from Child Study Teams and related services
  • from supervisors and administrators
  • from community based organizations
  • from families
  • from adult educators
  • from gifted and talented teachers
  • from reading specialists
  • from guidance counselors
  • during the transition beyond high school
• Key topics in New Jersey ESL, Bilingual Education, and Dual Language programs
• Co-teaching language and content
• Intersection of race and language
• Educational technologies
• Growth Mindset and Asset-based Teaching
• Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, and Social Justice
• Translanguaging
• Student-Centered Learning
• Social-Emotional Learning
• Trauma-sensitive teaching
• Dual Language learners in early childhood
• Science of Reading
• Writing instruction and strategies
• Supporting newcomers, SLIFEs and refugees
• Activities and ideas to support speaking and listening