Tentative Schedule
See the Spring Conference page for more about the keynote speakers, registration, Awards Reception, and hotel reservations.
Wednesday, May 27
Keynote: Dr. Jose MedinaDr. José Medina, Founder and Chief Educational Advocate at Dr. José Medina: Educational Solutions
Topic: Serving the Needs of Emergent Bilinguals
| Title | Presenters | Interest Sections |
|---|---|---|
| Language Learning in Community | Jessica Hunsdon & Kavita Pandey | Adult Education, Program Administration & Teacher Education |
| Moving Your Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Program Forward! | Kelly Williams | All Interest Sections |
| NJDOE Information Session | Lori Ramella, Jacquelyn Leon, & Maria Romero | All Interest Sections |
| Advocacy | Elizabeth "BJ" Franks | All Interest Sections |
| Viewing of film: I Learn America | All Interest Sections | |
| Understanding Home Language | Gabriela Colon | Bilingual Education, Elementary Grades 1-4 & Parents |
| Making Spanish Sight Words Seriously Fun! | Elsa Mena | Bilingual Education, Elementary Grades 1-4 & Pre-K - K |
| Little Dangerous Words | Jeffrey Linn | Elementary Grades 1-4, Middle School & Higher Education |
| The New Role of the ESL Teacher | Andrea Fontenez & Damian Medina | Elementary Grades 1-4, Middle School & Secondary Education |
| How to Talk the Talk: Targeting Speaking | Julie Ochoa & Angela Pape | Elementary Grades 1-4, Middle School & Secondary Education |
| Interactive Notebooks for Mixed Grade and Mixed ELP Classes | Emily Rosenblum & Amanda Borzilleri | Elementary Grades 1-4 & Middle School |
| Focus on Language! | Jennifer Lee & Diana Cornwall | Elementary Grades 1-4 & Middle School |
| Using Technology to Enhance ELL Instruction | Ana Maria Cunha | Elementary Grades 1-4 & Middle School |
| Making Space for ELLs: Building Connection Through Maker Learning | Adrienne Gold & Sara McNerny | Elementary Grades 1-4 & Middle School |
| Using Read Alouds for Explicit Vocabulary Instruction | Alyssa May & Lucy Lakata | Elementary Grades 1-4, Pre-K - K & Middle School |
| Daily Meetings and Responsive Classroom for ELL Students | Brittney Janowski & Kathleen Lynch | Elementary Grades 1-4 & Pre-K - K |
| Would Those Classroom Behaviors Suggest a Disability? | Solange Lopes Murphy | Elementary Grades 1-4, Special education & Middle School |
| Connecting with the Classroom | Karen Baker & Lindsey Zabelski | Elementary Grades 1-4, Teacher Education & Pre-K - K |
| Scaffolding Learning for All Proficiency Levels | Angela Pape | Elementary Grades 1-4 & Teacher Education |
| The Kinesthetic Classroom: Reading & Writing Strategies | Jennifer Ostrega | Elementary Grades 1-4 |
| Break it down! | Julie Ochoa & Jennifer Lee | Elementary Grades 1-4 |
| Technological Equity For ELLs | Kathleen Fernandez | Middle School, Bilingual Education & Secondary Education |
| Digital tools, tips and tricks for the ELL classroom | Nidia DeOliveira | Middle School & Elementary Grades 1-4 |
| Lowering the Affective Filter of ELs Through Mindfulness | Laurine Sibilia | Middle School, Secondary Education & Elementary Grades 1-4 |
| International Rescue Committees Refugee Youth Education Programming | Heather Fineberg & Gabriela Colon | Program Administration, Teacher Education & Elementary Grades 1-4 |
| Building a Professional Learning Network for Equity | Ken Bond | Secondary Education, Middle School & Elementary Grades 1-4 |
| What to do with All that Data | Ashley Singh & Nicole Sanyigo | Secondary Education, Middle School & Program Administration |
| Dialogue Journaling: Building Language Proficiency and Relationships | Jaime DePaola | Secondary Education, Middle School & Special education |
| Language Demands in Standards, Curricula, and Assessments | Mikyung Wolf & Laura Ballard | Teacher Education, Elementary Grades 1-4 & Middle School |
| WIDA MODEL as an Interim Assessment | Stephen O'Connell | Teacher Education & Program Administration |
| The 2020 WIDA ELD Standards Overview | Lynn Shafer Willner, PhD | Teacher Education & Program Administration |
| ACCESS Speaking Test Scoring | Stephen O'Connell | Teacher Education |
Thursday May 28
Keynote: Jane D Hill, Principal Consultant for McREL
Topic: Language and Discourse for English Language Learners
President’s Awards Reception – 6:00 PM
| Title | Presenters | Interest Sections |
|---|---|---|
| Spanish for Teachers: Building Relationships with Latinx Students and Families | Jacquelyn Leon & Mary Curran | All Interest Sections |
| NJDOE Information Session | Lori Ramella, Jacquelyn Leon, & Maria Romero | All Interest Sections |
| NJTESOL/NJBE Annual Executive Board Open Meeting | Open Meeting | All Interest Sections |
| The Power of Two: Teaching ELLs Across the Content Areas | Elsa Mena & Suzy Mazzaroni | Bilingual Education, Elementary Grades 1-4 & Pre-K - K |
| Building Bridges Through Biliteracy | Susana Matos-Kruck & Candice Bland | Bilingual Education, Elementary Grades 1-4 & Teacher Education |
| Differentiating Literacy Instruction for Emergent Bilinguals | Jack Meyers & Amy Peabody | Bilingual Education, Elementary Grades 1-4 |
| Sheltered Instruction - Strategies for Connecting Language and Content | Tina Kern | Bilingual Education, Secondary Education & Middle School |
| Removing the ELL Deficit Lens | LeighAnn Matthews | Elementary Grades 1-4, Middle School & Secondary Education |
| Virtual Reality in the ESL Classroom | Shayna Cohen & Matthew Saul | Elementary Grades 1-4, Middle School & Secondary Education |
| Teaching Strategies for Push-In and Pull-Out Models In Our Schools | Deepal Jhaveri & Surabhi Garg | Elementary Grades 1-4, Middle School & Secondary Education |
| Help They Don't Speak English! Tips to Help Your Coworkers 2.0 | Lisa Rose Johnson & Linda Meranus | Elementary Grades 1-4, Middle School & Secondary Education |
| Integrating Trauma Informed Approaches | Dr. Lisa Rose Johnson & Linda Meranus | Elementary Grades 1-4, Middle School & Teacher Education |
| Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): Being informed for our Students | Alamelu Sundaram-Walters | Elementary Grades 1-4 & Middle School |
| Culture Karaoke | Linda Meranus | Elementary Grades 1-4 & Pre-K - K |
| Reading, Writing and ELL's - A Balanced Literacy Approach | Sharon Kernan & Cara Davis | Elementary Grades 1-4, Teacher Education & Special education |
| Shared Reading and Vocabulary for Content Area ESL | Amy Peabody | Elementary Grades 1-4 |
| Get Ready for Success | Cheri Quinlan | Exhibitor Session |
| History Hacks: Making History and Culture Come Alive | Renee Taormina & Luigina Finneran | Middle School, Elementary Grades 1-4 & Secondary Education |
| Supporting the Social Emotional Needs of Middle-School ELLs | Diana Cornwall & Melanie Tolud | Middle School, Secondary Education & Elementary Grades 1-4 |
| Bringing the Language Lens to the Gen. Ed. Classroom | Julie Ochoa & Joyce Wang | Middle School & Secondary Education |
| Supporting English Language Learners in Math Project-Based Learning | Meghan Greenfield & Elena Greenwood | Middle School |
| Designing a Middle School Lesson | Joyce Wang & Shari Levine | Middle School |
| NJPSA ELL Committee/NJTESOL/NJBE Supervisors SIG Meeting | JoAnne Negrin & Laura Arredondo | Program Administration |
| Let Me Tell You a Story | Delfina Picchio & Mary Curran | Secondary Education, Adult Education & Elementary Grades 1-4 |
| NJTESOL/NJBE Rutgers GSE ESL Teachers Book Club | Mary Curran | Secondary Education, Adult Education & Middle School |
| Fostering Equity for ELLs through Professional Learning Networks | Kenneth Bond | Secondary Education, Middle School & Elementary Grades 1-4 |
| Reaching ELLs through Co-Teaching in the Mainstream Classroom | Kathryn Suter & Danielle Katz | Secondary Education, Middle School & Elementary Grades 1-4 |
| The WIDA Key Uses in Every Classroom | Michelle Land & Noreen Drucker | Secondary Education, Middle School & Elementary Grades 1-4 |
| Strategies for ELLs in the Secondary Classroom | Hana Prashkker | Secondary Education & Middle School |
| ESL + World Languages + Administration = Success | Angello Villarreal & Erin Lamberson | Secondary Education, Program Administration & Bilingual Education |
| Interactive Workshop: ELLs in Secondary Education | Hana Prashker | Secondary Education |
| Modifying the Instruction for ELLs in the Secondary Social Studies Classroom | Nicholas Stucka | Secondary Education |
| Meeting the Program Needs of Classified Emergent Bilingual Students | Sonya Bertini | Special education & Bilingual Education |
| Language Difference or Disability? Improving the Accuracy of Referral Decisions | Lynn Shafer Willner, PhD | Special education & Teacher Education |
| Do teachers know enough about language? | Lois Spitzer & JoAnne Negrin | Teacher Education, Elementary Grades 1-4 & Middle School |
| WIDA MODEL as an Interim Assessment | Stephen O'Connell | Teacher Education & Program Administration |
| The 2020 WIDA ELD Standards Overview | Lynn Shafer Willner, PhD | Teacher Education & Program Administration |
| ACCESS Speaking Test Scoring | Stephen O'Connell | Teacher Education |
Friday, May 29
Keynote: Dr. Kate Seltzer, Assistant Professor, Rowan University
Topic: Translanguaging Practices of Emergent Bilinguals
| Title | Presenters | Interest Sections |
|---|---|---|
| Guiding Principles for Community-Based Adult Language Learning | Jessica Hunsdon & Akisha Canty | Adult Education |
| NJDOE Information Session | Lori Ramella, Jacquelyn Leon, & Maria Romero | All Interest Sections |
| A Middle School Seal of Biliteracy | Anel Suriel & Juliane Bilotta | Bilingual Education, Middle School & Teacher Education |
| Using a Cohort Model to Support Newcomer SLIFE students | Judson Bouchard & Kaitlin O'Rourke | Bilingual Education, Secondary Education & Teacher Education |
| Teaching Content and Language Through TPR, Song, and Dance | Ava Kiss-Gallagher & Kirstie Nafey | Elementary Grades 1-4 |
| Amo Mis Languages: Teaching for Lifelong Literacy | Solange Lopes Murphy & Jack Meyers | Elementary Grades 1-4, Middle School & Teacher Education |
| Would Those Classroom Behaviors Suggest a Disability? | Solange Lopes Murphy | Elementary Grades 1-4, Special education & Middle School |
| Technology in the Classroom | Ashley Singh | Elementary Grades 1-4, Middle School & High School |
| Unlocking Potential with Equity Pedagogy | Patricia George | Higher Education, Adult Education & Program Administration |
| Engaging Students with Short Stories | Lauren Lesce | Higher Education, Adult Education & Secondary Education |
| Mentoring Second Language Writers: A Case Study | Miriam Ebsworth & Timothy Ebsworth | Higher Education, Bilingual Education & Adult Education |
| Connecting the Dots: from Classwork to Classwonder | Jason Velante | Middle School, Elementary Grades 1-4 & Teacher Education |
| Equity Right from the Start: PreK-K ELLs | Karen Nemeth | Pre-K - K |
| Flipping The Lens for ELL Advocacy | JoAnne Negrin & Catherine Michener | Program Administration & Bilingual Education |
| Equity & Opportunity for ELLs in Low-Incidence Schools | Debra Billmann | Program Administration, Elementary Grades 1-4 & Secondary Education |
| Getting Parents Involved - ESL Parent Nights | Ashley Singh & Sheila Hickman | Program Administration, Secondary Education & Elementary Grades 1-4 |
| Heritage Spanish Programs: A Matter of Equity for Spanish Speakers | Michele Schreiner | Program Administration, Secondary Education & Middle School |
| I Learn America: Empowering Students through Storytelling | JoAnne Negrin & Jean-Michel Dissard | Program Administration & Secondary Education |
| Structuring Teacher Collaboration to Support Instructional Practice | Alyssa May & Lucy Lakata | Program Administration, Teacher Education & Adult Education |
| What Does Equity Look Like for Emerging Bilinguals | Elizabeth "BJ" Franks & Barbara Tedesco | Program Administration, Teacher Education & Parents |
| Principals and Supervisors: Working Together for ELLs | David Nash, Esq. & JoAnne Negrin, Ed.D. | Program Administration |
| Creating a Thoughtful and Cohesive Program | Julie Ochoa | Program Administration |
| Visual Thinking Strategies for working with English Language Learners | Anamaria Llanos & Judy Valencia | Secondary Education, Bilingual Education & Middle School |
| Building Skills through Collaboration | Betiana Caprioli & Cynthia Miranda-Casablanca | Secondary Education, Bilingual Education & Teacher Education |
| Empowering ELL's Identity in High School | Alyxandra Cucinotta & Farah Hussain | Secondary Education & Bilingual Education |
| Interactive Workshop: Advocacy for College-Bound ELLs | Patricia George & Hana Prashker | Secondary Education, Higher Education & Program Administration |
| Adobe Spark and the Language Classroom | Kimberly Moss | Secondary Education, Middle School & Teacher Education |
| Science for ELLs | Maria Sfondouris & Teresa Schittone | Secondary Education & Middle School |
| Securing Equity for High School Language Learners | Jose Chanez Mendia & Dolores Diaz | Secondary Education |
| Language Difference or Disability? Improving the Accuracy of Referral Decisions | Lynn Share Willner, PhD | Special education & Teacher Education |
| The Definitive Guide for Constructing Academic Language Objectives | Susana Matos-Kruck | Teacher Education, Elementary Grades 1-4 & Middle School |
| Using the Grow Your Own A Model to Increase Bilingual Educators | Lisa Rose Johnson & B.J. Franks | Teacher Education, Program Administration & Higher Education |
| WIDA MODEL as an Interim Assessment | Stephen O'Connell | Teacher Education & Program Administration |
| The 2020 WIDA ELD Standards Overview | Lynn Shafer Willner, PhD | Teacher Education & Program Administration |
| Sheltered English Instruction and You! | April Gardner | Poster Session |
| Reader's Theater | Nicole Dumani | Poster Session |