Inspiring Teachers

Next Conference is Saturday, February 23, 2013
8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Mukogawa Fort Wright Institute, Spokane, WA
(Click HERE for map.)

The 2012 full conference program (PDF) is now available.

View full details of presentations
including title, presenter(s), room, time, type, biography, audience, commercial or not, etc. (some of which will not be in paper program)

Check out our 2012 Keynote speaker.
K12 Clock Hours (6) via NEWESD101 are available at the conference.
We will once again provide a the Book Swap table. Donate your unused book and take what you can use.

If you have questions about the conference, please check our FAQ page before contacting us.

Changes in the program as of February 25 at 12:05 PM

Cancelled:

  • Multisensory grammar with English on a Roll. Fun and effective (2:15-3:45 in MacDonald 12)
  • Visual Instruction Plans: Mapping Grammar for ESL Students (11:00-:11:45 in Library Assembly Hall 2)
  • Is teen-texting useful to ELL: Cyberlanguage used by Libyan teens (3:15)
  • Study group interaction for ESL students: An experience of a high-school senior (2:15)
  • Exhibitor English on a Roll
Change of time and/or location:
  • Bhutanese/Nepali Culture is moved to 2:15-3:00 and is now in MacDonald 12
  • All sessions in Alcott 1 this afternoon are moved to the student dining hall in Commons due to technical problems.

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Conference Schedule*
Morning
8:00-8:45
Registration, light breakfast refreshments, publisher exhibits in Commons
Morning
8:45-9:45
Welcome and keynote speaker: Amal A. Mahmoud, Ph.D., Highline Community College, Des Moines, WA
Morning
10:00-10:45
Concurrent Sessions I
Morning
11:00-11:45
Concurrent Sessions II in classrooms and Graduate Student Posters in Commons Regents Room
Afternoon
noon-1:00
Lunch in the Commons
Presentation of Travel Scholarship and Publishers‘ Raffle
Afternoon
1:15-2:00
Concurrent Sessions III
Afternoon
2:15-3:00
Concurrent Sessions IV
Afternoon
3:15-4:00
Concurrent Sessions V
Publishers’ Exhibits in the Commons throughout the day.
Six clock hours are available. (Check or money order only to NEWESD101.)
Please bring books & materials to give away at the Book Swap in the Commons.
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*subject to change