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SWCOLT 2023 has ended
This is the official program for SWCOLT/UFLA 2023.
Join us Friday and Saturday, February 24 & 25, 2023 at the Salt Lake Marriott Downtown at City Creek in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Pre-conference workshops are scheduled for Thursday, February 23, 2023.
Register for the conference and reserve a hotel room at this link: Information & Registration.

Wifi information:
Network: Marriott_Conference
Password: encore66

PARKING INFORMATION
If you will be driving to SWCOLT 2023, please be aware of the following:

The daily parking fee is $5 for conference attendees. Park in the Marriott garage and come to the Registration area for SWCOLT. Uou will receive a voucher in the hotel. When you are ready to leave at the end of the day, pay for parking at the kiosk located next to the elevators in the hotel lobby--before going to your car. Do not go to your car first and attempt to use the voucher to pay upon exiting the garage.
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Friday, February 24 • 11:30am - 12:30pm
Celebrating Linguistic Diversity while Increasing Proficiency

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Students enter Spanish speaker language classes with a wide variety of linguistic abilities and needs. How can you celebrate their linguistic diversity while increasing their proficiency? Having content and tasks rooted in exploring all aspects of Spanish speaking cultures and languages validates what students bring into the classroom. True differentiation is the key to unlocking their potential. Meeting students where they are in all four skills and all three modes of communication and understanding that each skill may be performed at a different level of proficiency requires a reimagining of traditional models of scaffolding and differentiation. Learn how our innovative Spanish for Spanish speakers program brings these concepts into practice to create opportunities for all students to explore and celebrate their unique relationship with language and culture while increasing their proficiency.
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Janet Boring

Exhibitor Rep, Carnegie Learning
I am a passionate advocate for teachers and students in world language classrooms. I believe in the power of language learning to change students' lives and perspectives, and to impact all areas of their lives. I recently moved to sunny southern California so I am surrounded by the... Read More →

Celebrating Linguistic Diversity while Increasing Proficiency SWCOLT23 jboring pdf
Friday February 24, 2023 11:30am - 12:30pm MST
Deer Valley 1
  60-minute session