Upcoming Events

  • Cultivating Agency: Feedback, Relationships, and Community – Guest Speaker Southwest Minnesota World Language Alliance Summer Retreat, Marshall, MN, August 6, 2026
  • Practical Tools to Give Confident & Effective Learner Feedback Anchorage School District, Anchorage, AK, August 17, 2026
  • Assessment & Rubrics (ACTFL workshop) September 8-9, 2026
  • Foundations of ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines (ACTFL workshop) September 11, 2026
  • Self Assessment Strategies: Empowering Learners Toward Success ACTFL Convention, November 2026
  • Proficiency Room: Adopting, Adapting or Developing Rubrics ACTFL Convention, November 2026
  • Proficiency Room: Grading With Rubrics to Motivate and Report Progress ACTFL Convention, November 2026
  • The Role of Grammar in the Development of Proficiency (ACTFL workshop) January 2027
  • Rethinking Assessment: Authentic Ways to Measure Language Growth Lingco, March 2027

Past Events

  • Guiding Learners to Higher Levels of Proficiency (ACTFL workshop) August 2026
  • MCTLC Learner Feedback for Language Growth Book Group, August 10, 2026
  • Learner Feedback for Language Growth Book Club Discussion, World Language Teachers, Middleton, WI May 19, 2026
  • Curriculum Design Consulting and Workshops 2025-2026 school year (ISD #196, follow-up to Curriculum Queries 2024-2025 school year)
  • Intercultural Communication: Empowering Participation in Multilingual Communities, SDWLA (South Dakota World Language Association), Sioux Falls, SD April 25, 2026
  • Self-Assessment Strategies: Empowering Learners Toward Success, SWCOLT (Southwest Conference on Language Teaching) Denver, CO area February 19-21, 2026 Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Chicago, IL March 13-14, 2026 & PNCFL (Pacific Northwest Council for Languages) Portland, OR April 9-11, 2026
  • Developing and Assessing the 3 Modes of Communication and Integrating Skills in Modes in Proficiency Based Curriculum (ACTFL workshops) April 2026
  • Integrating Skills in Modes in Proficiency Based Curriculum (an ACTFL workshop) March 2026
  • Developing and Assessing the 3 Modes of Communication (an ACTFL workshop) January 2026, March 2026

Exploring Learner Feedback for Language Growth Part 1: Evaluating learner work using Performance Domain Indicators, Part 2: Giving feedback that fuels growth ACTFL members online webinar (LINK) September 30, December 10, 2025 and February 5, 2026 https://www.actfl.org/membership/member-webinars

  • Guiding Learners to Higher Levels of Proficiency (an ACTFL workshop) January 2026

Let’s Talk About Learner Feedback, International Center for Language Studies (ICLS), book club discussions (LINK), October 16, 2025 and December 16, 2025

https://www.icls.edu/professional-development-programs

  • Explore How Grading Practices Make Learners Feel: Rubrics to the Rescue, Lingco users webinar, September 24, 2025
  • Intercultural Connections through Virtual Exchange Experiences, MiWLA (Michigan World Language Association) Lansing, MI, October 24, 2025
  • Fun at Work: The Key to Effective Collaboration, WAFLT (Wisconsin Association of Foreign Language Teachers) Oshkosh, WI, November 7-8, 2025
  • Learner Feedback for Language Growth Book Club Discussion, World Language Teachers , Middleton, WI November 11, 2025
  • Bringing a Learner Centered Approach to Life, MCTLC (Minnesota Council on the Teaching of Languages and Cultures) St. Paul, MN, November 14-15, 2025
  • Self-Assessment Strategies: Empowering Learners Toward Success, MCTLC (Minnesota Council on the Teaching of Languages and Cultures) St. Paul, MN, November 14-15, 2025

News

Check out the article below about MN heritage languages! I got to play a small part in promoting this work when I was MCTLC (Minnesota Council of Teaching Languages and Cultures) president, and I also coach some of these teachers as an adjunct instructor with Concordia College, Moorhead and in my role as a consultant. 

An outstanding group of educators!

So proud to in support this important work!

For the first time, Minnesota teachers can become licensed to teach Karen, Somali and other heritage languages