June 16, 2025: 4pm PST - Leo Chen, Student
Title: Empowering Impact with AI: A Student’s Perspective
Description: This webinar introduces accessible AI tools and real-world applications for nonprofit and education leaders, language teachers, and student organizers. We’ll explore how AI can support strategic planning, impact storytelling, community outreach, sponsor engagement, and project management. This session is especially designed for those new to AI, with live demonstrations and practical examples for advocacy, fundraising, and organizing programs.

June 23, 2025: 4pm PST - Angie McMillan-Major and Russell Hugo (University of Washington)
Title: Bring your A-game!
Description: Concepts of gamification as they might apply to classrooms (e.g., challenge, risk/reward, project based gaming).

June 26th, 2025: 4pm PST: Dan Call - PNCFL Teacher of the Year and WA Teacher of the Year
Title: Using the Cultural Iceberg to Frame Input.
Description: This year I have experimented a bit more with having students actively use the Cultural Iceberg as an organizing principle to input. I will demonstrate how I do this using a recent iteration: the cultural products, practices and perspectives associated with tamales. Engagement was pretty high on this, and students had to actively decode a lot of language and background in order to succeed. I will also share some tips for making your own activities of this sort.

July 1, 2025: 4pm PST: Dan Call - PNCFL Teacher of the Year and WA Teacher of the Year
Title: Meow Meow Magic: Using Cat AI Videos to Build Narrative Skill.
Description: I’ve been using sequence stories for years in class, but I recently took it to the next level with all the ridiculous cat AI videos that went viral last year. My students have gobbled them up, and it’s not hard to connect them to culture/context. I will show one that I’ve used recently and demonstrate how to make your own.

July 2, 2025: 4pm PST - Conxita Domenech, Wyoming Teacher of the Year:
Title: From Classroom to Publication: Sharing Your Teaching Innovations Through Articles
Description: Have you developed a classroom activity, assignment, or pedagogical strategy that truly works? This session will show you how to transform your everyday teaching practices into compelling, publishable articles. Designed for educators at any level, the presentation offers practical guidance on identifying strong ideas, framing them for publication, and selecting the right venues. Participants will learn how to describe their classroom practices in ways that highlight innovation, relevance, and broader applicability. The session will also provide tips on outlining, drafting, and submitting successful manuscripts. If you’ve ever thought your teaching ideas could inspire others, this session will give you the tools and confidence to share them with the professional world.

July 14, 2025: 4pm PST: Emily Blackburn, Idaho Teacher of the Year
Title: Pushing Student Proficiency with Integrated Performance Assessments
Description: Discover how Integrated Performance Assessments (IPAs) provide a meaningful and effective way to assess student proficiency. In this session, we’ll break down the structure of an IPA, walk through the process of writing a task overview, and brainstorm how you can adapt IPAs for your own classroom.

July 23, 4pm PST: Sarah Dorsch, Washington State Spanish Teacher
Title: Designing Assessments for Access and Academic Integrity

July 30, 4pm PST: Peggy Malec, Oregon Teacher of the Year
Title: Real World Trauma-Informed Pedagogy
Description: Good classroom practices are, at their core, trauma-informed practices. However, for many teachers, trauma-informed pedagogy is a theoretical, high-minded ideal. The practice of trauma-informed pedagogy can seem inaccessible for many due to the gap between research and practice. However, there are reasonable, realistic steps that teachers can take on their own to create classrooms that are healing spaces. This session will share small, trauma-informed steps that teachers can make in their own classroom to support themselves and their students.


August 5, 4pm PST: Bridget Yaden, PNCFL ED and 2020 ACTFL President
Title: Leadership Inside and Outside of the Classroom
Description: Learn how networks and leadership opportunities keep us motivated as educators. Design ways to encourage our students to consider language teaching as a profession. Reflect with others on your leadership trajectory and opportunities.

August 11, 6pm PST: Olga Pustina, Alaska Teacher of the Year:
Title: Unlocking Creativity in Language Classroom
Description: Creativity boosts students’ curiosity, motivation, and deeper cognitive engagement, making it an essential tool in any learning environment. In this webinar, I will share practical strategies and engaging activities designed to foster creativity and imaginative thinking, all while supporting the development of second language skills. Drawing on my experience of teaching in an immersion program, I’ll offer insights into how creative approaches can enrich language acquisition, deepen cognitive engagement, and bring more joy into the classroom.