Saturday, October 16, 2021 WATESOL's Virtual Conference Registration: https://watesol.org/event-4497308  | KEYNOTE ADDRESS Dr. Suhanthie Motha  | 
WATESOL FALL 2021 VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
Striving for Justice and Innovation
Session  | Room A  | Room B  | Room C  | Room D  | Room E  | 
9:00 – 9:50am Coffee Hour  | Coffee Chats  | Registration, Membership & Technical Support  | Exhibitor Drop-in U.S. Department of State English Language Programs  | Exhibitor Drop-in ESL Library  | |
10:00 – 10:50am Live Sessions 1  | Invited Speaker "Teflpreneurship": Building a Successful Online ESL Business or Side Hustle  | Three Steps toward an Asset-based Approach to Language Teaching HE, TT, Ad  | Using Gifted and Talented Methodologies to Enhance ESOL Instruction K-12, TT, C/M  | Exhibitor U.S. Department of State English Language Programs I  | Exhibitor ESL Library  | 
11:00 – 11:50am Live Sessions 2  | Invited Speaker Navigating Sexual Diversity in ELT Contexts: Recommendations and Negotiations  | Integrating Translanguaging Pedagogy Into Our Teaching Practice! K-12, BE, TT  | Preparing International Students for Expectations of Academic Integrity at US Universities HE, TT, PA, C/M  | SIG Session - Adult Ed  | Achievement Gap or Cultural Dissonance? Reframing the Conversation about SLIFE: The Mutually Adaptive Learning Paradigm K-12  | 
12:15 – 1:15 Keynote  | “Is antiracist English language teaching possible? Striving for racial justice in TESOL”  | ||||
1:30 – 2:20pm Live Sessions 3  | Equity Strategies for Collaboratively Teaching Multilingual Learners K  | SIG Session - Higher Ed  | I cannot even spell paleontology, let alone understand": broadening adult multilingual visitors’ access to museums AE, BE, C/M  | Exhibitor U.S. Department of State English Language Programs II  | Examining ESL/EFL Teachers’ Attitudes and Perspectives towards World Englishes AE, TT, N, Ad  | 
2:30 – 3:20pm Live Sessions 4  | Invited Speaker The Invisible Student: Identifying and Accommodating the Low-Literacy Learner  | Foster Autonomy, Analytical Skills, and Agency Through Reading and Writing Circles AE, HE  | SIG Session - K-12 Leveraging Minecraft Education Edition for Language Development  | Impact of English Only Instruction on English Proficiency of ELs K-12, HE, BE, TT  | |
3:30 – 4:00pm Closing  | 
Context/Focus Key:
K-12: Kindergarten-12th grade education
HE: Higher Education
AE: Adult Education
BE: Bilingual Education
TT: Teacher Training
N: NNESTs (Non-native English Speaking Teachers)
Ad: Advocacy
C/M: Curriculum & Materials Development
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