Plenary Speakers
Each year the conference offers four plenary events: one Thursday evening, one Friday afternoon, and two on Saturday morning, with one of those Saturday plenaries having a K-12 focus.
THURSDAY PLENARY: Planned and Interactional Scaffolding across Instructional Levels
Luciana de Oliveira, President (2018-2019) of TESOL International Association and Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning in the School of Education and Human Development at the University of Miami, Florida.
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FRIDAY PLENARY: Past Presidents' Panel
In bridging the past with the future, a panel of five past presidents of CATESOL will give the audience an opportunity to connect with the wisdom of the panel in an open, interactive forum.
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SATURDAY PLENARY: Service-Learning, Nested Interculturality, and Language Education: Progress and Prospects for Social Justice
Netta Avineri, Professor of TESOL/TFL at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and co-founder the Intercultural Digital Storytelling Project.
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SATURDAY K-12 PLENARY: Not Less, But More
Reyna Grande, inspirational speaker and award-winning author of The Distance Between Us, about her life before and after illegally immigrating from Mexico to the United States.
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