During the third week of July I took part in the 99th Annual Conference of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese held in Chicago. This association is dedicated to promoting, preserving and practicing the Spanish and Portuguese languages. I was fortunate to have the opportunity to attend multiple sessions, including workshops, panels,

On July 6 through 9 I attended the 99th Annual Conference of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese held in Chicago. The American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP) is an innovative educational organization dedicated to the promotion preservation and practice of the Spanish and Portuguese languages. Its members are

I recently returned from Spain where I attended the IV edition of the International Congress of History, Literature and Art in Cinema in Spanish and Portuguese (June, 28-30). This event is one of the major academic gatherings on Spanish Cinema Studies worldwide and it is organized by one of the oldest universities in the world,

Erensya (“heritage” in Ladino, the language of Sephardic Jews) is a meeting held every other year that brings together representatives of communities of the Sephardic diaspora. It is organized by a Spanish government agency, El Centro Sefarad-Israel, whose mission is to further knowledge of Sephardic culture within Spain and abroad. This was the first year

On March 9, 2017, I attended an OWL (Organic World Language) Visitation Day at Franklin Pierce High School in Tacoma, WA. Prior to this, I had heard about the OWL teaching methodology from several teachers and was intrigued, but I knew I needed to see the techniques being used in the classroom before implementing them in

The theme of this conference was “Transdisciplinarity… what’s in a name?” which was motivated, as the conference chair phrased it, “by a desire to bring closer to researchers in our field the rich intellectual and imaginative resources of thinkers outside Applied Linguistics whose work on language can act as a stimulus and trigger for our

As a teacher, self-reflection is a big part of my professional life and, even though I’ve been an educator for many years, I am constantly working on making my classroom and my teaching better. Based on this, I decided that attending CCFL Spring Conference in Denver is a great way to learn from innovative language teachers.