WIDA at Conferences
Find WIDA across the country and around the world
In addition to hosting the WIDA Annual Conference, WIDA staff participate in many other regional, national and international conferences throughout the year.
Look for us at these upcoming conferences:
- American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Conference - March 2024
March 16-19, 2024
Houston, TexasEvaluating the writing skills of kindergarten multilingual learners
Mark Chapman and Gordon WestExploring the multimodality of emerging writing by multilingual kindergarteners
Gordon West and Jeanne Beck (former WIDA intern)Promoting K-12 educators’ understanding of the impact of English Language Development Standards on language assessments
Alicia Kim, Lorena Alarcon (former WIDA intern), Jason A. Kemp and Fabiana MacMillanSituated language proficiency: revisiting the relationship between construct and use
Margo Gottlieb, Constant Leung (King's College London)Learn more about the AAAL Conference.
- TESOL International Convention & Expo - March 2024
March 21-23, 2024
Tampa, FloridaEmpowering Multilingual Learners Through Multimodal Classroom Assessment
Margo GottliebLearn more about the TESOL Convention.
- National Association of English Learner Program Administrators (NAELPA) - March 2024
March 26-27, 2024
New Orleans, LouisianaMultiliteracies: What Does the Science of Reading Have to Do with It?
Margo GottliebLearn more about NAELPA.
- National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE) - March 2024
March 28-30, 2024
New Orleans, LouisianaPre-Conference Institute: Juntos Se Puede: Empowering Bilingual Program Leaders for Success
Yvonne Williams (WCEPS) and Samuel AguirrePlanning for Spanish Language Development through Student Samples and Mentor Texts
Analleli HernándezGrowing, strengthening, and sustaining bilingualism through Spanish language development
Samuel Aguirre, Margo Gottlieb and Analleli HernándezWhy Rural Matters to Multilingual Learners
Maria Coady (NCSU) Diep Nguyen and Julie Sugarman (Migration Institute)From Literacy to Multiliteracies: Strategies for Promoting Multimodalities and Multilingualism in Instruction and Assessment
Margo GottliebLearn more about NABE.
- American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting - April 2024
April 11-14, 2024
Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaA Space for Translanguaging: Secondary Language Arts Students’ Critical Awareness While Engaged in Online Discussions
Park et al.Bilingual/ESL Preservice Teachers’ Heritage Language and Language Identity: Evidence From Multimodal Literacy Autobiographies
Park et al.Chronicling Disparities: Harnessing Longitudinal Data to Examine Educational Inequities
Narek Sahakyan and Glenn PooleLearn more about the AERA Annual Meeting.
- Wisconsin Association for Bilingual Education (WIABE) - April 2024
April 19-21, 2024
Wisconsin Dells, WIGrowing, strengthening, and sustaining bilingualism through Spanish language development
Samuel AguirreLearn more about WIABE.
- The Reading League Summit - April 2024
April 27, 2024
San Diego, CaliforniaHow is assessment of language proficiency different from assessment of language (reading) skills for multilingual learners?
Margo GottliebLearn more about The Reading League Summit.
- NJTESOL/NJBE Spring Conference - May 2024
May 29-31, 2024
New Brunswick, New JerseyGrowing Schoolwide Utilization of WIDA Resources
Kenneth BondALL ACCESS: Updates in ACCESS testing, Kinder ACCESS, and Alternate ACCESS
Lynn Shafer WillnerDiving Deeper in the WIDA Proficiency Level Descriptors
Lynn Shafer WillnerImplementing the WIDA ELD Standards Framework
Lynn Shafer WillnerWIDA ELD Standards Digital Explorer Overview (Poster Session)
Lynn Shafer WillnerLearn more about NJTESOL/NJBE.
- Language Testing Research Colloquium (LTRC) - July 2024
July 1-5, 2024
Innsbruck, AustriaCommunicating ELP Assessment Changes to K-12 Educators
Alicia Kim, Jason Kemp, Fabiana MacMillan and Lorena Alarcon (former WIDA intern)Aligning Proficiency Level Descriptors with Audiences and Uses: Enhancing Equitable Communication in a K-12 Language Assessment System
Lynn Shafer Willner and Margo GottliebA Digital Mapping of High Leverage Communicative Practices in School-Age Content-Area Contexts (Poster Session)
Lynn Shafer Willner and Margo GottliebLearn more about LTRC.
WIDA researchers honored at AERA
During the 2023 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, a group of WIDA researchers received the Jamal Abedi Best Paper Award from the Inclusion and Accessibility in Educational Assessment Special Interest Group. Alicia Kim, Jason Kemp, Mark Chapman and H. Gary Cook were honored for their paper, “Use of Universal Tools Embedded in Assessments: Grades 4-12 English Learners With and Without Disabilities,” in Sage Journal’s “Language Testing.” Read about the researchers, their award and find a link to the paper in this article.