WIDA at Conferences

Look for us at these upcoming conferences:

National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE) Conference - February 2025

February 20-22, 2025
Atlanta, Georgia

Leveraging Language Standards for Success, A Session for Program Leaders
Samuel Aguirre, Maya Martinez-Hart, Margo Gottlieb, Fatima Rivera

Utilizing the WIDA Language Development Frameworks: Units, Lessons, and Standards
Samuel Aguirre, Maya Martinez-Hart, Margo Gottlieb, Fatima Rivera

Building Capacity for Educating Multilingual Learners in Rural Districts
Tricia Blanco and Jen Wilfrid

Learn more about NABE.

New York State Association for Bilingual Education (NYSABE) Annual Conference - February and March 2025

February 27-March 1, 2025
Saratoga Springs, New York

Leveraging Language Standards for Success—A Session for Program Leaders
Samuel Aguirre and Maya Martinez-Hart

Learn more about NYSABE.

Dual Language Symposium - March 2025

March 1, 2025
Schaumburg, Illinois

Planificación de instrucción con Marco DALE
Edith Nava and Erika Nava

Learn more about the Dual Language Symposium.

TESOL International Association Convention - March 2025

March 18-22, 2025
Long Beach, California

(Panel) Mentoring for Action Research: A practical approach
Grazzia Maria Mendoza Chirinos and Samuel Aguirre 

Growing, Strengthening, and Sustaining Language Development through Academic Content
Samuel Aguirre and Grazzia Maria Mendoza Chirinos

Professional Learning and Mentoring to Support TESOL Educator Researchers
Grazzia Maria Mendoza Chirinos

Expanding Reading Instruction for Multilingual Learners
Hetal Ascher

Learn more about TESOL.

American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Conference - March 2025

March 22-25, 2025
Denver, Colorado

Speaking Task Models in Tests for Young Language Learners: Where to Set the Bar?
Mark Chapman, Ping-Lin Chuang (2023 WIDA Assessment Intern), Gordon West, Jason Kemp, Alicia Kim

Educators' Perspectives on Automated Writing Scoring in High-Stakes K-12 Assessments
Alicia Kim, Jieun Kim (2024 WIDA Assessment Intern), Mark Chapman, Jason Kemp, Lynn Shafer Willner

Co-Constructing a Positive Affective Experience during Young Learner Language Assessments
Jason Kemp, Gordon West, Shea Head

Examination of the Current Implementation Status of the WIDA English Language Development Standards (ELD) Framework
Hannah Park

Exploring the Use of Generative AI Tools for Instructional Planning for Multilingual Learners
Hannah Park, Andrea Mercado

Social semiotic understandings of multimodality as a construct for language assessment
Gordon West

Learn more about AAAL.

American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting - April 2025

April 23-27, 2025
Denver, Colorado

Bridging Policy and Practice for Multilingual Learners Through English Language Development Standards Implementation Research
Lynn Shafer Willner and Margo Gottlieb

Exploring Bilingual/ESL Pre-service Teachers’ Sensemaking in Knowledge Co-construction as Enacted During Computer-mediated Classroom Discussion
Hannah Park

AI in Writing Classes: Exploring and Scaffolding Multilingual Students’ Agency and Critical Thinking Skills
Hannah Park

(Paper) Improving Diverse Stakeholders’ Communication and Decision-Making about K-12 Multilingual Learners with More User-Friendly, Accessible Language Assessment Tools
Lynn Shafer Willner and Margo Gottlieb

Developing Shared Leadership for Educating MLs in Rural Schools Through Collaborative Inquiry
Rebecca E. Sawyer, Jennifer Wilfrid, Elizabeth Cranley

Transforming Challenges into Opportunities: Designing and Implementing Professional Learning for Rural Educators of Multilingual Learners
Anshika Bhasin and Jen Wilfrid

Rural Cultural Wealth and Minoritized Communities: Educators' Perspectives on Teaching Multilingual Learners in Rural Schools
Anshika Bhasin and Diego Román

Learn more about AERA.

New Jersey Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages/New Jersey Bilingual Educators (NJTESOL/NJBE) Conference - May 2025

May 20-22, 2025
New Brunswick, New Jersey

Revised ACCESS: Same Testing Experience, Better Classroom Connections
Lynn Shafer Willner

Integrating Structured Literacy Instruction with ELD Instruction
Lynn Shafer Willner

AI and ELD: A Powerful Partnership
Lynn Shafer Willner

(Drop-in Session) Leveraging the Expressive Language Charts
Lynn Shafer Willner

Learn more about NJTESOL/NJBE.

Massachusetts Association of Teachers of Speakers of Other Languages (MATSOL) Conference - May 2025

May 28-30, 2025
Framingham, Massachusetts

WIDA Language Charts: A New Tool to Support Classroom Assessment
Margo Gottlieb

Learn more about MATSOL.

Language Testing Research Colloquium (LTRC) - June 2025

June 4-8, 2025
Bangkok, Thailand

Assembling, adapting, adopting: the development and implementation of standards and frameworks for young learners
Margo Gottlieb, Lynn Shafer Willner (WIDA); Carolyn Westbrook, Richard Spiby, Jonathan Cruise (British Council, UK); Masashi Negishi (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan); Wu Sha (National Education Examination Authority, China)

Young learner affect in assessment: An interactional multimodal analysis
Gordon West, Jason Kemp, Shea Head

Charting the Landscape of K-12 Educators’ Views on Automated Writing Scoring & Feedback
Jason Kemp and Lynn Shafer Willner

(Poster) Redesigning a Kindergarten to Grade 12 ELP Assessment Score Report: Gathering Evidence from Multiple Perspectives
Alicia Kim, Jason Kemp, Fabiana MacMillan, Daisy Chang (UW-Madison graduate student), Kerry Pusey (2024 WIDA Assessment intern)

Learn more about LTRC.