March 13-15, 2025
Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center
Kansas City, MO
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Central States 2025.mp4We look forward to seeing you in Kansas City for our 2025 joint conference with the Foreign Language Association of Missouri (FLAM) and the Kansas World Language Association (KSWLA)!
Conference highlights include:
an opening keynote address by Megan Ferry, a Professor of Chinese and Asian Studies in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Union College (Schenectady, NY). Her professional work spans a diverse body of research and courses, ranging from gender and media studies to second language acquisition. She authored Chinese Women Writers and Modern Print Culture (Cambria, 2018), and numerous articles on advertising, consumerism, and sexuality in contemporary China, and China-Latin America and China-African relations. In addition to these publications, she has written the Chinese curriculum for the Schenectady Public Schools District and served as evaluator for several K-16 Chinese language programs. Her most recent publication is “Using Project Based Learning to Bring Sustainability into the Language Classroom and to Re-ignite Student Engagement,” in Honing our craft: World language teaching in the U.S. Series co-editors: Florencia Henshaw & Kim Potowski. Chicago, IL: Klett World Languages (2023) .
many half-day or full-day workshops with regionally and nationally recognized educators.
more than 140 special focus sessions on:
Equitable and inclusive practices
Intercultural communication and competence
Standards and proficiency-based instruction and strategies
Curriculum, articulation, and interdisciplinary design
Technology innovation and integration
Assessment and feedback
The latest research in education and language acquisition
opportunities to learn from our national and regional World Language Teachers of the Year and from the leaders of our national world language association.
Best-of sessions from across our 14 mid-western states.
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Conference Team
Conference Team
Shannon Millikin
Shannon Millikin
2025 Program Chair
Kristen Novotny
Kristen Novotny
2025 Assistant Program Chair
Marta Silva
Marta Silva
2025 Local Liaison (Kansas)
May Lee
May Lee
2025 Local Liaison (Missouri)
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