March 13-15, 2025

Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center

Kansas City, MO

We 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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