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SUMMARY:Describe It Until AI Sees It\: Information-Gap Tasks in L2 Writing
DESCRIPTION:This hands-on session introduces an AI-mediated information-gap writing task in which ESL learners describe a target image precisely enough for DALL-E to recreate it. The visual mismatch between the original and AI-generated image prompts learners to...
LOCATION:Virtual
SEQUENCE:0
URL:https://mitesol.dryfta.com/categories/banners/79-conference-2026/program-schedule/program/2/describe-it-until-ai-sees-it-information-gap-tasks-in-l2-writing
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SUMMARY:Rethinking Mental Health Through a Multicultural Lens
DESCRIPTION:Ideas about mental health and behavior are shaped by culture\, including how people express distress\, respond to trauma\, seek support\, and understand family roles. This session invites educators to reconsider familiar assumptions about student behavio...
LOCATION:Virtual
SEQUENCE:0
URL:https://mitesol.dryfta.com/categories/banners/79-conference-2026/program-schedule/program/3/rethinking-mental-health-through-a-multicultural-lens
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SUMMARY:Designing Immersive English Experiences for Meaningful Communication
DESCRIPTION:This interactive session introduces the Immersive English Experience (IEE) Framework\, a teacher-created approach for designing authentic English communication experiences without requiring advanced technology. Grounded in task-based and experiential ...
LOCATION:Virtual
SEQUENCE:0
URL:https://mitesol.dryfta.com/categories/banners/79-conference-2026/program-schedule/program/4/designing-immersive-english-experiences-for-meaningful-communication
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DTSTAMP:20260926T170005Z
DTSTART:20261024T150000Z
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SUMMARY:Culture\, Relationships\, and Student Learning
DESCRIPTION:In this interactive and discussion-based session\, participants will reflect on their cultural beliefs and values\, consider those of their students\, and identify trust building practices to cultivate teacher-student relationships and enhance learning....
LOCATION:Virtual
SEQUENCE:0
URL:https://mitesol.dryfta.com/categories/banners/79-conference-2026/program-schedule/program/5/culture-relationships-and-student-learning
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SUMMARY:Assessing teacher language with ai feedback\: authentic reflection in PK-3
DESCRIPTION:Teacher language is central to PK&ndash\;3 early literacy instruction because it shapes how young learners access content\, follow directions\, participate in classroom discourse\, and demonstrate comprehension. In early literacy classrooms\, authentic hu...
LOCATION:Virtual
SEQUENCE:0
URL:https://mitesol.dryfta.com/categories/banners/79-conference-2026/program-schedule/program/6/assessing-teacher-language-with-ai-feedback-authentic-reflection-in-pk-3
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SUMMARY:Authentic TBLT Tasks\: Connecting ESL Learning to Real-Life Experience
DESCRIPTION:This presentation introduces authentic tasks based on Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) for ESL instructors to help adult ESL learners enhance their speaking and communicative competence. Through hands-on activities\, the presenters will demonstrate...
LOCATION:Virtual
SEQUENCE:0
URL:https://mitesol.dryfta.com/categories/banners/79-conference-2026/program-schedule/program/7/authentic-tblt-tasks-connecting-esl-learning-to-real-life-experience
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SUMMARY:Letters Across Languages\: Designing Community a Multilingual Pen-Pal Program
DESCRIPTION:This workshop combines discussion\, collaborative planning\, and analysis of authentic classroom materials. Participants will examine multilingual letters and multimodal communication before working in small groups to design a multilingual penpal exper...
LOCATION:Virtual
SEQUENCE:0
URL:https://mitesol.dryfta.com/categories/banners/79-conference-2026/program-schedule/program/8/letters-across-languages-designing-community-a-multilingual-pen-pal-program
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DTSTAMP:20260926T170005Z
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SUMMARY:From Voice to Agency\: Authentic Learning for Multilingual Learners
DESCRIPTION:This interactive session explores how storytelling\, Design Thinking\, and Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) can move multilingual learners from voice to agency through authentic\, student-centered learning. Participants experience scaffolded s...
LOCATION:Virtual
SEQUENCE:0
URL:https://mitesol.dryfta.com/categories/banners/79-conference-2026/program-schedule/program/9/from-voice-to-agency-authentic-learning-for-multilingual-learners
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SUMMARY:Beyond Academic English\: Building Human Connections and Intercultural Competence
DESCRIPTION:This presentation introduces Intercultural Communication in the U.S.\, a course designed to help students move beyond academic English by building meaningful human connections and developing intercultural competence. Through identity exploration\, refl...
LOCATION:Virtual
SEQUENCE:0
URL:https://mitesol.dryfta.com/categories/banners/79-conference-2026/program-schedule/program/10/beyond-academic-english-building-human-connections-and-intercultural-competence
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SUMMARY:No Filter\, Just Connection\: Communicative Language Teaching in Practice
DESCRIPTION:How can communicative language teaching create classrooms where authentic interaction builds connection and community? Using the newly revised sixth edition of Interchange as an example of communicative language teaching in practice\, participants wil...
LOCATION:Virtual
SEQUENCE:0
URL:https://mitesol.dryfta.com/categories/banners/79-conference-2026/program-schedule/program/11/no-filter-just-connection-communicative-language-teaching-in-practice
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DTSTAMP:20260926T170005Z
DTSTART:20261024T180000Z
DTEND:20261024T184500Z
SUMMARY:A Global Perspective on AI Classroom Use
DESCRIPTION:This panel will discuss how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is used in a global context\, bringing together teachers from Indonesia\, Uzbekistan\, Turkey\, and Iraq to share how they navigate AI use in their classroom and teaching contexts. Panelists will s...
LOCATION:Virtual
SEQUENCE:0
URL:https://mitesol.dryfta.com/categories/banners/79-conference-2026/program-schedule/program/12/a-global-perspective-on-ai-classroom-use
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