KWLA Fall Conference: October 11-13, 2007

The 2007 KWLA Fall Conference promises to be another outstanding professional development experience. We invite you to join us in Louisville to hear success stories, discover challenges, and find solutions for teaching world languages in today's classroom. KWLA is proud to offer you a wide variety of sessions and workshops touching all levels of instruction and covering numerous topics of second language acquisition. You'll leave the conference energized with ideas you can use in the classroom and connections that will provide you support throughout the year.

EXCITING HALF-DAY WORKSHOPS

These optional workshops will help you make the most of your conference experience. Most are "hands-on" experiences, and all will provide plenty of interaction and discussion time. Include your payment with your conference registration. Workshop participants must also be registered for the conference (see workshop guidelines below). Pre-registration deadline is October 5. Learn more →

MORE SESSIONS!

You asked for more sessions and KWLA is delivering! This year's conference will provide you access to almost 60 special-interest sessions starting on Friday afternoon. Get a sneak peak of the conference program by reviewing some of the session titles offered in six different thematic strands. Learn more →

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

KWLA is proud to announce that Dr. Stephen Krashen, Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Southern California will be giving the keynote address during the General Session on Saturday. Dr. Krashen will also be giving the Feature Workshop on Saturday. Learn more →

CONFERENCE PASSPORT

SAVE, SAVE, SAVE and get the most out of your conference experience. Your Conference Passport includes your conference registration, wine & cheese reception (Friday), your choice of immersion dinner (Friday), breakfast coupon, awards luncheon (Saturday), 2007/2008 KWLA membership fees AND a choice of workshops. There is only a limited number of conference passports available starting at $99.00. Learn more →

NEW IMMERSION DINNERS

The popular language specific immersion dinners are continuing in 2007 in new locations. Spanish teachers are invited to attend a dinner reception at the popluar Louisville restaurant Havana Rumba. French teachers are being hosted by the Alliance Française Louisville. Locations for the German and Latin dinner will be announced soon. Teachers of Japanese may contact KAJLT President, Carole Terkula (carole.terkula@jefferson.kyschools.us) with suggestions for a 2007 location.