Upcoming Professional Development Events & Presentations
November 2024 – ACTFL Convention
- Leveraging Intercultural Communication for Effective Communication
- Book signing event for Learner Feedback for Language Growth: A Guidebook for Evaluating Learner Work Using Performance Domains & Indicators
Past Professional Development Events & Presentations
October 2021. Assessing what matters. ACTFL virtual workshop for world language teachers in Spring Branch ISD, TX.
September 2021. High leverage teaching practices: Focus on feedback. ACTFL virtual workshop for the Georgia Department of Education.
September 2021. Assessing what matters: The interpersonal mode. ACTFL virtual workshop for world language teachers in Spring Branch ISD, TX.
August 2021. Assessing what matters: The presentational mode. ACTFL virtual workshop for world language teachers in Spring Branch ISD, TX.
April 2021. Rate it! Assessing student performance. ACTFL virtual workshop for world language teachers in Washington Township, NJ.
April 2021. Tasks for purposeful communication in language learning. Webinar for Extempore.
November 2020. Radicalized listening. Virtual presentation for the ACTFL Assembly of Delegates.
July 2020. Focus on feedback to help learners glow and grow. ACTFL virtual presentation for the National Foreign Language Center Virtual Summit.
March 13-14, 2020 – Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
- Rate It! Assessing Student Performance
- Grading to Promote Proficiency
February 8, 2020 – Minnesota Department of Education – Let’s Talk! Planning Lessons and Units for Communication
January 17, 2020 – ISD 196: Apple Valley, Rosemount, Eagan Public Schools – Rate It! Assessing Student Performance
November 22-23, 2019 – ACTFL Convention – Grading to Promote Proficiency
November 8, 2019 – ISD 196: Apple Valley, Rosemount, Eagan Public Schools – Proficiency+Performance=Classroom Possibilities
October 25, 2019 – Minnesota Council on the Teaching of Languages and Cultures Conference – Grading to Promote Proficiency
August 26, 2019 – ISD 196: Apple Valley, Rosemount, Eagan Public Schools – Assessing What Matters Using IPAs
August 22, 2019 – Minnetonka Public Schools – Assessing What Matters Using IPAs
June 13-14, 2019 – Minnesota Department of Education – Performance+Proficiency = Classroom Possibilities for Native American Languages
June 11, 2019 – St. Paul Public Schools – IPAs and Immersion PD for DL/I Elementary
April 11, 2019 – #langbookcafe Interview with Leslie Grahn
Performance + Proficiency = Classroom Possibilities Professional Development Series
- December 1, 2018: I Can, Can You?
- January 26, 2019: The Interpretive Dance
- February 23, 2019: Let’s Get (Inter)personal!
- April 13, 2019: Power Up the Presentational Mode
January 24, 2019 – The American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP) Inaugural Webinar, sponsored by Vista Higher Learning – Speak up! Empowering the Interpersonal Mode in the Spanish Language Classroom
December 13, 2018 – ISD 196: Apple Valley, Rosemount, Eagan Public Schools – Assessing What Matters Using IPAs
November 16-18, 2018 – ACTFL Convention
- Assembly of Delegates – Leading Change Conversations – How do we respond when educators aren’t willing to adopt effective practices?
- Turning Students into Super Heroes with Integrated Performance Assessments!
October 29, 2018 – Vista Higher Learning Webinar – Rating Student Work in the Presentational Mode
October 26-27, 2018 – MCTLC Conference
- Turning Students into Super Heroes with Integrated Performance Assessments!
- Rate it! Assessing Student Performance
October 15, 2018 – Vista Higher Learning Webinar – Rating Student Work in the Interpersonal Mode
October 1, 2018 – Vista Higher Learning Webinar – Rating Student Work in the Interpretive Mode
August 2018 – MNTS Tamil School – Rate it! Assessing Student Performance
May 2018 – MNTS Tamil School – Assessing What Matters
April 2018 – Minnesota Department of Education – Rate it! Assessing the Presentational Mode
March 2018 – Benilde-St. Margaret’s Catholic Schools – Assessing What Matters
February 2018 – Minnesota Department of Education – Rate it! Assessing the Interpersonal Mode
February 2018 – Minnesota Department of Education – Rate it! Assessing the Interpretive Mode
December 2017 – Minnesota Department of Education – Assessing What Matters
October 2017 – Osseo Public Schools – Assessing What Matters
October 2017 – Minnesota Council on the Teaching of Languages and Cultures State Conference – Speak up!
October 2017 – Minnesota Council on the Teaching of Languages and Cultures State Conference – Measuring What We Value in the K-8 Classroom
September 2017 – Minnetonka Public Schools – Rating Student Performance
August 2017 – Minnetonka Public Schools – Rating Student Performance
July 2017 – In collaboration with Minnesota Council on the Teaching of Languages and Cultures – Measuring What We Value K-8
April 2017 – Minnesota Department of Education – IP-Yay! Developing the Presentational Mode
March 2017 – Minnesota Department of Education – IP-Yay! Developing the Interpersonal Mode
February 2017 – Minnesota Department of Education – IP-Yay! Developing the Interpretive Mode
October 2016 – MCTLC Conference – Measuring What We Value
September 2016 – Minnesota Department of Education – IP-Yay! 8 Steps to Designing an IPA
October 2015 – Wayzata Public Schools Board Meeting – Using Digital Tools to Engage Students with the World
June 2015 – Minnetonka Technology Institute – Using Digital Tools to Engage Students with the World
Performance, Proficiency, Possibilities 