CI Midwest Fall Conference 2024

October 11,12 2024

Ripon High School

850 Tiger Drive

Ripon, WI 54971

SPECIALS:

BUY ONE GET 50% OFF: Sign up with a friend and Save! Each ticket type has a Special ticket option. Buy two tickets - one for you and one for a colleague or friend - and get the second ticket at 50%!

GROUP RATE FOR DISTRICT COLLEAGUES: Register 3 or more colleagues from the same school or district and get 30% off your ticket price. Contact us at [email protected] for more details.

FULL REGISTRATION includes Friday Workshops and Saturday Keynote and Breakouts

Ticket Type : Beginner: Elementary - Space is limited and a ticket is required for Amy Roe's Elementary-focused "Teaching with ADI 101"

Ticket Type: Beginner: Secondary - Beginner: Secondary - Space is limited and a ticket is required for Haiyun Lu and Donna Tatum John's Secondary-focused "Ignite Your Teaching Magic"

Ticket Type: Full Registration - this ticket is for those who wish to attend self-selected Friday workshops (other than those presented by Amy Roe, Haiyun Lu, and Donna Tatum Johns). See workshops listed below.

SATURDAY ONLY REGISTRATION includes Keynote and Breakouts

Ticket type: Saturday Only - buy this ticket if you cannot attend on Friday.

EXHIBITOR REGISTRATION Exhibitors display and sell their products throughout the conference. Ticket includes one 6' table. Ticket includes admission TO THE EXHIBITOR HALL for 2 representatives. Ticket allows ONE REPRESENTATIVE to attend keynote, workshops and sessions throughout the conference. ** See add-ons to add lunch tickets and session admission for additional representatives during ticket purchasing**

DISCOUNTED REGISTRATION:

Discounted registration available for many participants, including:

• pre-service teacher
• administrator
• first year teacher
• college professor

The Comprehensible Midwest Conference empowers teachers to create joyful, personalized, effective and equitable language acquisition through instruction based on comprehensible input. As a collaborative community, we safely support teachers to connect with each other and to teach in ways that respond to students' cultural and linguistic identities. Every year we bring in some of the nation’s foremost trainers in teaching with comprehensible input while simultaneously lifting up and supporting the voices of local and regional teachers who are striving to make their language instruction more personalized, inclusive and equitable.

Any teacher of a world language, regardless of context, who wishes to increase engagement, joy and effectiveness of their teaching environment will benefit from attending Comprehensible Midwest. If you believe that each of your students can acquire language and want to learn how to increase retention over time and overall achievement, developing real and measurable fluency, then this conference is for you.

"The language that we inhabit gives us our place of belonging. The language that we inhabit gives us our memories. We have memories of our lands and ancestors. When we write, we write from those memories and from that belonging, and that gives our stories an authenticity that is impossible to match."

Adriana Ramirez is a Spanish teacher, author, teacher trainer, presenter and curriculum consultant. She shares her knowledge and experience of more than 20 years in the classroom by constantly training other teachers on how to teach with Comprehensible Input methodologies, and how to incorporate anti-bias and anti-racist work into the language classroom. Adriana has trained and worked with teachers in Canada, the United States and Europe.

Originally from Colombia, Adriana actively works to reclaim the stories and narratives that are part of her roots and heritage. She is a huge advocate of the #OwnVoices movement and believes strongly that those who come from traditionally oppressed and colonized countries and territories must reclaim their right to tell their own stories and build their own narratives.

Adriana holds a double major in Psychology, a degree in Clinical Psychology and a Masters in Education.

• Ignite Your Teaching Magic: Unleashing Acquisition-Driven Instruction in Style! - Led by Donna Tatum Johns from the Kentucky Country Day School in Louisville, KY and Haiyun Lu from Fountain Valley School in Colorado Springs, CO. SELECT THIS WORKSHOP TICKET TO RESERVE YOUR SPACE.
• Teaching with Acquisition Driven Instruction in the ELEMENTARY classroom 101 - Led by Amy Roe, Breck School, Minneapolis. SELECT THIS WORKSHOP TICKET TO RESERVE YOUR SPACE

• Integrating Afro-Latinos into Comprehensible Input Curriculum - A 3 hr workshop applicable to both beginning and experienced CI teachers led by Jennifer Whyte from the Donoho School in Anniston, Alabama.
• Embracing Diversity in Latin America through Comprehensible Input: Afro-Latino Literature and Language - A 3 hr workshop applicable to both beginning and experienced CI teachers led by Jennifer Whyte from the Donoho School in Anniston, Alabama.
• Unlocking the Power of Reading:Strategies for Pre-Reading, Reading, and Post-Reading Success - A 3 hr workshop applicable to both beginning and experienced CI teachers led by Dahiana Castro from Long Beach, CA.

• A Scale Model of Three Instructional Hours - A 3 hr workshop for experienced CI teachers led by Justin Slocum from Ann Arbor, MI.
• 20 Things to Do with a Text - A 3 hr workshop for experienced CI teachers led by Justin Slocum from Ann Arbor, MI.

Friday 8:00am-5pm

Saturday 8:00am-4:30pm

Breakout sessions will be organized in strands to optimize the experience for attendees who teach in specific contexts or want to dive deep into a particular topic. Strands will include, but are not limited to

The Conference will be held at Ripon High School in Ripon, WI 54971 (Map)

Contact us at [email protected] to verify your status as:

• pre-service teacher
• administrator
• first year teacher
• college professor

Upon verification we will provide a 30% discount code.

Email us at [email protected] for purchasing via check or Purchase Order

Conference registration includes the following coffee breaks and on-site professionally catered meals with vegetarian options available:

Friday: Light breakfast and coffee

Saturday: Light breakfast and coffee, catered lunch.

We are securing blocks for hotels in and near Ripon. Please check back for more details.

Host or Publisher Comprehensible Midwest