Saturday, November 14 Morning Sessions at a Glance
ROOM	8:45-10:00
Jefferson	PLENARY Let me take you there: On the power of language mastery and reading to transform lives Judith Ortiz Cofer
	10:15-11:00	11:15-12:00
Jefferson	Improvisational English Jon Wilkerson AE, SE, GA, IEP / HE
Boulder	Great Writing: Less grading, smarter grammar, more vocabulary Keith Folse AE, SE, GA, IEP / HE	Challenges and solutions for pre-university Libyan students Rebecca Fisher, Heidi Peterson, Nasser Bireni, Karen Barker IEP / HE
Cherry/Plum	Improvisational storytelling Cayenna Johnson AE, BE, IEP / HE	Re-imagining vocabulary: A triathlon of activities Debra Daise, Charl Norloff, Ruth Moore SE, IEP / HE
Conifer
Evergreen	Knock, knock. Who’s there? A high school Non-English Proficient (NEP) student Stephanie Johnson, Lisa Hatfield PA, SE, GA	Writing prompts that will engage your students Juli Lamb AE, IEP / HE
Golden	Accountable talk within cooperative structure Lia Ridley BE, EE, SE
Parker	Multicultural classrooms and cross-cultural communication Connie Davis AE, GA
Spruce	How to choose a good ESL textbook Kathleen Santopietro Weddel AE, PA, GA	Implementing an ESL mentorship program Patricia Baker, Teddie Ryan EE, PA, SE
West A		Grammar Form and Function, Second Edition Pierre Montagano (Publisher Session: McGraw-Hill)
West B	Making professional development work John Sivell, Sasima Charubusp Al, PA, GA	Move students to grade level performance with Inside Christine Muldoon (Publisher Session: Hampton-Brown/National Geographic)
West C	Information literate students Dana Plewka (Publisher Session: Denver Post)	Four steps to improving functional writing assessment (FWA) performance Elizabeth Rogers AE
West D	Accelerating vocabulary: The on-ramp to academic success John Ade, Tara Maceyak (Publisher Session: Pearson Longman)	Latinas empowered: Group exploration with a school setting Marilee Cloonan, Stacy Athow AL, BE, SE
West E	Exploring language ideologies with video Madeleine Adkins AE, AL, BE, SE, IEP / HE	Beyond Conversation class Helen Nielsen PA, IEP / HE
Arapahoe / Douglas	Publishers’ Exhibits (Coffee Breaks – 7:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon)

Adult Education (AE), Bilingual Education (BE), Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL), Elementary Education (EE), Program Administration (PA) , Secondary Education (SE), General Audience (GA), Intensive English Programs / Higher Education (IEP / HE), Teacher Education / Action Research (TE / AR)

Judith Ortiz Cofer

Plenary (Saturday 8:45 – 10:00 Jefferson) Let me take you there: On the power of language mastery and reading to transform lives Judith Ortiz Cofer As the author of both young adult and adult books, Judith Ortiz Cofer will, through selected readings from her works and discussions, share the journey through language that took her from being the silent non-English speaking Puerto Rican girl in the back of the class, to becoming the English professor, poet, and novelist that she is today. Born in Puerto Rico and raised in Paterson, New Jersey, Judith Ortiz Cofer now makes her home in Georgia. She is the author of A Love Story Beginning in Spanish:  Poems (2005); Call Me Maria (2006), a young adult novel; The Meaning of Consuelo (2003), a novel; Woman in Front of the Sun: On Becoming a Writer (2000), a collection of essays; An Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio (1995), a collection of short stories; The Line of the Sun (1989), a novel; Silent Dancing (1990), a collection of essays and poetry; two books of poetry, Terms of Survival (1987) and Reaching for the Mainland (1987); and The Latin Deli: Prose and Poetry (1993).  Her work has appeared in The Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, Southern Review, Glamour and other journals. Her work has been included in numerous textbooks and anthologies including: Best American Essays 1991, The Norton Book of Women's Lives, The Norton Introduction to Literature, The Norton Introduction to Poetry, The Heath Anthology of American Literature, The Pushcart Prize, and the O. Henry Prize Stories.