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    • 13 Aug 2025
    • 7:30 AM - 4:30 PM
    • Algonquin Regional High School, 79 Bartlett ST, Northborough, MA
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    This is a Day-long workshop focused on practical strategies for guiding students to output

    When? Wednesday August 13, 2025

    Where? Algonquin Regional High School - Northborough, MA

    Who? Catherine Ritz

    Workshop Title? Achieving 90%+: Boosting Student Target Language Use and Learner Interaction

    Attaining ACTFL’s standard of 90%+ target language use for teachers and students is easier than it seems! With classroom-proven, highly effective techniques and strategies, all teachers can reach and even exceed the 90% mark. But let’s not forget about our students! Student target language use should also reach 90% of class time. With careful planning, appropriate scaffolds, clear modeling, and high expectations, students can achieve this goal. In this workshop, we’ll look at highly effective teaching strategies for increasing target language use for teachers and students and explore ways to motivate all students to use the target language to develop their oral proficiency. We’ll also explore research-based practices for cultivating a communicative learning environment, designing authentic Interpersonal communicative tasks, and establishing expectations for student target language use. We will look at numerous classroom examples with time for hands-on collaboration so that teachers can develop material for use in their own classrooms.

    Registration Deadlines

    Regular registration:  July 25, 2025
    Late registration:  August 18, 2025

    IMPORTANT!
    Cancellations: Any registrant who needs to cancel their registration while registration is still open is able to do so with a 15% fee. Once registration for the event has closed, the amount of the refund is at the discretion of the Program Director.

    Schedule:

    Wednesday, August 13

    7:30 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. - Registration
    8:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. - Morning Session (Part 1)
    10:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. - Mid-Morning Break
    10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. - Morning Session (Part 2)
    12:15 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - Lunch
    1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. - Facilitated Break-Out Session
    3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. - Afternoon Session (Part 3)

    • 23 Oct 2025
    • 8:00 AM - 8:00 PM
    • Springfield Sheraton Monarch Place
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    These Pre-Conference workshops are designed to provide in-depth training and collaboration prior to the conference.  In the morning, three six-hour workshops are offered and later in the day there is one four-hour workshops.  If you attend both the morning and afternoon sessions, you can accumulate 10 PDPs.  Note:  You can attend the Thursday, Pre-Conference workshops without attending the full Conference.  We provide this flexibility so that more of our members can take advantage of our Conference offerings.

    Workshops are listed by numbers.  For full details please check here.

    IMPORTANT!

    Cancellations: Any registrant who needs to cancel their registration while registration is still open is able to do so with a 15% fee. Once registration for the event has closed, the amount of the refund is at the discretion of the Program Director.

    • 23 Oct 2025
    • 8:00 AM
    • 25 Oct 2025
    • 3:00 PM
    • Sheraton Springfield Monarch Place
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    • 24 Oct 2025
    • 7:00 AM
    • 25 Oct 2025
    • 3:00 PM
    • Sheraton Springfield Monarch Place Hotel
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    To The Seal And Beyond!

    The MAFLA Annual Conference, October 23-25, offers members an outstanding PD opportunity for learning and collegiality. Included in the basic conference registration this year are 60-minute concurrent sessions on Friday, lunch on Friday (included in the price), and deep-dive workshops & working groups on Saturday morning. You can also register for our Saturday morning Immersion Breakfast or our Saturday afternoon Business/Awards Luncheon. On Friday, there will be a variety of companies and organizations exhibiting their products and services in the Exhibit Hall.  Please register so that you take full advantage of this newly designed MAFLA event.

    IMPORTANT!

    Cancellations: Any registrant who needs to cancel their registration while registration is still open is able to do so with a 15% fee. After October 18, the amount of the refund is at the discretion of the Conference Chair.



    • 25 Oct 2025
    • 7:00 AM - 3:00 PM
    • Sheraton Springfield Monarch Place Hotel
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    World Languages: A Core Subject

    The MAFLA Annual Conference, October 24-26, offers members an outstanding PD opportunity for learning and collegiality. Included in the basic conference registration this year are 60-minute concurrent sessions on Friday, lunch on Friday (new this year!), and deep-dive workshops & working groups on Saturday morning. You can also register for our Friday morning Leadership Breakfast, our Saturday morning Immersion Breakfast or our Saturday afternoon Business/Awards Luncheon. On Friday, there will be a variety of companies and organizations exhibiting their products and services in the Exhibit Hall.  Please register so that you take full advantage of this newly designed MAFLA event.

    IMPORTANT!

    Cancellations: Any registrant who needs to cancel their registration while registration is still open is able to do so with a 15% fee. After October 18, the amount of the refund is at the discretion of the Program Director.

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