Fall 2026 CoTESOL Convention
48th Annual CoTESOL Convention for ESL and multilingual education professionals.
Sessions (65)
Check In
Continental Breakfast
Exhibits
FRIDAY OPENING KEYNOTE: Attention TESOL Professionals: The Globe IS Our Campus. Empowering Our Multilingual Learners to Ignite Positive Change…It All Begins with Us!
HE/IEP SIG FEATURED PRESENTATION: Strategies to Uplift and Empower Your Teaching Community
Cross-Institutional Partnerships for TESOL Teacher Development and Multilingual Learner Success
Divide and Conquer: Maximizing Co-Teaching Through Specific Facilitator Roles
Elevating Academic Vocabulary Learning Through Structured Conversations and Visuals
Empowered and Engaged: Reimagining Adult EFL Online with Purposeful Participation
Intentional Co-Teaching for Multilingual Learners
Making Complex Text Accessible to Experienced Multilinguals
Making Language Stick: Practical Strategies for Combining Scaffolding, the Lexical Approach, and Vocabulary Recycling
Research and Resources for Newcomers and ML Students
Teaching That Sticks: Comprehensible Input for Inspired Language Learning
Bringing High School Multilingual Students Together: DCSD's Youth Multilingual Conference
Building the Literacy Trinity: A Daily Routine for Strengthening Knowledge, Vocabulary and Writing
ED TECH SIG FEATURED PRESENTATION: From Translation to Language Transformation: The TAIL Model for Empowering MLs with Technology
Read, Write, Play: Joyful Literacy for Children at the Boulder Public Library District
Supporting SLIFE and ML Students from Trauma-Affected Backgrounds
Mastering Academic Vocabulary and Content: Practical Routines for Secondary ELLs
Raffle!
A Whole New World: Preparing Newcomer Students for Classroom Success
EFL Online Teaching/Learning: Insights from the Cameroon Distance Education Center
Enhancing Vocabulary Development for English Learners in Adult Literacy Education
From Classroom to Newsroom: Empowering Beginning Writers Through Collaborative Publishing
Global Citizenship in the Language Classroom: Teaching the UN SDGs
Making Language and Content Accessible to All Students
SOPOL SIG FEATURED SPEAKER: Supporting Immigrant Students in a Time of Fear
Unlocking More Resources with Intercambio
Welcoming Newcomer Students: Essential Knowledge, Resources, and Skills in the Teaching of Newcomer Students
Broadening Access to the Seal of Biliteracy in Rural & Mountain Districts: A Peer-Led Dialogue
Enhancing Refugee ELLs’ Digital Literacy with Trauma-Informed SLA
Essential Belonging through the Transformational Equity Framework
From Newcomers to Native Speakers: Teaching Tools and Techniques that Work
SE SIG FEATURED SPEAKER: Every Teacher is a Language Teacher: Building Systems that Empower CLDE Staff and Multilingual Learners
Shadowing: What Is It? And Does It Work?
SIG Networking
Sound It Out: Supporting Learners through Practical Pronunciation Strategies
AI Prompt Engineering for Enhanced Lesson Planning: Hyper-focused Success for CLD
Developing and Piloting a Secondary Newcomer Welcome Week
Digital Literacy Skills in Support of Adult English Language Learners
EE SIG FEATURED PRESENTATION: Maintain Rigor with Strategic Questioning
Supporting Secondary Students New to Country
Teaching English and High School Agency to Highly Mobile Agricultural Students and Out of School Youth through the Title I-C Family Education Program and the Innovative Services for Out of School Yout
Zero Prep: Ready-to-Go Activities for the Language Classroom
"Proud to Be Bilingual" Project
FRIDAY CLOSING KEYNOTE: Finding Empowerment and Inspiration Today
Raffle #2!
Certificate of Attendance (Fillable)
SATURDAY OPENING KEYNOTE: Embracing Our Role: Empowering Learners and Leading by Example
CA SIG FEATURED PRESENTATION: Teaching and Learning in Linguistically Inclusive Spaces
Culturally Immersive Learning: Living Traditions in Action
Education in the Age of AI: Power of Slow Education for International Students’ Success
Enhancing Writing with Padlet
Like-Peer Comparative Data
Putting Your Oxygen Mask on First: How We as Teachers of English Language Learners Can Support Ourselves and Our Peers During This Time of Sociopolitical Uncertainty
Reading with Purpose: Real-Life Literacy that Inspires and Equips
TE/AR SIG FEATURED PRESENTATION: Building Strong Relationships With Students to Support Social-Emotional Development in Elementary Classrooms
Translanguaging Design and Shifts that Support Multilingual Students' Learning and Sense of Belonging
Advocacy in Times of Strife: Cutting through the Disquiet to Help Instigate Meaningful Change
AE SIG FEATURED SPEAKER: Pronunciation Instruction in a Hybrid Flexible ESL Classroom
Coming Out of the Teaching Trenches!
ELL Strategy Library from Colorin Colorado!
SATURDAY CLOSING KEYNOTE: Beyond Grammar and Vocabulary: Courageous Care and Audacious Hope in the (Language) Classroom
CoTESOL Annual Business Meeting and Luncheon