WIDA at Conferences

Look for us at these upcoming conferences:

American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting - April 2025

April 23-27, 2025
Denver, Colorado

Bridging Policy and Practice for Multilingual Learners Through English Language Development Standards Implementation Research
Lynn Shafer Willner and Margo Gottlieb

Exploring Bilingual/ESL Pre-service Teachers’ Sensemaking in Knowledge Co-construction as Enacted During Computer-mediated Classroom Discussion
Hannah Park

AI in Writing Classes: Exploring and Scaffolding Multilingual Students’ Agency and Critical Thinking Skills
Hannah Park

(Paper) Improving Diverse Stakeholders’ Communication and Decision-Making about K-12 Multilingual Learners with More User-Friendly, Accessible Language Assessment Tools
Lynn Shafer Willner and Margo Gottlieb

Developing Shared Leadership for Educating MLs in Rural Schools Through Collaborative Inquiry
Rebecca E. Sawyer, Jennifer Wilfrid, Elizabeth Cranley

Transforming Challenges into Opportunities: Designing and Implementing Professional Learning for Rural Educators of Multilingual Learners
Anshika Bhasin and Jen Wilfrid

Rural Cultural Wealth and Minoritized Communities: Educators' Perspectives on Teaching Multilingual Learners in Rural Schools
Anshika Bhasin and Diego Román

Learn more about AERA.

Korea TESOL (KOTESOL) International Conference - May 2025

May 10-11, 2025
Seoul, Korea

Identification of English Learners in U.S. Kindergartens: Implementing English Language Screeners
Ahyoung Alicia Kim, Jeanne Beck (WIDA Intern 2022), Haeun Kim (WIDA Intern 2021), Mark Chapman, Pauline Ho (former WIDA Project Assistant)

Learn more about KOTESOL.

New Jersey Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages/New Jersey Bilingual Educators (NJTESOL/NJBE) Conference - May 2025

May 20-22, 2025
New Brunswick, New Jersey

Revised ACCESS: Same Testing Experience, Better Classroom Connections
Lynn Shafer Willner

Integrating Structured Literacy Instruction with ELD Instruction
Lynn Shafer Willner

AI and ELD: A Powerful Partnership
Lynn Shafer Willner

(Drop-in Session) Leveraging the Expressive Language Charts
Lynn Shafer Willner

Learn more about NJTESOL/NJBE.

Massachusetts Association of Teachers of Speakers of Other Languages (MATSOL) Conference - May 2025

May 28-30, 2025
Framingham, Massachusetts

WIDA Language Charts: A New Tool to Support Classroom Assessment
Margo Gottlieb

Learn more about MATSOL.

Language Testing Research Colloquium (LTRC) - June 2025

June 4-8, 2025
Bangkok, Thailand

Assembling, adapting, adopting: the development and implementation of standards and frameworks for young learners
Margo Gottlieb, Lynn Shafer Willner (WIDA); Carolyn Westbrook, Richard Spiby, Jonathan Cruise (British Council, UK); Masashi Negishi (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan); Wu Sha (National Education Examination Authority, China)

Young learner affect in assessment: An interactional multimodal analysis
Gordon West, Jason Kemp, Shea Head

Charting the Landscape of K-12 Educators’ Views on Automated Writing Scoring & Feedback
Jason Kemp and Lynn Shafer Willner

(Poster) Redesigning a Kindergarten to Grade 12 ELP Assessment Score Report: Gathering Evidence from Multiple Perspectives
Alicia Kim, Jason Kemp, Fabiana MacMillan, Daisy Chang (UW-Madison graduate student), Kerry Pusey (2024 WIDA Assessment intern)

Learn more about LTRC.

Carolina TESOL Conference - November 2025

November 5-7, 2025
Charlotte, North Carolina

WIDA ACCESS: Connecting Standards to Revisions
Jason A. Kemp

Amplifying Student Voices: Transforming ACCESS Prep into Meaningful Learning
Tamara J. Coburn and Jason A. Kemp

Learn more about Carolina TESOL.

Indiana TESOL Conference (INTESOL) - November 2025

November 22, 2025
Indianapolis, Indiana

Keynote presentation
Timothy Boals

Learn more about INTESOL.