Central States Conference
2026-03-14 08:00 - 2026-03-16 17:00 (America/Chicago)
Teach, Laugh, Repeat: Creating an Engaging Language Classroom Year-Round: This session provides elementary world language teachers with practical tips to engage and motivate young learners while fostering a positive and joyful classroom environment. Participants will explore simple, effective strategies rooted in language acquisition and child development to create fun routines, encourage active participation, and support a successful and energizing school year.

Ready, Set, Go: Transforming Language Classrooms Through Play
2025-11-21 08:00 - 2025-11-23 17:00
Discover the power of games and brain breaks to boost student engagement, enhance language acquisition, and create a joyful community classroom. Come ready to move, play, engage, and have fun. Leave with an exciting toolkit of games to energize your classroom!

ICTFL's 2025 Fall Conference
2025-10-10 13:45 - 14:40
In this session, participants will experience how intentional routines and procedures can help build a strong classroom community and create a low-stress environment in the classroom. These strategies are low-pressure yet high-impact, setting both teachers and students up for a joyful and sustainable school year.
Participants will leave with ready-to-use ideas that work at any level and provide students with daily opportunities to speak, connect, and grow their language skills through engaging and collaborative classroom routines.

2025 NNELL Summer Summit: Connecting to the Heart
2025-07-21 - 2025-07-22
I’m thrilled to be presenting at the 2025 NNELL Summer Summit: Connecting to the Heart!
Join me and a powerful community of early language educators for two days of learning, inspiration, and connection — all centered around what matters most: our students and the heart of language teaching

Conference in the Cloud
2025-07-14 - 2025-07-17
Conference in the Cloud is a virtual conference organized FOR world language teachers BY world language teachers. It is 5 days full of Acquisition-Based language teaching and learning. You get to participate as a student in classes of a language you don’t speak, observe master teachers teaching students, and unpack everything you observed and more in workshops. There is coaching, social events, and lunchtime discussions. Because teachers participate from all over the world we have classes and workshops scheduled throughout the day. You can pop in and out as you please knowing that everything is recorded and available to you for six months after the conference ends.

#CIReboot25
2025-07-07 - 2025-07-10
This conference is affordable: $169 (just $149 with your discount).

Live and recorded sessions
University credit available
Online-no travel stress
Breakout support sessions

Use code: valentina2025 to get $20 off your registration.

CI in the Mitten
2025-04-06
Join me at CI in the Mitten!
I’ll be presenting Ready, Set, Go: Transforming Language Classrooms Through Play.
A session full of games, brain breaks, and practical tools to boost engagement and bring joy to your classroom!
See you there!

Central States Conference
2025-03-15
Join me at the Central States Conference! I’m so excited to share that my presentation, Discover Your Inner Storyteller, has been selected as the Best of Illinois!

Mirrors and Windows: Crafting Inclusive Stories That Promote Language Acquisition
2025-03-14

ICTFL's 2024 Fall Conference
2024-10-17 08:00 - 2024-10-18 17:00
The Purpose Behind Intentional Routines and Classroom Procedures:
In this session, participants will experience how simple, intentional routines and procedures can help build a strong classroom community and create a low-stress environment in the classroom. These strategies are low-pressure yet high-impact, setting both teachers and students up for a joyful and sustainable school year.
Participants will leave with ready-to-use ideas that work at any level and provide students with daily opportunities to speak, connect, and grow their language skills through engaging and collaborative classroom routines.

CI SUMMIT: Elementary Lab Teacher
2024-07-17

ACTFL: The Power of Playful Teaching
2024-05-29 18:00 - 19:00
