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  • Home
    • Annual Voices Journal Submission Guidelines
  • Annual Voices Journal 2025
    • Journal 2025 Picture Word Indicative Model (PWIM)
    • Journal 2025 Creating ESL Bilingual Units
    • Journal 2025 Creating Lessons for All through Picture Books
    • Journal 2025 Faculty Resources for ML Student Success
    • Journal 2025 Fostering Inclusive Environments
  • 2025 Summer Weekly Voices
    • The Learning for Justice Website
    • The Importance of Advocacy
    • Learning a language? Four ways to smash through the dreaded ‘intermediate plateau’
    • 2025 Spring Conference Success
  • 2025 Spring Weekly Voices
    • Teaching Newcomers? Effective Writing Strategies for ELL Newcomers
    • Proposed Changes of HS Requirements for Districts and Students
    • Congratulations to April’s NJTESOL/NJBE Member of the Month: Daryl Perkins
    • Preserving Family Culture and Language: A Parent Workshop in Irvington’s Early Childhood Department
    • Trauma Informed Considerations and Strategies for Multilingual Learners
    • Addressing Student Trauma, Anxiety, and Depression
    • Free Resources to Explore and Use ChatGPT and AI
    • Countering Anti-Black Racism Committee Summer Book Study
    • Positioning Multilingual Learners for Success
    • 2025 Awards and Scholarships
    • 20 Creative ESL Role Play Ideas
    • Your New Middle School SIG Representative: Amber Ingram
  • About Us
    • Mission Statement
    • Executive Board
    • Membership Information
    • The Hotlist
    • W25 January 21

2026 Spring Conference Success!

The Spring Conference Committee would like to thank you for making this a great conference! We also appreciate your positive comments and helpful suggestions on the survey. The committee looks at them every year to see what changes are possible to improve your experience. This month, as we start our planning for 2026, your suggestions will be considered unless they have been tried in the past and did not work or are not logistically possible. Last year, following your suggestions, the committee, led by the Conference Coordinator, Caia Schlessinger, sent out a survey to our membership to gauge which sessions would be most attended. We used the data from the survey to schedule the presentations, which resulted in fewer sessions being overcrowded. Some attendees requested a designated lunch period. Please know that you can eat during sessions or you can choose a lunch time based on the schedule. If you dedicate time for lunch, you can also use that time to visit our Sponsors and Exhibitors!

The Call for Proposals will be going out in September, so if you have something to share, or something has worked for you, please put in a proposal to share your success with others. If you have a practical lesson idea for any grade, a presentation is a great way to let others know about it!

Early registration will also open in September, so you can plan ahead with your school and district so that you can attend. We hope to see you there May 19, 20, & 21, in 2026 or online!

Here are some of your best pictures from the photo caption contest and others from the conference.

You can also view current and past photo galleries here.

Thank You to Our

The Dreaded Intermediate Plateau And How to Get Past It
and
Long Term English Learners Do Worse on Tests

ARTICLES:

Learning for Justice Website
and
Learning for Justice Educator Resources

The Importance of Advocacy

Learning a language?
Four ways to smash through the dreaded ‘intermediate plateau’
-Jill Boggs, The Conversation
and
Long-term English learners do worse on tests than peers with fewer years in U.S. schools, data shows– Zaidee Stavely

2025 Spring Conference Success!

NJTESOL/NJBE Voices Editorial Board

Executive Director
Kathleen Fernandez

President
LeighAnn Matthews, Bridgewater-Raritan Public Schools

Past-President
Michelle Land, Randolph Township Schools

Layout
Dale Egan, Bergen Community College

Technology
Marilyn Pongracz, Bergen Community College

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