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  • Home
  • Submission Guidelines
    • Journal Submission Guidelines
  • Annual Voices Journal 2026
    • What New Jersey Bilingual Educators need now: WIDA’s Marco DALE, the Spanish language development standards
    • Bridging Languages, Building Confidence: A Three-Year Journey with the Bridge Technique
    • Utilizing Home Languages to Support Reading Comprehension
    • Equity is a How, Not a What: Partnering with a Shared Vision for Multilingual Student Success
    • From Chalkboard Lines to AI Maps: Reimagining Sentence Diagramming for Today’s English Learners
    • Say More! With Nina and Ms. Lee
    • College Readiness – Bridging Pathways to Higher Education
  • 2026 Fall Weekly Voices
    • How to Make Feedback More Effective for Young L2 Learners
    • Helping Every Student Find Their Story
    • Meet Your Bilingual Early Childhood/ Pre-K–K Representative
    • Is your ELD curriculum aligned to the 2020 WIDA Standards Framework? Now is the time to act!
    • 3 Ways to Learn Language With Music in Primary Education
    • Strategies to Help English Learners Master New Math Skills
    • Boots on the ground! Highly Effective example of integrating ESL and Language Arts in a push-in model at the Elementary level.
    • Looking Beyond Grades for Signs of Multilingual Students’ Progress
  • 2026 Summer Weekly Voices
    • A Scaffolding Strategy to Help Experienced ELLs Express Complex Ideas
    • Free Resources to Support Students Affected by Forced Migration
    • Targeted Exercises That Develop Students’ Revision Skills
    • Keys to Making Videos Comprehensible to MLs
    • Why dual language programs may be one of our best school attendance levers
    • Getting Ready for College: What ELL Students Need to Know
    • 10 Activities to Improve Your English Grammar
    • Should You Really Use AI to Write That First Draft? (And What to Do Instead)
    • Teachers Of Intermediate & Advanced ELLs Should Consider Radically Redesigning Their Classes
    • 10 things for teachers to know about English language learners
    • Get In-Formed: The Power of Forms to Get to Know Your Students
    • A TESOL International Membership Benefit for NJTESOL/NJBE Members
    • Let Students Teach the Tools: Empower Learners From Day One
  • About Us

2026 Spring Conference Photo Gallery

The In-Person Conference

Conference preparation - enjoying conversation while working
Conference preparation - filling booklets
stuffing bags
Conference preparation - stuffing bags
attendees lined up to sign in
Signing in
breakfast
Breakfast with the sponsors
Tuesday keynote
Tuesday Keynote: Dr. Margarita Machado-Casas with Cecilia
Wednesday keynote
Wednesday Keynote, Dr. Elsa Cárdenas-Hagan
Thursday keynote
Thursday Keynote Online, Dr. Sharroky Hollie
Keynote audience
Audience listening to the keynote
teacher talking to a sponsor
Visiting a sponsor
Kathy with Jackie
Kathy Fernandez with Jackie Leon
Attendees looking at exhibitors' books
Visiting exhibitors
Jenna explaining her poster to an attendee
Poster session with Jenna Maneri
special rep
Under the Same Moon rep with Tina Kern
afternoon raffle winners
Raffle winners
Executive Board Members
Incoming and Outgoing Executive Board Members

Awards Reception

Neymar Morocho-Carranza
4th Grade Winner Neymar Morocho-Carranza
4th grade winner
4th Grade Winner Genesis Garcia-Lorenzo
8th grade winner
8th Grade Winner Aylin Mendoza-Flores
8th grade winner
8th Grade Winner Abigael Karweh
Raquel Sinai Newcomer Scholarship
Raquel Sinai Newcomer Scholarship Arshia-Abbas
Raquel Sinai Newcomer Scholarship
Raquel Sinai Newcomer Scholarship Jeff Jean-Pierre
High School Scholarship
High School Scholarship Raquel Narvaez
High School Scholarship
High School Scholarship Monserrat Mendoza-Vicente
Seal of Biliteracy Scholarship
Seal of Biliteracy Scholarship Nafisa Tabassum
Seal of Biliteracy Scholarship
Seal of Biliteracy Scholarship Jose Quintero-Rada
Higher Ed Scholarship
Higher Ed Scholarship Zihan Li
Bilingual Educator Scholarship
Bilingual Educator Scholarship Monia Abdulsamad
Judie Haynes' Teacher Grant
Judie Haynes' Teacher Grant Natalia-Hoyt
Barbara Tedesco Award for Collaborating Educators
Barbara Tedesco Award for Collaborating Educators Juliana Neno ESL & Allyson Kennedy Science
Seal of Biliteracy Superintendent
Seal of Biliteracy Superintendent Flora Encarnacao
Tina Kern Exhibitor Liaison
Thank you to Tina Kern Exhibitor Liaison

Hillside Public Schools 2026 Spring Conference Photo Caption Contest

Summer 2026 Weekly Voices

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Executive Director
Kathleen Fernandez

President
Maria Cecilia Vila Chave, Township of Ocean School District

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Michelle Land, Randolph Township Schools

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Dale Egan, Bergen Community College

Technology
Marilyn Pongracz, Retired from Bergen Community College

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