TESOL Academy 2009
June 19-20, 2009
Charleston, SC

The TESOL Academy provides intensive, hands-on workshops for a wide variety of TESOL practitioners. The Academy features seven 10-hour workshops focused on key issues and areas of practice in the profession, from teaching a multilevel class and literacy development in content areas success to reading comprehension and writing instruction for ELLs.
Academy website


UNC-Chapel Hill Workshop For Alumni Teachers of ESL Students 
August 12, 2009
Chapel Hill, NC

The Carolina Teachers' Connection and LEARN NC will sponsor a workshop for alumni classroom teachers and their colleagues, to enrich their understanding of English as a Second Language (ESL) students and strengthen their teaching of these students. The intent is to provide a forum to gather resources and ideas so that teachers will be better equipped to help ESL students succeed in N.C. schools. Speakers will include Dr. Darla Deardoff of Duke University, Dr. Bobby Hobgood of UNC's LEARN NC, and Joanne Marino and Ivanna Thrower of the N.C. Dept. of Public Instruction.
Workshop website


First Annual Carolina TESOL and USC Upstate CARE Conference
Compassion and Realistic Expectations
Showing All Teachers How to Care for English Language Learners
August 29, 2009
Spartanburg, SC

Conceived as a beginning step toward bridging the gap in communications, this conference with provide many opportunities for mainstream and ESOL teachers to collaborate. ESOL experts are still needed for afternoon sessions to work one on one with mainstream teachers
Conference website


2009 Southeast TESOL (SETESOL) Regional Conference 
A Passion for Language and Teaching
September 17-19, 2009
Atlanta, GA
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Hispanic Achievement Conference 2009
October 8-9, 2009
Meredith College
Raleigh, NC

An educational conference, organized by the North Carolina Society of Hispanic Professionals (NCSHP), in partnership with Meredith College and the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. The conference objectives are: 1) to empower education leaders and teachers with a better knowledge of the Hispanic student population and the factors that interfere with their educational performance; 2) to learn methods and practices that help Hispanic students overcome barriers to academic success.

Featured speakers are Dr. Yvonne Freeman, a professor of bilingual education, and Dr. David Freeman, a professor of reading and ESL at The University of Texas at Brownsville. Both are interested in literacy education for English language learners.
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Carolina TESOL Fall Conference 2009
Improving the Tricks of the Trade
October 29-31, 2009
Sheraton Imperial Hotel
Durham, NC

Carolina TESOL's 2009 fall conference focuses on Improving the Tricks of the Trade. Highlights include a plenary on Response to Intervention (RtI) and English Language Learners from Barbara Marler, Education Specialist/Consultant at The Illinois Resource Center, workshops on ELLs and Special Education, Literacy and Vocabulary Development in ELLs, and even a Friday night costume ball!
Early Bird Registration ($99) runs through June 30, 2009.
Presentation proposals must be submitted by September 4, 2009
Conference website