Fall 2026 CoTESOL Convention: Full Schedule

Welcome to the 48th Annual CoTESOL Fall Convention!
Dates: November 14-15, 2025
Location: The Conference Center, Adams 12 Five Star Schools, 1500 E. 128th Ave., Thornton, CO 80241

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9:50am MDT

CA SIG FEATURED PRESENTATION: Teaching and Learning in Linguistically Inclusive Spaces

Sunday May 10, 2026 9:50am - 10:35am MDT

Cottonwood

Before we educators begin to design and implement linguistically inclusive practices for our students, we must examine our own linguistic repertoires and consider how we can bravely create inclusion through building community, confidence/confianza, and complexity. In this session, we will have the opportunity to analyze and design activities through a translanguaging lens.

CDE CLDE Credit: 5.10(2) ELEMENT B

Audience: Content Area

Speakers

Kira Cunningham

Durango School District, SIG Featured Speaker

Kira Cunningham has over 25 years of experience in education including as a student liaison with the Migrant Education program, elementary classroom teacher, English language development (ELD) teacher, professional learning specialist with WIDA, and district ELD program coordinator... Read More →

Deidre Hiles

Deidre Hiles is an unapologetically practical middle-school ELD Specialist in Durango, Colorado who firmly believes that language acquisition should be a party, not a puzzle. After years of teaching Spanish and attempting to master the art of the pre-teen negotiation, she is here... Read More →

Sunday May 10, 2026 9:50am - 10:35am MDT
Cottonwood

Content Area (CA)

Speaker Type Invited Speaker
Session Type Presentation (45 min.)
CDE CLDE Credit CDE CLDE Credit

10:45am MDT

ELL Strategy Library from Colorin Colorado!

Sunday May 10, 2026 10:45am - 11:30am MDT

Cottonwood

This session addresses the specific needs of multilingual learners who have reached the ‘developing’ stage of language acquisition. These students in grades 3-12 can decode text, but they may not always understand what they’ve read. This session provides concrete strategies for making even grade-level content texts comprehensible for these students.

CDE CLDE Credit: 5.12 Quality Standard IV Element A

Audience: Elementary Education (EE); Secondary Education (SE)

Speakers

Beth Skelton

Consultant, Educational Consultants, LLC

Beth Skelton @easkelton has over 30 years of experience as a language educator and holds a master’s degree in multicultural teacher education. She has worked with early childhood, elementary, middle, high school and adult language learners in rural, urban, suburban, and international school settings... Read More →

Sunday May 10, 2026 10:45am - 11:30am MDT
Cottonwood

Secondary Education (SE)

Speaker Type Academic
Session Type Presentation (45 min.)
CDE CLDE Credit CDE CLDE Credit

Fall 2026 CoTESOL Convention

9:50am MDT

Kira Cunningham

Deidre Hiles

Deidre Hiles

10:45am MDT

Beth Skelton

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