In this presentation, Kia D. London shares her insights and strategies on achieving better organization for personal and professional effectiveness. She advocates for prioritizing tasks by making necessary sacrifices and remembering one's core motivators. London stresses the utility of tools like planners, timers, and the Asana app to manage time efficiently, and reminds teachers that managing one’s environment is essential. Ultimately, aligning goals and priorities can lead to clarity, progress, and a motivated outlook on time management.

Set Yourself Up to Be Digitally Organized this Year by Lisa McHargue - Spanish Teacher and Digital Organizer
In her presentation on digital organization, Lisa McHargue offers practical strategies for teachers and online business owners to efficiently sort and manage their digital files, emails, and online resources. She introduces the use of unit hubs for lesson planning and advises against the replication of outdated resources and cluttering valuable digital space. Other tools are recommended for organizing and categorizing various resources with tags for ease of searching.

In this presentation, Jared Romey introduces the Efficient Spanish Teacher Framework, a system designed to help language teachers reduce workload and stress, allowing them to leave work at school. Drawing from his extensive experience organizing the World Language Teacher Summit and collaborating with over 150 language educators, Jared outlines five core areas: classroom management, lesson planning, instructional time, grading, and assessments. By implementing these strategies, teachers can cut 5 to 20 hours from their workload each month, making their teaching experience smoother and more efficient. Though designed for Spanish teachers, these concepts apply to all world language educators.

Heather shares various tips to promote daily routines in the classroom in order to achieve better results, make students feel more comfortable, and improve cooperative work. She presents different activities such as games, surveys, task cards, and icebreakers to use in class. These activities not only help teachers with their planning but also serve to motivate students to learn and have fun at the same time.

In this presentation, Allison Wienhold introduces engaging and consistent starters for world language classes in her educational session. She suggests different activities for each day of the week, catering to varied student levels and focusing on building a positive, inclusive classroom community. By employing set routines, she explains how teachers can save time and mental energy while enhancing student engagement.

In this presentation, Bryce emphasizes the importance of engaging students through special person interviews in language classes. He shares inspiring examples of how personalized interviews with students who have unique interests and talents can create a positive and psychologically safe learning environment. By using active listening, follow-up questions, and a variety of question types, teachers can build rapport and trust with students, ultimately making language learning a positive and enjoyable experience for all. With a focus on personalized discussions and student-centered learning, special person interviews allow teachers to better connect with their students while they grow student-focused community within the classes and school.

In this presentation, Yulyan Anderson, explores how artificial intelligence, specifically ChatGPT, can significantly ease the workload of world language teachers. She highlights AI's potential to create various educational resources, including lesson plans, worksheets, emails, quizzes, and presentations. Anderson also shares specific AI tools like QuizGecko, Write Cream, and OpExams, which aid in creating diverse assessments and quizzes, enhancing instructional quality and productivity.