Call for Proposals: Kentucky World Language Association 2025 Fall Conference
Creating Vibrant Learning Experiences for World Language Learners
In-Person Event: Saturday, September 13, 2025
University of Kentucky, Jacobs Science Building
Lexington, KY

KWLA is excited to offer our annual in-person conference in September 2025! Please join us at the lovely University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky, as we turn our attention to how to create vibrant learning experiences.

We are looking for proposals for 45-minute regular sessions for inclusion on Saturday, September 13.

By submitting your proposal, you are committing to attend the conference on this date. Presenters whose proposals are accepted but back out of the conference may not be considered for future opportunities. Presenters will be responsible for their own transportation, lodging, and registration but will be offered a reduced registration rate.

All submissions due by June 15, 2025 at 11:59 PM central. Acceptance emails will be sent by mid-July.
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Creating Vibrant Learning Experiences
As you draft your proposal, please consider the following:
The state of Kentucky is adopting the Portrait of a Learner as part of the public education accountability model. Vibrant Learning Experiences, according to the state, allow students to demonstrate their capacities in one or more of the following areas:
  • Engaged Citizen: Shows respect and empathy across differences, embraces diversity of opinion, seeks cultural understanding, participates in the democratic process to challenge the status quo, and makes a positive impact on their community and the world.
  • Critical Thinker: Thinks deeply and makes informed decisions to create solutions or new understanding supported by relevant and reliable evidence.
  • Effective Communicator: Engages diverse audiences respectfully by exchanging ideas and information responsibly, listening actively, speaking and writing clearly, and using print and digital media appropriately.
  • Empowered Learner: Demonstrates mastery and application of academic competencies. Develops the skills and dispositions to persist through difficulties and plan for a future of self-improvement.
  • Creative Contributor: Interprets experiences, imagines and plays with new possibilities with curiosity, and creates approaches that are novel, useful, and valued by the world around them.
  • Productive Collaborator: Engages with others to achieve a common goal through building positive relationships, actively listening, showing empathy, and making individual contributions to a larger group.
How will my session inspire attendees to create a learning experience that encourages engagement and interaction?

How will participants identify, create, and implement vibrant learning experiences?

How can world language teachers create environments where students feel confident and motivated to take ownership of their learning, becoming empowered learners and strong communicators?
Session Title *
Do any of the following apply to your session? *
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Session Series
KWLA is happy to consider multiple proposals as part of a multi-session series, with the same or different presenters (for example, one session on designing rubrics, another on designing project-based assessments, and a third on providing feedback). If you would be interested in this format, please submit a separate proposal for each session/workshop, and note in the description that it is ideally part of a series.
Description. Write a description of your session as you wish it to appear in the conference program. Descriptions should be limited to 100 words, in English, and be free of errors. Only the first 100 words will be considered in the proposal review. *
Which of the following aspects of "Portrait of a Learner" will be most evident in your session? *
Required
"I Can" Statements. Include 1-3 statements in an "I can" format to describe what attendees will know and be able to do as a result of your session. This will be included in the conference program. *
Strategies. For reviewer information only, what concrete strategies will you use during your session to engage your audience and give opportunity for attendee voice? *
What language(s) will be used to present the session? *
Required
What language(s) will be visible in examples of activities or student work? *
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The presenter(s) of this session currently teach/have taught language at which level(s)? *
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The content of the presentation will be most appropriate for teachers of... *
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Lead Presenter Information
Name to appear on conference materials (including any preferred titles) *
Affiliation (School, District, Organization, etc.) *
Cell Phone Number (in case contact needed during the conference) *
Email (should be checked regularly throughout the summer) *
Co-presenter Information (optional)
Co-presenter Name to appear on conference materials (including any preferred titles)
Co-presenter Affiliation (School, District, Organization, etc.)
Co-presenter Email (should be checked regularly throughout the summer)
If there are more than 2 presenters, please provide names, affiliations, and contact emails for each.
A copy of your responses will be emailed to the address you provided.
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