Real Learning in a Virtual Space
At WAESOL, we want to encourage you in your continued efforts to support your students and develop as teaching professionals. To this end, we were honored to launch WAESOL Online in April 2020, attracting a great many participants. We continue this new tradition now.
Net proceeds of WAESOL Online go toward supporting WAESOL Grants, Awards, and Conference Scholarships. WAESOL is a registered WA non profit/charity and an IRS 501(c)3 .
WAESOL Online is continuing in 2026-27.
Pricing: Each 2-hour training is only $15 for WAESOL members, $25 for non-members. Be sure to become a WAESOL member prior to registering to ensure member pricing. All sessions qualify for WA State clock hours (included with registration).
If you are interested in providing a two-hour online training, please contact joan@waesol.org .
Wednesday, September 16, 2026
History Music Videos as Language Content
with Teresa Knudsen
- Date: September 16, 2026
- Time: 4:30pm – 6:30pm Pacific Time
- Live Online
Participants will have opportunities to observe several YouTube music videos related to historical events. During this time, participants will take guided notes, and then have time to share and discuss their notes and observations with the presenter and other participants. Then, participants have time to explore other music videos that can be used in their classrooms, either as anticipatory sets to instructional topics or units, to meet their individual, institutional, and state objectives and goals. The workshop provides plenty of time to share music videos they discover and share their discoveries with participants.
While the focus is on using music videos to enhance language learners’ abilities, the music videos can be applied to STEM, TPEP, and CRT through the various topics and themes of the music videos.
Objectives:
- By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to have a general knowledge of various YouTube music videos related to historical events in the world.
- Participants will be able to relate these music videos to their own objectives and goals for their language learners.
Presenter: Teresa Knudsen
Teresa Knudsen has taught language learners at Eastern Washington University, Gonzaga University, Community Colleges of Spokane, and Washington Academy of Languages. She taught in the TESOL/TESL undergraduate and graduate classes at Seattle Pacific University and Whitworth University. She is presently full-time faculty at Mukogawa US Campus. She studied at the University of Texas at Austin, Columbia University, Gonzaga University, and Eastern Washington University. Her research interests include motion media, metacognition, and portfolios. She has presented at the American Educational Research Association, TESOL International, WAESOL, Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, and the Spokane Regional ESL Conference.
Wednesday, October 28, 2026
Who Gets to Speak? Designing More Equitable Participation in Multilingual Classrooms
with Juliana Ferreira and Ana Paula Barreto
- Date: October 28, 2026
- Time: 4:30pm – 6:30pm Pacific Time
- Live Online
This interactive workshop explores how classroom participation is shaped not only by students’ linguistic proficiency or confidence, but also by the ways teachers structure opportunities to speak, listen, collaborate, and demonstrate knowledge. Drawing on research in multilingual education, classroom discourse, and language ideologies, participants will examine how everyday practices such as whole-class discussion, questioning, group work, and peer review can either reproduce or redistribute opportunities for participation and recognition.
Through discussion, reflection, and practical activities, participants will consider how assumptions about “good English,” fluency, and appropriate classroom participation influence multilingual learners’ experiences. The workshop will introduce strategies for designing more inclusive participation structures that allow multilingual learners to contribute meaningfully and exercise greater agency in classroom interaction. Participants will leave with concrete approaches they can adapt to their own teaching contexts.
Objectives:
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Identify how classroom participation structures can create unequal opportunities for multilingual learners to contribute, be heard, and demonstrate knowledge.
- Examine how assumptions about “good English,” fluency, and participation can shape teachers’ expectations of multilingual learners.
- Analyze common classroom participation practices through an equity-oriented lens.
- Apply practical strategies for structuring discussions, collaborative activities, and peer review to increase meaningful participation among multilingual learners.
- Develop or revise a classroom activity that creates more equitable opportunities for multilingual students to contribute using their full linguistic and communicative repertoires.
Presenters:
Juliana Ferreira and Ana Paula Barreto are both graduate students at the University of Washington in Seattle. Each is pursuing a Master’s in Teaching English as a Second Language and are very interested in Language Pedagogy. Both from Brazil, the presenters are experienced teachers promoting the learning of Portuguese in the Seattle area.
Pricing: Each 2-hour workshop is $15 for WAESOL members, $25 for non-members. Be sure to become a WAESOL member prior to registering to ensure member pricing. All sessions qualify for WA State clock hours (included w/registration).
If you are interested in providing an on-line training through WAESOL Online, please contact joan@waesol.org with your ideas for a 2-hour online training.