The Conference on Instruction for Multilingual Advancement, CIMA, is our annual conference focused on empowering and equipping stakeholders in the fields of bilingual, ESL and LOTE education. Through our conference each year, we strive to support the teachers and administrators in of our region each by providing sessions that build upon the linguistic and cultural resources of language learners in our region. This year’s theme is Equity and Social Justice through Language.
While our focus to provide quality sessions remains unchanged, we have adjusted the way we are delivering content to meet the needs of all stakeholders. CIMA will be 100% online this year and in order to accommodate the busy daytime schedules of educators, it will take place from 3 pm to 6 pm on March 2 & 3. Additionally, to ensure access to every presentation, all participants will have access to the recordings of each session following the conference.
Want to grab a discount on your CIMA attendance? We've got three tiers of early bird discounts for those that register in advance for our conference. Discounts are applied during the registration process in ecampus.
Early Bird: Now through Jan 15th with discount code CIMA140
Right on Time: Jan 16th through Feb 5th with discount code CIMA160
Just in Time: Feb 6th through Feb 9th with discount code CIMA180
Lorena Germán
Lorena is a Dominican American educator focused on anti racist and anti bias education. She’s a two time nationally awarded educator and has been featured in the New York Times, NCTE journals, ASCD, EdWeek, and more. She published The Anti Racist Teacher: ReadingInstruction Workbook, and is currently working on a book with Heinemann (2021) about curriculum development focused on social justice. She’s a co-founder of #DisruptTexts and TheMulticultural Classroom and Chair of NCTE’s Committee Against Racism and Bias in theTeaching of English. Lorena lives in Austin, Texas where she is a mami and wife- two of her most important roles.
Keynote Description
What does it mean to teach young people language and literacy in a way that leads to positive social transformation? While there is so much buzz around teaching for equity and doing anti racist work in education, not too many of us educators know what that means in practice. Through this keynote, we will explore the why and how for teaching through and for racial justice. You will learn about a stance that can support your work, a framework to design your content, and strategies for implementing these ideas with students. My hope for us is that we can end our time together with a series of tools to bring back to our classrooms that will equip our students to be the justice-oriented leaders we need them to be.
Dr. Edith Treviño
Dr. Edith Treviño, also known as “Dr ET” is a dynamic presenter, self-taught edtech, storyteller, author, advocate of language, wife, mother, friend, and passionate educator who lives and teaches in La Frontera. Dr. ET is an immigrant from Coahuila Mexico, and as a resident alien proudly served in the United States Army Reserves. Dr. ET resides with her family in the Rio Grande Valley. Dr. ET is the Dreamer In Chief of Dr. ET & Company, LLC.
You will find empowering teachers, parents, and students all over Texas.
ET holds a Doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis on Bilingual Studies from The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, a Master of Education degree from Sul Ross State University, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Elementary Education from Edinboro University in Pennsylvania.
The Cinco Super Powers of Bilingualism
This session will cover the Cinco (5) gifts of being bilingual. This will be a fun and innovative session which will empower bilingual teachers with the mindset and self efficacy that is needed in bilingual education. Within the five gifts, also exists the power that we unleash within our own students.
Marie Douglass
Marie Douglass is the Round Rock ISD World Language K-12 and Secondary ESL Coordinator in Round
Rock, Texas.
She is a National Board certified teacher and taught French (levels I- AP and IB) and Spanish (Levels I & II) for
19 years in middle school and high school settings. She was a Department Chair for 12 years on various
campuses. She has served on the 2013-2014 review committee for the LOTE Texas Essential Knowledge and
Skills with the Texas Education Agency.
She has served on the Executive Board of the Texas Foreign Language Association (TFLA) as president elect,
president, and past president. She has also served as the SWCOLT (Southwest Conference on Language
Teaching) representative for the National Association of District Supervisors of Foreign languages (NADSFL).
She currently serves as the current President-Elect of the Texas Association for Language Supervision
(TALS).
Teaching World Languages through the lens of Social justice with
In this session, attendees will learn about the reason for inclusion of social justice instruction in the world language classroom. They will also explore how social justice education connects with the standards and skills that frame world language education today.
Join our Multilingual Conference
Spend a day with fellow bilingual, ESL, LOTE, and other Multilingual specialists learning best practice instructional strategies.
