The MIWLA Presents

2009 Annual Conference

Causeway Bay Hotel (Formerly the Holiday Inn South)

October 15 - 16, 2009

Keynote Speakers and Conference Costs:

Thursday, October 15 Keynote Speaker   Mr. John DeMado	Since 1993, Mr. De Mado has directed John De Mado Language Seminars, Inc., a full-service consulting firm dealing exclusively with language acquisition issues. He has also been the Foreign Language Instructional Leader to Shepaug Valley Regional School District #12 in Connecticut where his primary task was to articulate a K-12, content-related language program. He is co-author of Allez, viens! and Bien dit!, high school, proficiency-based, French programs published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, En Avant and En Route, a middle school, proficiency-based, French program published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, co-author of ¡Viva el español!, a primary/ elementary school Spanish program published by The Wright Group, McGraw-Hill, Inc. and co-author of Keystone, a middle/ high school ELL program published by Pearson Longman Publishers. John has also consulted to the US Department of Defense Schools in Europe. A member of several national, regional and state language organizations, John is best known for his motivational keynotes, provocative conference sessions and insightful professional and staff development workshops. Mr. De Mado has also produced and recorded instructional Spanish and French rap CD/ DVDs entitled ¡Festejemos! and La Boutique Magique, respectively. Each features 10 original raps and animations designed to teach specific language functions and related vocabulary. John DeMado Language Seminars
Friday, October 16 Keynote Speaker Mr. Tom Welch	A native of Nebraska, Tom holds degrees from Asbury College and the University of Kentucky.  He has served in a variety of education-related positions, first as a classroom teacher (Kentucky Teacher of the Year, 1992) and then curriculum consultant at the Kentucky Department of Education. As a principal, he opened up a new public high school in Nicholasville, KY where for six years he was a teaching principal, insisting that all administrators also teach one class every day.  During that time he taught speech, an introductory math class, history, humanities, French and a class in entrepreneurship. Mr. Welch left East Jessamine High to oversee the education initiatives of Kentucky’s Economic Development Cabinet’s Office for the New Economy.  From there he transitioned to the Kentucky Department of Education where he was the “Director of Seeding Innovation” in the Division of Virtual and Secondary Schools.  One of the projects Tom was involved in there included helping oversee the development of an online course in Mandarin Chinese. In the past year Tom has visited schools and universities across the U. S. as well as in France and China. He currently works extensively as an independent consultant with the International Center for Leadership in Education and CCSSO, the Council of Chief State School Officers and other state and national agencies.  One of his current projects is focused on the establishment of a series of virtual learning magnets. Tom Welch Consulting
2009-2010 Membership Fees: (You must be a member in order to attend the conference.)	Regular Member:  $30 Retired Member:  $10 Student Member:  $10
Conference Registration Fees (before 10/1/2009):	Regular Member:  $55 Retired Member:  $10 Student Member:  $10 3-hour workshops:  $30 each Target language Luncheon (Thursday):  $17 Awards Luncheon (Friday):  $20 Teacher's Night Out (Thursday):  $5
Conference Registration Fees (after 10/1/2009):	Regular Member:  $70 Retired Member:  $15 Student Member:  $15 3-hour workshops:  $30 each Target language Luncheon (Thursday):  $17 Awards Luncheon (Friday):  $20 Teacher's Night Out (Thursday):  $5