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Proposals for the 8th Annual SLIFE Conference - DUE March 21, 2025
Our annual conference will be at Coffman Union, at the University of Minnesota on May 3, 2025, 8:30-4:00

This conference is organized by MinneSLIFE, a standing committee of MinneTESOL, which invites proposals for its annual spring conference at the University of Minnesota. This conference brings together educators, scholars, parents, policy makers, and community members to focus on the social, cultural, and political work of educating students with limited or interrupted formal education (SLIFE). This year, we invite proposals on a wide range of topics, all with a focus on SLIFE.
  • Developing initial print literacy & numeracy
  • Educating refugee-background youth
  • Parent involvement
  • Multilingual pedagogies
  • Adult learners with limited first language literacy (LESLLA)
  • Socioemotional and mental health and trauma
  • Religion and education
  • Assessment practices
  • Advocacy and racial equity work
  • Teaching strategies
  • Histories/Ethnic Studies and SLIFE
  • Migration studies and transnational mobility paths and processes
  • Language and education policy, including the LEAPS Act
  • Intake processes, scheduling, graduation plan processes
  • Culturally relevant, anti-oppressive pedagogies
  • Oral indigenous traditions and orientations
Proposals are due March 21, 2025.  Please provide the following information to send a proposal. If you have any questions, please contact us at minneslife@gmail.com or minneslife@gmail.com

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