2004 Conference Abstracts and Times

MIDTESOL 2004
Kansas City area October 2004
MIDTESOL Fall 2004 Conference:
“Campaigning for Excellence in ESL”
http://ccpe.smsu.edu/midtesol

Dates:
    Friday, Oct. 22 & Saturday, Oct. 23, 2004
Location:
    Hilton Garden Inn, Independence, MO
    Accommodations - costs

Registration Starts July 15, 2004
Cost:
    Before October 1:
     $60 members;
     $75 nonmembers (includes one-year membership fee);
     $35 full-time students (includes student membership)
Late and on-site registration:
     $80 (does not include one-year membership fee);
     $45 full-time students (does not include student membership)
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Conference Abstracts and Times

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Friday, October 22, 2004
Morning Workshop: Onsite registration 8:00 am; workshop 8:30 am to 11:30 am
Lunch (not provided) 11:30 am to 1:00 pm
Afternoon Workshop: Onsite registration 12:30 pm; workshop 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm Conference Registration: 5:00 pm
Concurrent Sessions: 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Reception: 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Saturday, October 23, 2004
Registration: 8:00 am
Concurrent Sessions: 8:30 am to 10:30 am
Plenary Session: 10:45 am to 12:15 pm
Lunch (provided): 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm
Concurrent Sessions: 1:45 pm to 3:15 pm

Pre-conference morning workshop presenter:
    Mark A. Grey, Ph.D., Director, New Iowans Program, UNI - "Immigrants and Integration: The Political and Economic Context for ESL Education in the United States."
Pre-conference afternoon workshop presenter:     Margo Gottlieb "Standards-based Assessment, Curriculum, and Instruction" (bio below)

Saturday plenary speaker: Margo Gottlieb

    Margo Gottlieb is director of assessment and evaluation at the Illinois Resource Center, in Des Plaines, Illinois. She has served as chair of TESOL's ESEA Reauthorization Task Force and is coeditor of Tips from the Classroom for the TESOL Journal. As a member of the ESL Standards and Assessment Project, she contributed to various TESOL publications on the TESOL pre-K-12 ESL standards.