MITTENCI

Registration is open for the MittenCI Conference, April 4th-5th, 2025. Mitten CI will be held at Saline High School on Friday, April 4th from 4:30-7:00 and Saturday, April 5th from 7:30 A.M.-5:30 P.M. Registration includes sessions on Friday and Saturday, snacks and beverages on Friday, light breakfast, snack, lunch, and beverages on Saturday.

Full registration- $160 Regular Price
Student registration- $50

2025 Keynote: Annabelle Williamson

We are proud to welcome Annabelle Williamson as our keynote for MittenCi 2025!
Annabelle Williamson, also known as "La Maestra Loca," is a dynamic language educator who loves inspiring others with innovative strategies and her passion for languages and cultures. Teaching Spanish in New Orleans, her 12-year journey spans continents and all age and language levels. With a Master's in Education and K-12 Foreign Language certification, Annabelle promotes global perspectives and strives to create an equitable and empowering classroom for all learners. Her teaching philosophy centers on fostering a love of culture and language through joyful, movement filled, acquisition-driven instruction. Named Louisiana's 2018 Foreign Language Teacher of the Year, she empowers educators worldwide through "La Familia Loca PLC" and engages 250,000+ educators through her website, blog, podcast, and social media.
Our theme this year is simply, "Joy" and we cannot think of a better person to bring joy to all of you!

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Why a Comprehensible Input conference in Michigan?

Comprehensible Input is a different way of teaching a second (or third or fourth) language. The focus is on comprehensible and interesting input, communicable language, pacing teaching to our student's learning progress, and using to the way our brains naturally learn to increase language acquisition. To learn more about this method of teaching please go to the 'about' section of our website.

Several summers ago, Michigan CI educators working together at IFLT and CiMidwest decided it was time to bring a Comprehensible Input conference to the Mitten state. MittenCI became a reality because all of the excited teachers at IFLT and CiMidwest inspired us to continue to share this effective and fun method of teaching. There are many amazing educators in the Great Lakes area, and we hope to support you by bringing an exciting day of training close to home. Comprehensible Input in the Mitten, on the path to language acquisition.

Photos 2018

Language Lab 2018

Conference in Review w/ Darren Way

Mark your calendar!! MittenCI will be back April 4th and April 5th!

Why a pre-conference and a conference instead of a 2 day conference?
The MittenCi team works hard to give you a high quality training opportunity at a low price. Friday, April 4th will be a smaller event in the evening at Saline High School, a snack will be provided. The Friday pre-conference will offer a few popular longer trainings that would be hard to host on Saturday. This will allow teachers that attend Friday to take advantage of different sessions on Saturday. The Friday pre-conference is covered in the cost of registration. There is no Saturday only price available.

Presenters coming soon...

Kristy Placido, Haiyun Lu, A.C. Quintero, Claudia Elliot, and many more inspiring CI teachers.

Mitten CI features CI presentations, Open Coaching, great food, collegiality, and giveaways for teachers!
Will apply for Michigan SCHEC credits (more coming soon).

Kristy Placido

A.C. Quintero

Claudia Elliot

Conference
Organizers

Erica Peplinski-Burge, Beth Gregones, Rebecca Moulton, & our amazing volunteers!

Erica Peplinski-Burge

Beth Gregones

Rebecca Moulton

How do I contact you if I have questions?
[email protected]

Sponsors & Donors

We would like to thank our sponsor Saline Area Schools for the support and use of the beautiful facilities. We would also like to thank the SAS Culinary students for the food, Mr. Rodriguez and his graphic design students for the logo, and SAS Honors and World Language students for greeting and assisting teachers during the conference.