Event Details and Documents

Accommodations

Attendees who wish to stay at the Delta can take advantage of our group hotel rate of $259 per night. This rate will be available until Tuesday, September 2.

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Networking Day

Schedule (PDF)

 

Friday, October 3, 2025

Delta Hotel Ottawa City Centre
101 Lyon Street N, Ottawa, ON K1R 5T9

Meeting Room: Pinnacle (PH Level)

Eastern Time (Last updated: September 30, 2025)

8:00 am – 9:00 am:	Registration and Breakfast
9:00 am – 9:15 am:	Networking Day Welcome – James Steele, MC and Yasmina Lemieux, President
9:15 am – 10:15 am:	Keynote Workshop – Celebrating All Voices: Supporting Additional Language Learners Callie Mady
10:15 am – 10:30 am:	Break
10:30 am – 11:30 am:	Interactive Panel Session – Bridging Borders: Pathways and Solutions for Internationally Trained Language Teachers Panelists: Eric Keunne, Asmaa Mostefaoui, and Florence Sedaminou Muratet Moderator: Philippa Parks
11:30 am – 12:15 pm:	Conversations That Connect: Language, Diversity, and Success
12:15 pm – 1:15 pm:	Lunch/Break
1:15 pm – 3:00 pm:	CASLT’s 2025 Annual General Meeting (+ bylaws)
3:00 pm – 3:15 pm:	Break
3:15 pm – 3:45 pm:	CASLT Awards (H. H. Stern Award, Robert Roy Award, and Honorary Lifetime Member Award)
3:45 pm – 4:00 pm:	Closing Remarks
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm:	Networking Reception

Sessions

Keynote Workshop

Celebrating All Voices: Supporting Additional Language Learners

Presented by Callie Mady

In today’s language classrooms, every student brings a unique blend of languages, cultures, and experiences. Many students arrive already speaking two or more languages. Additional language learners (ALLs) are students who are adding one or more new languages to their repertoire, offering rich linguistic and cultural resources that can enhance learning for all.

This interactive workshop invites educators and community stakeholders to explore how to use these multilingual repertoires as powerful assets. Drawing on practical, research-based strategies, the session examines ways to support ALLs in the language classroom and to leverage their skills to enrich the learning community.

Participants will engage with concepts such as plurilingualism, translanguaging, and culturally responsive teaching, reflecting on personal and professional experiences while exploring approaches to transform classrooms into inclusive, linguistically rich environments. Through hands-on activities, real-world scenarios, and resource sharing, participants will discover strategies that affirm identity, celebrate diversity, and foster academic success. Blending academic insight with practical tools, the workshop will provide a framework for creating classrooms where every language is valued and every learner thrives.

Interactive Panel Session

Bridging Borders: Pathways and Solutions for Internationally Trained Language Teachers

Panelists: Eric Keunne, Asmaa Mostefaoui, and Florence Sedaminou Muratet

Moderator: Philippa Parks

With language teacher shortages growing across Canada, internationally trained language educators are increasingly vital to the country’s classrooms. Yet these teachers face a complex array of challenges, including credential recognition and certification requirements, navigating new pedagogical approaches, and adapting to unfamiliar classroom cultures and expectations. Barriers emerge well before their arrival in Canada and extend throughout their careers.

This interactive panel discussion brings together three academic experts — two internationally trained teachers (one of them now an administrator) and a teacher trainer — to explore these realities from multiple perspectives. Panelists will share lived experiences, highlight systemic and day-to-day obstacles, and discuss practical strategies to better support internationally trained educators at every stage in their journeys.

Conversations That Connect: Language, Diversity, and Success

In this dynamic world café-style session, participants will gather for a series of small-group conversations exploring key themes from the keynote workshop and panel discussion. This highly interactive format encourages the exchange of ideas, strategies, and lived experiences, while fostering new connections across roles and regions. The session will provide rich opportunities to share resources, connect with colleagues, and collaboratively envision strategies that value and support every language, learner, and educator.

 

Annual General Meeting

Documents

Agenda (PDF)

 

Friday, October 3, 2025, 1:15 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. ET

Chair of AGM: James Steele

1. Call to order
2. Adoption of the agenda
3. Minutes of the Annual General Meeting from October 4, 2024
4. Business arising from the 2024 minutes
5. Amendments to Bylaw No. 1
6. Reports
   1. Treasurer’s Report – Trish Kolber
   2. Auditors’ Report
   3. Nomination of financial auditors for the 2025-2026 fiscal year
   4. President’s Report – Yasmina Lemieux
   5. 2025-2026 Programming – Katherine Mueller
7. Introduction of the Board of Directors
8. Introduction of the National Council
9. Thanks
10. Adjournment

Minutes from the 2024 AGM (PDF)

 

Bylaw No. 1 and Proposed Amendments (PDF)

 

Financial statements (PDF)

 

Annual Report (PDF)

 

 

Sponsors

Thank you to the sponsor of our 2025 AGM and Networking Day.

 

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