You are constantly trying to come up with fresh new ways to motivate your students to speak in Spanish and it seems like an uphill battle. Bilingual learners often associate travel or a future job as the reason they will finally NEED to speak Spanish. YET, Calgary is home to some 30,000 Spanish native speakers! These Calgarians are engineers, business-owners, artists… All of whom have something amazing to offer your students. An authentic reason to speak Spanish! 

In this session you will learn: 

• how to activate community in order to drive authentic learning in your bilingual classroom 
• tips for designing projects that engage students 
• tricks for recruiting community partners to take your projects to the next level 
• plenty of real-life examples