7:30-8:30 - Registration; Continental Breakfast; Publisher Exhibits
8:20-8:45 - Opening Remarks
8:45-9:30 - Publisher Presentations: Antoinett Greensky and Elvis Becerra of Allyn/Bacon Longman; Jennifer Sano and Dennis Adams of Bedford St. Martin's; Quentin Murphy of Cambridge University Press; Joy Ecklund and Alison Henry of Houghton Mifflin; Jonathan Boggs of Longman/ESL.
9:30-9:50 - Coffee Break
9:55-10:55 - Breakout Sessions: "Grading ESL Essays Fairly" by Sara Beheseta and Jeannie Parent of BC; "An Approach to Teaching Poetry" by Kerrie Buis of BC and COS; "Best Practices: Sharing Our Experiences" by Chris Chung-Wee of Taft; "Departmental Norming" by David Hurst of COS, Susan Regier of PC, and Valerie Turner of CSUB.11:00-11:45 - Publisher Presentations: Brian Gore of McGraw-Hill; Ron Barasch of Oxford University Press; Cheryl Smith and Valerie Turner of Prentice Hall; Liz Poulsen and Alex Kasuboske of Thomson Learning; Erin Chenoweth of Thomson Learning/ESL.
12:00-1:20 - Fiesta Buffet Lunch
1:25-2:25 - Breakout Sessions: "Using Technology in the ESL Classroom" by John Hart of BC; "The How's and Why's of Increasing Student Contact" by Brenda Freaney and Paula Parks of BC; "Critical Thinking via Audience Awarenesse" by Cheryl Hogue Smith of CSUB; "Research Paper" by Gary Graupman of Taft and Kate Pluta of BC.
2:25-2:40 - Chocolate and Cheesecake Dessert Break!
2:40-3:40 - Breakout Sessions: "Designing and Effective Research Writing Course" by Gloria Dumler and Denise Mitchell of BC; "Craft-Oriented Composition Assignments" by Robert Vasquez of COS; "Handling the English Instructor Paper Load" by Kim Flachmann of CSUB; "Reading Journals and Idea Notebooks" by Randi Brummett De Leon and Brooke Hughes of CSUB.
3:40-4:00 - Wrap-Up!
