7:30 a.m. to 3:10 p.m.
5101 California Avenue
Bakersfield, CA 93309
Phone: (661) 325-9700
Join us for the 26th Annual Building Bridges Conference, Unmasking Best Practices, where we will explore sources of inspiration and other topics of importance to our discipline area.
Building Bridges provides college and high school English, ESL, and reading teachers opportunities to connect with publishers and colleagues, attend breakout sessions on a wide range of topics, and share teaching successes with each other.
Continental breakfast and lunch are provided!
This Year's Theme: Unmasking Best Practices
English educators face the challenge of shrinking resources with increased accountability in student success. Gone are the days of teaching without formal reflection on correlating curricula to content area standards or student learning outcomes, all with the goal of transitioning students to college. K-12 instructors saw the paradigm shift first with education reforms in No Child Left Behind, and later, Race to the Top, which precipitated the shift to Common Core. Soon after, universities and colleges joined the conversation that continues today. Thus, the 26th Annual Building Bridges Conference will address the vital role that English faculty play in acting as agents of innovation and First-Year Experience, Basic Skills, Learning Communities, English as a Second Language, Technology in the Classroom, Responding to Papers, Teaching Research, Teaching Reading, Critical Thinking, Grammar/Usage, Learning Disabilities, Coping with Student Attitudes, or any topic related to teaching composition, literature, or ESL.
English educators face the challenge of shrinking resources with increased accountability in student success. Gone are the days of teaching without formal reflection on correlating curricula to content area standards or student learning outcomes, all with the goal of transitioning students to college. K-12 instructors saw the paradigm shift first with education reforms in No Child Left Behind, and later, Race to the Top, which precipitated the shift to Common Core. Soon after, universities and colleges joined the conversation that continues today. Thus, the 26th Annual Building Bridges Conference will address the vital role that English faculty play in acting as agents of innovation and First-Year Experience, Basic Skills, Learning Communities, English as a Second Language, Technology in the Classroom, Responding to Papers, Teaching Research, Teaching Reading, Critical Thinking, Grammar/Usage, Learning Disabilities, Coping with Student Attitudes, or any topic related to teaching composition, literature, or ESL.
Register for the Conference
For the registration form and deadline, click the "Registration" tab at the top of this page.
Note: If, after registering, you cannot attend, kindly send a cancellation message to the Conference Coordinator.
Call for Proposals
For the proposal form and deadline, click the "Call for Proposals" tab at the top of this page.
As in years past, we know that we will have superb presentations by outstanding presenters--faculty from our campuses. If you have an idea for a group or individual presentation on a topic relevant to the teaching of composition, ESL, and literature, please submit your proposal to the planning committee for consideration.
