ABSTRACT
Ready to take your English teaching to the next level? Empower your students to thrive as critical thinkers, global citizens, and confident communicators in today’s complex world!
Join TESOL’s 2024 Teacher of the Year, Dr. Luis Javier Pentón Herrera, for an uplifting and transformational session that will reimagine how you teach English. Discover how integrating multiple literacies—visual, textual, social, global, and media—makes learning more dynamic, relevant, and inspiring.
With real-life classroom stories and actionable strategies, Dr. Pentón Herrera will show you how to ignite your students’ curiosity, help them tackle life’s big questions, and inspire them to take meaningful action beyond the classroom.
Walk away energized and equipped with innovative ideas to make English teaching impactful, exciting, and unforgettable. Your students are ready—are you? |
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DR. LUIS PENTÓN
Author and TESOL’s 2024
Teacher of the Year
Luis Javier Pentón Herrera, Ph.D., is an award-winning Spanish and English educator and a best-selling author. In 2024, he was selected as the 2024 TESOL Teacher of the Year, awarded by the TESOL International Association and National Geographic Learning. He is a Professor (Profesor uczelni, in Polish) at Akademia Ekonomiczno-Humanistyczna w Warszawie, Poland and Co-Editor of Tapestry: A Multimedia Journal for Teachers and English Learners. Further, he is a Fulbright and English Language Specialist with the U.S. Department of State.
Previously, he served as the 38th President of Maryland TESOL from 2018 to 2019, and earned the rank of Sergeant while serving in the United States Marine Corps (USMC). Two of his professional accolades include the ‘30 Up and Coming Emerging Leaders in TESOL’, awarded by TESOL International Association in 2016, and the J. Estill Alexander Future Leader in Literacy Award, awarded by the Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers (ALER) in 2018 when his dissertation was chosen as ALER’s 2018 Outstanding Dissertation of the Year.
Dr. Pentón Herrera’s current teaching and research projects are situated at the intersection of identity, emotions, and well-being in language and literacy education, social-emotional learning (SEL), autoethnography and storytelling, refugee education, and language weaponization. His books can be found in University of Michigan Press, Routledge, Springer, Brill/Sense, De Gruyter, TESOL Press, Bucharest University Press, and Rowman & Littlefield. Originally from La Habana, Cuba, Dr. Pentón Herrera enjoys creative writing, playing with his two doggies, Virgo and Maui, and running in his free time.
You can connect with Dr. Pentón Herrera on his Instagram: @luisjavierpentonherrera and on his website https://luispenton.com/. |
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