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Summer Institute 2026 has you seeing DOUBLE!

This summer we have TWO options for Summer Institute. Choose based on your location or desired weekend...or don't choose and attend both!!

Option 1: DFW - June 12th and 13th - Ashli Sambulak

Option 2: Houston - July 10th and 11th - Megan Whalon

Bonus Option: Attend both at a discount - only available to members!

DFW - June 12th and 13th➡️

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(This link will allow registration for each SI option)

Title:  Fill Your Cup First: Sustainable Strategies to Reignite Your Language Classroom

Location: TCU Campus (Fort Worth)

Schedule:  Friday: 8:30-11:30, 1:00-4:00 / Saturday: 8:30 - 12:00

Description:

You can't pour from an empty cup, and Texas world language teachers deserve to walk into a new year feeling energized, celebrated, and equipped!

The "Fill Your Cup First" TFLA Summer Institute is a two-day workshop (actually — it’ll be more like a retreat!) designed to help you slow down so you can speed up. Through reflection, community, hands-on strategy sessions, and resource creation, you’ll remember what you love about language teaching, and you’ll leave with the spark to prove it. No fluff. No overwhelm. Just intentional, joyful professional learning — retreat style with your language-teaching besties!

Accommodations:

Our Summer Institute occurs during the World Cup - this means you need to get your rooms NOW!!!

Title: Craft it. Wear it. Teach it. Crafting a Communicative Unit Thread by Thread

Location: Ella Banks Junior High School, 24950 Easton Ramsey Way, Richmond, TX 77406

Schedule: Friday: 8:30-11:30, 1:00-4:00 / Saturday: 8:30 - 12:00

Description:

In this hands-on, creative workshop, participants will design a fully communicative unit from input to output—while literally weaving the learning process together.

Grounded in a target culture, we will begin by centering the unit in authentic cultural contexts and essential questions. This workshop blends curriculum design, creativity, and reflection. Participants will leave with:

A framework for building culture-centered communicative units
Practical strategies for scaffolding from input to output
Ready-to-adapt task ideas
A wearable reminder that strong units—like strong communication—are intentionally woven, thread by thread
Come ready to craft, collaborate, reflect—and wear your learning.

Accommodations:

Fairfield by Marriott Inn & Suites Houston Katy

22100 Grand Corner Drive, Katy, Texas 77494

⬅️Houston - July 10th and 11th

Register Here

(This link will allow registration for each SI option)

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TFLA's Cancellation Policy

We are so thankful for your interest in this TFLA event! Because of costs associated with preparation for an event, TFLA is unable to process refunds within 30 days of the start of an event. In some cases, registration may be transferred to another individual. If there are extenuating circumstances that you feel we should consider, please email Elisabeth Howell at executivedirector@tfla.org

For those who have registered but not fully paid, failure to cancel registration before the 30 days prior to an event serves as your commitment to pay. Failure to pay a registration fee within 30-days of an event, even if you do not attend, is considered a "late cancellation", and your account will have an outstanding bill. You may be blocked from registering for another event until that outstanding bill has been paid.
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