Alabama-Mississippi
Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages
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AMTESOL 2026 Sponsors & Exhibitors
AMTESOL would like to thank our Sponsors and Exhibitors for helping ensure the success of the AMTESOL 2026 Conference in Flowood, Mississippi.
Passport Contest
Visit all the in-person Exhibitor booths and collect your digital "stamps" in the Whova app. All attendees who collect all the stamps will be in the prize draw.
Sponsors
English Learners Engage is Mississippi and Alabama's only major locally based multilingual learner focused company. We have been providing professional development, teacher coaching and modeling, family engagement events, student tutorials and English Language Proficiency Test boot camps throughout the deep south for several years - and getting big results. EL Engage's owner, Dr. Monique Henderson, also is the author of the popular book 31 Things Your English Learners Want You to Know: Lessons from the Classroom, which is in use in more than 60 school districts across the U.S. She also published a sequel to the book in 2023. Let's talk today about how you can take YOUR organization's English learners "to the next levEL!"
Ellii rhymes with jelly, belly, deli, tele, bassanelli, Shelly and Kelly. Ellii is a comprehensive digital platform that empowers English language teachers around the world with high-quality content and interactive courseware. Ellii can be easily integrated into an existing curriculum, or it can serve as the primary source of teaching materials for both in-person and online classes. Where English teachers thrive: Ellii helps you deliver better learning outcomes for all your English students.
Flashlight360 is a formative assessment tool that gives students a platform to showcase their speaking and writing skills, giving teachers a better understanding of the needs of their English learning students and the insights needed throughout the year to accelerate language development.
school ai is flexible AI built for classrooms. An AI platform loved by teachers and made to support every learner. Meet every student where they are: Quickly personalize learning experiences to each student's speed, style, and struggles. Administrate less and inspire more: Create lesson plans, rubrics, assessments, and more in minutes, not hours. See the struggle before they're behind: See who's struggling in real-time so you know exactly how to help.
Exhibitors
The Alabama Education Association (AEA) is the largest education association in the state of Alabama. The AEA is an advocate organization that leads the movement for excellence in education and is the voice of education professionals in Alabama. Our mission is to promote educational excellence. The Alabama Education Association provides legal assistance, professional development opportunities, great member benefits, and a strong voice for education in the Alabama Legislature. The AEA serves as the advocate for its members and leads in the advancement of equitable and quality public education for Alabama’s diverse population.
Bailey Education Group offers comprehensive solutions for K-12 educational settings, including coaching and professional development services in teacher effectiveness, assessment and data systems, tutorial services, leadership development, federal programs and more.
BBB Educational Enterprises believes in the power of rich content, technology and professional services. We work with leading companies in the space of literacy and technology as well as provide our own extensive professional development offerings. The landscape of education is literally transforming daily and there is the potential to revolutionize the way our children learn. That’s where we come in. Our experience of working within education for over 4 decades allows us to think differently. We partner with educators to help support great solutions within PreK to 12 education. At the end of the day, it is about supporting students, teachers, and administrators as we approach any work we do. We look forward to partnering with you as we tackle the educational needs ahead of us.
Belhaven University is a private, Christian, liberal arts college located in Jackson, MS. Belhaven was established in 1883. The university offers traditional programs as well as fully online undergraduate, certificates and graduate programs with more than 40 areas of study. You can complete your degree quickly and affordably. A degree from Belhaven University can be a powerful catalyst for shaping your future. Belhaven's commitment to academic excellence and its diverse range of degree programs equips students with the knowledge, skills, and values needed to succeed in their chosen fields. Whether you're pursuing a degree online or on campus, Belhaven's supportive and dedicated faculty provide an environment where your talents and potential can flourish. With a Christian education from Belhaven University, you'll be well-prepared to make a positive impact in your career, your community, and the world, ensuring a promising and fulfilling future.
Ellevation Education empowers educators to make informed instructional decisions that improve outcomes for English learners (ELs). By combining real-time student data with tailored professional development, Ellevation provides EL educators with the tools needed to build exceptional systems of student support.
ELPA21 is a comprehensive English language proficiency assessment and instructional system designed to support English learners and their educators. ELPA21's innovative assessments are fair, accessible, reliable, and inclusive. ELPA21 is aligned with college- and career-ready content standards and backed by psychometrics and research to meet state priorities, peer review, and English learner needs. Assessments include a screener, summative, and alternate ELP summative.
The Excellence Group, LLC is an educational consulting organization that focuses on providing support to school districts, school administrators, and educators. Our mission is to foster educational excellence among Mississippi’s public school children. We offer superior quality in our services, which include professional development catered to the needs of your district and/or school, school business consulting, using curriculum to raise test scores, and comprehensive school improvement. We believe that every child deserves the best education possible. We also believe educational excellence is the key to building better communities, attracting business and industry, and improving the quality of life for our citizens. At The Excellence Group, we believe in utilizing school-specific solutions to assist teachers and students in fulfilling their potential. Guided by this philosophy, our passion is to help schools find promise in their students and staff, and fulfill promises that we, as educators, have made to our children and communities.
McGraw Hill is a leading global provider of education solutions for preK-12, higher education and professional learning. Unlocking the potential of each learner: Our vision is to empower every educator to engage their students with personalized learning experiences that enrich the unique ways they learn, teach and grow. At McGraw Hill, we support the evolving needs of educators and learners with trusted, high-quality content and digital solutions that use data and learning science to help students progress toward their goals.
Mississippi Professional Educators (MPE) is the premier association for professional educators in Mississippi. In addition to our professional liability protection and legal assistance, MPE provides numerous opportunities and resources, including grants, scholarships, and professional development, to support our members’ professional growth. Serving nearly 12,000 teachers, administrators, and support personnel, MPE is Mississippi’s largest organization for professional educators.
At National Geographic Learning, a part of Cengage, we believe education is one of the great transformative forces of this century. Our goal is to help learners experience the world through authentic global content. We create English programs that are inspiring, real, and relevant. Through our partnerships with National Geographic and TED, students develop the language and skills they need to be successful global citizens and leaders.
Reading Horizons is a phonics-based reading program designed for beginning and struggling readers that uses a systematic and explicit approach to build foundational literacy skills such as decoding, spelling, and comprehension. Its “Reading Horizons Method” teaches the 44 sounds of the English language, the Five Phonetic Skills, and the Two Decoding Skills, empowering students to decode words of any length with confidence. The program supports a wide range of learners and instructional settings, including: K–2 Tier 1 instruction, providing a strong core foundation in early literacy; Multilingual learners, with clear, structured routines that make English phonics transparent; Students receiving special education services, offering explicit, scaffolded instruction; Students with dyslexia, using an approach aligned with the science of reading and structured literacy; Intervention and Tier 2–3 settings, delivering targeted, skill-based support; Learners of all levels and ages, from young beginners to older striving readers. This structured, predictable instructional framework helps all learners access grade-level literacy content and develop the decoding and encoding skills necessary for fluent reading.
Savvas Learning Company is a global education company that produces award-winning learning solutions that empower educators and engage students with the highest quality content. Recognized as an industry leader, we serve millions of K-12 learners with innovative, student-centered educational programs that turn today’s classrooms into active learning environments. By embracing technology, personalized learning, and immersive experiences delivered across multiple platforms, we design our learning solutions to be more accessible and relevant to each student. Our award-winning, high-quality instructional materials span every grade level and discipline, from evidence-based, standards-aligned core curricula and supplemental and intervention programs to state-of-the-art assessment tools and the industry’s most innovative portfolio of college and career readiness solutions — all designed to meet the needs of every learner.
Summit K12 offers engaging, standards-based online programs to support English learners in reading, writing, listening and speaking thus helping close achievement gaps and ensure growth.
Toadstool Bookshops have been supplying quality educational material to teachers and educators for over 50 years.
Townsend Press is committed to helping students develop the reading, writing, and language skills needed for success in the classroom and beyond. All facets of our company--our student friendly print and digital materials, our reasonable prices, our industry-best customer service, and our many special offers, donations, and community partnerships--support this core mission: we help students thrive.
The UAB ESL Program is fully online and offers a master's of arts degree in education (ESL or ESL/French or ESL/Spanish), an educational specialist degree and a graduate certificate. We offer a variety of tracks so that you can choose whether pursuing Class A or AA P-12 certification in Alabama is right for your career path or not.
The MATL program at The University of Southern Mississippi is designed for both new and experienced educators seeking to deepen their expertise in teaching English, French, or Spanish. Rooted in culturally responsive pedagogy, the fully online program offers flexible pathways in TESOL and World Language education and is intentionally structured to support working professionals. Join a supportive, forward-thinking community that helps you grow—wherever you are in your teaching journey. Teach languages. Build bridges. Empower multilingual learners.