Alabama-Mississippi
Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages
AMTESOL 2024 Sponsor & Exhibitors
AMTESOL would like to thank our Exhibitors for helping ensure the success of the AMTESOL 2024 Conference.
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 a Mississippi-based consulting company dedicated exclusively to supporting the educational needs of multilingual learners. They provide customized professional development, technical assistance, teacher coaching and modelling, as well as student tutorials, with the ultimate goal of taking English learner instruction "to the next levEL." English Learners Engage currently supports more than 50 school districts across seven states, with a focus on Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana.
Flashlight Learning is the language development platform that helps students find their voice. Flashlight360 is a speaking and writing progress monitoring tool with scoring and feedback that gives multilingual students an asset-based platform to showcase their full language capabilities - and provides the right-now, actionable data in five areas of speaking and three areas of writing. Research shows that constructive teacher feedback during the learning process accelerates language development. Flashlight360 is the tool that empowers teachers to transform their students' speaking and writing capabilities into actionable data and illuminates the path to proficiency for multilingual students with transformative feedback to fuel growth.
DRC provides full-service assessment solutions, including high-stakes summative assessments (grades 3–8 and high school, end-of-course, and English language learner), adult education, interim/benchmark and formative assessments, and classroom diagnostic assessments.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham offers an ESL teacher education program with several options for enhancing your current career or for seeking new opportunities. You can earn a master's degree in ESL or an educational specialist degree in TESOL by taking fully online courses (same cost for in-state and out-of-state). If on a P-12 track, you can receive UAB's Teaching Multilingual Learners graduate certificate. If on an adult learners' track, you can receive UAB's Teaching English as an Additional Language graduate certificate. Alabama teachers will be eligible for ESOL certification (Class AA, A, Alt A) or dual certification – ESL/Spanish or ESL/French. These diverse tracks and options are described on a 1-page flyer-Alabama or Mississippi with more information at uab.edu/education/home/graduate/esl. UAB's ESL program will be celebrating its 25-year anniversary on April 30, 2024. Alumni and friends are invited! Celebration updates will be posted at uab.edu/education/esl-special-events.
Exhibitors
The Alabama Education Association (AEA) is the largest professional organization for education employees in Alabama, representing over 86,000 members. As a member-driven organization, the AES is committed to advancing the cause of public education, and believes every child deserves a quality education.
Bailey Education Group is committed to partnering with all schools and districts to improve the lives of all children through customized professional development and side-by-side teacher coaching, performed by certified instructional coaches with a deep understanding of state standards for Reading, Math, Science, and Social Studies.
Belhaven University is a private, Christian, liberal arts college located in Jackson, MS. Belhaven was established in 1883 with 80 areas of study in Liberal Arts offered on campus and online.
Ellevation is a mission-driven company dedicated to helping English Learners (ELs) achieve their highest aspirations. Ellevation is an indispensable partner to school district administrators, teachers and students across the United States, who use their products to manage complex program requirements, build the capacity of teachers to serve multilingual learners, and empower students with the academic language necessary for success in school. Ellevation is the only EL program management solution that goes beyond compliance and impacts instruction in every classroom. Ellevation currently serves more than 1,500 partner districts and supports 2 million students in nearly every state.
English Language Programs places highly qualified U.S. citizen educators in the field of TESOL on projects funded by the U.S. Department of State to assist U.S. Embassies in delivering English language programs and supporting public diplomacy and mutual understanding through cultural exchange. The Fellow, Specialist, and Virtual Educator Programs offer virtual and in-country assignments around the world, of varied length and requiring a range of skills and experiences in English language teaching.
Kids First Education, LLC was founded out of a sincere desire to improve teaching and learning by placing KIDS First. Their coaches and specialists have successfully teamed and worked together for more than a decade, passionate and committed to making a difference for KIDS. Kids First works with K-12 schools and districts, providing teaching and learning solutions for administrators, teachers and students. Kids First uses the "C-3 process": to Collaborate with school/district staff, Create a personalized plan, and Commit to the partnership.
KinderVision, created in 1991, is a 501c3 peer-to-peer personal safety program that focuses on children and teens. KinderVision's Teen PSA Program gives youth a voice and a vehicle to raise awareness and encourage safe behaviors. Teens create thirty-second videos (Public Service Announcements) to engage, educate, and empower each other to make good decisions and end victimization. These videos are then compiled into a resource that can be used to enhance the traditional educational setting and raise awareness throughout the school and community.
Lexmark International was founded in 1991 as a spin-off of IBM. Their home is Lexington, Kentucky, where they serve customers in more than 170 countries in many business sectors. Lexmark provides leading technology and solutions that are specific for Education, one of which is the Translation Assistant. Translation Assistant provides real-time document translation for any organization's Lexmark multifunction printer (MFP). Just scan documents in the original language using a Lexmark MFP, select the appropriate output language from several choices, and receive a translated document within minutes. The translated documents can then be printed or emailed directly to recipients, streamlining and improving communications with students and parents.
Reading Horizons supports educators with tech-enabled, evidence-based foundational reading instruction that helps all students achieve reading proficiency. For 40 years, Reading Horizons has continually aligned its instructional method with advancements in the science of reading. Adopted by more than 50,000 educators, our proven method for teaching foundational literacy is designed to prevent and remediate reading difficulties, supporting our mission to ensure students reach reading proficiency by the end of third grade. Reading Horizons is where reading momentum begins.
The University of Southern Mississippi offers a Master of Arts in the Teaching of Languages in the School of Social Science and Global Studies with an emphasis in TESOL. Study on campus or completely online! Courses are available fall, spring, and summer. Online students pay in-state tuition.
Townsend Press helps students develop reading, writing and language skills needed for success in the classroom and beyond. All of our books are available in both paper and digital format. We help students thrive.