I have presented and/or consulted at over 70 colleges, universities, and public schools around the U.S. and the world about teaching heritage speakers, dual language education, and raising bilingual children.
Those with a link have a video available at http://potowski.org/video.
(This list does NOT include conference presentations, only invitations to campuses, schools, and community groups.)
About teaching heritage speakers (those marked with a * involved more in-depth consulting about the heritage speaker program):
Center for Teaching for Biliteracy, Chicago, IL. April 2018.
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Indianapolis chapter. April 2018.
Network of Illinois Educators of Spanish as a Heritage Language. February 2018.
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Chicago chapter. February 2018.
University of Calgary, January 2018
*Florida International University, November 2017
Cervantes Institute, New York City, March 2017
Dennison College, February 2017
Network of Illinois Educators of Spanish for Native Speakers, February 2017
*University of Nevada, Reno. January 2017
Polish Saturday School Network, December 2016
German Language School Conference, November 2016
*Northwestern University, November 2016
*University of Wisconsin Parkside, October 2016
*Indiana University, September 2016.
Annual Conference for Community-Based Heritage Language Schools: Promoting Collaboration among Educators, Families, and Researchers. American University, Washington D.C., September 2016.
*Luther College, September 2016
Archdiocese of Miami. August 2016.
Anáhuac University, Mexico: Puebla and Oaxaca campuses. May 2016, Sponsored by the U.S. Embassy
College of Staten Island - The City University of New York. April 2016
New York University (invited by Greg Guy), April 2016.
Centre College, KY. March 2016
Coastal Carolina University, October 2015
Monterey Institute for International Studies, September 2015
*University of Colorado Denver, May 2015
Harvard University, May 2015
Cervantes Institute, Boston, May 2015
Illinois Wesleyan University. April 2015
*Ohio State University, March 2015
Villanova University, February 2015
LaGuardia Community College, New York City. October 2014
Illinois Wesleyan University. February 2014
California State University, Long Beach. December 2013
Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL. September 2013
*Western Michigan University, April 2013
Evanston/Skokie School District, IL. April 2013
*Valley View School District, Joliet, IL. March 2013
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. September 2012
St. Olaf College. September 2012
Universidad Autónoma de Benito Juárez, Oaxaca, Mexico. February 2012
Cervantes Institute Online. November 2011
Beloit College, October 2011
The University of Genoa, Italy, May 2011
Harvard University, April 2011
Skidmore College, April 2011
Tulane University, April 2011
Cervantes Institute, New York City and Brown University, March 2011
Lehman College of the City University of New York. March 2011
California State University-Long Beach, February 2011
*The University of Wisconsin-Madison. April 2010
Indiana University, Bloomington. April 2010
The University of Illinois at Chicago. March 2010
Northwestern University, February 2010
San Diego State University, October 2009
Brigham Young University. October 25- 29, 2009
University of Oregon, September 2009
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. April 2009
*University of San Diego, April 2009
Ohio University, Athens, OH. October 2008
Austin Community College. November 2008
Western Illinois University, March 2008
*University of North Carolina-Wilmington, February 2008
UNAM, San Antonio, TX. September 2008
University of Salamanca, Spain. March 26- 30, 2007
Monmouth College, Galesburg IL, September 2007
*York High School, Elmhurst, IL. January 2007
*Whitney Young High School, Chicago, IL. October 2006
*Morton College, Cicero, IL. October 2006
Illinois State University, February 2006
*DePaul University, February 2006
*U of I at Urbana-Champaign, August 1999
About U.S. Spanish:
Brandeis University, February 2018
Western Oregon University, February 2017
* Frank Porter Graham dual language school, Chapel Hill, NC. February 2016
About dual language education:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Colloquium Series. April 2018.
*University of Tennessee at Knoxville, April 2018
Gurnee IL school district 50, March 2018
Rochelle IL school district D231, January 2018
Wauconda IL school district, November 2017
Elgin IL school district U-46, August 2017
Illinois Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents, May 2017
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, May 2017
University of Minnesota, April 2017
*University of Texas at Austin, April 2017
Komarek IL School District 94, March 2017
Berwyn South School District, IL, December 2016
Woodstock, IL, November 2016
Berwyn North School District, IL. October 2016.
Elgin, IL, October 2016. Article in the Chicago Tribune.
Reading in Motion presentation to Chicago area educators, October 2016
Glen Ellyn District 41, IL. April 2015.
About the benefits of bilingualism and raising bilingual children:
Connecticut College, February 2018
Instituto Cervantes Chicago, February 2018
Wauconda IL school district #118, November 2017
SUNY Binghamton, September 2017
Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, February 2017
Dominican University, River Forest, IL, October 2016
University of North Carolina-Wilmington, February 2016
Western Oregon University, January 2016
Coastal Carolina University, October 2015
Illinois Wesleyan University. April 2015 and February 2014
*Northern Illinois University. October 2014
Illinois Wesleyan University. February 2014
*TEDx, University of Illinois at Chicago. April 2013. "No child left monolingual."
* St. Olaf College. September 2012
Washington University in St. Louis, Merle Kling speaker series. March 2010