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Illinois Classical Conference @ilclassics.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Registration now open for this year's #LatinPedagogyWorkshop! Join us in person or online December 5 to consider skill & proficiency in the Latin classroom. Register at tinyurl.com/2026LatinPedagogyWorkshop More info, including schedule and presenter bios: tinyurl.com/LatinPedagogyWorkshopIL

Latin Pedagogy Workshop. Sponsored by the Illinois Classical Conference since 1993.

Ars Docendi, Ars DIscendi: Skill and Proficiency in the Latin Classroom.

Join us on Friday, December 4 2026.

Keynotes by Christopher Simon, Director of Pedagogy and Instruction in Ancient Greek and Latin, University of Chicago.
Kelly Woodbury, New Trier High School.

Participants are invited to attend in person or online.

More information at
http://tinyurl.com/LatinPedgogyWorkshopIL .

Register by November 23 at
http://tinyurl.com/2026LatinPedgogyWorkshop .

SAVE THE DATE!
Latin Pedagogy Workshop 2026
Ars Docendi, Ars Discendi: Skill and Proficiency in the Latin Classroom.

When: Friday, December 4, 2026.
Where: Lake Forest High School.
West (Administrative) Campus.
300 South Waukegan Road, Lake Forest.
Sponsored by the Illinois Classical Conference.

More information at http://tinyurl.com/LatinPedagogyWorkshopIL .

CPDUs available for credit toward ISBE Educator Licensure.

Registration at http://tinyurl.com/2026LatinPedagogyWorkshop .

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Illinois Classical Conference @ilclassics.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Susie Howe presents Counteracting Learned Helplessness: Encouraging Student Responsibility. Find her presentation slides at tinyurl.com/latinpedagog... #LatinPedagogyWorkshop

Susie Howe leads an exercise in productive struggle in front of an image of herself on Google Meet.

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Illinois Classical Conference @ilclassics.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Alisha McCloud presents Memoriāne Tenent. Find her presentation slides at tinyurl.com/latinpedagog... #LatinPedagogyWorkshop

Title slide. Memoriāne Tenent? Leveraging retrieval practice in the Latin classroom. Alisha McCloud. Hinsdale Central High School.

Slide of links to articles. "Resources you could use..."

Articles at https://tinyurl.com/latinpedagogyworkshopIL.

Alisha McCloud points to a slide called "In the Latin Classroom."

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Illinois Classical Conference @ilclassics.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Claire Jolicoeur and Kerry Smith present Direct Instruction. Find their presentation slides and materials at tinyurl.com/latinpedagog... #LatinPedagogyWorkshop

Title slide. Direct Instruction. Claire Jolicoeur. Kerry Smith.

Claire Jolicoeur speaks in front of a slide entitled "Guided notes example."

Kerry Smith gestures as she speaks. Attendees on Google Meet can be seen on top of the slide set behind her.

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Illinois Classical Conference @ilclassics.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Nava R. Cohen @magistracohen.bsky.social presents A Return to Reading: Approaching Latin Text Like a Roman. Find her presentation slides and materials at tinyurl.com/latinpedagog... #LatinPedagogyWorkshop

Title slide.
Back to the Fundamenta: Strengthening Latin Student Skills.
Illinois Classical Conference Latin Pedagogy Workshop .
December 5, 2025.

A Return to Reading:
Approaching Latin Text Like a Roman.

Nava Cohen gestures as she speaks at a podium.

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Illinois Classical Conference @ilclassics.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Joy Reeber @nimiumamatrix.bsky.social presents Comprehensible Choices: New Methods for New Students. Find her presentation slides at tinyurl.com/latinpedagog... #LatinPedagogyWorkshop

Slide with textbook cover. The textbook is called Libellus Latinae Legendae: An Introduction to Reading Classical Latin.
The presentation title is Comprehensible Choices: New Methods for
New Students.

Joy Reeber presents as Latin teachers listen attentively.

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Illinois Classical Conference @ilclassics.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Today would be a great day to register for this year's #LatinPedagogyWorkshop! Registration: tinyurl.com/2025latinped... Info: tinyurl.com/latinpedagog...

2025 ICC-LFHS Latin Pedagogy Workshop Schedule.

December 5, 2025.

Back to the Fundamenta: Strengthening Latin Student Skills.

Time Events.
8:30-9:00a Ice Breaker - Kerry Smith & Susie Howe.

Introduction - Latin Pedagogy Workshop Committee Members.

Opening Activity.
9:00-10:00a Session I.

Comprehensible Choices: New Methods for New Students.

Dr. Joy Reeber.
10:00-10:15 Break.
10:15-11:00a Session II.
A Return to Reading: Approaching Latin Text Like a Roman.

Nava R. Cohen.
11:00-11:15a Reflection on Opening Activity.
11:15-12:15p LUNCH.
12:15-1:00p Session III.

Identify the Gaps and Fill Them - Direct Instruction/Latin Student skills.

Kerry Smith & Claire Jolicoeur.

1:00-1:45p.

Session IV.

Memoriāne tenent? Leveraging Retrieval Practice in the Latin Classroom.

Alisha McCloud.
1:45-2:00p BREAK.
2:00-2:45p Session V.

Counteracting Learned Helplessness: Encouraging Student Responsibility.

Susie Howe.
2:45-3:15p Session VI.

Gallery Walk/Last Revisit to Reflection of Opening Activity.

3:15-3:30p Wrap Up//Evaluations.

***Attendance at Wrap up and Evaluations MANDATORY for completion of CPDUs.

Speakers.

Keynote Speaker.
Joy Reeber, Teaching Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Nava Cohen, Doctoral candidate, Instructor, Latin 101, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
Susie Howe, Latin Teacher, Lake Forest High School, Lake Forest, Illinois.
Claire Jolicoeur, Inclusion Special Education Teacher, Northside College Prep, Chicago, Illinois.
Alisha McCloud, Latin Teacher and Latin Club Sponsor, Hinsdale Central High School, Hinsdale, Illinois.
Kerry Smith, Latin Teacher, New Trier, Winnetka, Illinois.

SAVE THE DATE!
Latin Pedagogy Workshop 2025.
Back to the Fundamenta: Strengthening Latin Student Skills.
When: Friday, December 5, 2025.
Where: Lake Forest High School.
West (Administrative) Campus.
300 South Waukegan Road, Lake Forest.
Sponsored by the Illinois Classical Conference.
More information at http://tinyurl.com/LatinPedagogyWorkshopIL/.
CPDUs available for credit toward ISBE Educator Licensure.
Registration at http://tinyurl.com/2025LatinPedagogyWorkshop/.

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Illinois Classical Conference @ilclassics.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Registration is now open for this year's #LatinPedagogyWorkshop! Join us in person or online December 5 for Back to the Fundamenta: Strengthening Latin Student Skills! Registration at tinyurl.com/2025LatinPed... More info, including schedule and presenter bios at tinyurl.com/LatinPedagog...

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Illinois Classical Conference @ilclassics.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

A belated congratulations to the recipients of our yearly awards! Claire Jolicouer, Farrand Baker Latin Teacher of the Year Stephanie Quinn, Lifetime Achievement Award winner #IllinoisLatinTeachers #IllinoisClassicsProfessors #TOY illinoisclassics.weebly.com/icc-teacher-...

Claire Jolicouer and Yoandy Cabrera-Ortega.

Stephanie Quinn and Yoandy Cabrera-Ortega.

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Illinois Classical Conference @ilclassics.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Join us starting tonight for the annual fall meeting in Lincolnshire, IL. On-site registration available! Talks include keynote by @kataplexis.bsky.social & papers by @vickyausten.bsky.social @magistracohen.bsky.social @nimiumamatrix.bsky.social & many more IL classicists! #IllinoisClassicsEvents

Program for meeting at https://illinoisclassics.weebly.com/uploads/9/3/8/1/93817632/2025_icc_program.pdf .

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Illinois Classical Conference @ilclassics.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Congratulations to our Vice President Krishni Burns, winner of one of this year's CAMWS Ovatio Awards! #IllinoisClassicsProfessors

Krishni Burns holding her Ovatio, surrounded by anonymized students.

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Illinois Classical Conference @ilclassics.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Call for Papers for the 2025 Illinois Classical Conference Annual Fall Meeting. Please forward to all interested. Full text of call: drive.google.com/file/d/1plCJ... Google form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Alt submission route (pdf): drive.google.com/file/d/12ejQ... #IllinoisClassicsEvents

Call for Papers.
Illinois Classical Conference Annual Meeting.
October 17-19, 2025 Adlai Stevenson High School.
The Illinois Classical Conference seeks proposals for its annual conference, to be held at Adlai Stevenson High School, from October 17-19, 2025 (while there will be a reception on Friday, Oct. 17, the program will not start until the morning of Saturday, Oct. 18). There is no single theme for the annual meeting, and we encourage submissions related to all aspects of pedagogy, scholarship, and/or other practice of Latin or Classics. We particularly invite, though, presentations that engage with matters of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the fields of Latin and Classics. As Pliny the Younger’s writings will be introduced to the AP Curriculum this year, we would also like to encourage submission relating to Pliny’s letters, both scholarly and pedagogical. Speakers, through the years, have been from all backgrounds (educators, non-educators, Classics enthusiasts, students) and from all levels (kindergarten through university), and topics may appeal to any or all of those constituencies as well. Whatever their topic, presenters should aim to meet the high standard of quality we have seen in the past by offering presentations that are engaging, enlightening, and focused.
Proposals are being accepted in two formats:
Paper: traditional talk, 15-20 minutes
Workshop: interactive presentation, 30-40 minutes.

Please contact Krishni Burns (ksburns@uic.edu) with any questions. To present your work for consideration, please complete this Google Form <link in post> and submit it by July 7, 2025, or complete the alternate form given on the next page. Submissions will be reviewed and accepted on a rolling basis. Other submission options are given on the next page.
The Illinois Classical Conference was established in 1937 and has enjoyed a robust membership every year since (including presidents emeriti Farrand Baker, Bernice Fox, and Tom Sienkewicz). Our membership is a dedicated mix of elementary, secondary, and post-secondary educators who are interested in a wide variety of topics related to history, culture, mythology, and pedagogy. The ICC draws its membership from Latin and Classics programs across the state at the elementary, middle, high school, and college/university levels. Among a range of services it offers, the ICC supports a Certamen league, the Illinois Junior Classical League, the Illinois Latin Tournament, and the Latin Pedagogy Workshop, and its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee is conducting an assessment of texts currently in publication for secondary school use.

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Illinois Classical Conference @ilclassics.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

QT @aclclassics Deadline to submit a proposal for the ACL Institute at Loyola University Chicago in June is Friday! docs.google.com/forms/u/2/d/... #IllinoisClassicsEvents

This is a reminder that the deadline (January 17) for proposals for the ACL Institute is fast approaching. The Loyola University campus promises to be a great experience for learning, networking, and celebrating. https://docs.google.com/forms/u/2/d/e/1FAIpQLScJ0NXj9bCaAQQmDmswsHNOfwjSOuVhMyv-6T-pyRJEEpjn7Q/viewform

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Illinois Classical Conference @ilclassics.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Congratulations to our award winners! Farrand Baker Teacher of the Year Alisha McCloud, Hinsdale Central HS Career Achievement Marcene Farley, Pekin HS Vicki Wine, Monmouth & Blackhawk Colleges Special Service Karl Johnson, Monmouth-Roseville HS #IllinoisLatinTeachers #IllinoisClassicsProfessors

Baker Latin Teacher of the Year Alisha McCloud and outgoing ICC President Robert Holschuh Simmons.

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Illinois Classical Conference @ilclassics.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

For a comprehensive list of IL Schools with Classics programs: tinyurl.com/illinoisschoolswithclassics Please send any updates to nrscohen@gmail.com

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Illinois Classical Conference @ilclassics.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

Register for this year's #LatinPedagogyWorkshop "Docendo discimus: AI Tools in the Latin Classroom for Teachers & Students" by Nov. 11! tinyurl.com/2024LatinPed... Taking place @ Lake Forest West Campus (Google meet also available!) More info tinyurl.com/latinpedagog... #IllinoisLatinTeachers

SAVE THE DATE! Latin Pedagogy Workshop 2024
Docendo discimus: AI Tools in the Latin Classroom for Teachers and Students
When: Friday, December 6, 2024
Where: Lake Forest High School West (Administrative) Campus
Sponsored by the Illinois Classical Conference
More information at http://tinyurl.com/LatinPedagogyWorkshop
CPDUs available for credit toward ISBE Educator Licensure.

Schedule. See tinyurl.com/latinpedagogyworkshop for details.

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Illinois Classical Conference @ilclassics.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

We are looking forward to gathering this weekend at Monmouth College for our fall meeting! Program: drive.google.com/file/d/1krPK... #IllinoisClassicsEvents

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Illinois Classical Conference @ilclassics.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

The schedule is now available for for the Dec. 1, 2023 ICC/NLU LatinPedagogyWorkshop Register at tinyurl.com/2023LatinPedagogyWorkshop More info at tinyurl.com/LatinPedagogyWorkshop Join us in person at NLU Wheeling or on Zoom! IllinoisLatinTeachers LatinTeach IllinoisClassicsEvents

Schedule for the Latin Pedagogy Workshop. Details on website linked in post.

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Illinois Classical Conference @ilclassics.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Registration is now open for the Dec. 1, 2023 ICC/NLU LatinPedagogyWorkshop! Register at tinyurl.com/2023LatinPed... More info at tinyurl.com/LatinPedagog... Join us in person at National Louis University's Wheeling Campus or on Zoom! IllinoisLatinTeachers LatinTeach IllinoisClassicsEvents

Latin Pedagogy Workshop 2023
Differentiation in the Latin Classroom: Latin for Everyone
When: Friday, December 1, 2023
Where: National Louis University Wheeling Campus
and over Zoom
Sponsored by National Louis University and the Illinois Classical Conference
More information at http://tinyurl.com/LatinPedagogyWorkshop
CPDUs available for credit toward ISBE Educator Licensure.
Registration at http://tinyurl.com/2023LatinPedagogyWorkshop

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Illinois Classical Conference @ilclassics.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

Registration is now open for the annual fall meeting of the Illinois Classical Conference, October 20-21 at UIC. Program to follow. Register at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Registration details. See link in skeet.

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Illinois Classical Conference @ilclassics.bsky.social · 27/08/2023

For a comprehensive list of IL Schools with Classics programs: tinyurl.com/illinoisschool… Please send any updates to nrscohen@gmail.com

tiny url dot com slash Illinois schools with classics

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