Join Italian educators from across California for a day of practical learning, collaboration, and advocacy. Through a keynote address, invited presentations, panels, roundtable experiences, and informal conversation, participants will explore strategies for increasing enrollment, strengthening curricular pathways, communicating the value of Italian, and sustaining Italian programs.
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Learn practical approaches to recruitment, retention, and program advocacy.
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Hear perspectives from elementary and middle school, high school, and university educators.
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Exchange resources and strategies with colleagues across instructional contexts.
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Contribute to—and receive—the developing AATI-CAL Advocacy Roadmap and Toolkit.
This professional development event has been designed as an in-person experience centered on conversation, collaborative learning, professional exchange, and statewide community-building. AATI-CAL members will subsequently have access to recordings of the keynote and invited speaker presentations, along with materials that presenters and participants make available through the panels and roundtables.
Saturday, October 24, 2026
8:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
In-person professional-development event
for teachers of Italian at all instructional levels
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AATI/AATI-CAL Member Employed Full-Time: $35
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AATI/AATI-CAL Member Employed Part-Time: $25
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AATI/AATI-CAL Graduate Student Member: Free
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Nonmember: $65
*Registration Deadline October 1, 2026 at midnight
This professional development event is the Southern California component of AATI-CAL’s annual two-part professional-development series. The Northern California gathering will take place on February 6, 2027, at La Scuola International School in San Francisco. Future gatherings will be hosted by participating institutions throughout California.