October 24 @ 09:30 - 18:00
We’re excited to announce a new edition of BRIDGE ’26, our regional conference for English Language Teachers. For this edition we are diving into a crucial topic:
Every Voice in the Room: Equity, Access, and Excellence in English Language Education
📅 24 October 2026 | 📍 Online
✅ Registration is open and free
This year we’re asking how English language education can work for every learner, with sessions on inclusion, differentiation, learner autonomy and teacher wellbeing. Each one is practical, so you can take the ideas straight into your classroom.
Speakers and sessions
Ross Thorburn | Duolingo English Test
Teaching Fluency: Strategies and Activities for More Fluent Speaking
What does fluency really mean, and can we teach it? Classroom strategies and activities that help students speak with fewer disruptive pauses and keep their speech moving.
Maurice Walters | HMC
The Differentiation Paradox
A look at current thinking on differentiation and inclusion in UK and global independent education: where good intentions fail to meet individual needs, and proposals for a more inclusive approach.
Natasha Christofis | Hamilton House
One Lesson, Many Minds: Practical Strategies for Inclusive ELT
Inclusive classrooms start with understanding learners, not adapting lessons. This session covers how to recognise students’ diverse strengths and interests before scaffolding, differentiating and building multiple pathways into learning.
Beata Wysocka | Early Stage
Mindful Resilience for Intercultural Educators
Teaching in diverse communities is emotionally demanding. Explore compassion fatigue in the multilingual classroom and try practical mindfulness techniques to stay anchored, because a regulated teacher helps lower the whole class’s “affective filter.”
Ann Turner | Experio Group
Teaching Neologisms
Why we should teach the new words that reflect human experience and cultural change, with techniques that give all students access to authentic everyday language and essential lexical skills.
Kirstie Jackson Wilms
Speaking for Themselves: Using Reflective Spoken Journals to Foster Autonomy and Language Skills in the EFL Classroom
Classroom action research on how spoken journals can build learners’ confidence, accuracy and autonomy in speaking, covering methodology, results and ideas for taking it further.
Our partners
Thank you to Duolingo English Test, HMC, Hamilton House, Early Stage, Experio Group, British Council and EdVenture School for supporting Bridge ‘26.