Pontier, R. W. (2020, October). A legislative look at support for emergent bilingual students. 2020 annual meeting of the Miami-Dade TESOL and Bilingual Education Association, Miami, FL.

Pontier, R. W. (2019, November). Teaching for a global world: Drawing from our full linguistic repertoire in the second language classroom. 2019 CIBER Conference, Miami, FL.

Pontier, R. W. (2019, October). Toward an understanding of difference: Languaging as a uniting and common sense factor. Keynote. 2019 annual meeting of the Miami-Dade TESOL and Bilingual Education Association, Miami, FL.

Pontier, R. W. (2019, July 24). Early Head Start Child Care Partnership grants as a mechanism for expanding early childhood dual language. Bipartisan Policy Center, Washington, DC.

Pontier, R. W. (2019, June 24). Translanguaging in bilingual education: Sustaining students’ languaging practices. Boston College Two-Way Immersion Network, Wellesley, MA.

Pontier, R. W., Castro Feinberg, R., Coady, M., Paneque, O., & Marin, D. (2019, June 22). Opportunities under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) for English language learners. National Association for Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) Annual Meeting, Miami, FL.

Pontier, R. W. (2019, February 27). Research-based approaches to early childhood dual language bilingual education. Bipartisan Policy Center, Washington, DC.

Pontier, R. W. (2018, July). La ley ESSA y los estudiantes en el programa para aprender inglés (ELL): ¿Están haciendo suficiente los estados? (ESSA and English learners: Are the states doing enough?) Invited panel at the annual meeting of the Education Writers Association, Miami, FL.