Dear Affiliate Leaders,

Now is the time to make your voice heard around the world!!!! The Affiliate Network Professional Council publishes the TESOL Affiliate News twice a year. Our last publications, the TESOL Affiliate Newsletter, have been a great success with contributions from affiliates from around the US and around the world. We would like to make our August issue even better by sharing information submitted by even more affiliate groups. We, as well as our other affiliate counterparts, would like to learn what other groups are doing globally. Therefore, consider submitting an article for our next publication.

We would love to hear from you.

We make the submission and editing process as painless as possible. Furthermore, we want to assure you that you do not need to write a book or research article. We simply want to hear about what's happing in your world. Pieces can range from 300-1700 words, have pictures, and are written in a conversational tone. One affiliate member wrote in about how the affiliate has helped them professionally - this is a great way to illustrate how affiliate work is essential and useful. Your voice is essential, the work you do matters, and we want the opportunity to showcase the work of your Board and members! Let us hear from you!

SUBMISSIONS

1. Send to: Alex Monceaux admonceaux@lamar.edu
2. Due Date: January 15^th, 2020

TOPICS

Some topics we are looking for are the following:

• Sharing an Anniversary: Is your affiliate group celebrating an important anniversary in 2019? Perhaps you can share some of your organization's history: when it was started and by whom, what significant events your group organized, what changes have you helped make in the field?
• Shared Stories of Success and Learning: Has your affiliate experienced success or learned something from one or several of your initiatives? Sharing your story empowers other affiliates to pick up those initiatives with greater Additionally, your experience can help establish you as a powerful resource for other affiliates engaged in similar challenges or looking for innovative ways of doing things to revive or strengthen the organization.
• Hot Topics: Has a particular topic impacted your affiliate in the field, and has it taken action to resolve it? Then feel free to share with others who may have similar issues and want to know what steps you made for a resolution.
• New Initiatives Report: Is your affiliate launching a new initiative? Share this experience with the global network. Your ideas may empower other affiliates, and your experience may open doors for collaboration with other affiliates who have undertaken similar initiatives or who may be looking to try something new.
• Association Leadership or Association Membership Resources: Has your affiliate found helpful resources to develop its leadership, engage its members, impact its community? Have you found resources that your members love and consistently interact with? Share these resources to help create an active and engaged global discipline.

REMEMBER:

• Your submission does not have to be a technical report or research study, but rather a simple testimony of your affiliate's activities to help us as a global community connect, share, and engage more deeply.
• All submissions should follow the TESOL style guide (see the attached PDF).
• We edit and publish submissions globally.
• Deadline for receiving submissions: 15 January 2020

Submission Style Guide

1. TITLE (ALL CAPS – EXAMPLE) - TEACHING LANGUAGE WITH RESEARCH-BASED CONSTRUCTIONS ALL SUBMISSIONS SHOULD HAVE A TITLE A THE TOP IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS.

2. Teaser: 50 words. Think of this as a mini-abstract. It shows up on the mailout with a "read more" link. The teaser should be a tasty bit to get other intrigued in your article.

3. Author Byline(s): We need the author's name with embedded email, affiliation, city, country. We hyperlink to your email address to enable readers to reach out to you for more information.

4. Author Bio: 50 words. At the end of the article, we will print a short bio about you. The bio should not exceed 50 words.

5. Author Photo: We strongly encourage every author to send us a professional image of themselves. Readers tend to read articles with images more frequently.

6. Article Photo: We encourage you to send images that relate to the article, e., pictures of your board hard at work, your educator's teaching, your events, etc. images that connect to the article's content.

7. Share via social media: Y/N – please indicate if you would like readers to be able to share your article on social media!

8. Length and Citations: Articles should not be longer than 1,750 words (including tables) or have more than five citations. Citations must follow the style guidelines in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th edition (APA style)

9. Submission format: All submissions should be in .doc, .docx, .rtf, or .txt format

10. Figures, Tables, and Graphs: All figures, graphs, and other images should be labeled and sent as separate jpg files.