Affiliate News - 08/12/2019 (Plain Text Version)
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LETTER FROM THE CHAIR , ANPC Chair/Director, Teaching, Learning and Development Center, Al Yamamah University, Riyadh, KSA
The Affiliate Network Professional Council: A Global Presence of TESOL Professionals Connected Whether you are on a summer vacation, teaching in a class, or strategizing for the next year, I would like to give you an update of the ANPC since the convention in Atlanta. If you had the opportunity to join us in Atlanta this past March, I hope you had a chance to make the best of all the leadership and development sessions the ANPC had prepared for you. Our overarching theme was collaboration amongst affiliates. In brief we had a total of 12 affiliate representatives (MDTESOL, TexTESOLIV, Yakut TESOL, TESOL Turkey, ARKTESOL, Georgia TESOL, CATESOL, and NYSTESOL) that were conducting workshops and delivering sessions. Affiliates from 5 affiliates (Nile TESOL, TESOL Greece, SETESOL and VenTESOL) participated in the Affiliate Colloquium entitled “The influence of collaboration initiatives on TESOL Communities.” The ANPC had its annual business meeting, the Affiliate Assembly in a packed room, we discussed all our events in the past year, thanked our outgoing members (Debbie West and Ana Maria Roca), and welcomed our newest affiliate TESOL Turkey. Bahar Gun, the President of TESOL Turkey, was there to represent our newest addition. We also honored New Jersey TESOL/NJBE Inc., and Puerto Rico TESOL for 50 years of affiliation, as well as, TESOLANZ for 25. The Best of Affiliate sessions were also during the convention and we had the pleasure of welcoming 3 affiliates (Carolina TESOL, Michigan TESOL, and Northern New England TESOL) this year to give a presentation that had already been presented in an affiliate event the past year. This year in Atlanta was unique as TESOL invited one representative from every affiliate to attend the TESOL Leadership Forum. This Forum is where all leaders of the association (Interest Sections, Professional Councils, Professional Learning Networks and others) get a sense of what TESOL is planning for the coming years, its strategic planning and other pertinent matters. Uli Shrader, former ANPC chair, presented the ANPC’s project entitled APAP (Affiliate Peer Advisory Program). This was an initiative that started over a year ago as a mentoring program, but after careful thought and consideration of all the types of affiliates that TESOL currently has, it was refocused to be a peer advisory program. Each ANPC member is allocated around 15 affiliates and they are working together for more collaborative initiatives. More information will be available during the convention in Denver. Many affiliates have been long standing partners with TESOL for many years, close to its inception. We will be celebrating 4 anniversaries next year. CATESOL, Illinois TESOL/BE, NYSTESOL, and WATESOL are affiliated with TESOL for 50 years. We will be honoring these affiliates in a special celebration in Denver 2020. Being in the ANPC for more than a year now, has given me a great experience of the different affiliates and their interactions. The APAP has been growing with the personal work of our dedicated ANPC members. I would urge you to respond to their emails, it is not necessary that you need assistance from the program but you may be a great resource for others. We definitely need help from all experienced and less experienced affiliates. This is one of the basic tenets of the program. I truly believe, from my experience with 3 different affiliates (TESOL Greece, TESOL Arabia, and KSAALT), that there is always something to learn from an affiliate. There are always common problems, but may be different solutions. Finally, I would like to ask you help and assistance in the following: As we are expanding the work of the ANPC, we are looking for new members, please take a look at this link and submit your application till 23 September. Should you have any questions, please email Valerie Novick, our staff liaison at affiliates@tesol.org or you can email me at georgekormpas@gmail.com We are also looking for presenters for our Denver program. As usual we have the leadership sessions that we offer every year. Please submit your proposals by September 30th. Moreover, you can also present a session that you have given at an affiliate event this past year and you would like to share with colleagues in Denver. These are the best of affiliate sessions. These sessions are adjudicated by the ANPC. The deadline for these is September 30 and you can submit your proposals online. Finally, as the APAP (Affiliate Peer Advisory Program) and other ANPC projects are growing, so we are looking for new members in our council. Please circulate this to all your past leadership, as they may be interested to apply. The link is here, and the deadline is September 23rd.
I know that it is different times in different parts of the world, but I would like to thank you for reading this newsletter, please share with your colleagues, friends and anyone you think will benefit from reading it. Always have in mind, that through collaboration we can be more productive and learn from each other. Let us unite and offer more development for our members. I wish you a productive academic year. Georgios V. Kormpas |
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