BEIS Newsletter - March 2012 (Plain Text Version)

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In this issue:
Leadership Updates
•  LETTER FROM THE EDITORS
•  UPDATE FROM THE BEIS CHAIR
ARTICLES
•  REPORT ON THE BEIS INTERSECTION: SOMETHING IS ROTTEN IN THE STATE OF ARIZONA
•  REPORT ON THE BEIS SPECIAL ACADEMIC SESSION: EXAMINING THE "E" IN TESOL
•  A MEXICAN BILINGUAL/ESL TEACHER IN THE UNITED STATES: CULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC DISSONANCE
•  CRITICAL BILITERACY IN THE ESOL CLASSROOM: BRINGING THE OUTSIDE IN WITH DUAL-LANGUAGE MENTOR TEXTS
•  RE/MAKING THE GROUND ON WHICH THEY STAND: MAKING A SCHOOL GARDEN WITH CULTURALLY AND LINGUISTICALLY DIVERSE STUDENTS
•  THE ONTARIO HERITAGE LANGUAGE PROGRAM: A CRITICAL LOOK AT WHAT WAS, WHAT IS, AND WHAT IF
•  ENFRENTANDO O DESAFIO: A BUSCA POR OBJETIVOS EDUCACIONAIS PARA O ENSINO DE LINGUAS NA ESCOLA REGULAR
2012 CONVENTION SCHEDULE
•  BEIS Convention Sessions
About This Community
•  Bilingual Education Interest Section (BEIS)
CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS - BEIS/TEDS BILINGUAL BASICS
•  Special Topic Issue

UPDATE FROM THE BEIS CHAIR

Kristin Snoddon, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada

My thanks to all the BEIS members who helped make BEIS’ presence at the 2011 Convention a success. This includes everyone who attended the BEIS Steering Committee and Open Business meetings, and Past Chair Mayra Daniel and Incoming Chair Aida Nevárez-La Torre, who facilitated these meetings.

The 2011 BEIS Special Academic Session on “Examining the ‘E’ in TESOL” featured exemplary presentations by Jody Cripps, Mayra Daniel, Mario Lopez-Gopar, and Shelley Taylor. The InterSection Session entitled “Something is Rotten in the State of Arizona” included papers by Mary Carol Combs and by Joanne Cripps and Anita Small. More information about these sessions is included below.

In light of these two BEIS sessions, Shelley Taylor and I submitted a proposal for a special issue of TESOL Quarterly on plurilingualism in TESOL. Please see the sidebar for more information regarding the call for papers for this special issue.

I deeply appreciate the hard work of the BEIS members who volunteered their time to review the many excellent proposals that BEIS received for the 2012 convention.