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Hello ITAIS,
This is my first official letter to our crew as the chair, and I’m thrilled to be writing it!
I would like to express my deepest thanks to all of you not
only for your efforts presenting and participating at TESOL in April,
but also the push many of you made to submit proposals to next year’s
convention. Good work! I look forward to reviewing many of these
proposals, and hope that lots of you on our team are signed up to be
reviewers yourselves.
I know many of your institutions are gearing up for summer
programs—we’re in the midst of that ourselves here at Penn. Good luck
with your incoming cohorts of new ITAs! Hopefully, you walked away from
the convention in April with several new ideas to try.
After the June-August rush, we hope to continue to stay connected. The steering
committee is currently in the process of planning two webinars and is
aiming to run the first on 5 October. Stay tuned for further announcements on this topic on
our original email list. I also hope that those of you who regularly
participate in local ITA conferences are thinking about setting the date
for your first meetings. Please share it on our email list once
planning is underway.
Finally, I’d like to take a moment to articulate some more
specific thanks to several key members. Special thanks go to everyone
from last year’s steering committee, but most especially my mentor, Liz
Tummons. Additionally, I’d like to
thank Diane Costonas and all of her wonderful work on our website. Actually, if you’re
impressed by the work of the steering committee, we are still looking to
fill a few positions. Specifically, we need an editor-elect this year
to learn from Maureen, and are looking for members-at-large and a
chair-elect to begin in 2017. If you’re interested, please get in touch
with Liz Tummons, who as past-chair is responsible for recruiting.
I look forward to all of the insightful discussions that will
take place this year on our email list. Thanks again to all of you who
contribute to our professional development as a community!
Sincerely,
Elizabet | 
