Greetings PAIS members,

The TESOL convention is almost upon us! In the last issue, we gave you a preview of some of the Program Administration Interest Section (PAIS)–related sessions that will be available this year. In this issue, we hope to further entice you to attend with a more specific list of sessions:

• After the Restructure: Leadership Skills for Survivors

• Transforming ELL Deficit Discourse to Asset Orientation Through Distributed Leadership

• Be Prepared: Managing Program-Disruptive Crises

• Changing International Students’ Perception of Academic Advising Through Proactive Communication

• Drama for Social Justice in ELT

• Short Programs: Stability and Diversity in Difficult Times for IEPs

• Reasons and Strategies for Developing an EAP Tutoring Service

• Principal Leadership: How Principals Learn to Improve Education for ELs

• Improving Student Learning With Inquiry-Based, Data-Driven Decision Making

• Facilitating Dialogue and Collaboration Across Faculty and Staff Teams

• Campus Carry: Engage in the Dialogue

• Encouraging Growth and Innovation for In-Service Teachers

• Exploring ELs’ Learning Opportunities in Gifted Programs

• Critical Conversations: How to Sustain Dialogue in Challenging Contexts

• Linking Faculty Across Disciplines

Go to TESOL 2018 and click the “Program Administration” box under “Track” to find abstracts, times, and locations.

We would especially like to draw your attention to the academic and InterSection panels that your PAIS leadership team is facilitating. Our InterSection panel is titled “Supporting the Professional Development of Faculty Administrators” and will include members from the Intensive English Program and Speech, Pronunciation, and Listening Interest Sections. They will discuss professional development opportunities as well as gaps for faculty administrators. The academic panel “Learn to Innovate: Ideas for Growing Your English Language Program” will focus on ideas and methods for growing a program, something that we are sure is on the minds of most administrators in these lean times.

Finally, please take the time to attend the PAIS Annual Open Meeting. At this meeting, we will be introducing the new leadership team as well as discussing upcoming changes to the structure of interest sections in general and PAIS specifically. The meeting is on Wednesday, 28 March from 6:45 pm–8:15pm in Room N129, McCormick Place.

We look forward to seeing you at TESOL 2018!

Sandra and Elizabeth

Co-Chairs, TESOL Program Administration Interest Section