March 2019
ABOUT THIS COMMUNITY
ADVOCACY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE SESSIONS AT THE TESOL INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION


This year, TESOL has switched to a strand-based convention program. The Advocacy and Social Justice Strand, was designed to address “notions of advocacy and social justice as directly relevant to English learners, teachers, teaching, and the broader field of English language education in a wide variety of educational settings” with presentations on topics such as:

  • social responsibility
  • world citizenship
  • global issues (e.g., peace, human rights, and the environment) in relation to language education
  • language policy and planning (with a specific focus on advocacy)
  • issues related to (in)equity, discrimination, idealization, and marginalization in TESOL (in relation to NESTs and NNESTs)
  • refugee concerns
  • bilingual/multilingual/translingual education
  • multicultural understanding through (English) education, critical studies, and critical pedagogy


Many of these topics overlap with the mission of SRIS, so we have gathered the times and locations for the TESOL 2019 Convention sessions from the Advocacy and Social Justice strand here for your reference. You can search for more information about these sessions by searching the full program.

Official SRIS panels, such as our academic session and InterSections with other ISes have been highlighted in bold. Finally, don’t forget about the SRIS open meeting for all SRIS members and those interested in learning more about our interest section, which will be held on Wednesday, March 13th from 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm in the Walnut room; all other session locations can be found on the Convention Itinerary Planner, along with session abstracts and presenters. Please see all of the session information below. We look forward to seeing you in Atlanta!

Session

Date/Time

Advocacy 101: Improving IEP Meetings for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students

Wednesday, March 13th:

7:00 am - 7:45 am

Linguistic Landscapes: Harnessing Home Language for Inclusive School Ecologies

Wednesday, March 13th:

7:00 am - 7:45 am

Researching With Multilingual Students and Teachers: A Participant Solidarity Lens

Wednesday, March 13th:

7:00 am - 7:45 am

The N-Word: How to Engage ELLS’ Sociocultural Understanding

Wednesday, March 13th:

9:10 am - 9:30 am

To Plow the Sea: Linguistic Policy in South America

Wednesday, March 13th:

11:00 am - 12:45 pm

Bilingualism and Language Revitalization in Guam and Micronesia

Wednesday, March 13th:

11:00 am - 11:45 am

Georgia’s Systems of Continuous Improvement: Coordinating Programs to Support the Whole Child

Wednesday, March 13th:

11:00 am - 11:45 am

Federal Update: ELLs in Adult Education

Wednesday, March 13th:

12:00 pm - 12:45 pm

Enhancing Advocacy in the Age of Social Media

Wednesday, March 13th:

9:10 am - 9:30 am

Social Issues in the Classroom: Ideas From African Teachers

Wednesday, March 13th:

12:00 pm - 1:45 pm

Technology Education for Adult ELLs: Local Collaborations for Global Connections

Wednesday, March 13th:

12:00 pm - 12:45 pm

Supporting Immigrant Students as an Institutional Agent: Is this Enough?

Wednesday, March 13th:

12:30 pm - 1:45 pm

Examining K-12 School Policies: ELs & Avoiding Inherent Discrimination

Wednesday, March 13th:

12:30 pm - 1:45 pm

Humanizing the Refugee Experience: Story and Voice in Research

Wednesday, March 13th:

1:00 pm - 1:45 pm

Critical Pedagogy in ELT Programs in Indonesia

Wednesday, March 13th:

1:00 pm - 1:45 pm

U.S. Federal Policy Update

Wednesday, March 13th:

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Global TESOL Professionals of African Descent: Negotiating Identity and Inequity

Wednesday, March 13th:

1:00 pm - 2:45 pm

Collaboration, Polyvocality, and Social Justice: Women of Color in Academia

Wednesday, March 13th:

1:00 pm - 2:45 pm

Everyone Should Understand: CBI Techniques to Teach U.S. Legal Rights

Wednesday, March 13th:

1:00 pm - 1:45 pm

Launching Refugee-Background Students Into College and Career

Wednesday, March 13th:

2:00 pm - 3:45 pm

What I Wish My Teachers Knew

Wednesday, March 13th:

2:00 pm - 2:45 pm

Getting Stuck in ESL: Reclassification of ELs With Disabilities

Wednesday, March 13th:

3:00 pm - 3:45 pm

AERA at TESOL: Policy Impacts on TESOL Endorsements and Certifications

Wednesday, March 13th:

3:00 pm - 4:45 pm

Systemic Considerations for Cultural Inclusion: Becoming a School Cultural Broker

Wednesday, March 13th:

4:00 pm - 4:45 pm

Action Agenda Actions for the Future of the Profession

Wednesday, March 13th:

4:00 pm - 4:45 pm

Teaching Students How to Think, Not What to Think

Wednesday, March 13th:

4:00 pm - 4:45 pm

Race and TESOL: Having Difficult Conversations in Challenging Times

Wednesday, March 13th:

5:00 pm - 5:45 pm

SRIS Open Meeting

Wednesday, March 13th:

5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Immigrant Youth Developing Language Through Narrative and Advocacy

Thursday, March 14th:

7:00 am - 7:45 am

Analyzing Science Read-Aloud Texts for Cultural and Linguistic Diversity

Thursday, March 14th:

7:00 am - 7:45 am

Mapa de Las Memorias: A Transnational Perspective on Learning English

Thursday, March 14th:

9:30 am - 10:15 am

Racialization of Teachers in Asia: Research and Action for Change

Thursday, March 14th:

9:30 am - 11:15 am

Preserving the Tower of Babel: Language Diversity as Social Justice (SRIS Intersection with EFLIS and B-MEIS)

Thursday, March 14th:
9:30 am - 11:15 am

Advocacy in Adult Education

Thursday, March 14th:

9:30 am - 11:15 am

Hot Topics and Policy Updates From SEVP

Thursday, March 14th:

9:30 am - 10:15 am

Ensuring Academic Success for ELs Through Collaborative District Efforts

Thursday, March 14th:

9:30 am - 10:15 am

Lead Powerful Learning

Thursday, March 14th:

10:30 am - 11:15 am

Peace Corps TEFL: Strengthening Instruction Through Teacher Communities of Practice

Thursday, March 14th:

10:30 am - 11:15 am

Learning in EFL vs. Learning EFL: Reproduction vs. Transformation

Thursday, March 14th:

10:30 am - 11:15 am

The Refugee Experience: Embracing Diversity and Capitalizing on Community Involvement

Thursday, March 14th:

10:30 am - 11:15 am

Promoting Equity Through Authentic Materials and Open Educational Resources

Thursday, March 14th:

11:30 am - 12:15 pm

Interrupted Education in Diverse Migration Contexts: A 21st-Century Challenge

Thursday, March 14th:

11:30 am - 1:15 pm

Investigating learning experience of Asian American using Asian Critical Theory

Thursday, March 14th:

12:30 pm - 1:45 pm

Cultivating Sociable Curiosity: A Conversation Project

Thursday, March 14th:

12:30 pm - 1:45 pm

Promoting Education Equity for ELLs (SRIS Intersection with PAIS)

Thursday, March 14th:

1:00 pm - 2:45 pm

Faculty as Legislative Advocates for ELLs: Challenges, Triumphs, and Opportunities

Thursday, March 14th:

1:00 pm - 1:45 pm

The Local-Global Nexus With Collaborative Online International Learning

Thursday, March 14th:

2:00 pm - 2:45 pm

White Preservice Teachers’ Self-reflections About Their Own Counterproductive Thoughts

Thursday, March 14th:

2:00 pm - 2:45 pm

ELLs, Immigrant Students, and U.S. Law

Thursday, March 14th:

2:00 pm - 2:45 pm

Developing Materials for Social Responsibility, Equity, and Social Justice (SRIS Intersection with MWIS)

Thursday, March 14th:

3:00 pm - 4:45 pm

Diverse Voices of Advocacy: In Conversation With the TESOL Community

Thursday, March 14th:

4:00 pm - 4:45 pm

LGBTQ+ Identities in English Education: Insight From Vietnamese Classrooms

Friday, March 15th:

7:00 am - 7:45 am

Local and Global Stories of Peacebuilding Through ELT

Friday, March 15th:

7:00 am - 7:45 am

Restorative Narration for Survivors of Trauma

Friday, March 15th:

7:00 am - 7:45 am

Redefining ELT in the Context of Educational Reforms

Friday, March 15th:

7:00 am - 7:45 am

From Talk to Action: Putting Social Responsibility Into Practice (SRIS Academic Session)

Friday, March 15th:

9:30 am - 11:15 am

Equity Through Taking a Juntos Stance in Dual Language Programs

Friday, March 15th:

10:30 am - 11:15 am

A New Trend in the Turkish EFL Market: Pseudo-Native-Speakerism

Friday, March 15th:

11:30 am - 12:15 pm

Decolonizing, Re-imagining, and Transforming ELT in Latin America

Friday, March 15th:

11:30 am - 1:15 pm

An educator in Palestine: Collaboration Under Occupation

Friday, March 15th:

12:30 pm - 1:45 pm

English through theatre: overcoming challenges teaching young students in Syria

Friday, March 15th:

12:30 pm - 1:45 pm

Imagining Multilingual TESOL Revisited: Where Are We Now?

Friday, March 15th:

1:00 pm - 2:45 pm

Voices From Within the Margins of TESOL: An Ethnodramatic Performance (SRIS Intersection with PLNs)

Friday, March 15th:

1:00 pm - 2:45 pm

Attaining Social Justice Through Language Advocacy Campaign Skill Development

Friday, March 15th:

2:00 pm - 3:45 pm

Social Identity Theory: Implications for Social Justice in TESOL

Friday, March 15th:

2:00 pm - 2:45 pm

Reflecting Immigrant Learners in Literature: Creating Thematic Global Bibliographies

Friday, March 15th:

2:00 pm - 2:45 pm

How Can Educators Connect When Facing Occupation and Repression?

Friday, March 15th:

3:00 pm - 3:45 pm

Sustaining Dialogues on Race and Gender in the Gulf

Friday, March 15th:

3:00 pm - 4:45 pm

Identities, Marginalization, and Intersectionality in ELT

Friday, March 15th:

3:00 pm - 4:45 pm

Responding to ESL Decision-Makers Who Consider Social Justice Taboo

Friday, March 15th:

4:00 pm - 4:45 pm

Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Leadership Practices: Next-Generation Parental Involvement

Friday, March 15th:

5:00 pm - 5:45 pm

Plurilingual and Indigenous Pedagogies for Lifelong (English Language) Learning

Friday, March 15th:

5:00 pm - 5:45 pm

Linguistic Landscape and Language Ideology: Implications for Philippine Multilingual Education

Friday, March 15th:

5:00 pm - 5:45 pm