Maria Ammar, Salt Lake Community College, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

Dear HEIS Community,

Welcome to our August issue of HEIS News, a newsletter for our Higher Education Interest Section (HEIS) members, other TESOL members, and all professionals who work in the field. I hope you are all doing well, adapting and adjusting to life during the pandemic.

This issue has three articles, each covering different areas. Our first article features our new HEIS leaders, who have the chance to provide you with some information on who they are and why they are a part of the HEIS leadership. The second article comes from David Berry, who shares some of his experience with us and some recommendations for teaching during the pandemic. The last article is a book review by Anna Burnely about the book Show, Tell, Build: Twenty Key Instructional Tools and Techniques for Educating English Learners.

When you have time, I hope you all will take some time to post questions, news, or comments about current happenings in the TESOL world to our HEIS community board in MyTESOL. We enjoy seeing your postings, especially when it starts an important discussion that gets others talking, thinking, and moving.

Kelly Tracy, our new professional development coordinator, is trying to work on developing a webinar that HEIS would like to offer. Two webinar ideas that Kelly has include: 1) professional development on a budget and 2) student engagement in online language teaching. If you are interested in working with Kelly on organizing a webinar on either of these topics, please contact Kelly Tracy.

We hope to improve member engagement through HEIS News, our HEIS community board in MyTESOL, and HEIS webinars. We welcome your involvement in any of these areas.

Best regards,

Maria Ammar

Chair, TESOL Higher Education Interest Section