Greetings Social Responsibility Interest Section (SRIS)!

We are Luis Javier Pentón Herrera and Ethan Trinh, the editors of the SRIS newsletter, TESOLers for Social Responsibility. We are excited to announce that the theme for our September 2019 issue is Indigenizing TESOL. For this issue, we are looking for works that celebrate, empower, and explore Indigenous communities and peoples around the world. We are open to all kinds of submissions such as painting, poems, stories, pictures, articles, among others, that celebrate, empower, and explore Indigenous communities and peoples.

In choosing this theme, we were inspired by the United Nation’s declaration of 2019 as the Year of Indigenous Languages in order to encourage urgent action to preserve, revitalize, and promote them. Some questions that could be explored in this issue include: What are you doing to preserve and promote the use of your Indigenous students’ language and culture in your classroom? What services is your organization providing to Indigenous peoples in your community? How is your organization/school advocating for and empowering Indigenous learners and communities?

Additional (non-exhaustive topics) include:

- Indigenous identity and language negotiations

- Indigenous language revitalization and maintenance

- Honoring and respecting Indigenous traditions, cultures, and ways of being

- (Re)Discovering the Indigenous self

- Poems, visual representations, and other forms of artistic expressions

We would love to share a wide range of voices and perspectives on this topic and particularly encourage submissions from Indigenous communities, students, writers, and scholars from around the world.

We are looking for:

● Feature articles: Share your presentations, research projects, or classroom practices.

● Lesson descriptions: Describe a lesson plan you’ve created about a social justice topic so that other teachers can use it with their students as well!

● Anecdotes and stories: Do you have a story or personal reflection on incorporating social issues into your classes? If so, we’d love to hear it!

● Visual Representations/Visual Arts: Share any drawings, pictures, paintings, etc. that fit into the special issue and that align with social justice.

● Lists of useful resources: Share resources that you use in your work, along with an explanation of how you use them or why you find them helpful.

● Reviews: Write about a book or an article that has inspired you as a teacher or researcher.

● Written Interviews: Is there a member of the TESOL community you would like to interview? Send the interview our way!

● Calls to action: Overviews of pressing issues around the world, and suggestions on how TESOLers can get involved in the conversation.

● Responses to articles published in the newsletter: We welcome submissions in dialogue with articles we have already published. Continue the conversations started in this issue!

Your submission can be between 500 to 1,500 words. Please keep this word count in mind as you draft your piece. It includes the title, byline, teaser and references, so the actual body of the article should be less than the limit of 1,500 words. If you have an idea but need some guidance on how to develop it more fully, please email us at srisnewslettertesol@gmail.com, and we will brainstorm together!

Please send your articles to Luis and Ethan at srisnewslettertesol@gmail.com with the subject line "SRIS Newsletter Submission.”

The deadline for submissions is 10 August, 2019.

General Submission Quick Guide

Articles should

● have the title in ALL CAPS;

● list a byline (author’s name with hyperlinked email, affiliation, city, country);

● include a 2- to 3-sentence teaser, written in the third person;

● be no longer than 1,500 words (including bylines, teasers, main text, tables, references and author bios);

● include a 2- to 3-sentence author biography, written in the third person;

● contain no more than 5 references;

● follow the style guidelines in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th Edition (APA style); and

● include an author photo (120 pixels wide by 160 pixels tall) and any other photos (up to 400 pixels wide, no limit on height) as separate files (do not embed them into your word document).

The SRIS newsletter is a great venue to share your innovative work and ideas with our community. We look forward to receiving your submissions soon!

Kind Regards,

Luis and Ethan