Fourth Annual Mini-Conference: Basics and Beyond
Registration is open and presentation proposals are being accepted for the Fourth Annual Mini-Conference held at College of Charleston on June 13-14 2008. Best of yet, the conference is free.
Funding for SC K-12 teachers is being provided by the Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA) as part of a $998,000 grant to the College of Charleston. Funding for other mainstream teachers and other members* of Carolina TESOL is being provided by Carolina TESOL
(Carolina TESOL Membership is free, but all members, new, current and must complete our new on-line membership application.)
A collaboration between Carolina TESOL and the College of Charleston, this conference targets mainstream teachers as well as ESOL teachers of all levels (including Adult Education). Please let your mainstream colleagues know about this great opportunity.
Presentation proposals are being accepted until May 19.More information about this conference....
Announcing the 7th Annual NCSU ESL Symposium
McKimmon Center, Raleigh, NC State UniversityThursday, June 12 and Friday, June 13 (half day)
By Cathy Boatwright
Now in its seventh year, the NC State ESL Symposium continues to draw nationally and internationally recognized experts in the field of Applied Linguistics and ESL to the NC State campus.
This year's slate of back to back plenary speakers includes Judge Howard Manning, the presiding judge in the Leandro case; Dr. Catherine Collier, expert in Special Education and ESL; Dr. Soccoro Herrera author of Mastering ESL and Bilingual Methods: Differentiated Instruction for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CLD) Students; Dr. Ellen McIntyre, literacy expert and head of Elementary Education, NC State and Debbie Psychoyos founder and director of the ProEd Foundation, Panama.
The symposium program will also include DPI updates as well as a Hispanic issues panel with Axel Lluch, Director of Hispanic/Latino Affairs, Office of the Governor; Andrea Bazan-Manson, President of the Triangle Community Foundation and Irene Godinez, advocacy director of El Pueblo. For more information about ESL at NC State and our 2008 ESL Symposium, please visit www.ncsu.edu/chass/esl/.
Registration:
$115 Registration open from April 1 to May 30
SE Regional Status
By Judy Snoke and Karen Medina, VATESOLBill Isler Carolina TESOL
If you looked at a map of the Southeast Region of TESOL before last year, you would have noticed a big gap in the upper right-hand corner. Geographically, the Region had an empty spot unfilled by Virginia TESOL.
2008 marks a major change for SE TESOL. On February 8, the Virginia TESOL Executive Board decided to join the organization (the first new member since Carolina TESOL, in 1988).
As we welcome VATESOL to the fold, here is some information about the affiliate’s past.
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