The Fall, 2011 newsletter is out!  If you didn’t receive it already, you can download it here.

It’s that time of year — time to make plans to attend the 2011 NMTESOL/NMAEA conference!

This year’s conference, “Sharing the Power”, will be held in Las Cruces at Doña Ana Community College on November 4 and 5.

Registration will be open soon at www.nmaea.net. The website isn’t quite ready yet, but check back later because it will be!  The call for presenters is already available at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/56C3N5G.  Please submit your proposal at your earliest convenience.

Won’t you Cruise to Cruces with us in November?

LINCS, Literacy Information and Communication System, is hosting an online professional development opportunity June 20-24.  The topic is Teacher Certification and Credentialing in Adult Education.  To participate, you just subscribe to their Adult Literacy Professional Development list, and then you can participate in the discussion online.

This is an easy, free way to keep up to date on the issue of credentialing, which is something that may very well impact many of us in the future.  Why not take advantage of it?

NMTESOL is holding its spring workshop in Albuquerque on April 2nd, 2011 from 9:30 to 12:30 on the main campus of Central New Mexico College, 525 Buena Vista SE, Albuquerque.  We will be in rooms 306 and 307 of Max Salazar Hall, near the Student Services Center.

Presentations at the workshop include the following:

Amy C. Hazelrigg, Ph.D. – Old and New: A Reading Metastrategy for the Developing Bilingual
Elma Pineda-Raney, Ed.D. – Overview of Assessment
Valerie Sartor – Incorporating Competence into Creativity: A New Way to Utilize Dialogue Journals
Monique Stone – Using Centers to Meet the Needs of Diverse Students

To facilitate planning, please RSVP by March 29 to nmtesol@gmail.com.

NMTESOL is holding its spring workshop on April 2, 2011 at CNM in Albuquerque.  We hope you will be able to join us!

Check back here for more details.

The 2010 NMTESOL-NMAEA conference “Coming Together for Educational Success” is only 2 weeks away! There were some technical difficulties with the registration page, but they are resolved. Also, the list of presenters and workshops is now available. Please go to www.nmaea.net for registration information.

Please join us in welcoming Felicitas as the new Vice President of NM TESOL. Felicitas teaches ESL and Early Childhood Multicultural Education courses at UNM Valencia Campus. She has previously taught all levels from pre-school to university in California and has participated in cultural exchanges in Adult Learning in Mexico, Spain, Cuba, Indonesia, Malyasia, and Thailand. In addition to teaching, Felicitas has served as an administrator and has completed graduate coursework in ESL, Bilingual, Special Ed, Early Childhood, Adult Learning, and Education Administration.

While we were sorry to accept the resignation of Amy Christensen, we are happy to have Felicitas on the Board of Directors.

NMTESOL and NMAEA are co-sponsoring a 2010 conference at the UNM Valencia campus in Los Lunas on Friday afternoon, November 5, and all day Saturday, November 6.

Registration information and more details will be provided soon.