ITAIS March 2024 TESOL Open Meeting Minutes
Past-Chair: Kayla Landers
Chair: Sarah Emory
Chair-elect: Mo Burke
Secretary: Jenny Grill
Members at Large: Laurie Frazier, Alissa Cohen
Community Events: Mike O’Neill, Eva Miszoglad
Newsletter Editors: Elka Kristo Nagy, Ekaterina (Katya) Arshavskaya
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Minutes for ITA-IS Business Meeting
11 am - 12 pm, 3/22/24
Room 120, Tampa Convention Center, minutes prepared by Jenny Grill (secretary)
11:06 - Kayla called the meeting to order.
Reading of the 2023 minutes by Jenny. Sarah Emory motioned to approve. Maria Mendoza seconded. Minutes approved.
Kayla: thanks to last year’s steering committee.
New steering committee introductions.
Newsletter editors will be bringing on an intern.
Sarah encourages submissions to the newsletter (including proposals that didn’t get accepted)
Kayla: Year-end review
Newsletter: previous ones are not available on MyTesol, but TESOL will move them to the platform by the end of April 2024.
Election Process: TESOL said they would help and post information, but things did not go as well.
30 votes in 2024 down from 69 in 2023.
ITA Listserv: Great way to communicate with the group and get help from others
Sarah: when you fill out your exit ticket, there’s a place that you can select to be added to the listserv.
If you were on the old UF listerv, you have been added to the current listserv.
myTESOL: it moved to a new website, and they did not carry over IS accounts, so people have had to manually re-add themselves to the account (we had 500 members, and now we have 150). The IS can be found under Communities. It’s a bit clunky, there seems to have been some loss of institutional knowledge, but TESOL is working on it.
Working Sessions: Not as active as in the past when Liz Tummons was facilitating. The sessions do not have an official organizer, so anyone can lead one.
Kayla: maybe Mike O’Neill can facilitate one.
ITA Sessions at TESOL: thanks to the academic session presenters yesterday (3/21) and the intersection session presenters tomorrow (3/24)
YouTube: We archive past webinars there, the 2023 intersection session on intelligibility is there. Link: https://www.youtube.com/@itaistesol1101/featured
Sarah: reminder that Stacey Suhadolc has a helpful video on the channel on submitting proposals. Video link: https://youtu.be/AtBBo_MkM2Y?si=Y8OoLXKs-IA7VEW7
Future Plans
Regional ITA Groups and Other Groups
Sarah Emory: How many people are members of regional ITA groups? (e.g., MAITA/NEITAN). From a show of hands, not many. We have not heard from UC Davis folks about possibly hosting the ITA Symposium again.
Laurie Frazier: there is talk among some of the schools in the University of California system to do an ITA meeting for themselves.
Alissa Cohen: maybe we could do one per region (East, South, Mideast, West), so it wouldn’t be too far for people every three years?
Sarah: Let’s keep discussing this because meeting in person is really helpful. Please keep mentioning ITA work at other conferences.
Jane Harvey: Attended POD Network and was amazed at how much TA discussion there was, but nothing for ITAs.
Derina Samuel: There is now more focus on TAs at POD, but we could bring more ITA stuff.
Cynthia DeRoma: POD is expensive, but amazing.
Pam Pollock: POD focuses on teaching and learning centers.
??: What about CGC? Discussion about bringing more ITA topics to CGC and letting CGC know more about ITA work.
TESOL 2024 Follow Up
Sarah Emory: Follow Up with TESOL about 2024 meeting: originally, our business meeting was scheduled while an ITA session was happening, then the space for the meeting was in the exhibits area, we got the room changed, but then TESOL didn’t announce it.
Will also follow up with TESOL about how ITA is languaged; it’s often not clear who we are and what we do.
TESOL 2025 and Other Conferences
Sarah Emory: The exit ticket QR code—if you have ideas for proposals that you’d like to do or see. These ideas can also be used for working sessions and webinars. Please talk to each other!
Other conferences people will/might attend this year: PSLLT, Second Language Writing, POD, International Association of Applied Linguistics, CGC
Sarah: if you go to these and connect them with us.
Cynthia DeRoma: And share what you did in the listerv.
Mo Burke: American Association of Colleges and Universities is a good one in DC in October (you’re already a member by working at a university).
Proposal ideas:
Testing using AI
Cynthia DeRoma: motioned to adjourn (11:56)