A member recently asked the board about the “Best of CoTESOL”.  You may remember that TESOL once sponsored a “Best of [affiliate name]“, which came with a guaranteed presentation slot at TESOL—a year and a half after our convention because CoTESOL had to submit the presentation before we held our convention.  Thus, the Best of CoTESOL 2007 was not selected before the TESOL 2008 presenter had to be named, so the Best of CoTESOL 2007 was named for TESOL 2009.

In the last couple years, TESOL has no longer guaranteed the presentation slot, so even if we submitted a presenter, we weren’t sure that that presenter would be on the TESOL program.  Also, neither of our Best of Colorado 2007 and 2008 selectees were able to attend their TESOL conventions (2009 and 2010).  Both had accepted positions overseas, a factor in their not attending TESOL.

I suggested, and the board agreed, that we not award a “Best of CoTESOL” for the 2009 CoTESOL convention so that we could reduce the time between the selection and the award since we couldn’t guarantee the TESOL acceptance anyway.  (At that time, we didn’t know for sure that our best of 2008 would not be able to attend the TESOL 2010 convention.)

Sooooooo, look for the Best of CoTESOL to be back at CoTESOL 2010, with the selected presenter to attend TESOL 2011, sponsored by CoTESOL.

How do you get to be the Best of CoTESOL?  It all starts with a proposal for CoTESOL 2010.  Information should be coming out soon…

Debra@CoTESOL

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