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Introducing Communities of Practice
Introducing Communities of Practice
What is a community of Practice?
What is a community of Practice?
A Community of Practice (CoP) is a group of people who share a common interest or concern and learn together by regularly interacting and sharing knowledge, experiences, and best practices to improve their skills and advance their domain of expertise.
How can members get involved?
Complete the Member’s Interest Survey and one of TexTESOL IV board members will contact you to connect for our first community meeting.
TexTESOL IV Advocates
TexTESOL IV Advocates
Name Your State Representative
Name Your State Representative
Learn the name of your state representative and their stance on the issues educators are facing, then write your representative!
Submit a letter for each senator and the representative for your area Texas senators are John Cornyn or Ted Cruz.
Click Here to Find Your Representative
TexTESOL IV Share Your Voice
TexTESOL IV Share Your Voice
TexTESOL IV will send a representative in-person to meet with our state representatives in Washington DC.
To support out TexTESOL IV Representative we are asking for :
a statement of the effect of the President's executive orders and actions on your job
a picture or slide showing an example of your use of Title III funds in your work setting.
As you know after this year, Title III is set to be totally eliminated. Please send Senators Cruz and Cornyn and your representative a message urging them to fund education in 2026 appropriations:
Level-fund or increase ESEA Title III English Language Acquisition funding - the President seeks to eliminate funding
Level-fund or increase WIOA Title II (AEFLA) Adult Education State Grants funding - the President seeks to eliminate funding
Level-fund or increase ESEA Title I.C Migrant Education funding - the President seeks to eliminate funding
Level-fund or increase HEA Title II Teacher Quality Partnership funding - the President seeks to eliminate funding
Level-fund or increase Education and Cultural Exchange funding - the President seeks to cut funding by over 90%
Level-fund or increase funding the USED Office for Civil Rights - the President seeks to cut funding by over 30%.
We invite members to share their questions and concerns they would like relayed to their representatives during the in-person advocacy days by sharing their thought by completing the form below:
Share your thoughts with your state representatives:
Please send your statements and picture/slide by June 10.
Who We Are
Who We Are
TexTESOL IV is one of five affiliates of TexTESOL, the Texas branch of the international association TESOL, Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages.
Our common mission is to advance professional expertise in English language teaching and learning for speakers of other languages. Our membership consists of educators from all levels: elementary, secondary, higher-education, and adult education. All of our board members share the same commitment to provide an equitable, quality education for all students. To that end, TexTESOL IV hosts an annual regional conference and participates in state and national conferences.
We also strive to maintain a board which represents the needs and concerns of all of the educational levels we serve. The board meets monthly and welcomes the input of members. Please contact members of the TexTESOL IV boards with your questions and concerns.
Interested in serving on the Board of Directors or as a Committee Chair, Committee Member, or shadowing a leader? Do you know a great leader and want to nominate them for office? Go ahead! Complete the application below:
Interested in serving on the Board of Directors or as a Committee Chair, Committee Member, or shadowing a leader? Do you know a great leader and want to nominate them for office? Go ahead! Complete the application below:
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