TESOL Outstanding Advocate Honor Award

TESOL members in good standing who are public officials, institutional leaders, or community professionals. Any TESOL member may nominate another member for this award.

IMPORTANT: On the basis of the best information currently available to the United States Department of the Treasury, the following countries require or may require participation in, or cooperation with, an international boycott (within the meaning of section 999(b)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986). The boycotted countries are Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Yemen. As a result, TESOL International Association cannot send funds or issue awards to recipients of these countries. Award applications received from residents of these countries will be removed from consideration. We apologize to those individuals affected.

A commemorative plaque is given to the recipient.

The recipient is selected according to evidence of:

• Dedication, leadership, and efforts that have positively affected a policy or change with direct positive impact on multilingual learners and/or TESOL professionals.
• A long-standing commitment to equity, diversity, inclusion, and access in the TESOL field. 
• Advocacy efforts that have effected positive change over a period of time, commitment, and passion for advocacy.

You will be asked for the following information to complete the nomination process. You are strongly encouraged to gather this information before you begin the application to expedite the nomination process. 

• Nominee's information: full name, institution (place of work), place of residence (city, state/province, country), email address, and phone number. 
• The nominee's professional bio.
• Description of the nominee's achievements and activities that demostrate their advocacy at the local/public level and efforts towards advancing DEIA (500 words max). 
• The nominee's CV (5 pages max).

For more details, please see the Evaluation Rubric.