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TESOL Live!

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Grab your favorite beverage and join fellow English language teachers. We will spend this hour conversing about our lives, sharing classroom practices, learning, and making new friends. Let’s value virtual connections - join us to network, share, and learn! TESOL Live! is offered at no cost to TESOL members and nonmembers. Advance registration is required.

TESOL Live! is hosted by the TESOL Membership Professional Council (MPC) on the third Saturday of every month at 8am Eastern time.

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April's TESOL Live

Join us 18 April 2026

Chat with your global colleagues, share classroom practices, and build your network at this month's TESOL Live!

We will be joined by our featured guest Courtney Bailey, English language lecturer, international teacher trainer and instructional designer.

Paths, Pivots and Possibilities in ELT

English language teaching careers rarely follow a straight line. Many professionals enter the field through classroom teaching, only to find that over time their roles, interests and capacities evolve. Recent shifts in technology, assessment practices and institutional expectations, including the growing presence of AI, have further accelerated the need for flexibility and thoughtful career planning in ELT.

This interactive webinar explores the many paths that shape ELT careers and the possibilities that exist beyond traditional teaching roles. Drawing on experiences from diverse global contexts, the session will examine common career arcs, moments that prompt professional pivots and the wide range of roles that support English language education, including curriculum and materials development, assessment and testing, teacher training, program coordination, accreditation and leadership.

Participants will be invited to reflect on their own professional journeys and consider how skills developed through teaching transfer into other areas of ELT. Through guided breakout discussions, attendees will share experiences, compare career pathways across contexts, and identify opportunities for sustainable growth over time.

This session is open to teachers, trainers, administrators and ELT professionals at all stages who are interested in navigating change while remaining grounded in meaningful, long-term work.

About Our Featured Guest

Courtney Bailey is an English language lecturer, international teacher trainer and instructional designer who spearheads globally focused educational programs at the intersection of language education, accessibility and faculty and program development.

She teaches university level English and linguistics courses and works across disciplines to strengthen teaching and learning at scale in international and cross-cultural contexts.

She serves in leadership roles with NAFSA in Intensive English Programs and collaborates with educators, embassy partners and senior university leadership, including rectors and provosts, to support institutional capacity building through U.S. Department of State initiatives, Peace Corps virtual service and international partnerships.

Her professional interests include language conflict and language rights, accent studies, bias and power dynamics in the classroom, ethical AI integration in language education, language assessment and aviation English. She is ABD in a PhD program in Education specializing in English language learning.

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Upcoming Events

May 2026

16 May, 2026 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM EDT

3rd person ‘s’ and the state of TESOL

The ‘s’ suffix in the present simple (‘time flies’) has caused learners and their teachers more grief than perhaps any other feature of English grammar. I will briefly trace its history and variants, account for its difficulties, and argue that its pedagogical treatment encapsulates everything that is wrong with current TESOL. If time allows, I’ll finish by suggesting alternative approaches to teaching it (and other hard-to-acquire items).

About our featured guest

Scott Thornbury has taught and trained in Egypt, UK, Spain, and in his native New Zealand. Until recently he taught an online MA TESOL program for The New School in New York. His writing credits include several award-winning books for teachers on language and methodology.

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June 2026

20 June, 2026 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM EDT

From Emerging Adulthood to Professional Growth: How English Language Teaching Builds Transferable Skills and Employability

This webinar explores how English language teaching can support the development of transferable skills in learners experiencing emerging adulthood—a developmental phase marked by identity exploration, increasing autonomy, and changing professional expectations. For many adult learners, English classrooms function not only as spaces for language development but also as environments for practicing communication, self-regulation, and professional identity. Through reflective, mindful, and experience-based learning, English teaching offers powerful opportunities to cultivate transferable skills such as effective communication, adaptability, collaboration, and critical thinking. The session will present concrete strategies for integrating transferable skills and employability into everyday language teaching practice.

About our featured guest

Alicja Gałązka is a professor at the University of Silesia, a psychotherapist, pedagogue, psychologist, linguist , an international licenced coach and an international master trainer of Positive Psychology, NLP&Mindfulness. A President of ICI (International Coaching Institute) in Poland and a head of the Educational Centre FUTURE in Poland. She is an author of over 400 articles published in Polish and English and numerous books. An active member of Psychotherapeutic Association and Positive Psychology @Mindfulness, A regional adviser for Trinity College London in Poland., Working in two main sectors: Medicine andEducation. She has been actively working with medical doctors and medical students and vets on developing their soft skills, their well-being and resilience and stress management. A speaker at many international conferences and meetings on behalf of different Institutions. In teaching and training she uses innovative method process drama which helps to develop empathy, communication and collaboration skills, Works a lot with patients suffering from personality disorders and mental and emotional problems. She is a very active person, loves skiing and climbing the mountains. She managed to climb Kilimanjaro, Mont Blanc and many other peaks. Loves music and theatre, often goes to concerts and performances.

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July 2026

18 July 18, 2026 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM EDT

Professional Coaching to Troubleshoot Learning Dilemmas

This hands-on session will introduce some coaching conversations techniques and the FEW model to trouble learning dilemmas. After a short presentation to build up and demonstrate the coaching conversation, participants will be invited to the break out rooms to try it out! Instant application so that teachers can take this away and use for their own classrooms and learners.

About our featured guest

Rachel Paling is an educator, teacher trainer, practitioner-scholar, and professional coach with over 35 years’ experience in language education. She holds a BA (Hons) in Law and Spanish, an MA in Human Rights, an MA in Applied Neuroscience, and an MA in Neuroeducation and Neuropsychology. She is a fully qualified UK lawyer (non-practising) and an International Coach Federation Master Certified Coach (MCC), certified Coach Supervisor, and ICF Coach Mentor.

Rachel is the creator of Neurolanguage Coaching® and Neuroheart Education, with a global vision to transform teaching through neuroscience, coaching, and compassion. Over the past 18 months she has been a Doctoral Fellow at the Coaching Research Lab at Case Western Reserve University, undertaking a DBA at the Weatherhead School of Management under the supervision of Professor Richard Boyatzis.

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