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36th Annual Convention and Exhibit
Friday and Saturday, November 20-21, 2009
Winds of Change: Teaching for Tomorrow
(Click here for Preliminary Program)
The 36th Annual
Convention and Exhibit of Puerto Rico Teachers of
English to Speakers of Other Languages (PRTESOL)
will be held at the elegant Ponce Hilton in Ponce,
Puerto Rico. There
will
be presenters from New
York, Washington DC, Alabama, Florida, Colorado, Texas,
Wisconsin, New Jersey, Arkansas, Pennsylvania, Hawaii,
Colombia, Peru, Dominican Republic, Japan, Korea, Qatar
and Puerto Rico. Registration and hotel accommodations
information is now available.
This year’s
convention promises to be a huge event packed full
with presentations, speeches, workshops, exhibits,
networking, good food and entertainment.
The convention
will begin on Friday, November 20, and end on
Saturday, November 21. All PRTESOL members and non
members must register for the convention to
participate in or attend meetings, visit the exhibit
hall, or reserve hotel rooms at special PRTESOL
rate.
List of
Convention forms:
Registration Form
Hotel Registration Form
PRTESOL CONVENTION
P. O. BOX 366828
SAN JUAN, PR 00936-6828

Call for
presentation has closed as of June 29.
For questions related to presentations,
please contact vice-president,
Gladys Perez at
gperez16@gmail.com.
Call for
presentation has closed as of June 29. For questions related to presentations,
please contact vice-president, Gladys Perez at
gperez16@gmail.com.
CESE, Scholastic, Pearson Digital,
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Pearson, Sadlier
Oxford, Third Wave Learning, Camera
Mundi, McGraw-Hill, First Caribbean
Educational Group, Cambrige, Cengage,
Santillana, VERNET, Benchmark
Education,
Editorial UPR, Scientific Learning,
Porta Caribe, Turismo Ponce,
Braxton, Franklin Electronic, ETS,
Masajes Terapéuticos, Oxford
University Press, Teacher Created
Materials, Auralog, Alta Books,
College Board, and UNE
Exhibitor
space has closed as of July 31, 2009.
For inquiry
please contact:
Naomi Vega at
nvega2008@gmail.com and/or
Inocencia Nieves at
inonieves_prtesol@yahoo.com.
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Miguel Camacho
PRTESOL President
Message from the President:
I am delighted and honored to serve as
the 2009 President. Our 2009 convention
theme is: Winds of Change: Teaching for
Tomorrow. As we are all anticipating
change on a national, economical and
educational level, we are excited about
the changes that our organization is
experiencing at this very moment. One of
these changes is having the support of
Dr. Juan Rodríguez, the Undersecretary,
and Dr. Evelyn Veguillas, the English
Program Director, both of the Puerto
Rico Department of Education.
The only thing constant about the future
is that it will continue to change. If
there is one thing that we cannot and
should not do, it is to stay the same.
We are moving towards a competitive,
complex, and diverse world. In the
"Winds of Change," we cannot always
direct the wind, but we can adjust our
sails and make changes in our course.
How to improve and assess teaching
performance is an issue of great
importance to all educators. The 21st
century will demand a new kind of
teaching and learning. We must choose
the right road and move forward. We must
take some bold new steps to make
fundamental changes in our teaching to
guarantee the academic achievement of
our students.
I encourage you to join our voyage, full
of winds of change, to teach for
tomorrow.
Miguel Camacho
PRTESOL President
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Keynote Speakers

Dr. Deborah J. Short
Deborah J. Short,
Ph. D., directs Academic Language Research &
Training, a professional consulting company, and
works with schools, districts, and states, providing
professional development on sheltered instruction
and academic literacy to teachers around the U.S.
and abroad. She is also a senior research associate
at the Center for Applied Linguistics where she
co-developed the SIOP Model and has directed
research on English language learners for the
Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Rockefeller
Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Education,
among others. She is currently studying newcomer
programs and the SIOP Model in middle school science
classrooms. She chaired an expert panel on
adolescent ELL literacy and co-authored the policy
report, Double the
Work. Publications include research articles
in professional journals, such as TESOL Quarterly,
Journal of Educational Research, Educational
Leadership, Education and Urban Society and Journal
of Research in Education; books on the SIOP Model;
and four ESL series for K-12 students. Previously,
she taught ESL and EFL in New York, California,
Virginia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Sponsored by
CESE, INC.
National Geographic & Hampton Brown School
Publishers
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Esmeralda
Santiago
Sponsored
by Scholastic
Esmeralda Santiago was born in San Juan, Puerto
Rico. She came to the United States at thirteen,
the eldest in a family that would eventually
include eleven children. Ms. Santiago attended
New York City’s Performing Arts High School,
where she majored in drama and dance. After
eight years of part-time study at community
colleges, she transferred to Harvard University
with a full scholarship. She graduated magna cum
laude in 1976. In 1977, she and her husband,
Frank Cantor, founded CANTOMEDIA, a film and
media production company, which has won numerous
awards for excellence in documentary filmmaking.
Ms. Santiago has earned a Master of Fine Arts in
Fiction Writing from Sarah Lawrence College and
Honorary Doctor of Letters from Trinity
University, from Pace University, from
Metropolitan College and from Universidad de
Puerto Rico, Recinto de Mayagüez. The mother of
two adult children, she lives in Westchester
County, New York, with her husband, filmmaker
Frank Cantor. She’s currently at work on a
novel, Conquistadora.
For more information, log on to:
http://www.esmeraldasantiago.com
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We
invite you to visit or attend any of our events held throughout
the island. Also, our Board of Directors is more than happy to answer
any questions about the organization and how you can join.
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