Grants and Awards

WATESOL Grants
WATESOL offers three grants each year.  Any WATESOL member may apply for these grants.  Grant recipients must contribute a short article to the WATESOL Newsletter giving an account of the professional development experience facilitated by the grant.  See below for more information about each grant.
 
Grant
Description
Application and deadline
WATESOL Travel Grant
 The WATESOL Travel Grant is intended to help cover the costs of traveling to any conference relevant to the teaching of English as a Second Language.  Grant amount: $500. 
Deadline: Jan 1
J. Michael O'Malley Action Research Grant
 The J. Michael O'Malley Action Research Grant supports classroom-based research in the interest of improving teaching and encouraging reflective teaching practices.
Grant amount: $500
Deadline: April 1
Jim Weaver Scholarship for Professional Development
 The Jim Weaver Scholarshihp was created to help defray educational or professional development costs.  “Educational or developmental costs” could include professional conference registration fees,  fees for short courses, seminars or workshops leading to professional development, subscriptions to journals in the field,  funding for classroom research or peer evaluation activities, or funding of professional development groups at a particular institution.  Grant amount: $500.
Deadline: June 1

Questions or comments about 2002-2003 WATESOL Grants may be directed to
Virginia Lezhnev at lezhnevv@georgetown.edu

WATESOL Grant Recipients
 
WATESOL Grant
Recipients
WATESOL 
Travel Grant
(established 1987)
 2002 - Holly Gray (TESOL Salt Lake City)
1999- Martin Van Opdorp (TESOL New York)
1996- George Bunch (TESOL Chicago)
           Genie Holmes (TESOL Chicago)
1995- Henry Amador (TESOL Long Beach)
1993- Patricia Johnson (TESOL Atlanta)
           Lynn Poirier (TESOL Atlanta)
1992- Janet Giannoti (TESOL Vancouver)
           Janette Haynes (TESOL Vancouver)
1991- Sharon McKay (TESOL New York)
1990- Ellen Kohn (TESOL San Francisco)
1988- Kay Scruggs (TESOL Chicago)
J. Michael O'Malley 
Action Research Grant
(established 1998)
  
Jim Weaver Scholarship 
for Professional Development
(established 1985)
 2002- Amy Vernier (2002)
199? - Shanna Grossman
1993 Carolyn Vincent
1988 Ellen Kohn
1987 Susan Joyner
1986 Andrea Elfin
 

WATESOL Award Recipients
 
 
WATESOL Award Recipients
WATESOL Service Award
(established 1984)		 1991- Judy Paiva
           G. Richard Tucker
1987- Christine Meloni
1986- Janet Giannoti
1984- Susan Bayley
1983- Mary Niebuhr
1982- Patricia Miller
WATESOL Advocacy Award
(established 2002)		 2002- Maria Malagon