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2026 Fall Conference

The Call for Proposals is now open!

Dr. Drew Fagan is Clinical Professor of Applied Linguistics and Language Education and the Director of the Ed.D. in School System Leadership Program- Specialization in TESOL and Dual Language Education, TESOL Teacher Leadership Master’s Program, and the TESOL Certificate Program at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is currently a member of the TESOL International Association’s Board of Directors and was the 2022-2023 President of the Maryland TESOL Association during which he co-established the first state-wide mentorship program for TESOL professionals. He is the recipient of the 2026 Distinguished Public Service Award for the American Association for Applied Linguistics and the 2023 Teacher of the Year Award for the TESOL International Association and National Geographic Learning.

The Keynote Address

Looking Inward and Moving Forward in an Evolving TESOL World

As the TESOL field rapidly changes, it is important to delve deeply into who we are as English language teaching professionals, why we remain in this field, and what our varied roles have been in supporting multilingual learners’ English acquisition journeys. Here, we will jointly self-reflect on our own lived TESOL experiences to uncover a more explicit, tangible understanding of the multidimensionality of being a professional in our field and use that towards reconfiguring who we could be moving forward, thus being more proactive in, as opposed to reacting to, TESOL’s evolving landscape.

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