Alabama-Mississippi
Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages
AMTESOL has a new mailing address! AMTESOL PO Box 360122 Hoover, AL 35236
AMTESOL 2026 Keynote Speaker - Saturday
English Learners Engage is Mississippi and Alabama's only major locally based multilingual learner focused company. We have been providing professional development, teacher coaching and modeling, family engagement events, student tutorials and English Language Proficiency Test boot camps throughout the deep south for several years - and getting big results. EL Engage's owner, Dr. Monique Henderson, also is the author of the popular book 31 Things Your English Learners Want You to Know: Lessons from the Classroom, which is in use in more than 60 school districts across the U.S. She also published a sequel to the book in 2023. Let's talk today about how you can take YOUR organization's English learners "to the next levEL!"
Keynote Speaker: Jeff Hutcheson
Director of Advocacy and Public Policy, TESOL International Association​
Founding Partner at Global Ed Professionals
Jeff Hutcheson has over 25 years of experience in the field of English language teaching and learning. He is a passionate advocate for the rights and needs of TESOL professionals and students worldwide. As the Director of Advocacy and Public Policy at TESOL International Association, he leads the association's efforts to influence local, state, federal, and global policies that affect the TESOL community and advance the interests of its members and affiliates. He is committed to promoting the values of diversity, inclusion, and excellence in TESOL, and to fostering collaborations and partnerships across the field and beyond.
In addition to his role at TESOL, he is also a founding partner at Global Ed Professionals, a consultancy firm that provides solutions for internationalizing the campus and preparing students for the global community. He leverages his extensive experience and expertise in ESL and higher education partnerships, as well as cross-border business development, to help clients achieve their goals and enhance their outcomes. Some of the skills that he brings to this role are policy advocacy, immigration, staff mentoring, and corporate training.