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Topics
Note: We need to arrange them to fit the 5-week EVO format
- How to write for grants, funding, support
- Introductions - NNEST Interest Section and NNEST movement
- Graduate students and taking the first steps towards a professional life
 
- NNEST mentoring practices (confirmed)
 Invited guest spseaker: Valeria Jakar, Ph.D.
     Topic: the NNEST  as  mentor"  - and what it means to be a.  labeled  and b.  a successful mentor with NESTs  and NNESTS
  
- NNEST Research: Where to begin? Where to go? Where to share?
- World Englishes and NNESTs
- The NNEST movement - Past, Present and Future
- Collaboration between NESTs and NNESTs for a better future (For Week 5?)
- Contextual opportunities, challenges in NNEST issues
- Collective Brainstorming (taken from Academic Session 2013)
 
What can WE be doing during and beyond the TESOL Convention?
What are some ways that WE can raise awareness about issues that concern NESTs/NNESTs?
How can WE create and sustain collaboration among NESTs/NNESTs?
How can WE build/implement sustainable practices to work against unprofessional, discriminatory treatments of NESTs/NNESTs in the process of hiring/at the workplace? 
What can WE do to support NESTs/NNESTs professionally (Training, publications, conference presentations)?
- The Future of TESOL/The Future of NNEST IS (For Week 5?)
 NOTE: PLEASE SEE http://evosessions.pbworks.com/w/page/10708564/EVO%20Previous%20Sessions for examples of past EVO sessions' Weekly outlines