ESN Program

🥳Rokhatoy Gulboyeva and Sevara Kadirova, Bukhara region, School #15✨

🥳 Marjona Temirova, Bukhara region, School #29✨

🥳 Dilora Latipova, Bukhara region, School #23✨

🥳 Kodirova Nigora, Samarkand region, School #21 ✨

🥳 Sagida Makhambetova, Tashkent city, School #147✨

Congratulations to the winners of the Video Competition on Community Spirit!🥳 🏆 Sagida Makhambetova, Tashkent city, School #147 🏆 Kodirova Nigora, Samarkand region, School #21 🏆 Dilora Latipova, Bukhara region, School #23 🏆 Marjona Temirova, Bukhara region, School #29 🏆 Rokhatoy Gulboyeva and Sevara Kadirova, Bukhara region, School #15 🎁 We will send your prizes soon! Please send your addresses and the number of Mentees to @ESN_Admin✨ It was hard to select winners among so many wonderful videos. Your submissions were judged according to the required duration of video (1 minute or less), deadline, exemplifying team spirit and creativity. Wait for winners’ videos to be shared😃

"Had a great time today celebrating English language learning and teaching at the Uzbekistan State World Languages University. U.S. Embassy Tashkent has invested $25 M+ on English education, working to train 15K English teachers and provide 10K schools with English language textbooks." - U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇿

Dear RPMs and Mentees, we have excellent news to share! Participate in a Video Competition in Week 3 Community of Practice session - for Prizes🎁 🔗Show us your community spirit! We want to see how you work together. 📌Rules: 1. Create a one-minute or less long video that shows your community`s identity. 2. Show how your community: - Collaborates; - Creates a comfortable environment for learning; - Builds a team; - Shares information. 3. Use your creativity and take your video horizontally 16:9 in high or medium quality (720 and more resolution) 4. Send your submission to @ESN_Admin by Monday, March 6! ‼️Please note that your submission will not be accepted if you do not meet contest requirements! American Councils staff and some ESN Coaches will choose five winning groups who will receive prizes. The TOP 5 submissions will be featured on our Telegram channel. Good luck🤞🏻

‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ Dear RPMs, 📌We are reminding those RPMs who conduct CoP sessions on Fridays to submit attendance tracker via survey monkey as soon as your session is finished. Please submit attendance for Week 1! 🎁Attendance data is important to conduct Raffle Attendance among Mentees!

📌Job opportunity alert! | PROGRAM ASSISTANT FOR THE ESN PROGRAM American Councils for International Education Uzbekistan is hiring! American Councils for International Education is a premier, international non-profit organization creating educational opportunities that prepare individuals and institutions to succeed in an increasingly interconnected world. Through academic exchanges, overseas language immersion, and educational development programs, American Councils has designed and administered innovative programs that broaden individual perspectives, increase knowledge, and deepen understanding for more than 40 years across more than 80 countries. Position Summary: The Program Assistant is responsible for promotion, recruitment, administration, support for American Councils’ programs in Uzbekistan. As a key member of the American Councils Uzbekistan team, the Program Assistant will also be expected to support and administer daily programming tasks. This position reports to a Program Officer, and will also work directly with program staff in Tashkent, Uzbekistan office. The position is offered full-time from March 2023 till December 2023 and is subject to extension based on performance review. 🔗Click here to learn more: Program Assistant for the ESN Program If you have any questions please, email them to esn@americancouncils.org

ESN Core Trainers Oygul Isamova and Umida Sabirova successfully participate in Fulbright TEA Program in the U.S. ✅In January 2023, two ESN Core Trainers Oygul Isamova and Umida Sabirova from Navoi region and Tashkent city were selected as finalists of the Fulbright Teaching Excellence and Achievement program (Fulbright-TEA) after a competitive application process. They are staying in California State from January 24th to March 7th. 📈The program will give participants the opportunity to advance their knowledge of their teaching field and gain a better awareness of best practices. ESN Core Trainers, Oygul Isamova and Umida Sabirova are currently enrolled in a six-week training program at California State University, Chico. 🎉American Councils Uzbekistan is happy for the professional achievements of ESN program participants. We wish good luck on their study! 🔗Read their full story here Follow us on social media: Telegram | Facebook | Website

📷The pictures from the previous post were provided by RPM Mahliyo Ganiyeva and CT Zulfizar Mansurova, Fergana region, Altiarik district, School 14. You can send videos and photos from CoP sessions to @Gulnaz_AC_ESN

📌On February 17, Cohort ll Community of Practice (CoP) Cascade sessions have been launched across Uzbekistan. More than 350 Regional Peer Mentors (RPMs) conduct CoP sessions with more than 5000 Mentees through April 2023. The weekly CoP sessions serve as a forum where RPMs facilitate meetings with Mentees to enhance each other’s professional development by sharing resources and teaching strategies. 🖇️Prior to starting the CoP sessions, last year RPMs successfully finished 60 hours of a professional development cascading course based on TESOL International Association's The 6 Principles for Exemplary Teaching of English Learners and George Mason University's Teaching English Through English materials. RPMs also successfully took part in online Training of Mentors (ToM) workshops conducted in the beginning of February throughout Uzbekistan to prepare for the RPM- Mentee Cascading sessions. ✨Congratulations on the start of Cohort ll CoP and good luck on the teacher's professional development endeavor!

🎉We are delighted to inform you that more than 5000 Mentees attended Community of Practice sessions conducted by RPMs in various parts of Uzbekistan from October till December 2022. 🖇️The content of CoP sessions was developed based on the TESOL International Association 6 Principles for Exemplary Teaching of English Learners and George Mason University Teaching English Through English materials. The sessions also helped teachers to develop their collaboration skills and ability to provide effective peer feedback. We are extremely proud and grateful to RPMs for their contribution to the ESN program, and for the professional development of the teachers in their own communities. RPM’s diligent work, and unfaltering investment of their time and resources are well-reflected in each Mentee. We appreciate all the dedication and commitment of our RPMs, CTs and Coaches demonstrated during Cohort I CoP sessions. And we are excited to receive the nominations for Cohort II CoP sessions. If you are an RPM who has not nominated any teachers yet, we kindly remind you to submit the nomination list as soon as possible! Thank you! The ESN team

✨Happy New Year! Thank you for the successful year that couldn't have been without you, ESN participants. Now we are bidding adieu to the passing year, we would like to take time to appreciate your hard work and contributions to the ESN Program! This year we successfully launched the CT to RPM cascade and RPM to Mentee Community of Practice professional development courses across the entire country! We also witnessed how teachers equipped themselves with new skills, improving their performance and growing personally and professionally. 2022 was a great, productive year! 📽Let's reflect on what you gained in 2022! Provide feedback yourself so we can make a video! Please send a very short video - 5 seconds or less - to @Gulnaz_AC_ESN highlighting the things you acquired and discovered within the program using 2-3 words. ⏱Duration: 5 seconds 📱Format: Vertical ⏳Deadline: TOMORROW, December 30, 2022. 5 p.m. We want you to reflect on the past year, because it will drastically improve your performance in the new year!

📌Job opportunity alert! | PART-TIME CONCULTANT JOB Regional Cascade Manager The ESN project is seeking part-time regional managers to oversee the ongoing cascade and complete the ESN program tasks as assigned. Successful candidates will have experience in the ESN program. This job requires weekly Friday travel to cascading sites. Please send your CV to esn@americancouncils.org Hiring will be conducted on a rolling basis, the position will be filled immediately once the proper candidate is interviewed and selected. Successful candidates will serve as Consultants within the ESN project, and will not considered as American Councils' staff.

Dear teachers, be kindly reminded you that ESN staff will be in: 📍Nukus INSETTI 📍Bukhara INSETTI 🗓December 29, 9:00 a.m. ESN team will conduct (together with CTs, RPMs and Cohort 1 Mentees) recruitment activities for Cohort 2 Mentees. Please share this information with all teachers who would like to join our ESN Family! Stay safe and warm ✨