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Conference 2023 Program Committee

Kim Kotty, Conference Chair
Fenwick High School

Jen Gouin, President
Lincoln Community High School

Betsy Geiselman, 1^st Vice President
Carbondale Community High School

Angelo Bonadonna, Webmaster
Saint Xavier University

Michelle Ryan, Treasurer
Lincoln Community High School 

Andrew Rodbro, Conference Master of Ceremony
Warren Township High School 

Genevieve Sherman, Honorary Awards
Zion-Benton High School

Kaitlin Glause, Site Coordinator
 Millikin University

Delores Robinson, District Leader Coordinator
 Illinois Valley Community College

Jean Black, Convention Sites
Retired  

Carrie Santo-Thomas, Nominating Committee, Table Decorations
Warren Township High School

Kimberly Musolf, Registration
Adlai E. Stevenson High School 

Kristin Runyon, Registration
Charleston High School

IATE Officers 2022-2023

President
Jennifer Gouin, Lincoln Community High School

First Vice-President
Betsy Geiselman, Carbondale Community High School

Second Vice-President
Kim Kotty, Fenwick High School

Treasurer
Michelle Ryan, Lincoln Community High School

Secretary
Norm Boyer, Saint Xavier University 

Executive Secretary
Kaitlin Glause, Millikin University

Editors: Illinois English Bulletin
Kaitlin Glause, Millikin University
Delores Robinson, Illinois Valley Community College
Andrew Rodbro, Warren Township High School
Michelle Ryan, Lincoln Community High School

Immediate Past President
2021-2022: Deborah Will

Return to Conference Program, 2023

President’s Welcome

Dear Colleagues,

Welcome to the 2023 IATE conference at Millikin University. We are thankful to be back at our institutional home for the second year under the leadership of our Executive Secretary Kaitlin Glause. We are so grateful for the hospitality and support we’ve received from the university and its staff.

Kim Kotty, our conference chair, has developed a program to celebrate and embrace “authenticity in action.” Through enlightening sessions that promote authentic classroom practices, this conference aims to help us meet the ever changing needs of our students and the world they will enter after they leave us.

Our conference this year affords many opportunities to learn, network, and grow in our profession. We are so happy to have you here with us this weekend and with us in our profession as well. I encourage you to find ways to get involved in IATE at the state level or within your home district. Let me know if I can help guide you to leadership opportunities, and enjoy the conference!

Jennifer Gouin

IATE President 2022-2023

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Professional Development
Event Offered by Illinois Valley Community College

Friday, April 29, 2022

Registration is FREE—please click here to register.

Zoom Series
Book Study

Courageous Conversations About Race
by Glenn E. Singleton

Please join our book discussion group hosted by IATE’s Intellectual Freedom Committee in spring 2022.

Registration for members: FREE
Registration for non-members: $35

Challenged Book Presentation

Please join Amy Magnafichi Strong, IATE’s Intellectual Freedom Chair, on November 17, 2021, 7:00 PM until 8:30 PM, via Zoom, for a presentation and Q&A.

(Zoom link to presentation for registered guests)

Pandemic Processing and Mindful Solutions

Sandra Montes

an IATE Professional Development Session

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Please join us on November 9 at 7 p.m. on Zoom for a one hour workshop designed to give you some space to process your own experiences as well as offer some concrete strategies for how to help students process theirs. The workshop will be facilitated by Sandra Montes, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and owner of In Motion Counseling.

• Registration for Members: $10
• Registration for Non-Members: $45
• Zoom info for registered guests

Sandra Montes is bilingual and Latina, and has worked with children, adolescents and adults in a variety of settings from inpatient units to community mental health settings. She has worked in both suburban and urban high schools, helping students reach their full potential. Using a trauma-informed lens, Sandra has helped clients with depression, anxiety, and stress management. She works with educators, healers and other high stress professionals. Sandra is a firm believer in strength based perspective and cognitive behavioral therapy and also believes in a spiritual and holistic perspective in therapy. She has a focus on behavioral activation or “moving,” helping clients become motivated to move their physical bodies to feel relief for their emotional state.