It’s been a chatty week in the Hub with our live events on Tuesday and Thursday. In Tuesday’s Monthly Management Meet Up, there were discussions around what might happen in the next academic year with many of our Europe-based members already planning – or trying to plan – for September intake. Things are very much still up in the air here though and nobody can really forecast what stage we’ll be at come September.

There were some interesting comments to this week’s Wednesday Question. Interestingly in the Coffee Break on Thursday, one of our members was saying that BRAZ-TESOL had been holding events online pre-pandemic and so she was more accustomed to this style of conference – one of the great things about the Hub is hearing about people’s experiences from different perspectives.

As well in the Thursday chats we talked briefly about mediation, native speakerism and the potential misconceptions of advertising yourself as a pronunciation coach, and much more. Notes will be coming out shortly with a round-up of the takeaways from this engaging conversations.

Next week, we have a Focused Forum on Tuesday and the poll on Facebook is looking fairly tight at the moment so who know whether we’ll be discussing authentic materials, error correction or tech tools? And then on Thursday we’re back with a webinar and Daniel Barber will be coming along to share some tips on normalising environmental issues in our classes.