Added stress that the end of the school year usually brings is nearly over. Summer time!!! When I was looking for ideas for our Summer Camps, I bumped into the site http://www.legacyproject.org/guides/beginend.html  and was fascinated by the idea: “Start and end the school year with a DREAM”.

Many of our dreams have come true this academic year – teachers are getting united and this years’ NATE/FEELTA Conference in Vladivostok (June 26-28) will be a true proof of that; many teachers of Russia were lucky to attend presentations of our Fellows and English Language Specialists (Johanna Kowitz, Michael Krauss, J.D. Brown, btw, famous Diane Larsen-Freeman is coming to Russia in the end of June); 25 Moscow EFL teachers were the first to complete a special professional development half-a-year course conducted by ELO David Fay; about 250 kids in 6 cities have participated in ACCESS Microscholarship Programs and are now happily studying English in Summer English Language Camps, etc.

What else to dream about? This is a question to you and to those opinion leaders, representatives of Associations who would like to take part in the Umbrella Conference “Building Networks for Change” in Ryazan on September 16-19. We are looking forward to your ideas!

Our English Language Office was set up in autumn of 1993 and we are going to start celebrating its 15^th Anniversary in Ryazan and continue to do it throughout the year - we invite you to share your success stories with lots of video clips, PPP, slide shows and ideas for celebration.

Yours, Elena