YarTEA is 5! Congratulations!

Dear YarTEA members!

I would like to extend to you and everyone who has made YarTEA such a success my heartfelt congratulations on your fifth anniversary. We all know how important it is as language professionals to feel like we are part of a community of educators who depend and rely on each other for support, assistance and continuing education. Your efforts to improve the quality of English Language education in Yaroslavl will have a lasting impact on the lives of your colleagues and their students, an impact that would be impossible to measure. This, I believe, is why the teachers' association is such a valuable piece of the educator's career. We certainly don't do it for the money. But the benefits of providing learners with a quality education and the opportunity to explore the world in English are incalculable when we consider how they can affect the future of our communities and the Russian Federation as a whole. Thank you for your hard work.

Sincerely,

John Mark King, EFL Senior Fellow in St.Petersburg