A workshop is to be held annually at an institution within the New England region.

About the Workshop Chair
A workshop chair will be designated for each workshop,at least a year in advance.  The Chair must belong to the institution which hosts the workshop that year.  He/She will bear the responsibility for organizing the workshop, with assistance from the advisory committee.

The Chair's Responsibilities Include:

1. deciding the date and site of the workshop;
2. publicizing the workshop and soliciting presentations in an effective way;
3. obtaining necessary funding;
4. providing a printed workshop schedule to participants;
5. confirming presenters, in a timely fashion, of their presentations;
6. providing necessary space and equipment for presentations;
7. making arrangements for lodging, parking, and meal services for participants, as long as this is possible;
8. providing certificates of attendance for those participants who desire;
9. confirming a new chair for the following year and transferring the pertinent information to him/her;
10. keeping the workshop records, such as the mailing list of the participants, the grant proposals, and the expenditures, and submitting them to the secretary of the advisory committee after the workshop;

The President, selected by the members of the committee, coordinates the activities of the committee in assisting the Chair in various areas. He/She also keeps the records of JLTANE workshops, providing a thread of continuity for the workshop.

The Chair may ask the President for the committee members' assistance at any stage of organizing and operating the workshop.

The term of appointment for the members including the President is three years, and one third of the members are renewed each year. They are appointed either on a volunteer or nomination basis. The appointments may be repeated.

Advisory Committee Members 2008-2009

Office	Name	School	Term Ending
President	Tamae Prindle	Colby College	~2009
2008 Host	Hisae Kobayashi	Connecticut College	~2009
2009 Host	Wako Tawa	Amherst College	~2010
NECTJ Rep.	Tsuda Kazuo	UN International School	~2009
NECTJ Rep.	Tomoko Graham	Noble and Greenough School	~2009
Member	Kagawa Kiyomi	Tufts University	~2009
Member	Nagaya Yoshimi	MIT	~2009
Member	Naoto Kobayashi	Hall-Dale School System	~2009
Member	Kazuko Ozawa	Wellesley College	~2009
2010 Host	Kasumi Yamamoto	Williams College	~2011

Click here to see the committee members from earlier years.

Historical Background:

1986
The first  Japanese teachers' pedagogical workshop in New England was designed and hosted by the late Professor Tazuko Ajiro Monane (1939-1991) at Harvard University.  Professor Monane's goal was to create a regional horizontal support group for the hard-working teachers of Japanese.  At Professor Monane's clarion call, different colleges and universities started taking turns in hosting the annual workshops.

1992
Professor Rieko Wagoner (Trinity College) convened its first business meeting to establish an advisory committee which was later membered by nine representatives from different schools.  Professor Wagoner served as its first secretary.  For the lack of an alternative ideas, the workshop were then called "The New England Region Japanese Language Teachers' Pedagogical Workshop."

1997
Tamae Prindle (Colby College) was named the second secretary.  During her tenure, the organization was named the "Japanese Language Teachers' Association in New England (JLTA-New England)," and the title "Secretary" was changed to "President."  At this point, its first home page was created.

1999
The 13th workshop at Connecticut College hosted by Professor Timothy Vance made its attendants aware of a need for a regional vertical network ("articulation") which would serve as a link between post secondary and K-12 teachers of Japanese.  Also during this meeting, the Advisory Committee was expanded to nine representatives from colleges and universities and to four teachers from grades K to 12.

2006
For the first time in it's history, JLTA-New England sponsored its annual conference jointly with NECTJ (Northeast Council of Teachers of Japanese) at Wesleyan University in June.

2007
During the 21st conference at Harvard University, the Advisory Committee changed the acronym of the association from “JLTA-New England” to “JLTANE.”  It also reduced the number of its members to six:  President, Chair of the previous year’s conference, Chair of the current year’s conference, and Chair of the next year’s conference, two representatives of NECTJ (Northeast Council of Teachers of Japanese).  The downsizing to six members will take place in three stages, completing them in 2010.

2008
Advisory Committee revisited the issues of (1) downsizing the Advisory Committee members, (2) the relationship between JLTANE and NECTJ, and (3) frequency of the joint conferences. 
Decisions: 
(1) The Advisory Committee will consist of nine voting members and one non-voting President.  It will draw three members voting from NECTJ (Northeast Council of Teachers of Japanese) and six from JLTANE (Japanese Language Teachers’ Association of New England).
(2) NECTJ has no obligation to contribute the fund it raises to the JLTANE/NECTJ joint conferences.
(3)  JLTANE/NECTJ will continue holding a conference annually.