Andy Curtis

Andy received his M.A. in applied linguistics and language teaching, and his Ph.D. in international education, both from the University of York in England. He teaches TESOL courses online with the School of Graduate Education at Anaheim University, California. Over the years, he has written for TESOL Quarterly, TESOL Journal, TESOL Matters and TESOL's Essential Teacher. Andy will be installed as president-elect of the TESOL International Association in Portland, Ore., in 2014, and he will be president during TESOL's 50th Anniversary Convention in Baltimore in 2016.

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Articles by Andy Curtis

• Leaving a leadership legacy

  Thursday, December 19, 2013

  For those of us in TESOL, one of Nelson Mandela’s most relevant (and most famous) quotes is: "Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world." More specifically, in relation to first and second languages, he said that: “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart."

• Leadership lessons from the language classroom

  Monday, November 25, 2013

  Although workplace bullying used to be thought of mainly in terms of bosses bullying employees, or bullying between employees, it is now becoming clear that some staff bully not only their colleagues but also their bosses. I want to focus on the more general disruptive behaviors of some staff in some language teaching organizations that make life difficult for everyone, especially those in leadership and management roles.

• Learning to lead through learning to follow

  Wednesday, October 23, 2013

  My previous article prompted several readers to respond. Many of the messages posted and emails sent confirmed that, compared with books on methodology and other areas in our field, this area of leadership in English language teaching does appear to have been relatively overlooked. We have, then, decided to make this a series of articles, and we hope to hear from more readers about their experiences of leadership in ELT.

• A gap in our field: Leadership in language education

  Tuesday, September 24, 2013

  ​Books in our field on leadership and management are relatively rare, compared with books on methodology in TESOL, and compared with books on leadership and management in other fields, such as health care.