Ann M. Johns
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	Consulting & Service Consulting and service of several types have been central to my professional life; and they have continued and intensified after my full retirement from San Diego State in 2002. Over the years, I have been invited to consult or teach internationally as well as present plenaries or keynotes in the United States and abroad. My overseas work has included program evaluation (Pakistan, 1987; Algeria, 1991; Turkey, 2004); teaching classes (Spain, 1992; Lebanon, 2002); conducting workshops on academic reading and writing pedagogy (France, 1994; Russia, 1996; Mexico, 2010), working with university faculty on publishing internationally (Turkey, 2004; Mexico, 2009; South Africa, 2009), and presenting plenaries at international conferences. (See the "Overseas" link.) More recent conference plenaries and keynotes in the United States and abroad include South Africa, 2005, Mexico, 2009 & 2011; American Association of Applied Linguistics, 2007; CATESOL Regional, 2008; Symposium on Second Language Writing, 2009, and an English for Specific Purposes conference at Shih Chien University in Taipei, Taiwan (April, 2010), as well as at Carnegie Mellon (for the Doha Campus) in 2010. The international workshops also continue (e.g., Turkey, 2004 and 2006, Jordan and the West Bank, 2006, Puebla, Veracruz and Hildago, Mexico, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010). (See the "Overseas" link.) Locally, I develop curricula for secondary schools, particularly those with high populations of linguistically-diverse students. During the 2003-2004 academic year, for example, I interviewed teachers and librarians in the Grossmont and Sweetwater Union High School Districts in San Diego County. From their contributions and other sources, I developed a Manual for Student Research, distributed by the San Diego State University College Readiness Program. I continue to work with the Sweetwater district which has now adopted a "rhetorical approach" and compiled its own readers for instruction. In 2005, I began to craft a reading, writing, and research curriculum, AVID College Readiness: Working with Sources (ACR) for the AVID Program, a broadly-focused initiative designed for highly-motivated, first generation secondary students who plan to attend university (See the “Domestic” link.). The completed program was presented at the AVID California Conference in January, 2009. After this conference, I have contined to revise this curriculum and training syllabus for AVID teachers and staff developers, and I continue to present at AVID National Conferences. Much of the professional time that remains is devoted to editorial work, particularly serving as a reviewer for international journals. In 2011, for example, I was serving on the editorial boards of TESOL Quarterly, English for Specific Purposes Journal, Journal of English for Academic Purposes, JSLW (Journal of Second Language Writing) and JEAP (Journal of English for Academic Purposes. I edited ESP submissions to the Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics; and occasionally, I read a submission on genre or ESP for Applied Linguistics Journal. What can one do in retirement, then? Freed from institutional politics and responsibilities, I am able to devote myself to international projects, such as my Senior Fulbrights at the University of Limpopo, South Africa (May/June, 2007) and Antonine University, Lebanon (June, 2009). There is also time for local educational projects, such as AVID curriculum development, teacher workships, particularly at California community colleges (Mendocino, 2009; Southwestern, 2009, 2010 and Grossmont College, 2011), or the upgrading of the developmental writing program at San Diego State. Retirement frees us to focus on what's important, on how we can use our talents in attempting to make small, but (one hopes) significant contributions to our communities and the world. Home | Professional Activities | Teaching | Consulting & Service | Suggested Reading