PennTESOL East is a not-for-profit organization whose purposes are:

To promote the professional development of the teacher of ESOL

To strengthen, at all levels, instruction and research in ESOL

To collect and disseminate useful information about the teaching ESOL and about new developments in the field

To establish national contacts through affiliation with TESOL, Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages

To provide opportunities for sharing information, group study, and discussion of problems confronting ESOL teachers

This Association is organized exclusively for educational purposes, including the making of distributions to an organization that qualifies as exempt under Section 501 © (3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (or the corresponding provision of any future United States Internal Revenue law).

PennTESOL East does not discriminate on the basis of age, sex, religion, national origin, handicap or sexual preference.