Interpreters in Educational and Instructional Settings 9/8/2014

RID Regions I-V

Doable Action- IEIS Goals Embody the Change You Want to See in the

[Edition 1, Volume 1]

Membership Drive 

Profession by Starting with what is Doable. The 2013 National Conference challenged everyone in the profession to identify what change is doable. As interpreters in educational settings sometimes the lists of what other people want us to do is overwhelming. While each of you is encouraged to set a doable goal for yourself, the Council has set the following goals for IEIS: The IEIS Member Section aims to 1) Increase communication to IEIS members (via newsletter, brochure and internet) 2) Develop a letter to be sent to each state’s Board or Department of Education that will explain the need for highly qualified interpreters which will positively affect the academic achievements of DHH students 3) Region Delegates and State Liaisons will make contact with the state’s Board or Department of Education 4) Collaborate with RID to have clear information about what is happening within IEIS. 5) Promote professional development CEUs on local, state, and national levels of RID. The Council hopes that one of your doable goals is to become

In July 2014 the IEIS Member Section had 2017 members. Certainly that is only a fraction of interpreters in K12, post-secondary, and vocational training settings. Encourage your friends and colleagues to update their RID Member Profile and select the Interpreters in Education and Instructional Settings (IEIS) Member Section!

FAQs Do I have to be an RID certified member? No. You can join a member section at any RID membership level. Do I have to be working in K12 settings? No. IEIS represents the interests of interpreters in K-12, post-secondary, and vocational

a more active IEIS member. Join the Facebook page “IEIS RID

training settings. You can even

Member Section.” Participate in your Affiliate Chapter. Take a

join IEIS in a supportive role.

workshop or consider giving one. Serve on a task force in your state for DHH education. We can’t wait to celebrate your success!

JOIN TODAY!

Your 2013-2015 IEIS Council Your IEIS Council is here to serve you and would like to hear from you. The 2013-2015 Council includes:

NETWORK! IEIS RID Member Section It’s your daily access to resources, national information, and peer support!

Tiffany Harding , Chair Megan Butler, Vice-chair

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Emily Girardin, Understudy

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Ellen Olsen, Secretary

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Lynn Kohler, Region I Delegate

[email protected]

Jodi Upton, Region II co-Delegate

[email protected]

Donna Lawlor, Region III Delegate [email protected] Jo Brown, Region IV Delegate

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Angie O’Bleness, Region V Delegate [email protected] The entire council can be reached at [email protected].

IEIS Member Section Reactivate! -by Lynn Kohler, IEIS Member Section Region I Delegate 2013-2015 RID member sections

of enforcement, and a number

interpreters from across the

encourage interpreters to write

of other issues related to

country and realized a lot has

articles for the VIEWS,

mentorship and professional

been done to promote our field.

contribute ideas to Best Practice

development.

At the same time, a lot still

papers, and are in dialog with the RID Board of Directors about items of concern and celebration for our members. One problem is that only a small portion of educational interpreters know there is a member section for them. I certainly didn’t pay attention for my first several years in public schools.

I decided to go to the RID National Conference in 2013 to meet other educational interpreters and to find out if others have solutions to some of the problems I’m facing. That’s when I found out about the member section for Interpreters in Educational and

needs to be done to keep up with the caliber of services that are expected of us. Similarly, our marketplaces, our schools, are often not keeping up with the changes in our profession and we have a lot to do to bring them up to speed. After I joined the IEIS

Instructional Settings [IEIS].

Facebook page and saw

(Formerly EDitor) It was

colleagues support each other,

frustrated in rural America

thrilling and reassuring to

suddenly working in a rural

about the struggles of isolated

finally meet interpreters with

setting doesn’t feel quite so

Deaf children, the amateur

more experience, who have

isolating! I look forward to

signers who are hired by school

trod this path, and who have

seeing more about the doable

districts that know nothing

sage advice for me!

change we are bringing in our

For a while now I’ve been

about professionally trained interpreters, state legislation that mandates qualified interpreters but lacks a method

A year later I am more aware of local, state, and national issues. I have met educational

field.