Daniel Xerri

Almost at the end of the international summer school being held at the University of Prizren, Kosovo. I'm enjoying the experience of mentoring a lovely group of students enrolled on a course focusing on digital tools and interactive learning in the English classroom.

The penultimate instalment in my leadership series for Modern English Teacher focuses on how school leaders can:

✅ Lead with trust, openness & inspiration
✅ Build a culture of safety & collaboration
✅ Invest in creativity education
✅ Reward innovation meaningfully

Newly published study on mentoring presidents within English language teacher associations.

Thanks to the participants for sharing their experiences, and the guest editors of the Special Issue that this open access article forms part of.

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How to partner with AI to engage with educational research. This is the recording of the British Council webinar held last week.

youtu.be/gaYRg3lvQYY

Newly published article in The Use of English. This is the first piece based on the ideas I shared in my IATEFL plenary earlier this year.

Download a copy: www.danielxerri.com/uploads/4/5/...

In the Iatefl BESIG Conference Selections you can find an interview and an article stemming from my plenary on change and adaptability. There are many other engaging pieces there too.

🎤 Interview: www.danielxerri.com/uploads/4/5/...

💻 Article: www.danielxerri.com/uploads/4/5/...

There were 825 participants in today's webinar on AI-facilitated critical engagement with published research. I really enjoyed contributing to the panel discussion by talking about four key competencies: www.danielxerri.com/uploads/4/5/...

On 8 July at 12.00 (UK time), the British Council is organising a webinar on how educators can partner with AI in a critical manner. We will be discussing the role of criticality in AI-assisted engagement with information.

Registration: www.teachingenglish.org.uk/news-and-eve...

It’s been a long but deeply rewarding day! A new group of novice speakers has just completed the ELT Council’s ‘How to Become a Speaker at an ELT Conference’ programme by delivering a talk or workshop in front of a live audience.

🎤 What a milestone!

Delivering a plenary at the Iatefl Conference in Edinburgh earlier this year is an experience I will long cherish. In the latest issue of Voices there is a review of the plenary penned by Hannah Tucker-Bloom.

Plenary recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnZh...

I enjoyed delivering a plenary on adaptability at the conference organised by ILCA. It was a great few days in Malaga.

Thank you to Fernanda Freytes Ramos for the visual summary of my talk, and to Ian King for the photo

Call for chapter proposals for Academic Reading Circles--Theory, Practice, and Global Pedagogies Context Academic Reading Circles (ARC) is a reading pedagogy developed through action research over several years in the International Foundation Program at New College, University of Toronto. ARC pro...

📢📢 CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS
"Academic Reading Circles: Theory, Practice, and Global Pedagogies"

To participate, please kindly complete this form by August 1, 2025. Please share widely!

FORM: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Later this week I'll be doing the opening plenary (and two workshops) at the annual conference organised by the Kosova English Teachers' Network. It's my first time in Kosovo, so I hope to do some sightseeing in Pristina.

Thanks to the British Council for sponsoring my visit.

This month’s issue of EL Gazette has a special supplement on Malta. It also has a review of the IATEFL Conference mentioning my plenary on classroom research. Thanks for your kind words, Virginia Dooley!

www.elgazette.com

Why does creativity stall in schools, and what can leaders do about it? This piece in Modern English Teacher explores the internal and external factors limiting innovation in private language schools and challenges common myths about creativity.

www.modernenglishteacher.com

I'm looking forward to speaking to students at Al-Aqsa University in Gaza this Saturday. I'm sure there's a lot I can learn from the questions they're interested in investigating.

I'm pleased to share this open access article in which I review four recent volumes that invite us to reshape how we think about language teacher education.

doi.org/10.29140/aja...

#LanguageEducation #TeacherEducation #AppliedLinguistics #SocialJustice #TeacherIdentity

A brief article based on the plenary I gave last year at the conference organized by the Associação Portuguesa de Professores de Inglês has just been published (pp. 9-18).

Thanks to Carlos Lindade and the rest of the editorial team.

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This time last week I was about to start my #IATEFL2025 plenary on classroom research. If you haven’t watched it yet, you can do so here (starts at 10.15):

www.youtube.com/live/idYV9IE...

www.um.edu.mt/newspoint/ne...

I’m pleased to share this newly published open access article. It is the first in a series of forthcoming research publications on the relationship between generative AI and writing instruction.

Authored with Josianne Block.

eurokd.com/doi/10.32038...

Teachers and Classroom Research: Ownership, Relevance, and Conceptualisations. This is the recording of my @iatefl.bsky.social plenary at #IATEFL2025 www.youtube.com/live/idYV9IE... Plenary starts at 10.15.

@danielxerri.bsky.social @danielxerri asking whether ‘research’ is a ‘dirty’ word? #IATEFL2025

Very excited about the plenary by @danielxerri.bsky.social on how to bridge researchers & teachers to encourage teachers to conduct research themselves in the classroom. How can teachers play a more active role in knowledge construction in a research field?
#iatefl #IATEFL2025 @iatefl.bsky.social

@danielxerri.bsky.social sharing this fine quote from Donald Freeman on research. #IATEFL2025

Some excellent news today. We've been informed that our proposal for a Special Issue of ELT Journal on 'Teachers in Post-Conflict or Crisis-Affected ELT Contexts' has been accepted.

Looking forward to working with my co-editor Luis Javier Pentón Herrera and an amazing line-up.

I enjoyed doing a plenary at the Eaquals Association Conference last week. In my talk I discussed the significance of creating a professional learning culture founded on collaboration in ELT schools.

ELT Council

📸 Annabel Cutajar

This week sees the release of two new publications on engagement in the ELT sector.

The first is a chapter with Shaun Sterling: www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/...

The second is a continuation of my series on school leadership for Modern English Teacher: www.modernenglishteacher.com

At the end of this month I'll be delivering the closing plenary at the annual conference organised by Eaquals Association. The programme brings together some of the key teacher educators and LTO leaders from Europe and beyond.

Registration is still open: www.eaquals.org/eaquals-even...

This is a newly published chapter that I particularly enjoyed writing since it enabled me to conduct classroom research on two topics that are close to my interests: reflection and the marine environment.

Thanks to Natalia Wright for doing a splendid job as an editor.

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There is also a special track for IATEFL BESIG members. Have a look and get your proposal in!