At the JALT2020 conference, the Executive Board of JALT unanimously voted on changing the name of the Best of JALT to The Michele Steele Best of JALT Award for Michele Steele’s inspiring and devoted love of honoring JALT members for their outside work.
While the award had been around for many years, Michele brought it into a proper limelight by creating a ceremony to be held at the annual international conference. For the past 10 years the award has been given renewed importance and significance for the recipients.
What is The Michele Steele Best of JALT Award?
Every year, each chapter and SIG of JALT is asked to name one presentation or publication from the previous year as their Best of JALT Award recipient. For the JALT2020 Conference, 19 chapters and seven SIGs submitted their choices for awards, and a total of thirty-four presenters and authors received Best of JALT Award certificates for their contributions to JALT in 2019.
- The list of winners: https://jalt.org/main/best-jalt
- A video of the JALT2020 awards ceremony: https://youtu.be/90seArD3kVI
