The Shining Network - New host school and coordinator were officially announced!

Unanimous was the decision made during the last meeting of the year 2015 in which all our members decided to name Karina Vejar as the new coordinator for the year 2016! Karina already took this role on 2014 when the network was founded and carried out a pretty positive role during that time. Karina will be assuming that position from March on and will take it for a year in a row, just like José Espinoza did during the year 2015.

On the other hand, as done every single year, The Shining Network is also extremely happy to announce Colegio Gabriela Mistral as the Host School for the year 2016, it means that all of the meetings of this year will take place there. Karina, who is also a teacher in the institution showed herself very excited to have the meetings back into the place in which the network was orginally founded. Terrific news!

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The Shining Network - Current members got great results in the ITN English Tournament 2015

2015 was by far an incredible year for our network as it was proudly awarded by the incredible performances of the students that were trained by some of our members. This is how José Espinoza and Karina Vejar brought home new achievements they got with their students in the 6th version of the ITN English Tournament, an event held in Francis School from Coquimbo. 

In that oportunity our colleagues got the following places: 3rd Place in Spelling Bee Contest (Karina Vejar's student) and 1st Place in the same contest (Jose Espinoza's student). Congratulations on both members, you did a great job training your students! 

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The Shining Network - Our 2015's coordinator visits the EnglishExpo UC

José Espinoza, the 2015's coordinator of our network, had the priviledge of attending this year's EnglishExpo UC held in Centro de Extensión de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile some weeks ago. In that ocassion, José attended several lectures including some given by lecturers from Universidad Católica proposing several strategies to effectively teach English in Chilean educational realities. "It was such an incredible experience... I certainly had so much fun analizing information presented by colleagues of the area" mentioned José.

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The Shining Network - Current members got outstanding results in the 2nd version of the Cervantes English Tournament

We are so proud to share some big news with our community, as some of our members from The Shining Network, managed to get some outstanding results in the second and highly anticipated version of Cervantes English Tournament 2015.

We want to extend our heartfelt congratulations to

The ones that competed in this year's Song Festival:

Lorena Bonilla, who reached the 5th place
Cecilia Donoso, who reached the 6th place

and Jamilet Pizarro, who got the 2nd place with her students.

The ones that competed in the Spelling Bee Contest:

Patricia Leiva, who finished in the 18th place and 5th place in the contest
and José Espinoza, who got the 8th place and 2nd place with his students

The teachers that competed in the Public Speaking Competition

Karina Vejar, who got the 4th place and 1st place in this category

Claudio Molina, that reached the 9th place with his students,
Cecilia Donoso, who reached the 10th place with her student,

and José Espinoza that got this year's 3rd and 2nd place with his students.

and last but not least, the ones that competed in the Poetry Competition

Karina Vejar, that got the 3rd place in the competition and
José Espinoza that became this year's winner when training Javiera Rivera and reaching the 1st place.

The Shining Network is really pleased to know that one of our goals is being pursued and continuosly developed by our current members, we are sure that in the years to come the results will be even better!

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The Shining Network - 2015's members about to compete in the 2nd version of the Cervantes English Tournament

As our network was selected to be a media partner for a second year in a row of the highly acclaimed event Cervantes English Tournament (CET), some of our members took the determination of competing into this highly anticipated English language event that is going to be held the 20th, 21st and 22nd of October. 

The tournament itself is composed by 4 categories, the Song Festival, Spelling Bee Contest, Public Speaking Competition and the Poetry Competition, all of them directed to students. In this ocassion, we are extremely proud to announce that most of our members are involved at least in one of them! In this sense, we want to extend the best of lucks to: 

Pamela Baeza, who will compete in the Song Festival.

Lorena Bonilla, who will compete in the Song Festival

Priscila Castellani, who will compete in Spelling Bee

Cecilia Donoso, who will compete in Song Festival, Spelling Bee and Public Speaking

Patricia Leiva, who will compete in the Spelling Bee

Claudio Molina, who will compete in Public Speaking

Jamilet Pizarro, who will compete in Song Festival

José Espinoza, who will compete in Spelling Bee, Public Speaking and Poetry

Karina Vejar, who will compete in Public Speaking and Poetry

We as a team, are completely sure that the students under our members' training are going to perform at their best in the disciplines mentioned above. Congratulations for having the determination of competiting into an event with such characteristics.

For more information about the event, log into www.cervantesenglishtournament.blogspot.com

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The Shining Network - Karina and Patricia at this year's British Council Workshop

On July 23rd The English Open Doors Program (PIAP) together with the British Council Chile organized a workshop called “Material selection, adaptation and design” that was given by Nicolas Dantaz at Liceo Ignacio Carrera Pinto in La Serena.

We are so pleased to announce that our network was in! as it was represented by two of our enthusiastic members Patricia Leiva and Karina Vejar, who shared with other teachers and learned about topics related to the use of materials and coursebook in our Chilean educational reality such as: Language teaching materials, materials evaluation and selection, among others. “The PIAP program should continue doing this kind of workshop in the future. We had a lot of fun! We enjoyed a lot and learned in a dynamic way” said Karina Vejar.

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The Shining Network - Current members attended an exclusive Winter Workshop

On July, 15th some of our current members attended an exclusive Winter Workshop given by Lucrecia Prat Gay. The workshop called "Forget the common classroom: A creative brain-friendly lesson is possible" was held in the main hall of Trinity School and counted with the valuable collaboration of the Oxford University Press, Books & Bits and Libreria Inglesa as its sponsors. 

In that occassion, Priscila Castellani, José Espinoza and Tamara Ledezma had the priviledge of interacting with teachers coming from all across the region and had a blast in there! "I found it very interesting, I was engaged with the different topics during the two hours" mentioned Priscila. Our coordinator, José Espinoza, showed himself very enthusiastic as well, mentioning the following: "I love this kind of things, you always get to learn something new... and it was not an exception"

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