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This week, we invite you to use the Professionalism domain of the TELL Framework to guide your reflection on elevating the discourse, as discussed in Lindsay Marean’s Topic of the Week article. We also invite you to use the Catalyst platform to share your reflection with colleagues.

Begin by printing out this reflection template, which asks you to explore an opinion about language learning from different perspectives.

If you have a blog or other platform for sharing your thoughts, we encourage you to convert your reflection into a blog post for wider dissemination.

Next, we encourage you to create a Catalyst account at https://catalyst.uoregon.edu. Once you’ve done so, from the Profile page, click on the My Goals tab and click on Set Goals to enter the TELL framework. Select PR (for Professionalism) and consider the following indicators:

• If your greatest strength in the reflection is a gracious internal dialogue, selcct PR4a. as the place to upload an image of your completed reflection, a typed summary of what you wrote, or a link to your blog post as evidence.
• If your greatest strength in the reflection is the generous assumptions you make of others, then select PR6a.
• If your greatest strength is to recognize that now is a good time to “tend to your own side of the street,” then consider the two indicators under PR1.

Once you’ve uploaded your evidence, you have the option to share it with a group. We invite you to join the Catalyst group called CASLS InterCom-Elevate the Discourse! and to share your evidence there. You’ll also have a chance to read colleagues’ reflections and to engage in dialogue around them (and you can also add people you meet as members of My Community on your profile page).