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Tuesday, February 19 2008 On February 5, Lisa Harshbarger, the United States Department of State Regional English Language Officer (RELO) for Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus, visited Tbilisi for three days. During her stay she visited the European School, Ilia Chavchavadze University, the Teachers’ Professional Development Center at the Minister of Education and Science, the Police Academy of Georgia and ETAG’s Tbilsi office. At ETAG she met with Rusiko Tkemaladze, ETAG Director, Cynthia Whittlesey, Sophie Bzishvili, US Embassy’s Public Affairs Officer, ETAG board members and John Scafidi English Language Fellow. At this roundtable discussion current developments in the ELT field were discussed as well as new projects such as English at the Police Academy and possible projects for the SELF in 2008-2009. Ms. Harshbarger was very impressed with ETAG’s ongoing professional development workshops and expressed further cooperation between her office and ETAG in the future.
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