Also featured in this issue is an article about the process of creating the position statement entitled, “23 Months x 22 Scholars: Collaboration, Negotiation, and the Revision of a Position Statement on Technology in English Language Arts” (Zucker & Hicks, this issue).

On Sunday, September 15, 2019, at 8 p.m. ET, the ELATE D-LITE commission will hold an hour-long #NCTEchat about the 2018 “Beliefs for Integrating Technology into the English Language Arts Classroom” with hosts Troy Hicks (@hickstro), Tom Liam Lynch (@tomliamlynch), Nicole Damico (@nicolerdamico), and Lauren Zucker (@LGZreader).

As a way to situate the newly revised position statement, we invited responses from scholars in the field. What follows are a pair of scholarly reflections: the former from Alvermann, who agreed to review it with fresh eyes (“ELA Educators Tell It Like It Is — Always!”), and the latter from McGrail and Young, who worked on both the original statement in 2005 and the 2018 update (“Then, Now, and Onward: Reflections on the Origins of the 2005 CEE Beliefs about Technology and the Preparation of English Teachers”).