This community was originally created as a mentoring community to support CELTA trainees but after the Coronavirus disease outbreak, we had to adjust to the changing world and continued running this community to help the members cope with uncertainty about the future.

Having considered the attitudes and needs of freelance English language teachers and having collected information from the members of the community, it was decided to shift towards a teacher-mentor learning community with distributed leadership.

We believe that freelance teachers and those who might have been forced to start working freelance after the spread of COVID-19 feel the need for being a member of a teacher community to be able to develop their professional skills and help others.

Communication among peers plays an important role for teachers and meaningful social interactions can be used for supporting teachers, which affects the sustainability of the learning community.

This is why we arrange monthly meetings with some professional development events such as book reviews, methodological workshops, language awareness seminars and conferences on a range of ELT topics. We also stay in touch using our Telegram channel and open discussion threads sharing some work-related tips and job offers there.