Membership
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🎉 Limited-Time Membership Incentive
Join NYSAFLT and bring a colleague with you.
If you were not a NYSAFLT member in 2024 or 2025, you are eligible for our special membership referral incentive. When you join NYSAFLT, you may refer one colleague who is new to NYSAFLT, and they can receive a complimentary membership.
After joining, simply email info@nysaflt.org with your colleague’s name and email address. If they are eligible, we will send them a membership form to activate their free membership.
Some members like to think of this as a “two-for-one” opportunity — you renew, and a colleague joins you.
One referral per eligible member. Available while funds remain.
Use our online form or skip the form altogether and make membership renewal as easy as 1, 2, 3!
- Use your bank bill-pay system to send us a check once a year in December (address below).
- Set your PayPal account to send us a recurring payment in December to info@nysaflt.org.
- Mail us a check with your name and email address – no form needed.
- Consider a lifetime membership!
If needed for school district PO payment: NYSAFLT W-9
What do you get for your membership dollar?
- Membership from January 1 to December 31. (New and renewing memberships are accepted at all times of the year. If you join or renew after June 30th, your membership will be credited to the following calendar year. You will begin receiving membership benefits immediately, such as access to the Members Only area of our website, Listserv messages, and any remaining mailings for the current year. However, you will not be allowed to vote in the current year’s election.)
- NYSAFLT’s annual virtual workshop series – free to members. Experience our high quality webinars by top presenters from New York State and around the U.S.
- Subscriptions to the Language Association Journal and NYSAFLT News.
- Invitations and special registration fees for all conferences and workshops.
- Opportunities for scholarships abroad, scholarships for your students, scholarships to major events which we sponsor and incentive grants.
- Access to job placement services and the opportunity to serve on our special interest committees.
- Provide special recognition to your students with excellence certificates and participation in our Virtual Video Contest.
- Opportunities to share experience and expertise with other professionals.
- Coordination with the State Education Department and the Legislature for the best interests of the foreign language teaching profession.
- Access to the Members Only site on the NYSAFLT website which allows you to view and download special information for NYSAFLT members only.
Special Membership Referral Incentive
NYSAFLT is excited to offer a limited membership incentive to welcome new educators into our professional community.
If you join or rejoin NYSAFLT and were not a member in 2024 or 2025, you may refer one colleague who is new to NYSAFLT to receive a complimentary membership.
How it works:
• You join NYSAFLT by completing one of the membership options on this page.
• After joining, email info@nysaflt.org with your colleague’s name and email address.
• If your colleague is eligible, we will send them a membership form to complete to activate their free membership.
Some members choose to treat this as a “two-for-one” opportunity, bringing along a colleague and privately sharing the cost if they wish (the referring member submits payment to NYSAFLT).
Eligibility guidelines:
• Referring member must not have been a NYSAFLT member in 2024 or 2025
• Referred colleague must not have been a member in the preceding calendar year
• One complimentary membership per eligible member
• Available while funds remain
Questions? Contact us at info@nysaflt.org.
Membership Form – Online
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Membership Form – Printable
Gift Memberships
Organizational Membership
Organizational membership in NYSAFLT is available exclusively to regional, state, and national language organizations (for example, WNYFLEC, LILT, or similar associations). This category is not available to individual schools, school districts, or departments.
Educators at schools or districts should join NYSAFLT as individual members.
