I hope everyone had a good summer and they are able to shift their gears back into going back to school. In-person classes are resuming for many, so I hope you are able to see your friends, classmates, and be able to study together. In terms of our organization, we have been working on preparing for our 2021 Japan Foundation Institutional Survey, which we conduct every three years. We hope to have a better understanding on how many learners, teachers, and institutions there are all over the United States and we hope to receive as much responses as possible. Please email us at jflaeducation@jflalc.org if there’s any email address changes and new institutions that have opened up during 2018-2021. COVID-19 really changed how classroom instructions get conducted and brought different conversations on how language should be taught through online and hybrid methods. It has greatly challenged the idea of how language learning can be achieved and maintained and I’m sure students themselves had to really reassess how they can learn outside of the classroom. But with the strength of teachers and students through this difficult time, Japanese language education really pulled through with so many wonderful Japanese language teachers coming up with ways to educate each other through webinars, conferences, and sharing resources. We are glad that our grants are utilized to make these opportunities possible and that we hope to continue supporting teachers’ efforts through this difficult time and beyond.