Collaboration and Co-Teaching for Dual Language Learners: Transforming Programs for Multilingualism and Equity

About Andrea HonigsfeldJoan R. Lachance

Dr. Joan Lachance is an Associate Professor of Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL) at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She directs the TESL graduate programs and undergraduate TESL Minor. She is the co-author of the National Dual Language Education Teacher Preparation Standards and the Director of the CAEP Specialized Program Association in Dual Language Education called EMMA: Education for a Multilingual Multicultural America. She received her undergraduate degree in Secondary Education Modern Languages and Linguistics from Florida International University. With Spanish as the language of program delivery she completed graduate coursework to earn her masters degree in School Counseling from Pontifical Catholic University in Poncé Puerto Rico. Dr. Lachance completed her doctoral work in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis on Urban Education Literacy and TESL at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.              Dr. Lachances research agenda encompasses dual language teacher preparation academic literacy development and authentic assessment with multilingual learners has resulted in over 25 publications including articles book chapters technical reports and state-level curriculum guides since joining UNC Charlotte. She serves on several journal editorial boards and is a board member of the Multistate Association for Bilingual Education Northeast (MABE). With the publication of her latest Corwin book she is specializing one aspect of her work further into collaboration and co-teaching for multilingual learners in the dual language context. She continues to work to support dual language education for the preservation of Native American languages currently and most-honorably collaborating with a K-8 school serving the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians EBCI.              In addition to her faculty position Dr. Lachances service agenda has resulted in over 100 conference presentations invited panels keynotes and roundtables to support the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction and the nation at-large. Her service specializes in professional learning for teachers school counselors and school administrators. She co-created materials and professional learning institutes for myriad North Carolina state-led initiatives including Using the WIDA Standards The North Carolina Guide to the SIOP Model The North Carolina Guide to ExC-ELL and Dual Language/Immersion Program Support. The presentations webinars and asynchronous learning opportunities share innovative practices for multilingual learner academic language development equitable active multilingual learner engagement dual language program development sociocultural nuances in school counseling and international comparative education.               For fun Dr. Lachance enjoys camping its really glamping! with her husband Carl their son and their two rescue dogs. She is passionate about science astronomy the outdoors hiking in the Blue Ridge Mountains and the preservation of the Appalachian Trail. While she lives and works in North Carolina she shares her heart deeply with New Mexico and has a passion for the Native American Pueblo Languages their ways of living and everything Hatch green chilies. Finally she is a former dual language parent who reached the point of watching multilingualism come to life in her own home. Andrea Honigsfeld EdD is Professor in the School of Education at Molloy University Rockville Centre New York. Before entering the field of teacher education she was an English-as-a-foreign-language teacher in Hungary (Grades 58 and adult) and an English-as-a-second-language teacher in New York City (Grades K3 and adult). She also taught Hungarian at New York University. She was the recipient of a doctoral fellowship at St. Johns University New York where she conducted research on individualized instruction and learning styles. She has published extensively on working with English language learners and providing individualized instruction based on learning style preferences. She received a Fulbright Award to lecture in Iceland in the fall of 2002. In the past twelve years she has been presenting at conferences across the United States Great Britain Denmark Sweden the Philippines and the United Arab Emirates. She coauthored Differentiated Instruction for At-Risk Students (2009) and co-edited the five-volume Breaking the Mold of Education series (20102013) published by Rowman and Littlefield. She is also the co-author of Core Instructional Routines: Go-To Structures for Effective Literacy Teaching K5 and 612 (2014) published by Heinemann. With Maria Dove she co-edited Coteaching and Other Collaborative Practices in the EFL/ESL Classroom: Rationale Research Reflections and Recommendations (2012) and co-authored Collaboration and Co-Teaching: Strategies for English Learners (2010) Common Core for the Not-So-Common Learner Grades K5: English Language Arts Strategies (2013) Common Core for the Not-So-Common Learner Grades 612: English Language Arts Strategies (2013) Beyond Core Expectations: A Schoolwide Framework for Serving the Not-So-Common Learner (2014) Collaboration and Co-Teaching: A Leaders Guide (2015) Coteaching for English Learners: A Guide to Collaborative Planning Instruction Assessment and Reflection (2018) Collaborating for English Learners: A Foundational Guide to Integrated Practices (2019) Co-Planning: 5 Essential Practices to Integrate Curriculum and Instruction for English Learners (2022).  She is a contributing author of Breaking Down the Wall: Essential Shifts for English Learner Success (2020) From Equity Insights to Action (2021) and Digital-Age Teaching for English Learners (2022). Nine of her Corwin books are bestsellers.