From Equity Insights to Action: Critical Strategies for Teaching Multilingual Learners

About Andrea HonigsfeldAudrey F. CohanCarrie McDermott GoldmanMaria G. Dove

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.   Maria G. Dove Ed.D is currently a Professor in the School of Education and Human Services at Molloy College Rockville Centre New York. Prior to working in higher education she spent over thirty years as an English-as-a-second-language teacher in public schools and adult English language programs. She is well-known for her professional development work across the United States focusing on culturally and linguistically diverse students. Doves work has led her to publish books articles and chapters on collaborative teaching practices and instructional strategies for English learners. In collaboration with Andrea Honigsfeld she has co-authored four best-selling Corwin Press books including Collaboration for English Learners: A Foundational Guide to Integrated Practices (2019). Dr. Audrey Cohan is the Senior Dean for Research Scholarship and Graduate Studies at Molloy University Rockville Centre New York. She has been at Molloy University for twenty-nine years during which time she served as Professor Chairperson of the Education Department and Interim Dean for the Division of Natural Sciences. Dr. Cohan has taught in the undergraduate graduate and doctoral programs. She began her career as a special education teacher in New York City working with students with special needs in both self-contained and resource room settings. Her first book published in 1995 was titled Sexual Harassment and Sexual Abuse: A Handbook for Teachers and Administrators. This co-authored book was an outgrowth of her dissertation work which focused on child sexual abuse within schools. Dr. Cohan co-edited a five-volume Breaking the Mold series about educational innovation with Dr. Andrea Honigsfeld and has published numerous peer-reviewed articles about English language learners. The textbook published in 2016 Serving English Language Learners earned the Textbook & Academic Authors Association (TAA) Most Promising New Textbook Award. Her other co-authored book publications include Beyond Core Expectations: A Schoolwide Framework for Serving the Not-So-Common Learner (2014) Americas Peace-minded Educator: John Dewey (2016) Team Up Speak Up Fire Up! Educators Students and the Community Working Together to Support English Learners (2020) and From Equity Insights to Action (2022). While at Molloy University Dr. Cohan has been the recipient of the Faculty Leadership Award the Faculty Recognition Award the Molloy University Research Award and the Distinguished Service Award.   Carrie L. McDermott Goldman Ed.D.  is Associate Professor Coordinator of Graduate and Post-Graduate TESOL/ Bilingual Programs and Director of Bilingual and TESOL Grants at Molloy College Rockville Centre New York. She teaches pre-service and in-service teachers equitable pedagogical approaches research-and asset-based practices and embedded language theory. Prior to higher education she taught Pre-K - 12 in high needs settings and college-level ESL.  She continues to collaborate with schools as an instructional coach and mentor for teachers and administrators.  Throughout the pandemic she also created and implemented an online teaching mentoring program.   She is involved in several projects. She co-authored and serves as the director and Principal Investigator for the New York State Grant for the U.S. Department of Education Clinically Rich Intensive Teachers Institute in Bilingual Education and TESOL (CR-ITI BE/ESOL) for $550000 over 5 years to meet the growing needs of MLLs throughout the region. Her most recent works include Co-Taught Integrated Language and Mathematics Content Instruction for Multilingual Learners co-authored chapter with Andrea  Honigsfeld in Effective Teacher Collaboration for English Language Learners: Cross-Curricular Insights from K-12 Classrooms (Yoon Ed. 2021); Positive outcomes for ELs in an Integrated Social Studies Classco-authored with Andrea Honigsfeld in Co-teaching for English learners: Evidence-based practices and research-informed outcomes (Dove & Honigsfeld Eds. 2020); Classroom Management for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners co-authored with Lisa Peluso in Approaches to Classroom Management for Diverse and Inclusive Schools (Alcruz & Blair Eds. in press) and Preparing Social Studies and ESOL Teachers for Integrated Language and Content Instruction in Support of ELLs with Andrea Honigsfeld and Kelley Cordeiro in Teaching History and Social Studies to English Language Learners: Preparing Pre-service and In-service Teachers (de Oliveira & Obenchain Eds. 2018) and Preparing Science Teachers for Project-based Integrated Collaborative Instruction co-authored with Andrea Honigsfeld in Teaching Science to English Language Learners: Preparing Pre-service and In-service Teachers (de OIiveira & Campbell Wilcox Eds. 2017) and Culturally Responsive Teaching in a Secondary Integrated Mathematics Class (2021) in New York State ASCD Impact Journal.