Social Emotional Learning for Multilingual Learners: Essential Actions for Success

About Diane Staehr FennerMindi Teich

Diane Staehr Fenner PhD is the president of SupportEd (SupportEd.com) a woman-owned small business located in the Washington DC metro area that she founded in 2011. SupportEd is dedicated to empowering multilingual learners and their educators. Dr. Staehr Fenner leads her team to provide ML professional development coaching technical assistance and curriculum and assessment support to school districts states organizations and the U.S. Department of Education. Prior to forming SupportEd Dr. Staehr Fenner was an English language development (ELD) teacher dual language assessment teacher and ELD assessment specialist in Fairfax County Public Schools VA. She speaks German and Spanish and has taught in Berlin Germany and Veracruz Mexico. Dr. Staehr Fenner grew up on a dairy farm in central New York and is a proud first- generation college graduate. She has written eight books on ML education (and counting) including coauthoring Culturally Responsive Teaching for Multilingual Learners: Tools for Equity and authoring Advocating for English Learners: A Guide for Educators. She is a frequent keynote speaker on ML education at conferences across North America. She earned her PhD in Multilingual/Multicultural Education at George Mason University and her MAT in TESOL at the School for International Training. You can connect with her by email at Diane@SupportEd.com or on Twitter at @DStaehrFenner. Mindi Teich MEd is a Multilingual Learning Coach with SupportEd. Ms. Teich has been an advocate for Multilingual Learners and their teachers for over 20 years. She began her career as an ELD teacher in DC Public Schools (DCPS) where she worked with students in pull out push in and co-teaching environments. While still teaching she worked with District staff to develop and implement training on collaborative practices for classroom and ELD teachers. Later as part of the DCPS Language Acquisition Division Ms. Teich spent 10 years providing professional development and on-site coaching to DCPS teachers who worked with MLs. She focused primarily on supporting literacy development for MLs and helped develop District guidance for working with MLs during the literacy block. Just prior to joining SupportEd she worked as a coach and coordinator of a pilot project Together is Better supporting co-teaching in the School District of Philadelphia. Upon joining SupportEd Ms. Teich has continued to provide coaching and professional development to school districts in Pennsylvania. As a coach she models lessons co-teaches alongside teachers and encourages reflective conversations with teachers and administrators. In addition to her work in schools Ms. Teich presents often at conferences on topics related to ML education. She earned her Masters in Education at Marymount University.  You can connect with her by email at Mindi@SupportEd.com or on Twitter at @MindiTeich. Learn more about bringing Mindi Teich to your school or district at SupportEd.Com