Your Greatest Assets are Right Before Your Eyes: Your Multilingual Learners!
Equity for multilingual learners (MLLs) means that students' cultural and linguistic identities, backgrounds, and experiences are recognized as valued, rich sources of knowledge and their academic, linguistic, literacy, and social-emotional growth is ensured to the fullest potential. This ready-to-use guide offers practical, classroom-level strategies for educators seeking thoughtful, research-informed, and accessible information on how to champion equity for MLLs in a post-COVID era.
Focused on the deliberate daily actions that all teachers of multilingual learners can take, this resource guide captures a compelling advocacy framework for culturally and linguistically responsive equity work, including
Thoughtful probes throughout the guide help teachers develop student agency and foster pathways in their own practice and communication with multilingual learners.
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 $550,000 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 Class,"co-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.
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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 5-8 and adult) and an English-as-a-second-language teacher in New York City (Grades K-3 and adult). She also taught Hungarian at New York University. She was the recipient of a doctoral fellowship at St. John's 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 (2010-2013), published by Rowman and Littlefield. She is also the co-author of Core Instructional Routines: Go-To Structures for Effective Literacy Teaching, K-5 and 6-12 (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 K-5: English Language Arts Strategies (2013), Common Core for the Not-So-Common Learner, Grades 6-12: English Language Arts Strategies (2013), Beyond Core Expectations: A Schoolwide Framework for Serving the Not-So-Common Learner (2014), Collaboration and Co-Teaching: A Leader's 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.
"From Equity Insights to Action is so much more than a resource textbook that should be in the hands of every educator, filled with dog-eared corners and post-it notes for easy reference. It is a call to action, a reminder of the impact we can make in the lives of others and a collection of heartfelt anecdotes that remind all educational professionals of why we begin this journey. This read provides practical advice, reflection guides and the ability to transform our practice to provide immediate tools for implementation of strategies. Thank you for your voice and your passion."
--Stephanie MacIntoshThe beauty of the judicious book From Equity Insights to Action, Critical Strategies for Teaching Multilingual Learners is that it functions both as a robust resource and urgent clarion call to action. The book aims for research informed and evidence-based teaching while envisioning and embracing educational equity for multilingual learners (MLs). From Equity Insights to Action paints in vivid colors the fight for a world of equity in classrooms, schools, and communities across America. Practical strategies are internalized through purposeful reflection; strategies for curriculum recalibration intertwine with the social-emotional dimensions of learning. Vivid student portraits, setting contexts and evocative reflective questions lead the readers on a profound path of self-examination and self-discovery. This book transcends the distance between personal insights, individual growth, and action-oriented processes beyond classrooms
--Dr. Jasmin Bey Cowin (9/15/2021 12:00:00 AM)