Education

Ph.D., Georgia State University (Educational Leadership), Atlanta, Georgia, 1982. Fields of study included child development, social development, children's communication, teacher training, curriculum and supervision, research and statistics, and assessment of children and their families.

M.S., Syracuse University (Early Childhood Education), Syracuse, New York, 1974. Areas of study included curriculum, children's language development, multicultural education, and learning disabilities.

B.A., Le Moyne College (Philosophy), Syracuse, New York, 1969. Areas of study included philosophy, sociology, Spanish, French, and theology.

Current Positions

1998 - Teacher Education and Curriculum Development Director, Educo, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

1999   Visiting Professor in the Morrie A. Moss Chair of Excellence in English, The University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, USA

1995- Adjunct Professor, Applied Linguistics and English as a Second Language, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia USA.

Professional Experience

1999 Moss Chair of Excellence in English, The University of Memphis. "Second Language Acquisition and Second Language Methodology."

Instructor, Integrated English Language Program II Institutes, 1998: Cairo and Assiut, Egypt; 1999: Minya and Cairo, Egypt, "Communicative Language Teaching for Children."

1995- Adjunct Professor, Georgia State University Department of Applied Linguistics and ESL: "Classroom Practices for English as a Second Language;" Intercultural Communication. "Second Language Acquisition"

1996- Director and Instructor, Project SEED (Site-based ESOL Endorsement in DeKalb). "Social-Cultural Issues in the Education of Language Minority Children." Applied/Contrastive Linguistics," and "Methods and Materials in Bilingual Education/ESOL."

1996 Academic Specialist. Teacher Training Institute sponsored by the United States Information Agency, Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Taught: "Developing Integrated English Language Curricula."

1996 Adjunct Professor, Department of Applied Linguistics and ESL, Georgia State University Spring Teacher Initiative: A Fulbright Program for Visiting Egyptian Educators. "Teaching Reading and Writing through Literature."

1996 Visiting Professor, Hofstra University Spring TESOL Institute: New Waves in TESOL. "Working with Multilevel Classes."

1995 Adjunct Professor, Department of Applied Linguistics and ESL, Georgia State University, graduate program: "Classroom Practices in Second Language Instruction."

1995 Instructor, Georgia State University Teacher Training Initiative: A Fulbright Program for Visiting Egyptian Educators. Team taught: "Teaching Reading and Writing through Literature."

1995 Instructor, Oregon Bilingual Institute, Portland, Oregon. One-week graduate course: "Stimulating Linguistic Development and Academic Achievement in Middle and High School Students: Theory and Practice."

1995 Instructor, TESOL Summer Institute in Valencia, Venezuela. Taught "Integrated EFL/ESL for Young Learners."

1995 Instructor at Berry College Summer Institute. Two-week graduate course: "ESOL Methods and Materials."

1995 Facilitator at the Center for the Study of American Culture and Language at the Salzburg Seminar, Salzburg, Austria. WithDr. Linda New Levine, facilitated the two-week workshop: "Teaching English to Younger Learners."

1992 Instructor at TESOL Summer Institute in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. Taught "ESL/EFL Curriculum for Younger Learners."

1988-1989 Visiting Professor of Educational Studies, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. Taught "Educational Psychology."

1983-1988 Adjunct Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia. Involved in teacher preparation, ongoing research, and grant writing in ESL teacher training, language development, and school improvement.

1979-1983 Graduate Teaching Assistant of Early Childhood Education, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia. Responsible for supervision of student teachers and practicum students in the Atlanta area. Supervised over 100 students in five counties in the metro Atlanta area. Also responsible for revision of the Georgia State University Early Childhood Education Student Teaching Manual.

1979 Teaching Apprentice in Early Childhood Education. Responsible with Dr. Lorene Quay for teaching undergraduate child development

Staff Development/Technical Assistance/Curriculum Development

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1996- Director and Instructor for Project SEED: Site-Based ESOL Endorsement in DeKalb. Designed, coordinated and delivered site-based endorsement courses for in-service elementary teachers.

1992-1995 Atlanta Satellite Coordinator for the University of Oklahoma Bilingual Education Multifunctional Resource Center. Coordinated training for North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. Planned training programs and provided training and technical assistance to programs serving language learners throughout nine- state region.

1990-1992 Training Associate for the Florida Atlantic University Multifunctional Resource Center. Developed training programs and provided training and technical assistance to programs serving language learners throughout the southeastern United States.

1982 Educational Consultant with school districts and programs throughout the United States and abroad. Projects have included: development of ESOL teacher training curriculum and video broadcast for the state of Florida; consultation for the Children's Television Workshop on the development of collaborative television programs with other countries, English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) curriculum development projects for Dallas, San Francisco, Philadelphia, and Gwinnett County, Georgia; a county-wide writing program and a school improvement project for the Coweta County, Georgia, Schools.

1991-1993 Convention Chair of the 1993 International Convention of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages. Supervised the planning of all academic and professional business events for a conference attended by over 7000 individuals. Coordinated with TESOL Central Office and three consulting agencies; supervised paid staff of five and volunteer staff of 57 team leaders and committee chairs.

1986-1987 Director of "Language Through Content: Math, Science and Computer Skills for English as a Second Language Students," a project funded by federal discretionary funds to the State Department of Education of Georgia to develop an English as a Second Language Content Area Curriculum Guide for the State of Georgia.

1983-1986 Coordinator of the Georgia State University English as a Second Language (ESL) Summer Teacher Training Program at Garden Hills Elementary School in Atlanta, Georgia. Responsible for planning and implementing seminars, supervision of PK-12 ESOL teachers in training and development of curriculum, in addition to administrative responsibilities.

1981-1982 Assistant Director for United States Office of Education student-initiated grant, "Improving Peer Acceptance of Mainstreamed Handicapped Children by Teacher Training," Georgia State University.

1978-1979 Graduate Research Assistant, Georgia State University. Participated in experimental design, performed data collection and data analysis in several studies on children's communication with Dr. Lorene Quay, Dr. Marilyn Matthews, and Dr. Ruth Hough.

1969 Resident Manager of a psychiatric halfway house for adolescents for St. Joseph's Hospital, Syracuse New York.

Classroom Teaching

1983 Middle School Instructor at The Children's School, Atlanta Georgia

1975-1976 Reading Instructor at Literacy Action, Atlanta, Georgia. Taught reading individually to adults.

1969-1974 Elementary School Teacher and Unit Leader at Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary School, Syracuse, New York. Taught five years in an inner-city school in multi-grade classrooms. Worked with children from kindergarten through sixth grade. As a unit leader for three years, had administrative responsibilities for a team of seven to nine classroom teachers.

1968 Trainer at leadership institutes for high school student council members at Indiana University. Responsible for planning and carrying out leadership workshops.

1967 Community Development Volunteer in Michoacán, Mexico. Ran medical dispensary, taught literacy to adults, consulted on community improvements in rural Mexico.

Academic and Service Honors and Awards

Georgia State University College of Education Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award
Kappa Delta Pi, National Education Honor Society
Alpha Sigma Nu, National Jesuit Honor Society
Le Moyne College Philosophy Medal
New York State Regents' Scholarship
Georgia Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Professional Service Award

Grants and Contracts

DeKalb County Grants to fund Project SEED (Site-Based ESOL Endorsement in DeKalb). (1997-)
United States Information Agency Academic Specialist Travel Grant to South Africa (1996)
United States Information Agency Academic Specialist Travel Grant to Costa Rica (1996)
United States Information Agency Academic Specialist Travel Grant to Argentina (1994)
United States Information Agency Academic Specialist Travel Grant to Venezuela (1993)
United States Information Agency Academic Specialist Travel Grant to Egypt (1992)
Georgia Department of Education Contract: Language Through Content: Math, Science and Computer Skills for English as a Second Language Students. (1986-1987)
United States Office of Education Student Initiated Grant: Improving Peer Acceptance of Mainstreamed Handicapped Children Through Teacher Training. (1981-1982)

Publications

Books, Chapters and Curriculum Materials

Voices in Literature: An Anthology for Middle/High School ESOL. With Lydia Stack. Boston, MA: Heinle & Heinle. Silver, 1993; Gold, 1994; Bronze, 1996.

Making Connections: Language through Content for Secondary ESOL. With Lydia Stack, Linda Lee, Mary Ellen Quinn and Carolyn Kessler. Boston, MA: Heinle & Heinle, Levels 1 and 2, 1994; Level 3, 1995.

Teaching Language, Literature, and Culture: A Multicultural Early Childhood Program. With Susan Hooper and Caroline Linse. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1990, 1995 (revised).

Integrated Language Teaching Strategies and Integrated Thematic Units: A Middle/High School ESOL Curriculum Guide. Atlanta, GA: Educo. Developed for the San Francisco United School District, 1990.

English Everywhere: An Integrated English as a Second Language Curriculum Guide. Atlanta, GA: Educo. Developed for the Dallas, Texas Independent School District. Grades 1, 2, and 3, 1987; grades 4, 5, are 6, 1988; Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten, 1989; Chapter I, 1990.

Integrating English: Developing English Language and Literacy in the Multilingual Classroom, with D. Scott Enright. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1988.

Turn-On Units: ESL Content Area Curriculum in Mathematics, Science, and Computer Science for Grades K-6. Developed for the Georgia Department of Education under PL 98-337. Atlanta, GA: Georgia State University, 1987.

From Balloons to Bubbles to Banana Bread: The Garden Hills International Summer School Curriculum Guide, Vol. 2. From Rainbows to Rhythms to Runaway Cookies: The Garden Hills International Summer School Curriculum Guide, Volume 3; Editor, with D. Scott Enright. Atlanta, GA: Georgia State University Bilingual/ESL Teacher Training Project; Washington, DC: Bilingual Education Bibliographic Abstracts, (BEBA) #BEO 133101984, 1983, 1985.

Search Committee, TESOL Quarterly Editor, 1996-7.
Member of Serial Publications Advisory Committee, Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, 1991.
Co-editor of Georgia Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages publication, TESOL in Action, 1987-1989.

IELP-II Winter Institute ABC-T (Activity-Based Communicative Teaching) Resource Guide, Cairo, 1999.
Access to Success: The San Francisco Unified School District ESOL Curriculum Guide. San Francisco, 1999.
TESOL '93 Convention Program. (Editor, with Bill Powell and Beverly Benson.), Alexandria, VA: TESOL, 1993
Georgia ESOL Resource Guide. Georgia Department of Education, Atlanta, Georiga, 1993.
TESOL Annual Conference Planning Handbook. Alexandria, VA: TESOL, 1993.
TESOL Annual Conference Local Committee Handbook. Alexandria, VA: TESOL, 1992.
Keeping Your Head, or How to Plan an Affiliate Conference and Live to Tell the Tale, with Emily A. Thrush. TESOL, 1991.
Helping Your Child Learn to Read. Helping Your Child Learn to Write. Parent education pamphlets in English, Cambodian, Spanish, and Vietnamese. Published in coordination with the Atlanta City Schools and the Florida International University BESES Center. 1986.
The Garden Hills International Summer School Training Manual for Teachers, with D. Scott Enright. Atlanta: Georgia State University Bilingual/ESL Teacher Training Project, 1983.

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Improving Peer Acceptance of Mainstreamed Handicapped Children by Teacher Training. Doctoral Dissertation, Georgia State University. Dissertation Abstracts and University Microfilms International No. 313130, 1982.

Articles

Literature for Language Learning. ESL Magazine. November/December 1998.

Review Essay: Teacher Self-Development Classics. TESOL Journal. October, 1997.

SALSEM: A TESOL-USIS Collaboration in Austria. TESOL Matters. October, 1995.

America 2000: Two TESOLers Respond, with D. S. Enright. TESOL Matters. Part 1: August, 1991; Part 2: December, 1991.

My Story: Refugee and Immigrant Students Telling Their Personal Histories, with Susan Rawlston. National Association for Young Writers News. Spring, 1989.

Cognitive Coaching with Mainstreamed Handicapped Children by Student Teachers: Effects on Children's Social Behaviors and Student Teachers' Attitudes toward Mainstreaming, with Lorene C. Quay. Elementary School Journal. 1987.

Yes Talking!: Organizing the Regular Classroom to Promote Second Language Acquisition, with D. Scott Enright.  TESOL Quarterly. 1985.

Jump-rope Rhymes, with D. Scott Enright, and A Trip to the Creek, in Winer, L., Ed. Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Newsletter Supplement #3: Branching Out. 1985.

Hello, Hello, Hello!: ABC-T Songs, Stories and Chants for Egyptian Primary English Teachers. With Barbara Thornton and Robert Burch. Cairo, Egypt: IELP-II, 1999.

Worldnet Broadcast/Video: "Curriculum for Literacy Development for Students with Interrupted Education." Videotaped one-hour live satellite broadcast at TESOL '98 Convention in Portland, OR. Available through TESOL, Inc., Alexandria, VA.

Worldnet Broadcast/Video. "Teaching English to Children." Videotaped one-hour live interactive satellite broadcast between the TESOL, '95 convention in Long Beach, California and Moscow, Jerusalem, and Johannesburg.

State Teacher Training Video. "ESL Curriculum and Materials."One-hour video created for the State of Florida Project TEACH for statewide broadcast and training, in conjunction with Jostens Learning. 1995. Available through Jostens Learning

From Pizza to Palindromes: Communicative Content Curriculum. Slide program of 50 slides illustrating the use of curriculum developed to teach math, science, and computer concepts with language to ESL students. Produced by Georgia State University in coordination with the Georgia State Department of Education. 1987.

The First Day: How to Start Right with your ESL Students. Videotape of selected teachers on the first day of school illustrating principles and strategies for beginning a successful year with ESL students. Developed for presentation at International TESOL and for teacher training. Produced by Georgia State University. 1986.

The Communicative Learning Cycle, with D. Scott Enright. Videotape illustrating key instructional strategies in of the communicative model of second language teaching. Developed for use in the Garden Hills International Summer School. 1985.

Write On: The Coweta County Primary Schools Writing Project. Slide program of 62 slides illustrating the elements of the Write On project and the inservice training through which the writing process was implemented. Produced by the Coweta County Board of Education, Newnan, Georgia. 1985.

Write On: A Whole Language Approach to Writing, with Ame Whitlock. Videotape with narrative of teachers and students participating in the whole language writing process. Developed for teacher training in the Coweta County School District. Produced by the Coweta County Board of Education, Newnan, Georgia. 1984.

Two for the Price of One: The Garden Hills International Summer School, with D. Scott Enright and Cary Buzzelli. Slide presentation of 48 slides illustrating the curriculum and academic program for students as well as the teacher education program implemented in the school. Produced by the Georgia State University Department of Educational Media in collaboration with the Department of Early Childhood Education. 1983.

American Educational Research Association
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
Georgia Association for Young Children
Georgia Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages
International Reading Association
National Association for the Education of Young Children
National Council for Teachers of English
National Parent Teachers Association
Society for Research in Child Development
Southern Association on Children Under Six
Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages

Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages

TESOL NCATE P12 Teacher Education ESL Standards Task Force, 1999-
TESOL Task Force on Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, 1999
Second Vice President and Convention Chair, 1991-1993.
Board of Directors, 1991-1994.
Publications Committee, 1989-1992.
Co-Chair, TEAL Charitable Foundation/TESOL Fund for AIDS and Health Education, 1993-1995.
TESOL AIDS and Health Education Project Committee. 1995-1998
TESOL ESOL in Elementary Education Interest Section
Secretary, 1986-1987
Steering Board, 1988-1989
Associate Chair, 1990-1991
Mentor, Leadership Mentoring Program, 1995-6

Steering Board Member, English for Speakers of Other Languages Caucus, 1998-1999

Conference Publicity Chair, 1985.
Program Committee, 1991.

Chair, Socio-Political Concerns, 1998-
President, 1989-1990.
First Vice President and Conference Chair, 1988-1989
Associate Conference Chair, 1988
Publicity Liaison, 1984-1988

In the past 5 years, I have given about 10-15 juried conference presentations and invited addresses each year and conducted many workshops, program reviews, and technical assistance annually. I have available at your request a complete listing of these presentations. Recent titles which represent my work include:

Strategies for Teaching English in the One-Computer Classroom.  Carolina TESOL Featured Address, Southern Pines, September 1999.
Teaching in the One-Computer Classroom. USIA/AED/IELP-II/CELT Institute at Georgia State University, August 1999.
Supporting the Struggling Older Reader. California Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Reno, NE. Invited Speaker. April 18, 1999.
Teaching Tolerance in Early Childhood ESOL. TESOL, New York, March 12, 1999.
Achieving Success in Mainstream Content Classrooms, K-12. TESOL, New York, March 9, 1999
Communicative Methodology for Primary Educators. Intensive institute for Faculty of Education and Ministry of Education leaders in Egypt, Part I: August 12- September 5, 1998. Part II: January 23-February 4, 1999.
Multilevel Learning in Multilingual, Multicultural Classrooms. National Council of Teachers of English. Invited presentation. Nashville, November 1998.
Curriculum for Middle/Secondary Literacy Development.TESOL Worldnet Presentation. Seattle, March, 1998
Circles and Cycles of Learning for ESOL/EFL PK-6. TESOL, Orlando, March, 1997
Professional Portfolios: Teacher Development Through Reflection. National Council of Teachers of English Conference on English Leadership, Chicago, November, 1996
Working with Multilevel Classes. Hofstra TESOL Institute, April, 1996.
ESOL/EFL Strategies and Materials for Young Learners: The State of the Art. TESOL Preconvention Institute, March 24, 1996.
Into, Through, Beyond: Teaching Language through Content and Literature. Association for Supervision and Curriculum development Annual Meeting, New Orleans, March, 1996.
A Win-Win Solution: Speakers of Other Languages Learn English through Conflict Resolution. National Council for Teachers of English, San Diego, November 1995.
Worldnet Interactive Telecast with Moscow, Jerusalem, and Johannesburg: Teaching EFL to Young Learners. (TESOL 1995)
Building Futures with Low-Schooled/Preliterate ESOL Students. (TESOL 1995)
Graphic Organizers: Content, Context, and Cognitive Support for Learners of English. (Georgia TESOL 1995)
Instructional Conversations: Literary Applications for ESOL. (NABE 1995)
Language, Literature, and Content Connections.(Venezuela TESOL Preconference Institute 1994)
Literature Lessons: Conversations on Stories.(Plenary at ICANA Seminar in Buenos Aires, 1994)
Anonymous: Multicultural Poetry for English Language Learning. (NABE 1994)