Jana Echevarría, PhD, is Professor Emerita at California
State University, Long Beach where she was selected as Outstanding
Professor. She has taught in general education, special education,
ESL, and bilingual programs in U.S. schools, and has lived and
worked in Taiwan, Mexico, Spain, and in Macedonia where she was a
Fulbright Specialist. Her research and publications focus on
effective instruction for English learners, including those with
learning disabilities. She has presented her research across the
United States and internationally including Oxford University
(England), Wits University (South Africa), Harvard University
(United States), Stanford University (United States), University of
Barcelona (Spain) and South East Europe University (Macedonia). A
founding researcher of the SIOP Model, her publications include
more than 60 books, book chapters and journal articles. Currently
she serves as the EL expert for the U.S. Department of Justice on
the Lau case. Her blog is found at www.janaechevarria.com.
MaryEllen Vogt, EdD, is Professor Emerita of Education at
California State University, Long Beach. Dr. Vogt, a former
classroom teacher, reading specialist, curriculum coordinator, and
teacher educator, received her doctorate from the University of
California, Berkeley. She is an author of numerous articles and
chapters, and is co-author of seventeen books for teachers and
administrators, including Professional Learning in Action: An
Inquiry Approach for Teachers of Learning (Risko & Vogt, 2016).
Her research interests include improving comprehension in the
content areas, teacher change and development, and content literacy
and language acquisition for English learners. Dr. Vogt has
provided professional development in all fifty states and in
several countries, including Germany, where she served as a
Visiting Scholar at the University of Cologne. She was inducted
into the California Reading Hall of Fame, received her university's
Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award, and served as President of
the International Reading Association.
Deborah J. Short, PhD, founded and directs Academic
Language Research & Training, a consulting company, and provides
professional development on sheltered instruction, content-based
language teaching, and academic literacy worldwide. Formerly she
was a Division Director at the Center for Applied Linguistics,
Washington, DC, where she co-developed the SIOP Model and directed
quasi-experimental and experimental studies on English learners
funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Rockefeller
Foundation, and U.S. Department of Education, among others. Her
publications include journal articles, the SIOP(R) Model book
series, and several ESL textbook series for National
Geographic/Cengage. She taught English as a second/foreign language
in New York, California, Virginia, and the Democratic Republic of
the Congo. She has served on the Board of Directors of the TESOL
International Association and has presented research in the United
States, Canada, New Zealand, Brazil, Colombia, Europe, and the
Middle East.
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