During her years as an ESL specialist, she established co-teaching partnerships, planned instruction through collaborative practices, and conducted ESL co-taught lessons in mainstream classrooms with her fellow K-6 teachers. She has served as a mentor for new ESL teachers, and coaches both ESL and mainstream teachers on co-teaching strategies. She has published several articles and book chapters on her experiences with co-teaching, differentiated instruction, and the education of English language learners. She regularly offers professional development workshops regarding the instruction of English language learners to local school districts as well as at state and national conferences.
Pool your collective wisdom in support of your English learners! Two bestselling authors have returned with this new resource that compliments and expands on their previous titles on co-teaching and collaboration by addressing collaborative planning in greater depth. Co-planning is positioned as the first step toward integrative language and content instruction as regular and purposeful collaboration ensures that ELs/MLs have access to core content. Key features include: practical, step-by-step guidance to starting and sustaining collaborative planning for integrated language, literacy, and social-emotional development; an array of checklists, templates, and protocols for immediate implementation; snapshots from the Field provide real-life examples of co-planning in action; beautiful full-color design with original sketch notes to bring concepts to life; and QR codes that link to author interviews elaborating on key ideas.