Featured Speakers
Andrea Honigsfeld is a professor in the School of Education at Molloy College. She was the recipient of a doctoral fellowship at St. John’s University where she conducted research on individualized instruction and has served as an English-as-a-foreign-language teacher in Hungary and English-as-a-second-language teacher in New York City. She has published extensively on working with multilingual learners and teacher collaboration. She received a Fulbright Award to lecture in Iceland in the fall of 2002. In the past 22 years, she has been presenting at conferences across the United States, China, Denmark, Japan, the Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, the United Kingdom, and the United Arab Emirates.
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Rick Wormeli is an experienced classroom and building educator who writes professional articles and education books while training teachers, principals, superintendents, business organizations, school boards and parents in North America and around the world. Emphasizing up-to-date pedagogy, innovation and professionalism, Rick’s work often focuses on assessment/feedback/grading, differentiated instruction, leadership, literacy, cognitive science/linguistics and teacher-student relationships. He has achieved many honors, including being one of the first Nationally Board Certified Teachers in the US, winning Outstanding English Teacher of the Nation from Disney's American Teacher Awards and being granted the James P. Garvin Award for Teaching Excellence, Service and Leadership.
Carol Salva is an award-winning educator with proven success working with unschooled/under-schooled, multilingual learners classified as SLIFE (Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education) or ELD (English Language Development) students. She is a key Seidlitz Education consultant for training, coaching, modeling, and supporting program leaders. Dr. Carol Salva is a co-author of Boosting Achievement: Reaching Students with Interrupted Our Minimal Education and a co-author of DIY PD: A Guide to Self-Directed Learning for Educators of Multilingual Learners. She has taught elementary, middle, and high school.
Marie Heath brings over 30 years of experience in education, having held a variety of influential roles including ESL teacher, department head, compliance facilitator, specialist, curriculum writer, and adjunct professor. Prior to joining Seidlitz Education full-time, she served as the curriculum coordinator for a North Texas school district with over 12,000 multilingual learners. Dr. Heath has deep expertise in working with students from diverse backgrounds, particularly focusing on first-year emergent bilinguals. Her work has been featured in The Middle Level Leader with the article “Successful Middle School Newcomer Programs,” and in ProQuest with her research titled “Texas High School (Im)migrants Negotiation Acculturation: Measuring Bicultural Identity Integration in a New Cultural Context.”