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, Ed.D., Seidlitz Education
Carol Salva is an award-winning educator with proven success working with unschooled/under-schooled Multilingual learners. She is a key Seidlitz Education Consultant for training, coaching, modeling and supporting program leaders. She is co-author of Boosting Achievement: Reaching Students with Interrupted or Minimal Education and DIY PD: A Guide to Self-Directed Learning for Educators of Multilingual Learners. She has taught elementary, middle and high school. Along with her ESL certification, Carol is a Certified Gomez & Gomez Dual Language Trainer and Certified Abydos Writing Trainer.
Marie Heath, Ed.D. Seidlitz Education
Marie Heath brings over 30 years of education experience and has deep expertise in working with students from diverse backgrounds, particularly focusing on first-year emergent bilinguals. She served as the curriculum coordinator for a North Texas school district with over 12,000 multi-lingual learners. Her work has been featured in Middle Level Leader and her research in ProQuest. In 2022, the state of Texas adopted the multilingual acculturation studies course she designed, which provides newcomer high school students with the opportunity to earn graduation credit while receiving social, cultural, and linguistic support.
Ryan Rumpf, Ed.D
Ryan Rumpf has built a reputation as a passionate, equity-centered educator and leader, transforming newcomer education through innovation, collaboration and a whole-child approach. He has over 20 years of teaching and administrative experience in Colorado, Missouri and Ho Chi Minh City working with elementary, middle and high school levels as well as rural, suburban, urban and private international schools. He worked at the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education during the design and implementation of Missouri’s ESSA plan, led the effort to design and adopt the Missouri Seal of Biliteracy and developed several guidance documents and policy suggestions for school districts across Missouri. He coordinated ELD programs for over 10 years and was the founding administrator of a newcomer program and welcome center in Missouri.