Dr. Joan R. Lachance is an associate professor in TESL at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and is the Director of the Graduate Certificate, Masters in Teaching, and Minor programs in TESL. She earned her B.S in Modern Languages and Linguistics from Florida International University. At the graduate level, Dr. Lachance earned her M.Ed. from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Puerto Rico where she studied School Counseling in the context of K-12 Spanish-speakers in bilingual and immersion settings. Dr. Lachance earned her PhD in Curriculum & Instruction with an emphasis in Urban Education and Teaching English as a Second Language from UNC Charlotte.

Her current research agenda and peer-reviewed publications focus on dual language teacher preparation, academic literacy and biliteracy development with English learners, as well as authentic assessment. She is beginning to further specialize her dual language research to include co-teaching in dual language, supporting secondary dual language programs, and the preservation of Native American languages. In addition to her faculty position, Dr. Lachance's service agenda supports the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, the surrounding region, and across the US. The professional development programs she co-developed for the state showcase best practices for multilingual learners' academic language development and dual language teacher support.

She has assisted for over a decade in designing and delivering educator professional development on the official North Carolina state-led Title III initiatives including Supporting ELs via Dual Language/Immersion Programs, Implementing the WIDA Standards, The North Carolina Guide to the SIOP Model, Co-Teaching and Collaboration, and LinguaFolio

Andrea Honigsfeld, EdD, is Dean and Professor in the Division of Education at Molloy College, Rockville Centre, New York. She directs a doctoral program in Educational Leadership for Diverse Learning Communities. Before entering the field of teacher education, she was an English-as-a-foreign-language teacher in Hungary (Grades 5-8 and adult) and an English-as-a-second-language teacher in New York City (Grades K-3 and adult). She also taught Hungarian at New York University. She was the recipient of a doctoral fellowship at St. John's University, New York, where she conducted research on individualized instruction and learning styles. She has published extensively on working with English language learners and providing individualized instruction based on learning style preferences. She received a Fulbright Award to lecture in Iceland in the fall of 2002. In the past twelve years, she has been presenting at conferences across the United States, Great Britain, Denmark, Sweden, the Philippines, and the United Arab Emirates. She frequently offers staff development, primarily focusing on effective differentiated strategies and collaborative practices for English-as-a-second-language and general-education teachers.

She coauthored Differentiated Instruction for At-Risk Students (2009) and co-edited the five-volume Breaking the Mold of Education series (2010-2013), published by Rowman and Littlefield. She is also the co-author of Core Instructional Routines: Go-To Structures for Effective Literacy Teaching, K-5 and 6-12 (2014), published by Heinemann. With Maria Dove, she co-edited Coteaching and Other Collaborative Practices in the EFL/ESL Classroom: Rationale, Research, Reflections, and Recommendations (2012) and co-authored Collaboration and Co-Teaching: Strategies for English Learners (2010), Common Core for the Not-So-Common Learner, Grades K-5: English Language Arts Strategies (2013), Common Core for the Not-So-Common Learner, Grades 6-12: English Language Arts Strategies (2013), Beyond Core Expectations: A Schoolwide Framework for Serving the Not-So-Common Learner (2014), Collaboration and Co-Teaching: A Leader's Guide (2015), Coteaching for English Learners: A Guide to Collaborative Planning, Instruction, Assessment, and Reflection (2018), five of which are Corwin bestsellers.