Team Up, Speak Up, Fire Up!: Educators, Students, and the Community Working Together to Support English Learners

Audrey Cohan, EdD, is senior dean for research and scholarship at Molloy College, Rockville Centre, New York. During her 25-year tenure at Molloy College, she has served as professor, chair of the Education Department, and interim dean for the Division of Natural Sciences. Cohan has taught in the undergraduate and graduate programs and is currently teaching critical issues at the doctoral level for the EdD Program. She began her career as a special education teacher in New York City, working with students with special needs in both self-contained and resource-room settings. As a New York State-certified special education and TESOL instructor, she has published numerous peer-reviewed articles about English language learners, including Differentiating Between Learning Disabilities and Typical Second Language Acquisition: A Case Study and Piloting a Pre-referral Data Collection Tool: A Documentary Account. The textbook Serving English Language Learners, published in 2016, earned the Textbook & Academic Authors Association (TAA) Most Promising New Textbook Award. Her other book publications include Beyond Core Expectations: A Schoolwide Framework for Serving the Not-So-Common Learner (2014) and John Dewey: America's Peace-Minded Educator (2016). While at Molloy College, Cohan has received the Faculty Leadership Award, the Faculty Recognition Award, the Molloy College Research Award, and the Distinguished Service Award.

Brings together current research, authentic examples of best practices, and voices from the field to champion the power of purposeful collaboration and provide educators with resources that will empower them to support English learners and their families.