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This month’s featured educator, Alma Maldonado, works with K-5 multilingual learners in Dinwiddie, Virginia. She was a multilingual student herself and her experiences motivate her to help the students and families in her community.

Dr. Christel Broady is a teacher trainer in the graduate program at Georgetown College in Georgetown, Kentucky. She became the school's ESL program director in 2004.

"I loved the Master Cadre because it reinforced my belief in the importance of embracing culture and diversity and in supporting children with their born language. It also gave me a chance to reflect on my teaching and on our program and to think about our best practices and partnerships and about how best to support our dual language learners. It gave me a clear vision of what I want our program to become and helped me develop effective goals."

– Beletu Angagwa, Early Head Start Coordinator, Massachusetts
 

Ryan Ariosa is an ESOL teacher and school test coordinator at Commodore John Rodgers Elementary/Middle School in Baltimore, Maryland. Ryan teaches eighth graders.

Margarita Ugalde is a home care provider in Madison, WI. She runs a bilingual center supporting children ages 3 months to four years old. She tailors her instruction to meet the needs and interests of her young dual-language learners.

This month's featured educator, Marie Hennemann, is an ESL teacher for grades K-6 at Eulalie R. Rivera Elementary School in Frederiksted, USVI.

Ying Ong taps into her own experience as a multilingual learner to support her students and collaborate with her colleagues in Aurora, Colorado. She enjoys continually challenging her own learning and that of her students.

If you are a bilingual educator serving emergent bilinguals in a language program Pre-K through Grade 12, your voice is needed! Please help the Center for Applied Linguistics and University of Wisconsin–Madison learn about how you and your students use language by completing this survey.

Abigail Billman has been chosen for the October 2018 WIDA Featured Educator due to her amazing rapport with her students and her passion for creating a school environment that is rigorous, challenging, safe and supportive.

Heather Brooke Robertson has worked with ELLs ranging from 4K-8th grade in both California and Wisconsin. She has also started the company Books Del Sur which imports rich, bilingual texts from Latin America. This fall, Heather will begin co-teaching at Lincoln Elementary School in Madison, Wisc.