Authors

Dr. Echevarria is Professor of Education at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB). Her professional experience includes elementary and secondary teaching in general education, special education, English as a Second Language and bilingual programs. She has lived in Taiwan and Mexico where she taught ESL and second language acquisition courses at the university level, as well as in Spain where she conducted research on instructional programs for immigrant students. Her UCLA doctorate earned her an award from the National Association for Bilingual Education’s Outstanding Dissertations Competition. Her research and publications focus on effective instruction for English learners, including those with learning disabilities. She is a nationally known expert on English learners and has co-authored nine books including, Making Content Comprehensible for English Language Learners: The SIOP Model and Sheltered Content Instruction: Teaching Students With Diverse Abilities, both published by Pearson Allyn & Bacon. She was selected as a Fulbright specialist to assist countries worldwide in implementing the SIOP model. Currently, she is Co-Principal Investigator with the national Center for Research on the Educational Achievement and Teaching of English Learners (CREATE) funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences and is an author on K-8 reading and EL programs. In 2005, Dr. Echevarria was selected as Outstanding Professor at CSULB.

Dr. Vogt is Professor Emerita of Education at California State University (CSU), Long Beach. During the past forty years, she served as a classroom teacher, reading specialist, special education resource specialist, district reading resource teacher, curriculum coordinator, university teacher educator, and Director of the CSU Center for the Advancement of Reading. Dr. Vogt received her doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley, and is past president of the California Reading Association. She has published numerous articles and chapters in professional journals and texts, and has co-authored nine books, including Reading Specialists and Literacy Coaches in the Real World (2007) and Making Content Comprehensible for English Learners: The SIOP Model (2008; 3rd Ed.). She participated in the ground-breaking Reading and Writing for Critical Thinking Project, sponsored by the International Reading Association, with teachers in the former Soviet Union (in Estonia). Dr. Vogt also has provided professional development for teachers in all fifty states in the U.S., as well as in other countries, most recently in China, Puerto Rico, and Germany. Her research interests include English learner literacy, teacher change, and content reading methods. Dr. Vogt was inducted into the California Reading Hall of Fame and received her university’s Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award. She served as President of the International Reading Association in 2004-2005.

Deborah J. Short, Ph. D., directs the Academic Language Research and Training consulting company, and regularly provides professional development on sheltered instruction and academic literacy to teachers worldwide. As a senior research associate, she also consults at the Center for Applied Linguistics where she co-developed the SIOP Model and directed studies on English language learner achievement and newcomer programs, funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Education, among others. She is currently co-principal investigator for a five-year experimental study examining the impact of the SIOP Model on science achievement and language learning, funded by the U.S. Dept. of Education. She has co-authored three SIOP books, published by Pearson Allyn & Bacon, and provides training at SIOP Institutes. She chaired an expert panel on adolescent ELL literacy and co-authored the policy report, Double the Work. She develops instructional materials, including four ESL series, Edge, Inside, High Point, and Avenues. Her research articles have appeared in the TESOL Quarterly, Journal of Educational Research, Educational Leadership, Education and Urban Society, and Journal of Research in Education. Previously, she taught English as a second or foreign language in New York, California, Virginia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.